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08/15/2011

Google’s Motorola Acquisition Targets Living-Room Dominance

While most people are focused on the impact of the deal on Android mobile devices, the end game is probably a lot bigger than that. And it will require Google to get in bed with service providers.
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07/20/2011

Next-Gen TV: It's All About the Engagement

Winning the consumer over means embracing hybrid strategies, leveraging TV Everywhere and multiscreen and doing more interesting things with content discovery and middleware.
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05/20/2011

Rural Telcos: A Last Stand?

Rural telco viability is being threatened on a number of different fronts, regulatory, technological and competitive, and they’re all requiring changes in back office strategies.
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03/17/2011

Bless Me Buckles: Facebook Signs MLB, Batman Video Deals

Facebook is already transactional and highly valuable as a content distribution mechanism for things like YouTube, news and so on. Premium video, it would seem, is a logical next frontier.
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03/16/2011

Video Forces AT&T’s Hand in Bandwidth Capping

AT&T says bandwidth caps for DSL and U-verse won’t affect too many subs. But that will change: this move is about the coming impact of video on the network, and consumer thirst for it.
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03/01/2011

iPad 2: The Winona Ryder of the Tech World Has Something to Prove

The iPad 2 is the first new form factor to come to market since Steve Jobs took his latest medical leave of absence – and no, the Verizon iPhone 4 reboot doesn’t count. And make no mistake, it will be scrutinized on a number of different fronts.
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02/14/2011

Nokia Siemens CEO: Taking the Company from Crisis to Complexity

Nokia Siemens’ message at MWC revolved around the general theme of "what a difference a year makes," with the company’s CEO running through financial metrics and key market wins while not sugarcoating the crisis that NSN was in a little more than a year ago.
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02/14/2011

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Gives MWC Attendees a ... Demo

Maybe Microsoft will learn from the audible rumbling of Mobile World Congress attendees that spewing out a laundry list of already-announced features doesn't cut it. You say you know content, Steve. Well, then give us some.
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01/16/2011

WiMAX Global Roaming: It’s Now or Never

WiMAX operators gathered in Taiwan to work on roaming – whee. But before we get too excited, we should remember that such talks are not new. At all. And WiMAX is running out of time on the issue.
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09/16/2010

Tara Seals Blog: Verizon Wireless Ditches Windows Phone 7 for 2010

The No. 1 wireless company won’t carry Windows Phone 7 smartphones for the holidays, but that might be a smart move on its part.
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