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March 15, 2010

Android gaining in US while iPhone stalls: ComScore

Google’s Android OS was the only mobile platform experiencing significant growth in the US during the three months ending in January, carving out over four percentage points of market share, ComScore said.
 

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March 12, 2010

FTC seeks affidavits on Google AdMob deal: report

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly collecting affidavits from Google’s rivals over its proposed acquisition of AdMob, indicating it could be planning to scupper the deal.
 

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March 4, 2010

Google seeks to take China to WTO over censorship

Google is lobbying the US government to make China’s search censorship a WTO issue.
 
Two industry groups with close ties to the search giant are lobbying the US Trade Representative’s office, claiming that the censorship is an unfair barrier to trade.
 

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February 26, 2010

Cisco working on its own ultra-fast fibre network: report

Filed under: 1Gbps, Cisco, Daily News, Fixed Access, Fixed Broadband, Google, Optical Networks, Public, Shaw, U.S — fmmonteverde @ 6:06 am

Cisco has reportedly become the third company this month to begin work on an ultra-high-speed testbed fiber network.

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February 18, 2010

100 Mbps for 100m US homes: FCC plan

Filed under: 100 Mbps, Daily News, FCC, Fixed Access, Fixed Broadband, Genachowski, Public, U.S — fmmonteverde @ 6:10 am

US FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has unveiled a broadband plan aimed at delivering 100 Mbps connections to 100 million homes.
 
In a speech to the NARUC Conference in Washington Wednesday, he added that the wider goal is to enable 90% of the US population to have

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February 10, 2010

KDDI expands US footprint with $42m MVNO deals

Japanese cellco KDDI is expanding its presence in the competitive US market, announcing plans to buy controlling stakes in two US MVNOs for a total of 3.7 billion yen ($41.14m).

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Google doubles Android share of US market

Google more than doubled the market share of its Android devices in the key early-mover smartphone market of the US in the three months to end-December, according to ComScore.
 
In the fourth quarter, Google’s smartphone device share rose to 5.2%, up from 2.5% in the third quarter,

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February 9, 2010

US class action accuses Nokia of misleading investors

Filed under: Daily News, Finland, Mobile Apps and Content, Nokia, Public, U.S, mobile phones, smartphones — fmmonteverde @ 6:08 am

Finnish handset vendor Nokia claims that allegations of “securities fraud” filed against it in a US class action law suit on February 5 are “without merit.”
 
The complaint, filed in a US District Court, accuses Nokia of failing to disclose information about component supply shortages and manufacturing problems between Janua

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February 5, 2010

AT&T’s iPhone mess

In mid-December, Fake Steve Jobs, the alter ego of widely read journalist and blogger Dan Lyons, posted the following appeal to his fellow members of <

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January 25, 2010

Motorola files patent complaint against RIM

Filed under: Daily News, Mobile Apps and Content, Motorola, Public, RIM, U.S, mobile phones, smartphones — fmmonteverde @ 8:05 am

Motorola has filed a patent complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Limited (RIM).

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