Stories by Stephen Lawson

Motorola deal may end mobile-gear consolidation

Nokia Siemens Networks' acquisition of most of Motorola's cellular networks business may be the last move in a long game of consolidation in the industry, which has been hammered by price pressures.

By Stephen Lawson | 20 July, 2010 10:22

Tags: business issues, Motorola, telecommunication, Mergers / acquisitions, Nokia Siemens Networks, mobile

Dell to acquire storage vendor Ocarina Networks

Dell announced Monday that it plans to acquire Ocarina Networks, a maker of hardware and software designed to reduce the amount of storage capacity enterprises need, for an undisclosed sum.

By Stephen Lawson | 20 July, 2010 09:46

Tags: business issues, Dell, storage, ocarina networks

Google now selling its last shipment of Nexus Ones

Google, which broke mobile industry practice last year by offering the Nexus One smartphone for sale exclusively on its website, has received its last shipment of the device for online sale.

By Stephen Lawson | 17 July, 2010 08:32

Tags: telecommunication, consumer electronics, Google, smartphones, Phones, mobile

Mobile Facebook users hit 150 million

Facebook has about 150 million mobile users, up from just 100 million in April, and is counting on cell phones as the key platform for the future, according to the social-networking giant's head of mobile products, Eric Tseng.

By Stephen Lawson | 14 July, 2010 10:54

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, telecommunication, mobile phones, social networking, mobile, internet, Facebook

Apple policy would kick AdMob off iAds, Hamoui says

Google's AdMob business could not deliver advertising through iAd if Apple began enforcing a policy that restricts the involvement of companies that have their own mobile operating systems, said Omar Hamoui, vice president of mobile ads at Google.

By Stephen Lawson | 14 July, 2010 04:08

Tags: Apple, telecommunication, Google, iAds, AdMob, mobile, Apple iAd

Open mobile still on the way, AT&T's Donovan said

The ideal mobile ecosystem is still one that's partly closed, such as the iPhone App Store, but the trend is toward greater openness, AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan said Monday.

By Stephen Lawson | 13 July, 2010 05:34

Tags: telecommunication, at&t, mobile

Android, Samsung gaining mobile share in U.S.

Android is gaining on all the major smartphone platforms in the U.S., though it was only the fourth-most-used mobile operating system in May, market data firm comScore reported on Thursday.

By Stephen Lawson | 09 July, 2010 05:23

Tags: Motorola, telecommunication, applications, mobile linux, Phones, Android, Mobile operating systems, mobile, Mobile handsets, Apple, Google, consumer electronics, Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, software

AT&T blames iPhone 4 slowdown on Alcatel bug

Heavy demand for upload capacity from the iPhone 4 has exposed a flaw in the software for Alcatel-Lucent's 3G network equipment, temporarily forcing lower upstream speeds for some AT&T subscribers.

By Stephen Lawson | 08 July, 2010 05:26

Tags: telecommunication, alcatel-lucent, maintenance, at&t, software, mobile

EMC to acquire data analyzer Greenplum

EMC plans to acquire Greenplum for an undisclosed sum and form a new division around the privately held company's data warehousing technology.

By Stephen Lawson | 07 July, 2010 07:22

Tags: business issues, greenplum, mergers & acquisitions, storage, emc

Motorola details breakup plans

Motorola this week gave more details of its planned reorganization, saying it will spin off its mobile devices and home products business into a new entity called Motorola Mobility.

By Stephen Lawson | 03 July, 2010 05:16

Tags: business issues, Motorola, telecommunication, Networking, wireless, mobile, WLANs / Wi-Fi, restructuring

AT&T reaches settlement of old billing claims

AT&T and lawyers representing class-action plaintiffs have reached a proposed settlement of lawsuits over billing by AT&T Wireless before 2004.

By Stephen Lawson | 03 July, 2010 07:34

Tags: telecommunication, at&t, Civil lawsuits, legal, mobile

HP closes Palm deal, confirms WebOS tablet

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday finalized its acquisition of Palm and confirmed it will use the company's WebOS in future tablets and netbooks.

By Stephen Lawson | 02 July, 2010 04:18

Tags: business issues, telecommunication, Mergers / acquisitions, hardware systems, Phones, tablet PCs, laptops, mobile, Hewlett-Packard, Mobile handsets, Palm, consumer electronics

HDS offers a storage cloud in your data center

Hitachi Data Systems is preparing to offer cloud storage that even cloud-averse enterprises might accept: It resides in the customer's own data center.

By Stephen Lawson | 30 June, 2010 05:00

Tags: private clouds, Digi-Data, hitachi data systems, storage, data centres, cloud storage

Cisco energy management can now span enterprise

Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced the Cisco Network Building Mediator Manager 6300, a platform to manage all the systems in an enterprise that consume energy, across all the organisation's facilities.

By Stephen Lawson | 30 June, 2010 04:25

Tags: Cisco Systems, Green data center, Networking, environment

Rackspace cloud chief predicts enterprise caution

Most large enterprises won't move their established applications on to cloud services for years but are embracing the technology for new projects, the head of Rackspace's cloud business said on Thursday at the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco.

By Stephen Lawson | 25 June, 2010 05:43

Tags: cloud computing, internet, rackspace

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