Posts by Andrew Burger

Having worked in the wholesale debt, money and derivatives markets for a major Japanese bank and later as a business and technology reporter, Andrew now earns his living teaching English overseas and freelance reporting. He's lived and worked on every continent barring Antarctica and has a BA (Geology, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), and an MBA (Finance, Pace University, NY).
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BlackBerry Remains as Smartphone King

Motorola was the top mobile handset original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry platform, was the top developer of smartphone platforms in the U.S. during 4Q 2009, according to comScore's latest MobiLens research service. Motorola captured 22.9% of the U.S. ...
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Cisco Claims Router Domination With New CRS-3

Cisco yesterday unveiled the latest in its flagship Carrier Routing System line of Internet networking platforms: capable of delivering up to 322 terabits (tbs) per second of throughput, the CRS-3 triples the capacity of the CRS-1 and offers 12 times the traffic-handling capacity of its nearest ...
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NFL Football Coming to Verizon Wireless Handsets

Verizon Wireless is now the National Football League's official wireless service sponsor, according to news announced today.  The four-year agreement kicks off with live coverage of this year's NFL draft April 22-24. Sprint had this sponsorship in prior years. Initially broadcast across Verizon Wireless's ...
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Cell Phone, Cable & Satellite TV Tops in Customer Complaints

Cell phone, the cable & satellite TV industry and banks led the way as disgruntled customers filed 9.7% more complaints to the Better Business Bureau last year than they did in 2008. Amidst the tough economic and financial ...
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Explosive Growth for Mobile VoIP Predicted

The total number of mobile VoIP users will reach 288 million by year-end 2013, forecasts analysts from market research firm In-Stat. More than half of them will connect via online mobile VoIP providers, less than 1/3 via ...
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Comcast Rolls rDVR App for the iPhone

Comcast is rolling out the latest of a string of mobile applications for the Apple iPhone, one that enables remote programming of Comcast DVRs, SVP and General Manager of Communications and Data Services Cathy Avgiris wrote on the Comcastvoices blog yesterday. The remote ...
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Verizon-Frontier Can Add Oregon to its Approval Column

Verizon and Frontier have moved closer towards completing the sale and purchase of Verizon's local wireline operations in 14 states.  The approval of the Oregon Public Utility Commission brings to six the number of state PUCs/PSCs who ...
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FCC Outlines Barriers to Broadband Adoption

Nearly 2/3 of American adults use broadband connections of one type or another to access the Internet from home. A variety of factors--income, level of education, age, race or ethnicity and location among them--are associated with lower broadband adoption, however, according to an FCC's October-November 2009 survey. Six percent of American ...
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RUS Awards $277 Million in Broadband Stimulus Funds

On behalf of the Rural Utilities Service, Dept. of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Feb. 17 announced the awarding of 11 broadband infrastructure projects in nine states--an investment of more than $277 million--marking the one-year ...
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Smartphone Call Quality Comes Into Question

Good news for wireless service providers: the number of smartphone customers continued to grow during the past six months. The bad news: call quality performance has declined "considerably" over the same period. According to J.D. Power & Associates' semi-annual "2010 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study, Volume ...
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