Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy.Those are some of the takeaways from a case study by David Carr at CIOZone, a site started by a bunch of my former Baseline magazine colleagues.
Notable headlines:Garett Rogers: Google App Engine pricing a disappointmentEd Bott: Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this timeSunbelt Blog: Microsoft: What we got here is a failure to communicateLarry Dignan: Dell delivers: Is a turnaround in sight?
Nuance's move is notable as chatter about Apple delivering a TV connected with its Siri software heats up.
J.D. Power and Associates said Thursday that wireless customer service has improved overall as hold times and problem resolution has improved from six months ago.
Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year.Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with its first quarter results.
Nokia and T-Mobile aren't exactly the strongest tandem when it comes to invading the U.S., but the strategy and price for the Lumia 710 add up.
Verizon will challenge the Federal Communications Commission's Net neutrality issued as 2010 was winding down. The gist: The FCC doesn't have the Congressional authority to act.
Facebook is getting serious about mobile and focusing on the 80 percent or so of the world that doesn't have a smartphone. It's a good move considering all the growth markets---Latin America, Russia, China and India---typically have feature phones.
T-Mobile is reportedly considering acquiring Sprint in a deal that would create the third largest wireless carrier in the U.S. But there are enough wild-cards to cast doubt on an outright merger.
Akamai said Wednesday that broadband speeds may have as big of an impact on its financial results as the slowing economy.Akamai, which makes software that caches content to speed up Internet traffic, reported net income of $34.