FirstNews
CTIA, IFA Partner for "Borderless" Show
January 9, 2013 10:45 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsCTIA and IFA announced that they are joining forces on what the two organizations are calling the world’s first "borderless" trade show in 2014. IFA is an annual consumer electronics and home appliances tradeshow based in Berlin, which is now reaching its 52nd edition...
Walmart and Straight Talk to Offer iPhone
January 9, 2013 10:42 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsWalmart and Straight Talk Wireless, a Tracfone brand, which is a subsidiary of America Movil, today announced that it will offer the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 starting on January 11, 2013. Straight Talk will offer Apple’s iconic devices in more than 2,000 Walmart stores...
Dish Jumps in With Unsolicited, $3.30 Per Share Offer for Clearwire
January 9, 2013 10:18 am | by Ben Munson | News | CommentsDish Network has offered to buy up to all of Clearwire’s common stock at $3.30 in a proposed deal that would allow Dish to purchase some spectrum assets from Clearwire. Under the conditions of the preliminary offer, Dish would acquire approximately 11.4 billion MHz-POPs from Clearwire, or 24 percent of its total spectrum holdings, for $2.2 billion.
T-Mobile Expects 3-5 Percent Growth, Sees 100K iPhones Per Month
January 8, 2013 4:56 pm | by Ben Munson | News | CommentsT-Mobile USA CEO John Legere said to expect a 3 to 5 percent growth in revenue over five years following the company's proposed merger with MetroPCS. T-Mobile USA Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray added that the company was seeing 100,000 unlocked iPhones ported over per month from AT&T to T-Mobile's network.
AT&T Sold Over 10 Million Smartphones in Q4
January 8, 2013 4:23 pm | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsAT&T said Tuesday that it had sold more than 10 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2012, topping its previous record quarter of 9.4 million, set in the fourth quarter of 2011. This included best-ever quarterly sales of Android and Apple smartphones...
First News Briefs for January 8, 2012
January 8, 2013 10:46 am | by WIreless Week Staff | News | CommentsU.S. Cellular has signed an agreement with Verizon Wireless to acquire the company’s Oklahoma City 700 MHz A block license covering Oklahoma City and 31 other counties within the state of Oklahoma, in total a population of approximately 1.9 million...
Crest Financial Files to Block Sprint, Clearwire Deal
January 8, 2013 10:45 am | by Ben Munson | News | CommentsCrest Financial Limited, which owns an 8.3 percent share of Clearwire, has petitioned the FCC to block Sprint's proposed 100 percent acquisition of Clearwire, citing proper public notice was not issued in Sprint's 2012 deal with Eagle River Holdings to re-acquire a controlling stake in Clearwire.
Samsung Sees Record-High 4Q Profit
January 8, 2013 10:06 am | by Youkyung Lee,AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsSamsung Electronics Co., the world's largest technology company by revenue, expects record earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 as shoppers continued to snap up its smartphones and tablets. The company said Tuesday its operating profit for the October-December quarter...
Cricket's Muve Music Hits 1 Million Customers
January 8, 2013 9:20 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsCricket Communications' on-demand Muve Music service has logged over 1.1 million customers. The service, which launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in 2010, has been a successful value-add for the prepaid carrier...
VZW Q4: $9 Billion in Charges, 2.1 Million Net Adds
January 7, 2013 5:16 pm | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsSpeaking at an investor conference ahead of his opening keynote tomorrow at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam disclosed some good and some bad pertaining to his company's fourth quarter. McAdam said that while the company had a record fourth quarter...
MetroPCS Shares Dive on Q4 Subscriber Numbers
January 7, 2013 4:05 pm | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsMetroPCS Communications Monday reported disappointing fourth quarter subscriber numbers that sent shares of the company into a nosedive. The no-contract carrier saw gross additions of 866,000 subscribers, a 29 percent decrease over the same period last year...
Report: Verizon Buyout of Vodafone Possible
January 7, 2013 3:19 pm | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsVerizon could own all of its Wireless business soon, if CEO Lowell McAdam has anything to say about it. McAdam told the Wall Street Journal Monday that Verizon is strong enough to buy Vodafone out of its stake in Verizon Wireless. Verizon entered into a joint venture with Vodafone...
AT&T Talks Connected Everything, Digital Life to Launch in March
January 7, 2013 2:32 pm | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsAT&T used its annual developer conference in Las Vegas Monday to highlight connected car and home products, as well as its work in mobile payments with ISIS. The conference's opening keynotes were streamed live online from AT&T's website.
First News Briefs for January 7, 2013
January 7, 2013 10:21 am | by Wireless Week Staff | News | CommentsNuance Communications today announced Swype Living Language. An evolution of the Hotwords technology announced in September, Swype Living Language uses crowdsourcing to analyze new words and phrases in real-time, continuously updating our language dictionaries...
HTC's Q4 Profit Drops 91 Percent Year-On-Year
January 7, 2013 10:15 am | by Ben Munson | News | CommentsHTC posted a Q4 net profit of $34 million, down 91 percent from the $379 million it put up for the same quarter in 2011. According to Reuters, 18 analysts' average predicted a net profit of more than $50 million for the quarter. The Taiwanese handset giant's sales fell far behind the iPhone and its Android OEM archrival, Samsung.
Apple App Store Hits 40 Billion App Downloads
January 7, 2013 10:11 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsApple today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps from the iTunes App Store, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. According to a press release, the App Store has over 500 million active accounts, which recorded a record-breaking December with over two billion...
New Lego Robotics Kit Talks to iPhones
January 7, 2013 9:54 am | by Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsLego is set to announce Monday that a new, $350 Mindstorms EV3 kit will have the ability to talk to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches through Bluetooth wireless connections. That means Lego builders can use the devices as remote controls for their robots, or create simple programs that are then sent to the robots to control their actions.
New Search Engine Tailors Its Results for Tablets
January 4, 2013 1:11 pm | by Associated Press | News | CommentsAre tablet users looking for an alternative to Google and other search engines designed primarily for PCs? That's the hope that led to Friday's release of Izik, which is billed as the first search engine tailored especially for iPads and increasingly popular tablet computers running on Google's Android software.
Rural Proponents Come Out for Lightsquared Proposal
January 4, 2013 10:48 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsA number of comments were filed today with FCC, encouraging the commission to approve Lightsquared's most recent proposal to give up 10 MHz of spectrum located closest to the GPS band and instead share spectrum currently used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
Huawei Expecting Profit Hike for 2012
January 4, 2013 9:58 am | by Ben Munson | News | CommentsHuawei is foreseeing a $2.4 billion net profit for 2012, a 29 percent increase over the $1.86 billion is reported in 2011. Acting chief executive Guo Ping expects total revenue for 2012 to exceed $35 billion, according to a Reuters report.
Samsung Confirms Tizen Devices in 2013
January 4, 2013 9:28 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsSamsung will start selling smartphones this year that run on the open-source Tizen operating system. Samsung said in an emailed statement that it is "planning to launch a new Tizen-operated device within this year and will continue to expand the lineup according to market conditions."
First News Briefs for January 4, 2013
January 4, 2013 9:25 am | by Wireless Week Staff | News | CommentsCTIA announced the addition of WMC Global to provide key technology services for its Latin American short code registry. WMC Global, a provider of solutions for the mobile marketplace, helps registry services with its ability to develop and manage the backend search and payment transaction functionalities.
Google Emerges From FTC Probe Relatively Unscathed
January 4, 2013 9:07 am | by Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsThursday's agreement with the Federal Trade Commission covers only some of the issues raised in a wide-ranging antitrust investigation that could have culminated in a regulatory crackdown that re-shapes Internet search, advertising and mobile computing.
Report: Apple Edges LG in OEM Market Share
January 3, 2013 2:59 pm | by Ben Munson | News | CommentsFully 18.5 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used Apple devices, according to ComScore's new three-month study, which covers the period from August through November 2012. Apple barely edged out LG, which took 17.5 percent in the same study. Motorola and HTC both saw small share declines, dipping to 10.4 and 5.9 percent, respectively.
Apple and the Glue That Binds
January 3, 2013 11:38 am | by Andrew Berg | Blogs | CommentsA report surfaced today that Apple is testing iOS 7, as well as the iPhone 6. I'm amazed that this made headlines. I'm guessing investors would be jumping ship faster than they already are if Apple wasn't in the process of testing the next iterations of its products.
