The Federal Communications Commission has approved AT&T’s proposed acquisition of spectrum and assets from Atlantic Tele-Network’s Alltel properties. The deal, first proposed earlier this year, gives AT&T wireless spectrum licenses in the 700, 850, and 1900MHz bands, network assets, retail stores, and 620,000 subscribers in markets sprinkled throughout the mid-west. However, the FCC has placed […]
The BSA — a group representing technology companies like Oracle, Intel, and Microsoft — has taken a position against banning products based on infringements of standards-essential patents, a Wall Street Journal article notes. The move appears to have been spurred by a possible ITC ban of some older AT&T-model iPhones and iPads. Samsung scored the […]
According to Japanese business daily The Nikkei, HP will move production of its consumer-oriented notebook computers for the Japanese market from China to its plant near Tokyo. The company says the goal of the change is to reduce delivery time, simplify logistics, and use the “Made in Japan” tag in its marketing. HP also switched […]
Amazon on Tuesday revealed that it had very strong demand for its Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle Touch reader. CEO Jeff Bezos claimed that pre-orders were so strong that Amazon was bulking up production at Quanta to handle the load. “Millions more” were being made, Bezos said. Even the traditional e-paper updates, the fourth-generation Kindle […]
India’s Department of Telecommunications has tasked a technical team with testing the monitoring of some of RIM’s BlackBerry smartphone services, a bureaucrat said on Monday. RIM allowed access to some of its service to the Indian government earlier this year after a drawn-out battle regarding concerns of national safety. The team plans on presenting its […]
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