For giant HP, snaring Palm for $1.2 billion is a cheap way into the piping-hot mobile hardware and services market. And it's a direct assault aimed at its biggest players: Apple, Google, Research in Motion and Microsoft are in for a whole new battle.
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Verizon and AT&T are grousing about FCC conditions applied to its recent approval of Harbinger Capital's takeover of SkyTerra. The rules are designed to spur competition, and the two biggest wireless players aren't happy about it.
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Harbinger's 4G Plan Has Verizon and AT&T Crying Foul originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:30:00.
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Philip Falcone, who runs Harbinger Capital Parters, is taking on several of the country's biggest telecoms by leveraging three satellite investments into a massive 4G wireless network that one analyst has called "breathtaking in its ambition."
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AT&T is launching a $150 device that you can use to blanket your home with strong wireless coverage. And other companies will soon offer similar solutions for offices. This could really ease the cellular congestion headache.
Continue reading Coming Soon: A 3G Wireless Station in Every Room?
Coming Soon: A 3G Wireless Station in Every Room? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:00:00.
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If you lie to yourself -- or your doctor -- about how much you eat, watch out. A new Band-Aid-sized sensor that you tape to your tummy could soon detect how many calories you consume and burn off. And it's just one of the new wireless medical devices that could change health care.
Continue reading The Real Way to Reform Health? Wireless Technology
The Real Way to Reform Health? Wireless Technology originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:00:00.
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With Google's Android mobile operating system rapidly gaining share, Apple's CEO clearly sees a serious threat to the iPhone. Now, his dispute with Google CEO Schmidt is getting personal, and he's launched a legal campaign to thwart Google. But will Jobs's bullying backfire?
Continue reading Why Steve Jobs Fears Google (and Hates Eric Schmidt)
Why Steve Jobs Fears Google (and Hates Eric Schmidt) originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:00:00.
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More than a quarter of Americans now get news via their cell phones, according to a new Pew Research poll -- another stark reminder of the massive problems facing today's media. The biggest draw for mobile news junkies: weather reports.
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That market has been tough to crack and also risky. For example, late last week, one of Despite broad global experience, private equity firm Carlyle's investment in mobile-phone company Willcom has gone bust as the wireless provider has filed for bankruptcy. Still, Japan remains a promising market for private equity, and Carlyle certainly isn't going away.
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Carlyle Learns a Hard Lesson About Private Equity in Japan originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:40:00.
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The war for Internet supremacy is going mobile, and the world's biggest techs are gearing up. The battle lines are clear at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, where nearly every combatant (except Apple, of course) is in attendance and pushing its vision.
Continue reading Welcome to the Net's New Battleground: Mobile Software
Welcome to the Net's New Battleground: Mobile Software originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:30:00.
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Steve Ballmer & Co. finally moved to catch up with chief mobile software rivals -- Apple, RIM and now Google as well -- by introducing Windows Phone 7. It's a wholly new smartphone operating system aimed at getting Microsoft back into growth mode on handsets.
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