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[Posted on September 11, 2007 - 4:58 PM]
Nortel Networks Corp.'s longstanding position on the M&A sidelines — combined with its impassioned insistence that it is indeed interested in M&A — is starting to look more than a little strange. The company has not made any acquisitions since its December 2005 purchase of Tasman Networks Inc. for $99.5 million, but it has repeatedly stated since then that...

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[Posted on September 11, 2007 - 3:42 PM]
To compete with cable and satellite TV companies. AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and a slew of competitive local exchange carriers, or CLECs, are pouring millions of dollars into Internet protocol television, or IPTV. Instead of using traditional broadcast, cable or satellite transmissions, IPTV delivers video using the same techniques developed for computer networks. By the end of 2010,...

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[Posted on September 7, 2007 - 4:00 PM]
Apple Inc.'s decision to slash the cost of the iPhone to a mere $400, triggering outrage from customers who had paid a full $600 for the company's latest object of technolust, illustrates how fluid the rules of mobile media are. Even Steve Jobs is making it up as he goes. It's not as though iPhones weren't moving. In July,...

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[Posted on September 7, 2007 - 3:21 PM]
Motorola Inc. on Friday let pass another chance to unveil a turnaround strategy. The occasion was the company's analyst meeting in New York, and while Stu Reed, who heads the company's mobile phone division, pledged not to repeat the mistakes Motorola made with the Razr (to wit, we won't  ride one horse to the bitter end ever again), he also...

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[Posted on September 5, 2007 - 5:37 PM]
You know that a company is not in a great place when the best you can say about it is that it sees its own failures. That was the general takeaway on Palm Inc.'s announcement on Tuesday to cancel its much-hyped but widely-panned Foleo mobile computing product before shipping it to customers. True, it was better that the company...

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[Posted on August 31, 2007 - 2:15 PM]
Earthlink Inc. earlier this week announced a companywide restructuring that will eliminate 900 jobs. Its mobile phone subsidiary, Helio, which it owns jointly with South Korean wireless provider SK Telecom, added to that number when it said this week it would cut 100 of its 700 employees. A Helio spokesman on Friday said the layoffs included 80 sales jobs and...

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[Posted on August 24, 2007 - 4:28 PM]
Market research firms are debating whether Motorola Inc. is still the number two cell-phone maker behind leader Nokia Oyj. But even if you believe the most positive analysis — such as Gartner Inc.'s new report, which keeps Motorola in second place — it's still clear that number three player Samsung Group is gaining ground. Gartner reports that Motorola retained its second-place position only by a...

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[Posted on August 17, 2007 - 4:28 PM]
Two days after the Economic Times reported that Nortel Networks Inc. had made a minority investment in Bangalore-based optical equipment maker Tejas Networks India Ltd., there has still been no official confirmation from the company's Brampton, Ontario, headquarters. Instead, a spokesperson offered this tacit confirmation: "I haven't been asked to ask for a correction, so I'm assuming it's accurate."...

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[Posted on August 14, 2007 - 4:30 PM]
LightReading took a moment to listen in on the call that Spirent Communications plc held with analysts last week. It found some unusually frank commentary from the company that makes equipment to test telecom gear. Spirent reported that its results had suffered from consolidation in its customer base. It also parted with the usual convention on these polite calls of citing...

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[Posted on August 10, 2007 - 1:11 PM]
As Clearwire Corp. teams with Sprint Nextel Inc. to build out a nationwide WiMax network, it needs people. Good people. People who have the experience building out a nationwide wireless network. People from bankrupt mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc.? Apparently the Kirkland, Wash., provider thinks former Amp'd CEO and founder Peter Adderton and his Amp'd Mobile crew are...

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