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, ...
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At least two U.S. mobile operators, T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless, reportedly do not participate directly in the U.S. National Security Agency's call metadata collection program because of their partial ownership by foreign ...
Tags: Phone Companies, NSA, Surveillance Program
T-Mobile had been using Software AG's Aris to align its business processes for over a decade, but when news broke of a merger with Orange, the company had to review whether the platform was still the best fit for the job. EE's head of ...
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The merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS cleared its last major hurdle on Wednesday as MetroPCS shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal. The merger, first proposed last October, had faced opposition from some large shareholders until ...
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The UK's biggest mobile network has claimed that its 4G customer base of 318,000 shows a "strong 4G take-up", as it disclosed its results for the first quarter to 31 March 2013. The firm, established by a joint venture between France ...
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MetroPCS has pushed back a hotly anticipated shareholder meeting that will decide the fate of the carrier's proposed merger with T-Mobile USA. MetroPCS shareholders were due to vote for or against the deal on Friday, but on Thursday, the ...
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A sweeter offer for the merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS reportedly has been approved by T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom. The improved bid reduces the amount of debt that the merged company would hold and the interest rate on ...
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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
T-Mobile USA is trying to boost the number of iPhone users on its network by offering the iPhone 5 without down payment to people who bring in their iPhone 4 and 4S smartphones for a trade-in which could also earn them up to $120 in ...
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Microsoft has sold its Mediaroom IPTV platform to Ericsson in order to solely focus on the Xbox. For Ericsson, the deal will make it the largest provider of "IPTV and multi-screen solutions," it said onMonday. The two companies didn't ...
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Even though standards bodies like the Open Networking Forum (ONF) are leading the effort to standardise software-defined networking, Dell has proposed an SDN working committee within the Object Management Group. OMG is an international, ...
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The merger between T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS moved one step closer to completion on Tuesday as the FCC approved the deal without conditions In what may be a hopeful sign for backers of the deal, the agency's review didn't even rise to ...
Thanks to the higher speeds possible using a technology called vectoring, copper networks are still a viable option to cable and fiber, Deutsche Telekom says. Rolling out fiber-to-the-home to all households in Germany will take too long ...
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Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in Europe in the second quarter priced somewhere around $1,170, while a local telco is now reselling the latest editions of its Office 365 hosted productivity suite, the company announced ahead ...
Jason Stamper summarises the most recent technology results and deals announcements. Of those reporting in this period it is Cisco that's the bellwether, and its results should give a little encouragement to the sector as a whole. But not ...
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