US telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to acquire Leap Wireless for $15 per share in cash, valuing the prepaid mobile operator at about $1.2bn (£800m). The move comes amid continued consolidation and restructuring in the ...
Tags: 4G, Computer Products
European Union investigators have raided the offices of three of the bloc's biggest telecommunications providers as part of an antitrust probe examining if they're limiting their customers' access to third-party applications including ...
Tags: Mobile Operators, Antitrust Probe
The first Web-based Firefox mobile OS smartphones will be released soon in Spain and Poland, with more coming soon to other regions of the world, Mozilla announced Monday. ZTE will begin selling the ZTE Open smartphone on Tuesday for the ...
Tags: Smartphone, ZTE, Computer Products
Given Android and iOS together control 90% of the worldwide smartphone market, what chance does Mozilla have to find success with its new Firefox OS for smartphones? Will Firefox OS even matter, given the struggles Windows Phone, ...
Tags: Firefox OS, Smartphones, Mozilla
Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
Tags: Telefonica, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Smartphone
Huawei Technologies' much-leaked Ascend P6 smartphone is the world's thinnest at 6.18 millimeters, and has the highest-resolution front-facing camera at 5 megapixels, the company claimed at the phone's London launch. In comparison, ...
Tags: Huawei, Ascend P6, Smartphone
Market research firm Dell'Oro Group has ranked Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), ...
Tags: Infinera, Electrical, Electronics
Telecommunications giant Telefónica is to deploy Microsoft Office 365 and Yammer across its business to encourage collaboration and standardise the use of software among its 150,000-strong workforce. Telefónica has a ...
Tags: TelefóNica, Microsoft
Organisations need to check their bills closely and look out for hidden charges when deploying their applications in the cloud - and to check, especially, whether their cloud services include or exclude network services before they sign up. ...
Tags: Cloud, Computer Products
Consumers are attracted to the ‘smart home’ applications that smart meters open up, according to a report by O2. A YouGov poll commissioned by O2, revealed 60 per cent of consumers felt the idea of a ‘home of the ...
Tags: Instruments&Meters, Customers, Smart Home
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that its DTN-X platform with ultra-long haul ...
Tags: Infinera, Subsea Network, Electrical
Ericsson last week announced that it had acquired Microsoft’s Mediaroom TV solution business, which, the firm claims, holds a 25 percent market share over the IPTV and multi-screen market. The deal is expected to be finalised during ...
Tags: Ericsson, IPTV Market, Mediaroom Acquisition
The government's vision to have every home in the UK equipped with smart energy meters is getting closer. Next year comes the mass rollout stage but in the meantime, three remaining bidders are battling it out for the right to provide the ...
Tags: Smart Meters, Electrical, Electronics, Meters
Anticipating explosive growth in video communications, Cisco is readying product improvements designed to simplify the management of videoconferencing traffic and to streamline its use for employees. The products, announced Tuesday, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer shouldn't judge staff performance on how many hours workers log on the VPN from home, but on the results they bring to the company. That's according to David Plumb, general manager, enterprise, at Telefonica O2 UK. ...
Tags: Yahoo, services business, Computing