China Worries Arise in Sprint Deal
The U.S. government is seeking oversight of network-equipment purchases as a condition for approving Softbank Corp.’s $20 billion acquisition of U.S. phone carrier Sprint Nextel Corp., a move that...
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U.S. Writes Its Worries About Buying IT Gear From China Into Law
The U.S. government officially remains concerned about the possibility of cyber attacks from China. And it has quietly imposed new restrictions on the information technology gear that certain branches...
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Alcatel One Touch Hopes "Iron Man" Tie-In Will Help It Make a Name for Itself
Alcatel One Touch, one of several Chinese phone makers with aspirations to boost its U.S. brand, is hoping a tie-in with “Iron Man” will help that effort. The phone will be featured in the upcoming...
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Time 100 List Is Packed With Techies -- From Musk to Systrom to Sandberg and...
While the tale of a print magazine embedded in a troubled media company makes for much better reading, everyone loves a listicle. So, Time has once again put out its annual countdown of the 100 “most...
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Microsoft Strikes Another Android Patent Deal, This Time With ZTE
While Microsoft is still struggling to grab market share from Android, it continues to have success getting those using Android to pay patent royalties. Microsoft said on Tuesday it has struck a deal...
View ArticleEU Closer to China Telecom Probe
The European Union’s trade chief will ask for backing this week from senior members of the bloc’s executive arm to start investigations into alleged unfair trade practices by Chinese network-equipment...
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Huawei to Have a London Mobile Launch Event Two Days Before Samsung
Talk about a fast follower. Huawei said on Tuesday that it will have a mobile event on June 18 in London. That’s just two days before the London event that Samsung recently announced. The invite is...
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Huawei Set to Launch New Smartphone
Huawei Technologies Co. seems to be taking a page out of Samsung Electronics Co.’s playbook. Three months after Samsung debuted its Galaxy S4 smartphone at a flashy event in New York with a...
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Huawei "Open-Minded" but Has No Plans to Buy Nokia
Huawei exec Richard Yu raised some eyebrows (and Nokia’s stock price) Tuesday with his musings about a possible acquisition of Nokia if the Finnish company were amenable to such an idea. And while...
View ArticleHuawei Invests in 5G Networks
China’s Huawei Technologies Co. is currently developing fifth-generation network technology, which will enable mobile users to have wireless connection experience similar to today’s home fiber network...
View ArticleHuawei's Headaches Keep Growing
The headaches for Huawei Technologies Co. keep growing, fresh after the U.K. government said that it would conduct a review of the Chinese company’s cyber security arrangements and a former U.S....
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Samsung Accounted for a Third of Smartphone Sales Last Quarter, While Apple's...
Samsung’s second-quarter smartphone shipments hit 76 million last quarter — up 56 percent from the prior year, and giving the company a 33 percent share of the global market. iStockphoto | aluxum...
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Taiwan's Asus Aims to Enter U.S. Smartphone Market Next Year
Asus has made a business out of finding niches where other computer makers had yet to see them. But in trying to crack the U.S. smartphone market, the company could face its hardest test yet. Asus...
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China Wants to Investigate IBM, Oracle and EMC for Security Concerns (Update)
(Update: We have received some information that part of this report might be inaccurate. We are doing further reporting on the subject and will post more as soon as we get more information.) A branch...
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China Is Not Investigating IBM, Oracle and EMC, Even as Tensions Increase
Executives at three U.S. giants in the enterprise IT space — IBM, Oracle and EMC — are becoming increasingly worried in the wake of reports suggesting they might be under investigation by authorities...
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Huawei Doesn't Want BlackBerry
Here’s one company that BlackBerry need not consider as it works to narrow down the list of parties interested in buying all or part of its business: Huawei. Asked if Huawei might consider acquiring...
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Let’s Call the Samsung Galaxy Mega “Phablet” What It Should Be: A Tablet
The new Samsung Galaxy Mega smartphone isn’t just a phone. It also doubles as a Frisbee, a George Foreman grill, a car battery and a flying saucer. I kid, I kid. But really: The Mega is big. It...
View ArticleHuawei to Keep Making Smartphones Running Windows Phone
A Huawei Technologies executive said Thursday the Chinese company will continue to make smartphones running the Windows Phone operating system, even as Microsoft is set to produce its own hardware...
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Rockstar Patent Consortium Sues Google, and Practically Everyone Making...
If it seemed as though the already insane world of wireless-patent lawsuits couldn’t become any more complicated — well, yesterday it did. As Google and its partners are launching the Nexus 5 and...
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AllThingsD Week in Review: Patent Wars Redux and Netflix Thinks "Big"
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Duck and cover! The so-called “Rockstar Consortium,” led by Apple, that controls Nortel’s...
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Western Digital Adds Something New to Hard Drives: Helium
When you think about it, aside from the fact that, over time, they increase in capacity while getting cheaper, there’s not that much new about hard drives. They store our digital stuff, occasionally...
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Huawei Pulls Back on Effort to Crack U.S. Carrier Equipment Market
After spending years trying to persuade U.S. regulators to ease their restrictions, China’s Huawei is acknowledging that the political climate prevents it from building any sizable business selling...
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Huawei Pulls Back on Network Side, but Still Hopes to Build U.S. Brand for...
While it is ready to concede that the time isn’t right to crack the U.S. cellular network gear market, Huawei still wants to make a name for itself in the market for smartphones. Globally, the Chinese...
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You Won't Believe All the Crazy Hardware the NSA Uses for Spying
Over the weekend we learned a lot about the National Security Agency’s Access Network Technology, or ANT, division, that, in the words of Der Spiegel, the German news magazine that first disclosed it...
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