Indian newspaper The Economic Daily is reporting that AT&T; is close to buying Malaysia's Maxis Communications' 74% stake in Indian mobile operator Aircel. AT&T; is believed to have valued Aircel at between USD5-USD6 billion, the newspaper said. A spokesperson for Maxis, however, has denied that a deal is on the [...]

Dean Bubley has a nice thought provoking piece about branded mobile handsets vs. the plain vanilla versions. In the USA it really doesn't matter as few people really need the unlocked versions since AT&T; and T-Mobile are the GSM players and if you're a happy domestic customer going global with [...]

I've been a Boingo customer for a long, long time. I've also become pals with their CEO Dave Hagan whom I've had sit in on few panels that I've moderated for IT Expo and MuniWireless. Last month they became an agency client post arrival of Jeremy Pepper, who is now [...]

You may remember a while back I wrote about Vocaltec selling some of its patents to what appears to be a firm that will become a patent troll. This scenario is becoming more and more common... Companies are now launching businesses based on buying patents and using them to sue [...]

If you want to build a perfect business plan, sometimes it makes sense to look at what has been successful in other markets and apply the same techniques in another space. McDonalds showed the world that a restaurant could become a successful worldwide chain and as such we have many [...]

I'm supposed to be on vacation, but I feel the obligation to bring some news items or stories of note to light. GIPS is providing Baidu their VideoEngine to have real time video chat inside the Baidu Instant Messaging platform. GIPS has new leadership as well now so maybe we'll [...]