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- Sprint CEO says Pre deal is longer than six months
- Sprint Nextel CEO says "They need to check their facts" on Verizon Wireless claims that it will be offering the Palm Pre within six months. NEW YORK--Verizon Wireless's claims that it will be offering the Palm Pre within six months are not accurate, says Sprint Nextel's CEO Dan...
- Tags: Network, Palm Inc., Sprint Communications, Smart Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sprint, Verizon, Palm, Palm Pre, Marguerite Reardon CNET News
- News items 2009-06-05
- Broadcom complaint against rival Qualcomm dismissed
- A federal court has dismissed a Broadcom complaint against rival Qualcomm, the latest in the companies' lengthy battle over mobile phone technology patents, Qualcomm said on Monday. In October 2008, Broadcom charged that Qualcomm's misuse of patents resulted in a "double recovery" of royalties, a potential windfall...
- Tags: Patent, Broadcom Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Photos: Wireless fest, featuring Barcelona
- CNET News' Marguerite Reardon, burnt out on Las Vegas trade shows, illustrates why she delights in visiting the Spanish city for the annual GSMA Mobile World Congress. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Fest, Photograph, Wireless, CNET News, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-02-19
- Cisco to bring Web conferencing to more smartphones
- Smartphone users will soon be able to participate in Web conferences using the hosted WebEx tool right from their phones, CNET's Marguerite Reardon reports. Cisco Systems, which owns the WebEx Web conferencing service, announced today at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 that it is making a...
- Tags: Web, WebEx Communications Inc., Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Cisco Systems Inc., Smart Phones, Web Conferencing, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Copy and paste arrives for the iPhone (sort of)
- No it's not from Apple, and yes its legal. CNet's Marguerite Reardon notes that this isn't the first time a third party developer has tried to add copy and paste to the iPhone. OpenClip showed potential but Apple's iPhone 2.1 software shut down the functionality. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except...
- Tags: FCC, Airwave, Wireless Internet, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again
- Vint Cerf, one of the co-inventors of the underlying technology that makes the Web work, now Google's Internet evangelist, has issued a call for throughput-based pricing by ISPs. This in response to the Comcast ruling by the FCC, which ordered the cable carrier to stop interfering with certain kinds of...
- Tags: Vint Cerf, Network, IP Television, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, Carrier, Cerf, 6MBps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Federal Government, Internet, TVs, Pricing, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- AT&T ready to become Internet cop
- So Comcast says it is not blocking but slowing certain kinds of traffic in order to preserve the viability of its network. As a cable provider, Comcast is much better able to offer downstream bandwidth than upstream, therefore mostly what it blocks is upstream peer-to-peer traffic, primarily BitTorrent. ...
- Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., AT&T Corp., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Sprint, is there no limit to your stupidity?
- My colleague Marguerite Reardon's piece on Sprint sending out severance letters to customers who call their customer service lines too often doesn't surprise me.Just to bring you up to speed, the letters read:"Our records indicate that over the past year, we have received frequent calls from you regarding your...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, SprintNextel
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Verizon CEO on iPhone craze: we've got compelling offerings, too!
- While I was participating in a AT&T Video Share demo, here at NXTcomm,  my colleague Marguerite Reardon from the News.com side of our shop was at a press conference featuring Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg.So happens that Seidenberg runs the wireless services company that is the number one competitor of AT&T Wireless-...
- Tags: Verizon, SBC-AT&, T, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Verizon gains more FiOS Internet, TV traction; delusional on iPhone impact
- Verizon said Wednesday that it has 1 million FiOS Internet customers and nearly 500,000 FiOS TV viewers.The disclosure was made at the NXTcomm Conference (see Russell Shaw's blog coverage). FiOS is Verizon's residential fiber-optic service that's encroaching on cable turf. That Verizon is getting traction--not sure a family video of...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Mobile, iPhone, General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- BlackBerry: database problem caused the crash
- Colleague Marguerite Reardon reports that BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has finally issued a statement identifying the cause of the 14-hour service disruption earlier this week.In a statement, RIM has "determined that the incident was triggered by the introduction of a new, noncritical system routine that was designed to...
- Tags: Outages, News
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Here's what probably caused the BlackBerry outage
- Colleague Marguerite Reardon has talked to several networking administrators about the BlackBerry outage.Shes just posted an analysis of how this could have happened, and what technology systems were at fault.The blame seems to be on issues at one of BlackBerrys Network Operations Centers. Probably the one in Waterloo, co-located...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, News
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- WiMax products, services a key theme at CTIA
- The CTIA show begins today in Orlando, Florida. Several of my colleagues are there. Im "there" too, but virtually.One of the underlying memes of this years show is a substiantially upgraded profile for WiMax services and products-both at the carrier and the handset level. WiMax is the solution which can...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, CTIA, WiMAX
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Details on the Cisco IP Phone security vulnerabilities
- As my colleague Marguerite Reardon reports, Cisco is spreading the word about some security vulnerabilities in their Unified IP Conference Station and IP Phones.Heres what Cisco is saying:The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station and IP Phone devices contain the following vulnerabilities:1. It may be possible to access the Unified...
- Tags: Cisco, General, Security
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Photos: Touring the 3GSM World Congress
- CNET News.com reporter Marguerite Reardon is in Barcelona this week to take in the gadgets, trends and latest strategies in the mobile industry.
- Tags: Barcelona, photograph, strategy, mobile marketing
- Image galleries 2007-02-13
- You say Helio, and I say goodbye
- My colleague Marguerite Reardon offers a piece about how mobile virtual network operator Helio continues to be a drag on 50 percent-owner EarthLinks bottom line.The numbers are ugly- $74 million for the 4Q 2006 and $191.5 million for the year. Helio has about 70,000 subs that pay in around...
- Tags: General, Providers, Helio
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Why the Apple/Cisco iPhone talks collapsed
- CNET News.com Marguerite Reardon reports that talks between Cisco and Apple about use of their iPhone trademark broke down at 8pm PT on Monday evening, the night before Steve Jobs was to take the stage for his keynote address.One of the conditions of the deal was that Cisco wanted to...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-13
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