California-based computer memory manufacturer Smart Modular Technologies announced Thursday it will be closing its Aguada plant due to a long-term production decline.  The closing, which will leave 104 people jobless, will be finalized April 13, company spokeswoman Suzanne Craig confirmed.  The company informed employees of the decision on Monday.  As a result of the closing, […]

Open Mobile, one of the five wireless carriers serving the Puerto Rico market, has been spared from paying a $20,000 fine to the Federal Communications Commission for faltering to adequately report how it goes about protecting subscribers’ private information. The federal watchdog waived the fine late last week, after Open Mobile submitted a certification stating […]

The familiar Puerto Rico Telephone and DMAX brands — through which PRT offered its telephone and Internet services, respectively — are being phased out on the consumer level, to be unified under the the ‘Claro’ name, the carrier announced Monday. The move comes four years after Mexican telecommunications giant América Móvil, whose flagship brand throughout […]

The Federal Communications Commission has given cable television provider OneLink Communcations the go-ahead to begin scrambling the signal of its basic-service tier, paving the way for the company to overhaul its San Juan metropolitan area system. As News is my Business reported exclusively in November, Onelink submitted a petition to the FCC, asking for a […]

HTC Inspire 4G Using the Consumer Electronics Show as its backdrop, AT&T announced the deployment of 4G speeds using both HSPA+ and LTE technologies to deliver faster services. Company officials announced plans Wednesday to accelerate its LTE network build, to be largely complete by late 2013. The carrier also plans to begin its launch of […]

Puerto Rico Telephone recently scored a regulatory victory that will produce millions in operational savings, as a result of a Federal Communications Commission decision regarding the way the carrier offers long distance services. In an extensive decision released about a week ago, the FCC granted PRT’s request to allow it to provide long distance services […]

The House of Representatives has submitted or reviewed 10 bills this year proposing changes to existing laws related to the telecommunications sector, none of which have been approved. Among the measures is House Bill 2489, filed in February, to authorize the Telecommunications Regulatory Board to regulate the terms and conditions stipulated in data service contracts […]

Local venture capital group Guayacán Group Inc. is throwing its support behind technology transfer and furthering the commercialization of innovation or discoveries through a partnership with the University of Texas, Austin. As part of that effort, Guayacán will host a series of workshops on Jan. 13-14 with the Univ. of Texas Austin’s IC2 Institute open […]

The University of Missouri’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) recently released the results of a study predicting that news applications for Apple’s iPad will diminish newspaper print subscriptions next year. The study focused on how iPad consumers consume news content, concluding — among other things — that 84.4 percent of the people used the […]

Eight months after receiving $25.7 million from grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to develop its Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative project, Internet Service Provider, Critical Hub Networks recently announced it has officially activated the Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative’s fiber optic network between Puerto Rico and Florida and has begun final network testing. In April […]