Feds move to block AT&T-T-Mobile merger
The U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday moved to block the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.
The U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday moved to block the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.
Six months after laying out his "strategic vision" for HP, CEO Leo Apotheker took the actions to realize it. And abandoned the mobile computing space.
A recent survey suggests that a lot of Motorola Mobility employees will be thrilled at yesterday's news that their company is being <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/081511-google-buys-motorola-mobility-for.html">bought by Google</a>.
Google is paying a premium for Motorola Mobility, the recently spun-off device maker from Motorola proper. But for the $12.5 billion it's paying, Google likely is more interested in Motorola's patents than its phones.
Google is apparently sick of being pushed around by patent attorneys from Microsoft and Apple.
The stock price for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion dropped $1.24 in heavy trading Monday, to $26.67, and even more after hours, to its lowest point in five years. That makes the stock a bargain for a buyer, but there's one problem with the renewed talk of a RIM takeover:
The carrier with the most spectrum says that it doesn't have enough to build out a nationwide LTE network.
The Attachmate Group announced Wednesday that it has completed its $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell, a networking pioneer in the 1980s that’s now being described as “a leader in intelligent workload management” by its new owner.
Research in Motion moved to boost its mobile devices' calendar capabilities by buying Tungle, an enterprise scheduling application developer, for an undisclosed sum.
A perfunctory, noncommittal statement about <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032011-att-tmobile-acquisition-pundits.html">AT&T's proposed buyout of T-Mobile,</a> made by an anonymous FCC "official," is being widely interrupted by anyone with a computer keyboard as an official FCC <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032511-att-tmobile-panned.html?hpg1=bn">position on the deal</a>.
The proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger has many different groups standing athwart recent telecom history and yelling, "Stop!"
AT&T's announced acquisition of T-Mobile yesterday continues a decade-long trend of consolidation in the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">wireless</a> industry and raises questions about whether the industry will inevitably turn into a duopoly.
Giddy T-Mobile users hoping to get their hands on an <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> shouldn't hold their breath.
AT&T’s surprise buyout of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion has industry watchers scrambling to figure out what the deal means for subscribers, the U.S. cellular industry and investors.
Antenna Software has made the latest acquisition in its bid to create a complete toolset for designing, building, running and managing mobile applications, for everything from feature phones to tablets. The vendor is buying U.K.-based Volantis Systems, which has a set of tools for building mobile Web applications.