The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan. The organization is a leading proponent of an open-source, Linux OS for handsets, and said that its latest members represented...
For years, mobile advertising has been touted as the next frontier. Its day may finally have arrived. Recent reports suggest that almost 60 million consumers were exposed to mobile advertising in just one month, and there are predictions that the market will reach almost...
Battery life, security issues could affect custom business apps. After three weeks of testing and reviewing Apple Inc. 's new iPhone 2 .0 firmware and an iPhone 3G for use in large businesses, analyst firm Gartner Inc.
In an overlooked USA Today article from Friday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and "insider sources" quietly all but confirmed that the company has retained exclusive rights to the iPhone until 2010.
Apple yanks connection-sharing software from App Store a second time. The on-again, off-again saga of NetShare, an iPhone tethering application, continued over the weekend as Apple Inc. briefly returned the program to the App Store on Friday, but then yanked it from the mart...
About this time a year ago rumors began circulating about a smaller nano-sized iPhone. The UK’s Daily Mail has resurrected the rumor again, just in time for the holiday shopping season:
Satellite communications company TerreStar Networks Inc. said it signed a nationwide reciprocal roaming agreement with AT&T Inc.TerreStar is developing an all-IP integrated satellite-terrestrial communications network. The company plans to target its service at commercial, government, rural and public-safety users in North America.The company is...
Verizon Wireless quietly launched visual voicemail, allowing customers to view caller and voicemail information and listen to voicemail messages in any order on their phone.Voice messages will be displayed on users' phones with sender and time information, and customers can scroll through the messages...
Safran said it will swallow $343 million to spin off its troubled Sagem Mobiles division to venture capital firm Sofinnova.Sofinnova plans to rebrand the handset manufacturer as Sagem Wireless, with Safran holding a 10% stake. The company will develop and market products under other...
Nortel Networks Corp.'s stock plunged nearly 15% after the infrastructure provider released relatively flat second quarter results, but warned of future instability in the U.S. market. The Toronto-based company posted Q2 revenue of $2.62 billion, a 2% increase year-over-year. Of the total revenue, just...
Toshiba Corp. said it will shut down its four-year-old, satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting service, which it offers via its Mobile Broadcasting Corp. business unit.The company said the service has failed to attract sufficient customers to its paid service in the face of demand for...
Luxury brand Dolce&Gabbana said it ran a successful mobile advertising campaign on the Nokia Media Network.The company's youth-oriented brand, D&G, used a viral campaign on mobile handsets to raise awareness of its products during the Male Collection Fashion Show in Italy earlier this summer....
I guess if you lose a few billion dollars, someone has to take the blame. Or at least that was the case last week at Alcatel-Lucent, where after posting another quarter of underwhelming results, one of the wireless industry's largest infrastructure providers decided a...
Motorola Inc. says its troubled handset business is improving and will be stronger by the end of the year, but CEO Gregory Brown isn't willing to say when he expects the unit to break even.Yet Brown insists the division, which lost $346 million in...
Verizon Wireless is the latest marketer to yank an ad deemed offensive, in what has become a minor trend of marketers caving to pressure from advocacy groups.The ad, a 30-second spot from Interpublic Group of Cos.' McCann Erickson for the LG Electronic Co. Ltd....
Despite the buzz surrounding the femtocell market, 2008 will probably be a low-key year for femtocell vendors with only about 100,000 units expected to ship, according to predictions from ABI Research.By 2010, however, the market will begin a serious ramp-up, hitting double-digit millions in...
More than 550 million GPS-enabled mobile phones are expected to ship by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research."While most CDMA handsets are already GPS-enabled and GPS is set to become a standard feature in GSM smartphones, GSM feature phones are next...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Celeno: Cisco led a $16 million Series C funding round into Celeno Communications, which provides semiconductors for multimedia...
Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to putting some of the money to use in India and China.
Yesterday, a $10 application from Nullriver appeared in the iPhone Apps Store that allowed you to use the iPhone to access the Internet via 3G and share that connection through its Wi-Fi radio. It didn't last long, however, before the powers that be at...
The French competition authority Conseil de la concurrence (equivalent of the FTC in the US) wants the government to ease regulations governing mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to increase competition in the mobile telephony market, which is dominated by SFR, Orange and Bouygues Telecom.
