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US Supreme Court expected to determine if class-action limits are legal

Published on: 15th November, 2010

The Supreme Court of the United States is now hearing arguments in a case with possibly significant implications for filed class-action lawsuits against cellular carriers as well as other companies. Judges will try to determine the lawfulness of contract language which blocks customers from pursuing class actions against companies. The current lawsuit involves AT&T and [...]

Windows Phone 7 sales not limited exclusively to retail stores, says AT&T

Published on: 8th November, 2010

AT&T has recently made clear its policies related to the launch of Windows Phone 7 after a mistaken announcement coming from a store manager who said that the devices would only be available at retail locations. Orders can also be placed online, but no device will be available to pre-order. As it seems, the carrier [...]

iPhone jumps over BlackBerry for second place in smartphones

Published on: 31st October, 2010

The 14.1 million iPhones sold by Apple made it jump over the BlackBerry’s market share, as Strategy Analytics say. The total of 77.1 million smartphones shipped in the summer helped the iPhone to leap to 18.3 percent of the whole market and pushed Research in Motion down to third place, with 12.1 million phones and [...]

Bug Labs and AT&T in partnership on ready-to-run modules

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

AT&T and Bug Labs just announced to be partners in a project that is meant to allow developers to buy network ready BUGmodules with AT&T certification. They are supposed to work out of the box on the network of AT&T once developers will put the devices together. The first Connection Kit of AT&T, named BUG [...]

iPad to be sold by AT&T directly to business customers, possibly hurting RIM

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

AT&T wants to expand its direct iPad sales by selling the iPad directly to its business customers. Corporate accounts will be able to access all three 3G capacities the same day the public will, on the 28th of October. Companies will not have to use prepaid service and will have access to standard subscription data [...]

Microsoft to give free Windows Phone 7 handsets to AT&T staff

Published on: 19th October, 2010

Microsoft might give AT&T staff free Windows Phone 7 handsets to obtain acceptance. According to an employee, the company has given out around 100 devices to those who attended an event in Minneapolis. It is not clear if this was a general policy but it is considered an attempt made by Microsoft to make sure [...]

Google executive defending company’s flexibility related to changing or expanding Android OS

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Google’s vice president of engineering Andy Rubin defended the flexibility of his company when permitting carriers to expand or change the Android operating system. While interviewed by PCMag, Google’s official minimized the platform’s current fragmentation. He suggested that consumer demand would force companies to keep the most recent versions of the operating system, although the [...]

Further details of the plans of Facebook’s handset

Published on: 30th September, 2010

Together with various reports revealing Facebook’s plans related to the development of a mobile platform, details of a handset for the social network have been released. According to earlier rumors, the device would be built by INQ and would be shipped in Europe in the first half of next year, while a US launch would [...]

Rumors of Nokia using Windows Phone 7

Published on: 29th September, 2010

The decision of the Finnish company of hiring a former Microsoft executive as its CEO may have brought Windows Phone 7 as a choice of operating system, if rumors are true. The board of the company has given the new CEO Stephen Elop green light to change operating systems in an overall change of strategy. [...]

AT&T ignores issues with non-exclusive iPhone, says 2 of 3 are still loyal

Published on: 25th September, 2010

AT&T’s chief Randall Stephenson minimized the imminent loss of iPhone exclusivity at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference held in New York City. This time, the executive focused on loyalty and said that approximately two thirds of iPhone customers had been AT&T users for a long time before signing up. Many of them are unlikely to [...]

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