Lowell McAdam tapped to succeed Verizon head Ivan Seidenberg
This quirky, fun lovin' gent is Lowell McAdam , who becomes the president and COO of Verizon Wireless beginning October 1. According to the company press release: "The appointment of McAdam by the Verizon board of directors is an important step in the succession process for when Seidenberg retires from the company." McAdam will be in charge of Verizon Wireless, Verizon Telecom and Business, Verizon Services Operations, and -- presumably -- begging for the iPhone . PR after the break
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, business, gent, industry, iphone, lowell, lowellmcadam, operations, release, seidenberg, services, succession, vzw
Cricket hires goats to eat blackberries (video)
Yes, you did read that headline right, but it's not quite what you think -- rather than a children's tale of talking crickets and cell phone-eating goats, we're talking about clearing brambles covered with tiny black fruit at the cell towers of Cricket Wireless .
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Blackberries, casey, cell, cricket, crickets, headline-right, operations, variation
Android Rising: O'Reilly Android Apps Gaining Ground on iPhone – O …
O'Reilly sells apps in both the iPhone App Store and the Android Market. Most apps (for now) are just app presentations of our ebooks, built using ereader apps popular on each platform (Stanza on iPhone, Aldiko on Android ).
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Japan Finds Qualcomm Operations Unfair – Wall Street Journal …
Japan Finds Qualcomm Operations Unfair Wall Street Journal ... of chips for mobile phones used its market dominance to prevent Japanese handset manufacturers from asserting their intellectual property.
Categories: Mobile Street Tags: from-asserting, handset-manufacturers, japan-finds, japanese, market-dominance, mobile-phones, operations, street-journal, their-intellectual, used-its