Technology Industry Archive

It was on Friday that Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) announced that it was buying the LTE and CDMA assets from Nortelat a price that more than one industry analyst is calling the beginning of the fire sale. It’s clear that the Nortel ship is going down for the last time, not to emerge whole from bankruptcy. But the question for us is, who are the industry winners and losers? The first big...

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The early success of the Internet was built on the premise that customers could cut themselves better deals on everything from hotel rooms to PCs by eliminating the middleman — also known as “disintermediation.” But Verizon wants to ensure it’s smack-dab in the middle of the Internet’s mobile evolution by positioning itself as the primary intermediary for the sale of mobile...

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When Apple first released the iPhone, neither that company nor AT&T was prepared for the business onslaught, so you could forgive the gross miscalculation that left people frustrated when they bought a unit and then couldn’t start using it. Then, a year later, Apple came out with a new version and, yup, another problem with activation. That seemed ridiculous given the previous...

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A look at highlights of the past week in the high tech legal world: courts, regulation, and lawsuits. Nortel to liquidate — Nortel has decided to liquidate, selling itself off in pieces, rather than try to emerge from bankruptcy. [Source: AP] Judge tosses Oracle shareholder suit — An eight-year-old lawsuit brought against Oracle for allegedly misleading investors about healthcare...

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Twitter has emerged as one of the most important communications tools of our time, but that doesn’t mean we get to tell its owners what to do. Ever since Twitter started showing phenomenal usage growth, there’s been a disconcerting trend among pundits and bloggers to insist that Twitter become something other than what it is, or that its owners have in mind. And the term owners is...

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For a long time, Blu-ray as a product category has been a joke. The problem was price elasticity, meaning that even when Sony finally got its way and HD DVD died, Blu-ray continued to lose market share … to plain DVDs. Well, it looks like the Blu-ray manufacturers have realized that they can’t get strong premium pricing from a public that largely doesn’t know how to set up high...

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According to J.P Morgan analyst John DiFucci, Novell is considering selling off either parts of the company or the entire business to create more value for shareholders. His reason for the speculation is a conversation with Novell CFO Dana Russell, who discussed the possibility of a break-up or sale. Up until now, Novell has been trying to talk a strong game — though, to be fair,...

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Semiconductor equipment sales in North America are improving, according to industry group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). That’s the good news. The bad is that although investment is up, which would indicate some increasing confidence among manufacturers, it is still “near historically low levels.” And global spending on fabrication plant equipment...

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Senators asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate handset exclusivity plans may have consumers’ best interests at heart, but it looks for all the world as though they’re actually trying to punish AT&T for messing up their iPhone experiences. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) signed a letter...

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Microsoft is a company that has long had its share of doubters and detractors. And clearly it faces stiff competition in the form of various companies, depending on what market niche you’re discussion. But if Microsoft has a single big danger, it doesn’t come from a Google. No, its greatest adversary is the evolution of the PC market, which is putting pressure on its biggest product...

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