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Forrester Research recently completed a survey of 5,000 Americans in which it asked about the amount people would pay for e-book readers.  Most respondents said they would not spend more than $100....
There was a reason AT&T (NYSE:T) wanted to keep VoIP applications off of its 3G network, and that reason was almost certainly that the applications will cost the company money. The big phone...
We have been looking into the report from Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) late this morning that the company is in advanced discussions to acquire substantially all of the optical networking and...
Shares of RIM (RIMM), maker of the Blackberry, closed the regular session at $83.06 immediately after announcing earnings. Revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 was $3.53 billion, up 37% from...
Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has priced its public secondary offering of 20 million shares at a price of $16.25 per share.  This is a fter a $17.07 close yesterday.  Palm noted that it will have...
South Korea has become the latest country to open up to sales of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. According to The Wall Street Journal, The Korea Communications Commission has approved the sale of the...
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon (AMZN),  is known for being eccentric, but his new handset offer may be taking that act a bit too far. Every cellphone that operates on the AT&T (T)...
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) is out with earnings, although the key is going to be what the interpretation is over its Palm Pre sales.  The GAAP loss was huge, but the non-GAAP loss was only -$0.10...
Deutsche Telekom’s US cellular carrier T-Mobile only has 33 million subscribers. That puts its a distant fourth in the market behind Sprint (S) Verizon Wireless (VOD)(VZ) and AT&T (T). It...
If you are a regular reader of 24/7 Wall Street, the notion that MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) might be a merger play won’t be a surprise.  We first noted back in early August after...
Apple (AAPL) has a deal with China Unicom (CHU) to sell its iPhone on the mainland. The deal, however, is not exclusive. The head of China Mobile (CHL), which has 500 million subscribers and is the...
Motorola (MOT), one the world’s No.2 handset company and now nearly out of business, introduced its new flagship product called Cliq. The phone runs the new Google (GOOG) Android mobile operating...
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) is signaling something which many smartphone and PDA-phone makers do not want to signal… difficulty grabbing market share for the new Palm Pre.  The new promotion out of...
Facebook, which has over 200 million users, is becoming nearly as widely available on handsets as it is on PCs. Its members cannot get enough of sharing their experiences and profiles with their...
eBay (EBAY), which had planned offer shares in its VoIP business Skype though an IPO, has sold it to private equity interests instead. Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, Index Ventures, and Silver...