GLG News by Amdocs Product Experts

With weak consumer spending, Apple is trying to draw traffic to its own stores with iPhone offers such as registering online for store pickup and selling an unlocked version in Hong Kong.

No segment of the market is completely safe from economic woes, but key tech players are as well positioned as any to weather the storm.  This is the time to choose carefully among investments, but the tech arena today boasts solid investment choices among both large and small companies. ...

The AT&T reorganization into four units lacks a separate division for Enterprise Mobile Solutions to promote field communications, realtime applications, and workforce productivity.

RIM’s consumer smartphones are well-timed with the enterprise spending slowdown, but the forecast of lower gross margins show the dependence on carrier’s marketing and subsidized pricing.

The AT&T and DirecTV contract indicates the mutual need to: 1) Replace DSL and satellite TV disconnects; 2) Compete against the cable triple play; 3) Acquire higher end customers.

Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint is focusing on the customer service and new wireless product aspects to help turn his failing business around.  He is also moving forward with a joint WiMax venture with Clearwire, supported by financing from Comcast, Time Warner, Brighthouse, Intel, and Google. ...

ATT needs to offer as close a package/service bundle as they can to their CATV competitors' offerings.  HD is a major service product and has much interest from TV/Video customers, and up until now, ATT can only offer 2 HD streams to the home simultaneously feeding two different HD TV sets.  The...

This article refers to Qwest moving away from video over internet protocol in several cities where they have it in play now, instead opting to use DirecTV to provide video and lock down customers away from cable.  ATT, however, is building the same video IP platform and appears to be sticking...

AT&T’s CTO tries to reduce the marketing impact of iPhone problems with comments about the ROI on technology improvements from smartphone subsidy costs and network upgrades. 

Google’s free consumer Gmail has gained a large and loyal following.  Google would like to leverage that to dethrone Microsoft Exchange in enterprises.  While Microsoft should be careful not to underestimate the threat, Google faces formidable challenges, not least of which is security.