10/22/2009
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The Apple iPhone continued to drive wireless growth for AT&T, helping the telco post record subscriber growth for the third quarter.
Ma Bell activated 3.2 million new iPhone customers in the quarter, and netted a total of 2 million new mobile phone customers including 1.4 million post-paid contract customers. And despite the [...]
10/21/2009
Thomson Reuters – Boston Bureau
* Fund to focus on technological development
* GE making changes to employee healthcare plan (Adds details)
NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) – General Electric Co (GE.N) is launching a $250 million investment fund intended to spur development of new technologies in the healthcare industry, the chief executive of the largest [...]
10/21/2009
TradingMarkets.com
Verizon Wireless is sending strong hints that it believes it has an iPhone killer. The maker of this new phone? All signs point to Schaumburg-based Motorola, which is embarking on an ambitious effort to turn around its mobile devices unit after years of underwhelming products and market-share losses.
Verizon launched a teaser ad over the [...]
10/21/2009
Computerworld
Arms race: firm says new Cortex chip maintains edge over Intel’s upgraded Atom
Computerworld – Arm Holdings PLC today introduced a processor for smartphones and other devices that it says will be cheaper, and more powerful and energy-efficient than the two ARM processors it will supplant. The company expects that the new chip will also [...]
10/21/2009
USA Today
Jeff Smith is a diligent social-networking user, but he doesn’t own a PC.
“I prefer a cellphone and a service for a cellphone,” says Smith, 40, a postal worker in Detroit who served as an Army Ranger in Desert Storm and Somalia.
For about a year, Smith has used MocoSpace (for “mobile community space”) to [...]
10/21/2009
Forbes – Online
Barnes & Noble knows that if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
Launched Thursday and shipping in November, the retailer’s highly anticipated e-reader, known as “Nook,” certainly seems to have been done right–even compared to the two other reading devices that have recently been announced as selling books [...]
10/21/2009
InformationWeek – Online
If you were wondering what Motorola (NYSE: MOT)’s third Android handset will look like, wonder no longer. New images have appeared that show a simpler handset that won’t match the CLIQ or DROID when it comes to specs.
This Android handset from Motorola has been masquerading under the codename “Calgary” for some time [...]
10/20/2009
Wireless Review/Telephony
If you’re a foreign infrastructure vendor looking to gain ground in the highly competitive 4G market, the thing to do is open up up a long-term evolution (LTE)–preferably somewhere on the outskirts of Dallas. ZTE is the latest equipment supplier to do just that, joining Nokia Siemens Networks (NYSE:NOK, NYSE:SI), Huawei and Fujitsu in [...]
10/20/2009
New York Times
arnes & Noble, which has long left open the possibility of introducing its own electronic reader, is expected to unveil on Tuesday at a news conference in Manhattan what it is calling the Nook.
The device features color touch-screen controls and a gray-and-white reading display. It will cost $259, matching Amazon.com’s most recent price [...]
10/20/2009
TheStreet.com
Exclusive: Google Plans Its Own Android Phone
Scott Moritz
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Move over Apple (AAPL Quote), Research In Motion (RIMM Quote) and Motorola, (MOT Quote) Google (GOOG Quote) is jumping into the smartphone market with a Android phone of its own.
In what is likely to be seen as disruptive to the wireless status quo, Google [...]
