Google rocked the mobile world on Monday, August 15, with the news that it will buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, marking a 63-percent premium for the handset manufacturer. It’s a… Read more »
A half-dozen companies including Apple, Microsoft and RIM have devoured the last remnant of Nortel, shelling out a combined $4.5 billion for thousands of patents and patent applications from the former… Read more »
Our platform focus continues this fine Sunday with the e-Book Echo, our take on the week in the digital publishing world. Publishers are learning the hard way that consumers are willing… Read more »
While some elements of the mobile market continue to contract in light of the economic downturn, other signs point to a resurgence. Total mobile handset sales continue to decline (although at… Read more »
Enterprise 3-D virtual world applications have proliferated during the past several years. What began as fun and games is becoming a serious business with a lot of upside. A host of… Read more »
The Canadian government is taking a look at Ericsson’s $1.13 billion bid to buy Nortel Networks’ CDMA and LTE assets following RIM’s call for “a Canadian ownership solution” — meaning, of… Read more »
Ericsson’s $1.1 billion bid for Nortel’s assets beat out the competition, but RIM — which opted to stay out of the auction — is already calling for the Canadian government to… Read more »
We have long talked about it, and now there are numbers to back it up: The global economic downturn has taken its toll on the telecom business. The entire telecom… Read more »
UBS Research analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos in a note to his clients today says that Nortel, the Ottawa, Ontario-based telecom equipment maker, will make steep staff cuts — “possibly amounting to 10… Read more »