Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel will be canceling PC downloads from its music store in about two weeks, RCR reports. "Beginning (Oct. 15), Sprint Music Store purchases will no longer include a second PC copy," reads a note on the service's website. Customers who have already purchased tracks must download...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has placed its wireless head Ralph de la Vega in charge of all consumer services offered by the company including landline phone, broadband, IPTV and mobile, WSJ reports. AT&T is now organized in four divisions: consumer, business, infrastructure and diversified businesses. De la Vega will retain...
With the launch of Sprint's first WiMax yesterday in Baltimore, subscribers will have free access to MyXohm, a Web portal that provides a variety of entertainment and location-based services. In a presentation provided by Sprint (NYSE: S), I was able to find out a little more about the...
AT&T (NYSE: T) is feeling the pinch of the credit crunch. AP reports that Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said that the country's largest wireless provider couldn't sell any commercial paper last week for terms longer than overnight. Stephenson, speaking at a call center opening in North Carolina said,...
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has appointed two heads to its recently split emerging markets division. The company has promoted from within, moving current UK chief executive Nick Read to run its Asia Pacific and Middle East division, and shifting current Middle East & Africa CEO Morten Lundal to lead its...
-- MobiTV gets ABC content: MobiTV has struck a deal with Disney-ABC Television group to distribute ABC Mobile, a channel which includes full-length episodes ABC series, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Samantha Who? and Ugly Betty, among others. ABC Mobile also features additional content from ABC Daytime, ABC Family...
T-Mobile plans to sell 400,000 to 500,000 Android Google (NSDQ: GOOG) phones in the fourth quarter, and will order up to 2 million devices from handset-maker HTC in the near future, reports a Taiwanese news site CENS. Quoting industry insiders, the site says at those volumes, it could lead...
Some more names are bubbling up on Sprint's (NYSE: S) possible sale of its Nextel unit...last week we mentioned that potential buyers may include TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners, which previously bought Alltel (NYSE: AT). Now WSJ reports some more names, including Latin American carrier NII Holdings, and...
-- AT&T (NYSE: T) Launches Online Store: AT&T launched a beta version of its Online Experience Store, which provides cool features such as a new 3-D shopping model, interactive demonstrations and tutorials explaining everything from phones, music, video and Web, messaging and e-mail, Telephony reports. The Web site draws...
Handango said it will start selling Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android applications when the phones become available next month. The company, which sells apps for about nine different operating systems already, such as Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM), Symbian and Blackberry, appears to be one of the first independent companies...
Sixteen global IT and telecoms giants, including Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Telefónica, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM), have come together to create a new gadget category—the always-connected mobile broadband device, which they're backing with a $1 billion marketing campaign. Mobile broadband has been a hit for many of...
This may all change depending on what happens after Sprint's (NYSE: S) Xohm and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) merge later this year pending regulatory approval, but today Sprint said it launched its WiMax service in Baltimore, and released speeds and pricing plans. Prices will start at $10 for 24 hours...
A number of private-equity firms may be interested in buying Sprint's (NYSE: S) Nextel network, using iDEN technology, according to mergermarket via FT.com. The interested buyers may include TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners, which previously bought Alltel (NYSE: AT). Reportedly, at least one of the firms has also...
iPhone Coming to Verizon: There are signs that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is working on an EVDO version of the iPhone, possibly for Verizon (NYSE: VZ), 9to5mac reports. According to a tipster with "some Verizon insider credentials," Apple might be announcing iPhones for the carrier as early as Macworld 2009,...
CBS (NYSE: CBS) Teams With AT&T (NYSE: T) For Exposure At Starbucks With Wi-Fi: CBS says it's doing a first here by targeting Wi-Fi users at Starbucks locations to promote some of the network's shows on AT&T's Wi-Fi login page. Worst Week, a comedy which premiered on CBS last...
Tech stocks took a huge hit today, following the house's failure to pass a bailout plan intended to rescue the nation's financial system and the Dow tumbling 778 points. To give a sense of how it hurt the broader telecom, wireless and communications-related stocks, of the 25-or-so stocks I...
Connect2Media is preparing to release 12 games for the Android operating system, Mobile Entertainment reports. Less than two months after merging with the European operations of Hands-On Mobile, the firm is gearing up to make the games available when Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launches the Android Market commercially early next...
A massive investment into mobile-specific video content. NTT Docomo and Japan's largest music and movie entertainment company Avex Entertainment Inc. AEI are pouring in up to 7 billion yen ($66 million) into their newly formed joint venture to produce and distribute on-demand mobile video content. The JV starts in...
Shazam Entertainment has signed a distribution deal with Samsung Electronics that will see the mobile music discovery application embedded into the handset makers' Beatb (model: M3510) and the Beats (model: M3200) music phones. T-Mobile UK will be the first operator to offer the phones with Shazam's application integrated directly...
A big second round for local search startup Zvents? The San Mateo, CA-based company has raised $24 million from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Growth Partners, AT&T (NYSE: T), and Navteq, along with past backers Vantage Point Venture Partners and Red Rock Ventures. The company previously raised $7 million in 2006,...
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