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Skyhook, Opera Add Location to Browser

Embedding location technology in a browser removes the manual download and setup requirements but raises some privacy issues.
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Computers, General news, Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

A Startup’s Recession Survival Guide

After the second major economic implosion in less than a decade, companies scramble to stay alive.
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Alcatel-Lucent Wields Recovery Plan: Slash Away

Paris-based company says it will trim 1,000 managers, 5,000 contractors, and cut costs related to its massive legacy business.
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Will Canada Offer Nortel a Bailout?

With significant financial exposure for Canadian investors, the Ottawa government is unlikely to let the one-time national icon sink into (rumored) bankruptcy.
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Alvarion Sheds Jobs, Cuts Exec Pay

Company says cuts are pre-emptive, but WiMAX faces a two-year window so an extended downturn could spell trouble.
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Cable’s Clearwire Quandary

Cable operators are betting $1.65B on the service that competes with cable modems and may never compete with AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile.
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Video: CEO Interview Series, General news, Media, Communications, Finance

Alcatel-Lucent Names New CFO

New CEO Ben Verwaayen continues to assemble his management team as the company tries to rebound financially in a battered market.
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Mobile Phone Industry to Weather Economic Woes

The cell phone market will be as close to recession-proof as any, analysts say.
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Hell Week for Telecom

Monumental losses, layoffs, employee buyouts, and lowered forecasts marked a difficult week for telecom, but startups could be the biggest casualties to come.
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Computers, General news, Media, Communications

Google Phone Dream Could Be Nightmare

Android is untested, experts say, and T-Mobile’s broadband network is a work in progress so users should expect a bumpy ride.
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Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Cable Challenge: Wi-Fi or WiMAX?

Normally in lockstep on new technology, cable operators are divided on wireless, but experts say when the dust settles maverick Cablevision will come back to the pack.
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Media, Communications, Finance

Alcatel-Lucent Taps Verwaayen as CEO

French telecommunications company names former BT head and Phillipe Camus to replace outgoing CEO and chairman.
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Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Google, Verizon Connect on Mobile Search

Old combatants bury the hatchet as slowing revenue growth in voice and rivaly with Yahoo drives them together on the mobile web.
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Media, Communications, Finance

Ericsson, STMicro to Merge Mobile Chips

European heavyweights will combine their wireless chip businesses to save on R&D in maturing wireless market.
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General news, Media, Communications, Internet

T-Mobile to Market First Android Phone

Carrier will use ad subsidies and Google's market reach to target price-conscious subscriber base barely touched by the iPhone.
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Security, Media, Communications, Finance

Chairman and CEO to Exit Alcatel-Lucent

Authors of the “merger of equals” are out, as telecom gear giant begins the search for replacements with the vision, finesse, and political connections to battle rivals Ericsson and Huawei.
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Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Apple, Nokia Battle for Mobile Startups

Phone makers woo mobile application developers with promises of direct access to the consumer as they transform the economics of the mobile marketplace.
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Media, Communications, Finance

Verizon Wireless to Acquire Alltel

The two U.S. mobile carriers would join to become No. 1 as the financial climate and Verizon’s recent spectrum purchase bring the long courtship to an end.
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Security, Media, Communications

Deutsche Telekom Scandal Could Spread to U.S.

FCC could act if there are indications that DT’s phone-spying violations stretched to T-Mobile USA, the carrier’s U.S. property.
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Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Tech Consortium Bids $14.5B on WiMAX

Google, Intel, Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House wager a fortune on an unproven but disruptive technology.
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