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CTIA 2007 — LG says it will pre-install Google’s mobile apps, including Maps and Gmail, on millions of LG phones that will be sold in North America, Europe and Asia starting in the second quarter of 2007. In February, LG announced a similar deal with Yahoo’s mobile services. An interesting aspect of the announcement [...]

Unlike some of the free-calling concerns who folded their tents at the first sign of legal pressure, FreeConference.com is going to fight for its rights, shown in part by its filing of an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T.
The lawsuit, filed last Friday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., mainly asks the court to immediately [...]

After fighting it out with the big boys for nearly half a decade, and being in business since 1994, Speakeasy has decided that it was time to sell. Who can blame them… they were fighting it out with AT&T, Comcast, Qwest… the telco rogues gallery.
The retail chain paid about $97 million for Speakeasy, a [...]

It is with an increasing regularity you come across news items that point to a new sub-sea cable being plotted or another old one being upgraded, a trend that could add up to a boom in the optical sub sea sector.
For now it may seem like good news for the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, and [...]

Like a cat with nine lives, the desktop once again manages to survive and extend its life. And while most of us (including yours truly) have heralded the coming wave of web-applications, some nagging practical matters are keeping the future at bay.
The biggest problem, of course is the availability of ubiquitous broadband, without which even [...]

CTIA 2007, Orlando: It seems like the iPhone and the hits-driven handset business has prodded cell phone makers to move a bit further out of their comfort zones. And it is all on display at the CTIA wireless trade show that started Monday.
As we walked around CTIA’s opening-night party, we checked out some of the [...]