Verizon Wireless has a new exclusive for its Android-device toting customers. Coinciding with the upcoming theatrical debut of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," the carrier is now offering The Pirate Discovery App, the official mobile app for the film.The app has exclusive...
Mobile communication is really going mobile according to Juniper Research which says half a billion people worldwide will use their mobile devices as travel tickets on metros, subways and buses by 2015.According to the Mobile Ticketing for Transport Markets report, the practice of using...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Hindustan Times | April 29, 2011
Research In Motion has sharply cut its quarterly profit forecast, citing sluggish sales of BlackBerry smartphones, which are facing security concerns in India and the Middle East as well as stiff competition from other mobile phone makers. The announcement,...
Accenture | April 27, 2011 | Press Release
RIO DE JANEIRO; April 27, 2011– According to Accenture (NYSE: ACN) research across eight countries, Brazilians have the highest consumer electronics ownership and spending in 15 product categories. More than half (55 percent) of Brazilian consumers have...
Accenture | April 27, 2011 | Press Release
ESPOO, Finland and NEW YORK; April 27, 2011 – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced plans for a strategic collaboration in which Nokia would outsource its Symbian software activities and transition about 3,000 employees...
AT&T Mobility (T) is set to “4G-enize” a 4G device announcing this afternoon that it was set to begin rolling out an update for the HTC Corp. Inspire smartphone that will allow for higher-speed uploads through the HSUPA standard.The Inspire launched earlier this year...
EBay Inc.'s (EBAY) online payment service PayPal has acquired Boston-based Fig Card, a payment startup that seeks to eliminate the use of credit cards in lieu of smartphones. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed.Fig Card allows retailers to enable mobile payments...
Times of India | April 28, 2011
NEW DELHI: Over a month after it launched iPad 2in the US, Apple on Wednesday announced availability of its next-generation tablet in India. According to the company, Indian consumers will be able to buy iPad2 from April 29. The cheapest...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) announced earlier today that technical issues that had crippled its LTE network have been solved and that the network was “up and running.”The announcement came via the carrier’s Twitter page.The carrier noted yesterday that the network was experiencing “issues” that were...
Sony Corp. (SNE) is the newest company to try its hand in the tablet market, showing off two tablets that operate on Honeycomb, also known as Google Inc.'s Android 3.0, at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan. The initial names of the...
AT&T Inc. (T) late last week filed its petition to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. with the Federal Communications Commission. The detailed document, excluding the lack of detail from redacted information, lays out AT&T’s argument as to why the FCC should allow the nation’s No....
AT&T Inc. (T) late last week filed its petition to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. with the Federal Communications Commission. The detailed document, excluding the lack of detail from redacted information, lays out AT&T’s argument as to why the FCC should allow the nation’s No....
It would seem now the war of words between Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) over which company is activating the most devices daily has come to an end with Android the victor, Google and its hardware partners are looking to put some...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) shed some launch light on a pair of handsets that both expect to begin offering over the coming days and weeks.Verizon Wireless said it will begin offering the HTC Corp. Droid Incredible 2 on April 28...
Lawmakers stepped in to ask operating system companies how they are tracking, using, storing and sharing location information on smartphones after media reports that Apple Inc. (AAPL) automatically tracks and stores location data. While privacy issues have always been a concern in the mobile...
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 marketplace.The telecommunications earnings season began with a bang this week with Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), AT&T Inc....
Our most recent event, RCR Wireless News Broadband New Jersey covered a lot of ground. It was a full day of discussion on stage (and in the halls) and a well attended event overall. Our team thoroughly enjoyed facilitating talks on stage that ran...
NEW DELHI: Micromax, Lava, Karbonn, Spice, Maxx , Olive and Zen have got a new caller tune-waka waka eh ehae...this time for Africa. After giving multinational majors such as Nokia a run for its money in India, and cornering one-fifth of the handset market...
The Star | April 23, 2011 | Leong Hung Yee
KUALA LUMPUR: Celcom Axiata Bhd expects high subsidy on smartphones will put a dent on its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) margin.
“It (subsidy) will put a pressure on our ebitda margin but we...
AT&T Inc. (T) late last week filed its petition to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. with the Federal Communications Commission. The detailed document, excluding the lack of detail from redacted information, lays out AT&T’s argument as to why the FCC should allow the nation’s No....
Silicon India News | April 21, 2011 |
Bangalore: Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its ultra-premium and ultra-slim Notebook Series 9 in the Indian market. With a weight of only 1.31kg measuring a mere 16.3mm in depth and with a screen size of 13...
Have you ever set your phone down a little too close to some water? Coffee? Beer? The panic that sets in when you wonder if you’ve suddenly voided the handset warranty. Fear no more.
P2i is a company that has invented nano-coating technology that stops...
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the growing rate at which U.S. households are cutting their landlines.The three-and-a-half-year survey found that nearly 24% of adults and 27.5% of children were living in wireless-only households from January 2007 to...
