SECAUCUS, N.J.-Panasonic Corp. of North America, the North American subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., announced it shut down its U.S. mobile-phone operations. The news comes as little surprise, however-the company had previously failed to find carrier partners to sell its phones and...
Panasonic Corp. of North America, the North American subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., announced it shut down its U.S. mobile-phone operations. The news comes as little surprise, however-the company had previously failed to find carrier partners to sell its phones and had...
BOSTON-New research shows the handset industry shipped a total of 257 million camera phones worldwide last year, comprising 38 percent of the total handset market. The numbers are way up from the 84 million, or 16 percent of the total market, in 2003."Global camera-phone...
The number of households that use mobile phones is increasing, but levels of customer satisfaction are on the decline, according to new research from Forrester Research Inc.Two-thirds of U.S. households have at least one mobile phone, according to the survey, which polled 5,600 households....
ROME-Countless mourners sparked controversy by using camera phones to snap pictures of Pope John Paul II as the pontiff lay in state this week in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.The tech-savvy visitors who captured the pope's image as they paid their last respects have...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. released its new 8801 for the Americas market, a sleek, sliding-style EDGE camera phone that features a stainless steel body, specially reinforced glass for the front display, and bi-stable spring mechanism and stainless steel ball bearings for the sliding mechanism.The device...
Around the world, people are quietly using high-tech to stay in touch with a higher power. While cutting-edge applications like mobile TV make headlines, simpler, religious-based offerings are gaining ground. Jewish users are sending text messages with prayers or requests to Israeli rabbis who...
LONDON-U.K. wireless subscribers with camera phones can submit a picture of their hands for a palm reading, a British psychic television channel said Thursday. Your Destiny TV is behind the service, which reads photos of users' palms and delivers text messages with the reading....
LONDON-U.K. wireless subscribers with camera phones can submit a picture of their hands for a palm reading, a British psychic television channel said Thursday.Your Destiny TV is behind the service, which reads photos of users' palms and delivers text messages with the reading. The...
When it comes to mobile phones, Sprint PCS has long been in a class of its own. Since the carrier's beginnings, Sprint has traveled its own path in the handset market. Instead of relying on stock phones, Sprint has carved out its own phone...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it signed an agreement with Wireless Services Corp. to provide WAP 2.0 access to more than 1.3 million Cellular One customers in 19 states and in a separate announcement announced the availability of the CDM-8930 handset, a swivel clamshell...
Western Wireless Corp. said it signed an agreement with Wireless Services Corp. to provide WAP 2.0 access to more than 1.3 million Cellular One customers in 19 states and in a separate announcement announced the availability of the CDM-8930 handset, a swivel clamshell camera...
Numbers show that the worldwide mobile-phone market increased to 674 million units in 2004, a 30-percent increase from sales in 2003. The research comes from Gartner Inc. and mirrors similar findings from the likes of Strategy Analytics and IDC."The market exceeded even the most...
In conjunction with the CeBIT trade show in Germany, Nokia Corp. and Sony Ericsson showed off their new phone wares, which included mid-range devices, high-end camera phones and music-focused gadgets.First up is Nokia, which released three new candybar-style phones the company said will strengthen...
Siemens AG appears to be in the midst of peddling its handset business, but by all accounts the world's No. 5 phone vendor isn't having any luck. That Siemens is unable to sell its mobile-phone operations is especially notable in this era of carrier...
Proving wrong rumors of an imminent shutdown of its handset business, Siemens released three new low-end phones in an effort to trump low-cost vendors like Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc.Siemens said the three new phones are part of its new 75 A-Series, which the...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Cricket Communications Inc. announced it will sell the CDM-8910 camera phone from UTStarcom Inc. for $200."Given its cool form factor and wide range of features from a built-in digital camera to dozens of polyphonic ringers, we believe that the CDM-8910 will be a...
VALHALLA, N.Y.-Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. released a new portable printer the company said is designed specifically for camera-phone users to print out their phone images. The company said its new MP-70 portable printer will be available commercially this summer, and will work with...
Don't be alarmed by those Canadians who seem to be wrestling with their cell phones. They're probably just fishing. More accurately, they're likely playing "Swordfish," a new game that allows players to locate their quarry, drop a virtual line and reel in the big...
DALLAS-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has selected Texas Instruments Inc.'s imaging processor technology for a camera phone model with a hard disk drive for image and video storage.Samsung will use TI's OMAP-DM270 processor in the new camera-phone model.
WEYMOUTH, Mass.-Worldwide camera-phone shipments are expected to grow from 178 million units last year to more than 860 million units in 2009, according to projections from InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. During the same timeframe, camera phones will grow to account for 89 percent of all mobile-phone...
From the consumer's point of view, 2005 is shaping up to be the year mobile music goes big-time. And nearly everyone in the wireless industry is scrambling to make sure they cash in. Industry observers predict this year may do for mobile music what...
A California lawsuit claims that Verizon Wireless displayed "willful, deceptive and oppressive conduct" in limiting the capabilities of its Bluetooth-capable Motorola Inc. V710 camera phone. Law firm Kirtland & Packard L.L.P. is seeking class-action status for the lawsuit and is pursuing an unspecified amount...
A California lawsuit claims that Verizon Wireless displayed "willful, deceptive and oppressive conduct" in limiting the capabilities of its Bluetooth-capable Motorola Inc. V710 camera phone. Law firm Kirtland & Packard L.L.P. is seeking class-action status for the suit and is pursuing an unspecified amount...
