telecoms

The outlook for IT spending this year is looking up. Research firm Gartner said Thursday it expects revenue to grow 5.1% from 2010, an increase from a previous forecast of 3.5% growth.

A telecommunications group including Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. (T) hired Michael J Abbot, a former executive with General Electric (GE), to run a venture that will let consumers pay for purchases using their smartphone. Abbot, who was previously the chief marketing officer for GE's U.S....

Apple (AAPL) surged into the world's top-five mobile phone vendors in the third quarter, thanks to sales of the Apple iPhone. The consumer technology giant jumped into fourth place, ahead of Research In Motion (RIMM), Bloomberg News reported. Sponsored Links "The entrance of Apple to the top...

The two companies were on opposite sides of the net neutrality debate. So they initiated talks aimed at coming up with a compromise where some progress could be achieved in the face of FCC and congressional inaction. For Google, it's a lesson in growing up.

A meeting of Indian government officials and telecom operators to discuss restricting the use of BlackBerry services was "inconclusive," Reuters reported without naming its sources. The group met Thursday to discuss how authorities could access data transmitted on the smartphone, which is made by...

AT&T (T) customers complain about dropped calls, glacial web-surfing speeds and shoddy coverage. Wall Street, on the other hand, loves the way the phone giant runs its network. For an explanation of that disconnect, let's take a look at AT&T's third-quarter earnings, announced earlier...

Count on it each election season: Our elected representatives finally get off their duffs and start working on things that will actually affect our pocketbooks.Early this week, Sen. Herb Kohl, who chairs the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to the big four...