News Clips
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| USA Today: AT&T offers in-home tech assistance ; Takes a page from Geek Squad AT&T, taking aim at Best Buy's Geek Squad and other tech services, has launched a 50-state in-home support service for computers, TVs, broadband, wireless and more. Read the Story |
08/22/08 |
| The New York Times: Smartphone Start-Ups Have a Friend in This Fund Matt Murphy eats at expensive steakhouses, likes to watch his kids play soccer and is a loyal fan of Peet's Coffee and Tea. And if he has his way, mobile phone users will know as much about each other as readers now know about him. Read the Story |
08/22/08 |
| The Bakersfield Californian Robert Price column: Ode to a dying friend: the telephone land-line Pretty soon, if telecommunications companies' quarterly reports keep trending the way they've been trending, land-line phones will be relics. The number of wireless-only homes keeps going up and the number of wired residential customers keep falling. Read the Story |
08/19/08 |
| Wall Street Journal: New battleground: mobile devices During the "platform wars' of the 1980s, tech companies duked it out over which computer operating system would emerge from a crowded field. Now, there's a new platform war being waged, and this time the battleground is mobile devices. The bad news for businesses looking to standardize on a winner: The most likely outcome is multiple survivors. Read the Story |
08/19/08 |
| Investor's Business Daily: Machines yearn for wireless services too Nonhumans are the new face in wireless marketing. With slowing subscribber growth among human users, wireless phone companies are targeting machine-to-machine, or M2M, connections. AT&T on Monday plans to announce a pact with Itron to team up to sell automatic electric meter reading systems to utilities. Phone companies see a big opportunity in the M2M market, largely made up of commercial and industrial services that use wireless data links. Read the Story |
08/18/08 |
| ZDNet.co.uk: Mobile operators could make “significant savings” on network infrastructure costs Analyst Informa Telecoms & Media has calculated that savings of up to $5.3bn or more could be made on network infrastructure costs if femtocells "are properly deployed using meticulous geographic network planning". Informa said it expects more than 40 million of the broadband-piggybacking indoor base-station devices will be deployed by the end of 2013. The analyst firm believes this installed base could help operators offload up to eight percent of total mobile traffic to fixed broadband networks. Read the Story |
08/15/08 |
| Investor's Business Daily: Cell tower owners mulling fuel cells for backup power Power to the cell tower. Wireless service providers are starting to explore whether fuel cells could be the answer to a tough question. How can providers get good backup power to the rising number of cellular towers perched on hilltops, high-rises, church steeples and elsewhere? Read the Story |
08/15/08 |
| Los Angeles Times: Consumer Electronics: Apple looks to Best Buy to boost iPhone’s reach The pending arrival of the iPhone 3G in Best Buy stores across the country signals that shortages of the Apple Inc. devices are easing, analysts said Wednesday. Apple and Best Buy Co., the top U.S. electronics retail chain, announced late Tuesday a deal to sell the popular gadget in Best Buy's 970 stores nationwide starting Sept. 7. Read the Story |
08/14/08 |
| Wall Street Journal: Best Buy to sell iPhone - retailer will join Apple and AT&T in offering device Best Buy Co. said it will begin selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone next month, making it the first U.S. retailer besides Apple and its U.S. carrier, AT&T Inc., to offer the popular device. Starting Sept. 7, both the eight- and 16-gigabyte models of the 3G phone will be available at all Best Buy stores, except for a handful located in areas where AT&T's wireless service isn't available, Best Buy said. Read the Story |
08/13/08 |
| Houston Chronicle: Moving 911 into the age of texting A crashing sound in the middle of the night awakens you. Seconds later, you hear heavy footsteps moving toward your bedroom. You quickly grab your cell phone and dast to the closet. While crouched under suits and shirts, you realize the intruder might hear you calling 911. What should you do? Send a text message. Read the Story |
08/12/08 |