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Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) needs more capital. The company has just announced that its Clearwire Communications LLC operating subsidiary plans to raise over $1.1 billion in new capital. ...
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Use of mobile devices for internet access accelerated last month. It is unlikely that total online activity rose by 100% year-over-year last month, so PC activity must have lost momentum A study by...
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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has upgraded it fiber-to-the-home FiOS system so that it can offer download speeds of 150 megabits per second and uploads of 35 Mbps. The service will be offered to the 12.5...
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The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone may appear to be invulnerable at the top of the smartphone food chain, but it may soon have company. ChangeWave reports “Among individual iPhone models, the iPhone 4...
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Verdict: Irrelevant The CEO of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) told the Web 2.0 conference that his firm’s new tablet PC is “three to four times faster” than the iPad. Jim Balsillie...
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UniTek Global Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTK) is the newest IPO and is coming public this morning. The company priced 19 million shares of common stock at $4.75 per share. Prior to this offering,...
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Research firm Gartner says that global smartphone sales were up 96% in the third quarter compared with the same quarter last year. That outstripped the 35% rise in total handset sales. “Smartphones...
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Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR), says it may not have enough capital to stay in business. The company is the pioneer of the WiMax 4G technology used by Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) for its wireless broadband...
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Dell (NASDAQ:DELL has decided to replace the 10,000 or so Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerries that its employees use with its own Venue Pro smartphone. The Dell product is largely...
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Last April Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) agreed to a merger with CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL), then known as CenturyTel, for $10.6 billion in CenturyLink stock and assumption of...
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T-Mobile says there is no need to switch to Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) to get the 4G speeds that Sprint WiMax offers. There is also no need to wait for the LTE 4G technology that AT&T (NYSE: T) and...
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The Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone line of smartphones has been an unqualified success, but the magnitude of that success has only just become clear. Research firm Strategic Analytics reports that...
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The third largest wireless phone company in the US, Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S) continues to add customers, but they must not be paying their bills. The company reported a third-quarter EPS loss of...
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Like the Ford Model-T, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone is available in any color as long as it is black. That will be true until spring of next year, so people who want a white iPhone 4 will not get...
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Want proof the world is getting smaller? A United Nations agency estimates that 2 billion people will be online at the end of this year, up from 1.4 billion in 2009 and almost 1.6 billion now. But...
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