Yearly Archives: 2008

Study: Familiarity breeds IM usage

The willingness of business customers to adopt mobile instant messaging has more to do with familiarity with PC-based IM services than with mobility, according...

Social sites set for enterprise boost: App to integrate popular sites for consumer gain

Staying up to date with your favorite band, the latest news and online friends should be easier as an Oklahoma company is set to...

MySpace brings its video catalogue to mobile

Move over YouTube. MySpace lovers can now access video from the social-networking monster on their handsets. MySpace, along with video technology vendor RipCode, announced...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Clearwire, Palm, Nokia and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--JP Morgan resumed coverage on...

Proximic’s iPhone app looks to advance search field

Google Inc. continues to dominate the online-search space, but who will win in mobile - and how they'll get there - is anybody's guess.The...

Glu shares plummet, game maker to cut jobs

Glu Mobile Inc.'s woes continued as the wireless-game maker said it will slash an unspecified number of jobs as part of an effort to...

Palm battered after revenue warning

Palm Inc. said yesterday that its revenue for its fiscal second quarter would reach the range of $190 million to $195 million, far below...

Sierra makes bid for M2M with $277M purchase of Wavecom: Gemalto fails in Wavecom takeover plot

The long-term outlook for Sierra Wireless Inc.'s acquisition of machine-to-machine company Wavecom SA is positive, but the company will face some bumps in the...

VIDEO: Nokia unveils N97 touchscreen … for next year: Key markets are Europe and Asia, analysts say

Nokia Corp. will deliver its second touchscreen handset by June of next year, the company said at the opening of its Nokia World exposition...

Nokia advances Ovi with Mail, Maps and Messaging

Nokia Corp. continued to build out its Ovi service with new e-mail and instant messaging solutions as well as an enhanced mapping offering.The handset-maker-cum-Internet-services-company...

REVIEW: Mobile news sites offer headlines, and not much else

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point...

Holiday season a test for MVNO market

Mobile virtual network operators will likely join the ranks with most Americans facing a tough holiday season with mixed forecasts as to whether MVNOs...

Lowered expectations: U.S. handset market may not be “meltdown”

The swirl of events last month and their possible implications for the domestic handset industry are several-fold, analyst said last week. First, despite an...

Gumiyo releases mobile ready platform for advertising

Mobile marketing and technology provider Gumiyo in Woodland Hills, Calif., has released a suite of online tools that enable newspapers to offer rich Mobile...

Motorola intros MOTOROKR EM35

Motorola announced on Tuesday it will soon add the MOTOROKR EM35 handset to its range, which will have an emphasis on superior audio performance...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and more

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...

FCC changes spectrum allocation rules after much of it is captured

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their...

Wireless industry wins skirmish in backup-power debate

The Bush administration rejected the Federal Communications Commission's backup-power reporting requirements, possibly increasing chances that controversial regulations opposed by the mobile-phone industry will be...

AOL says MySpace most popular mobile search term

On-the-go consumers are using their phones to stay connected to their social networking communities, according to new data from AOL.The portal said MySpace was...

Stormy weather: RIM’s new device too hot

Similar to its like-named weather phenomenon, the launch of Research In Motion Ltd.'s Storm at Verizon Wireless has left mixed results. Sure, the resulting...

Marketers push for Mobile Tuesday as the new Black Friday: McDonald’s, Finish Line, RedTag will try to stimulate post-Thanksgiving purchases

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become retail mainstays, but Mobile Tuesday?Recent economic woes have eliminated many marketers' ability to invest in emerging media....

Clearwire goes official with mobile WiMAX, will use ‘Let’s Be Clear’ branding

With a $3.2 billion in investment from its new partners, Clearwire Corp officially closed on its joint venture with Sprint Nextel Corp. to offer...

Analyst Angle: The urgency of wireless voice service for cable operators: What do Cox, Time Warner and others need to do?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Fuel cells poised to become next portable power source

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Laptop, cellphone and iPod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have...
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