Yearly Archives: 2012

Apple shares surge on strong earnings

Apple shares are up more than 6% this morning after a blockbuster quarterly earnings announcement yesterday afternoon. The company said strong sales of the...

Feature Report: Colombia – Mobile opportunities abound

Forget about the Colombia you may know from the 1990s. The current scenario is different and much more business friendly than in the past....

India mobile phone shipments near 166M through Nov.

A new report by CyberMedia Research states that the overall Indian mobile handsets market recorded sales of 15.4 million units during November 2011, taking the total handset shipments during the first eleven months of calendar year 2011 to nearly 166 million units.

Smartphone sales impact Verizon Wireless’ Q4

Device subsidies associated with the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone at the beginning of the fourth quarter had a pronounced impact at Verizon Communications...

Apple outspends rivals on chips

Apple's appetite for chips is shaking up the semiconductor industry. Research giant Gartner, Inc. says Apple is now spending more on chips than any...

Nokia gets the blame for steeper losses at ST-Ericsson

Shares of Nokia bounced back today after a steep sell- off yesterday on news that its orders to chip supplier ST-Ericsson were sluggish. “The...

Wireless History Foundation to accept nominations for 2012 inductees

Austin-based Wireless History Foundation said it will begin accepting nominations for the 2012 Wireless Hall of Fame through March 15. Nominations will be accepted...

Clearwire shows increased Q4 revenues, iPhone-related churn

Clearwire (CLWR) said it accumulated a company record $362 million in revenues during the fourth quarter of last year, which was more than double...

Feature Report: Colombian mobile opportunities abound

Colombian government’s plan to boost telecommunications in the country is set to increase competition among operators and expedite the deployment of 3G services, broadband...

Telecom chiefs meet Kapil Sibal; discuss spectrum pricing

Top executives of India's telecom companies Tuesday met the country's Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal to discuss contentious issues plaguing the sector.

New telecommunications route between Western Europe and Russia

The highway is deemed to serve the increasing Internet-traffic demands between Western Europe and Russia via the Baltic States.

Intel, IBM, Microsoft and SAP post positive financial results

Big information technology companies posted positive results for their recent fiscal quarter and their optimist outlook for 2012 may suggest a growth in IT...

Apple names ex-Sony Ericsson exec to lead Latin America efforts

Blog and press reports have indicated that Apple has hired formerly Sony Ericsson U.S. president and head of the North America region, Anderson Teixeira,...

Report: Emerging countries to play a big role in worldwide e-commerce

Emerging countries are expected to play a bigger role in the e-commerce market by 2015, according to a new study by Forrester Research. ...

Reality Check: Brazil’s mobile broadband scenario in 2011

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 insights into the...

2012 Predictions: The battle to be your personal assistant

The enthusiastic acceptance of Apple’s Siri, with its combination of speech recognition and natural language understanding, has demonstrated the practicality and attractiveness of a voice-enabled personal assistant user interface.

2012 Predictions: Messaging to drive business, technology

2011 was another year of diversity for the mobile industry. With a raft of new smart devices, tablets, applications, services and new pricing plans, consumers and enterprises alike have had more choice than ever when making use of the mobile device.

Gartner raises doubt about M2M in 2012

Prospective customers of Machine to Machine (M2M) service providers are pushing back, a Gartner analyst surveying the field says, because they are concerned about...

Apple looks to enterprise, education markets with iPad

Analysts predict that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will sell as many as 48 million iPads this year, about four times as many tablets as Amazon...

Samsung to produce multi-chip memory for entry-level smartphones

Samsung Electronics Thursday announced that it has started producing embedded multi-chip package (eMCP) memory for use in the rapidly expanding market segment for entry-to mid-level smartphones.

Report: Network evolution key to wireless job growth, economic recovery

Washington, D.C.-based think tank NDN released an economic study showing that the evolution of wireless networks from 2G technologies to 3G technologies created 1.585...

Analysts comment on RIM shake up

After Research in Motion (RIMM) announced Thorsten Heins as its new CEO, market analysts seemed to be looking for the company's next steps. Tech...

Motorola Solutions nabs $95M Bay Area public safety deal

The Bay Area Regional Interoperable Communications Systems Authority approved a $95 million agreement with Motorola Solutions (MSI) to provide a public safety network using...

RIM shakes up management; Balsillie and Lazaridis out, Heins in

Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) reported that its co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have stepped down. The beleaguered Canadian device maker said Balsillie...

Idea claims 2.25M active 3G users

Idea Cellular, India's No. 4 operator by subscribers, reported 17% dip in consolidated net profit to $39.7 million from a year earlier for its third fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31.
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