I've seen the future and it is advertising on cellphones.A bit dramatic, perhaps? Yes, but during a panel discussion with a group of college students from Northwest University at last week's Mobile Marketing Forum in New York City, these young cellphone aficionados gave the...
Shares of Openwave Systems Inc. continued to slide after the company said it plans to slash 20% of its workforce by the end of the month.The embattled Redwood City, Calif.-based developer filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission outlining a restructuring plan "to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special edition of our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro...
Sagem Communication signed a royalty-bearing agreement with Qualcomm Inc. to make and sell W-CDMA handsets worldwide at the latter's "standard rate," Qualcomm announced. The deal represents another customer win for Qualcomm, which competes with other W-CDMA intellectual property holders in the high-growth 3G space....
Infrastructure giant L.M. Ericsson announced it will pay around $417 million for German billing company LHS AG, a move that could pit Ericsson directly against telecom billing heavyweights like Amdocs Ltd. and Convergys Corp."Operators are quickly moving towards convergent charging and billing solutions to...
Singapore-based Flextronics International Ltd. said it would acquire Solectron Corp., of Milpitas, Calif., for $3.6 billion in cash and stock to create an even larger electronics manufacturing service that will generate more than $30 billion in annual revenue.Flextronics is well-known in the cellular industry...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro...
Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection over the weekend, claiming its back-end systems have been unable to keep up with the company's rapid growth. The MVNO said in a statement that it expects to continue normal operations during the...
Stalwarts in media are increasingly bullish on driving their audience's eyes and ears to just about every channel imaginable. But just as these powerhouses are finally finding their online groove, they're efforts are being re-doubled on the next frontier in media-mobile phones. Fox Interactive...
Even a casual observer of the wireless industry can't fail to notice that newer handsets are sporting larger, clearer, more colorful screens. Simply put, the advent of mobile multimedia and consumer e-mail is driving increases in size, resolution and "color depth" of mobile-phone...
In the midst of a lull between completing the buildout of 3G networks and beginning work on next-generation networks, U.S. telecom companies are expected to keep their wireless capital spending mostly flat this year as they figure out how to better sell applications to...
Motorola Inc. said it would cut 4,000 more jobs in the coming year, on top of 3,500 job cuts to be completed by next month. The reduced headcount at the world's No. 2 handset vendor is part of a $1 billion restructuring the...
Longtime VeriSign Inc. chief Stratton Sclavos stepped down as the company's internal investigation into stock-options grants is nearing its end. The Mountain View, Calif., company declined to offer reasons for the departure of Sclavos, who joined VeriSign 12 years ago. But the firm said...
U.S. carriers are missing out on millions of dollars by making it difficult for users to discover and download mobile games, according to new figures from Strategy Analytics.The market research firm found that while mobile gaming is expected to ring up $520 million in...
Clearwire Corp. completed its acquisition of 2.5 GHz spectrum from AT&T Inc.; the larger company had to divest itself of the spectrum as part of the requirements for the approval of its purchase of BellSouth Corp. The 2.5 GHz spectrum was licensed to or...
Motorola Inc. said yesterday that it would cut 4,000 more jobs in the coming year, on top of 3,500 job cuts to be completed by next month. The reduced headcount at the world's No. 2 handset vendor is part of an overall $1 billion...
Third-generation networks are expected to capture only 30 percent of the machine-to-machine communications market by 2012, predicts a new report from ABI Research."Municipal Wi-Fi and WiMAX will both challenge 3G cellular technology as the most suitable methods to achieve high-speed M2M communications for many...
Mobile game publishers and their carrier partners are hoping to lure newbies by giving away everything from 30-second game demos to a Volkswagen Beetle. Whether they're succeeding, though, is far from certain. Wireless gaming continues to struggle to expand past the "golden nickel"-the 5%...
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-Mobile social networking is "one of these servants in waiting . something that has a lot of potential, but hasn't been fully exploited," Michael Stroud, co-founder and CEO of iHollywood Forum Inc., said in introductory remarks here at the Mobile Entertainment Summit.A...
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-Mobile social networking is "one of these servants in waiting . something that has a lot of potential, but hasn't been fully exploited," Michael Stroud, co-founder and CEO of iHollywood Forum Inc., said in introductory remarks here at the Mobile Entertainment Summit.A...
Nokia Corp. responded to Qualcomm Inc.'s April 2 lawsuit filed in Wisconsin, disputing the latter's allegation of patent infringement, and charging the chip vendor with violating six Nokia patents. Nokia's action capped six weeks of relative quiet in the closely watched tug-of-war between the...
Verizon Wireless expanded its unlimited messaging offer to a new series of push-to-talk plans. The America's Choice Push to Talk Select plans have the same number of minutes as the carrier's Push to Talk Basic plans-ranging from 700 to 6,000 minutes for a family...
In what might be billed as "The Natural History of a Startup," tiny, San Diego-based Sequoia Communications is making the rounds, hoping to lure W-CDMA baseband chip vendors into using its newly minted transceiver chip. Sequoia, with 50 employees today and funding through 2008,...
This summer is starting to look pretty good.First of all, "The Simpsons Movie" is coming out in July. That's reason enough to get excited. But that's not the only reason to stay conscious, oh no, not by a long shot.Also this summer the iPhone...
