7 posts and columns on operator

HBO Digital Head Alison Moore Talks About HBO Go and More! (Video)

in Media on March 2 at 9:26 am PT

Alison Moore is in charge of the premium cable channel’s digital efforts.
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Clearwire Cuts Jobs Amid Cash Crunch

in News on November 5, 2010 at 11:40 am PT

Wireless operator Clearwire Corp. warned its continued losses and uncertainty about new financing raises substantial doubt its ability to continue to operate.

Meet the Yahoo Board: Something Old, Something New–But Will They Do Something?

in News on October 14, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

With all the noisy swirl around Yahoo of late–from its executive turmoil to its flat growth to its dashed partnerships in Asia to its brash CEO–its board has been unusually quiet of late. Comatose, some might say. But with private equity firms, media companies, Web rivals, big shareholders, Wall Street and others all machinating about trying to grab all or some of the Internet giant, it will be interesting to see if its directors will shake themselves out of their typical comfort zone of inactivity to actually do their job. Thus, time for their moment in the BoomTown spotlight!

China Mobile: Maybe if We Keep Talking About an iPad Deal, It Will Come True

in Mobile on May 12, 2010 at 9:59 am PT

China Mobile, China’s largest wireless phone operator, hasn’t yet managed to negotiate a deal to add Apple’s iPhone to its smartphone lineup. But that hasn’t dashed the company’s hopes of becoming a carrier for the iPad when it finally arrives in China.

China Mobile Getting Desperate for iPhone, iPad Deal?

in Mobile on March 18, 2010 at 9:16 am PT

Four years after starting talks with Apple, China Mobile, China’s largest wireless phone operator, is still seeking to add the iPhone to its smartphone lineup. But these days, the carrier sounds a bit more optimistic about a deal. During a Thursday news conference, China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou said his company hopes to soon sell both Apple’s iPhone and iPad.

Heads, We Call it “Brinternet”–Tails, “SergeyCom”

in News on February 10, 2010 at 9:04 am PT

For the past few years, we’ve been hearing rumblings about Google leasing hundreds of thousands of square feet of carrier hotel space, buying up dark fiber, mulling the purchase of hundreds of millions of dollars in DWDM and Ethernet-based telecom equipment and helping to build out a trans-Pacific multi-terabit undersea cable. Now we know why. Google is developing its own 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home Internet service.

Simple Cells: Basic Phones Put to the Test

in The Mossberg Solution on December 19, 2007 at 11:59 pm PT

Two no-frills cellphones called the Jitterbug and the Coupe do a good job of handling calls, but some of the Jitterbug’s nonconformist features can be confusing for people familiar with cellphones.
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