No more boohoo at Yahoo!

During her first earnings call as Yahoo President and CEO, Marissa Mayer admitted that the company has failed to exploit opportunities in the mobile segment, pledging dramatic changes moving forward. I’m not sure one of her many predecessors didn’t say the same thing,...

Your mobile device could be killing you

Get out the rubber gloves! Your mobile device could be harboring deadly germs, bacteria and viruses all out to get you. Not surprising really, considering how many times they are handled each day and where they are kept between uses. Just think about it. What was in...

Will Softbank sprint clear in US market?

It would be a bit rich for AT&T to claim the new Softbank/Sprint/Clearwire hook-up would be gaining an unfair advantage , but it will. No sooner had the announcements by US operator, Sprint, that it would finally be achieving complete control over Clearwire and...

Honey, Apple shrunk my iPad!

I won’t be rushing out to by an iPad Mini. Despite Apple’s remonstrations that it is “not a shrunken down iPad,” it plainly is, and not a really good one either. In typical Apple manner it tries to give the impression that the new form factor is a brilliant,...

ISPs avoid extinction with LTE play

Are we about to see another round of increased MVNO activity, with a twist? The rollout of LTE networks seems to be attracting the attention of fixed line internet service providers (ISPs), and for good reasonAre we about to see another round of increased MVNO...