A number of emerging nations are highlighted in analyst Chetan Sharma’s telecommunications predictions, released earlier this month. Brazil takes fifth place in total number of subscribers, while Mexico takes the 10th spot. China leads in the number of subscribers, but the U.S. dominates in...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Intel Corp. has invented a new category of mobile computers it is calling the “Ultrabook” the firm revealed at Computex on Tuesday. The company said it was also accelerating its Atom processor roadmap to a one-process-generation per year cadence.Speaking publicly at...
Even giants stumble, as Nokia Corp. discovered over the weekend when it pulled its mid-tier 5800 ExpressMusic smartphone from shelves at its New York and Chicago flagship stores. The current troubles appear two-fold: one is faulty earpieces, improperly sealed against moisture; the second is...
A class-action lawsuit with potentially far-reaching legal, policy and business implications has been lodged against AT&T Mobility and RadioShack Corp. over a novel 3G netbook data plan.The litigation, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, was triggered after a...
When in past years Symbian Ltd. nervously eyed the nascent promise of mobile Linux, Symbian evangelists noted sharply that the rival, open-source platform would require considerable sweat equity or costly out-sourcing to ready it for market.That claim turned out to be true to an...
BARCELONA, Spain - The world's handset makers pulled out all the stops this year in their attempts to grab attention and generate interest in their products. At this year's Mobile World Congress trade show, Nokia Corp., LG Electronics Co. Ltd., HTC Corp. and others...
Cisco Systems said it is extending its WebEx client software to a host of smartphones.The online conferencing service is now available on BlackBerry models the Bold, Storm and Curve 8900, the company said, as well as the Samsung Blackjack II and several Nokia E...
Maximizer Software has launched its entirely first mobile product exclusively for BlackBerry handsets that is geared to free workers from laptops and reduce downtime in the field for sales and service professionals.The customer relationship management software company is unveiling its CRM 10.5 Freedom for...
LogMeIn Inc. plans to demonstrate a solution that allows for support for Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona.The company said it will show smartphone manufacturers and mobile service providers how they can use LogMeIn Rescue+Mobile to provide on-demand, remote customer...
LG Electronics Co. said it will trim $2.2 billion from its overhead, including headquarters and 82 subsidiaries around the globe, citing the global economic downturn that led it to a loss in fourth-quarter earnings.LG is the third-largest handset maker worldwide and third in the...
The short-term forecast for the handset market calls for pain and belt-tightening, no matter which market analysis you favor. And those analyses range from pretty harsh to very harsh. "We expect the first quarter of 2009 to be the absolute volume bottom in the...
Texas Instruments, Inc. yesterday posted a 30% year-on-year drop in revenue and a 95% drop in operating profit. About one-quarter of T.I.'s revenue in the fourth quarter was derived from wireless work. As a result, the company announced it would cut 12% of its...
Editor's Note: Welcome to 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.A critical question for wireless operators in the US is whether prospective customers of wide-area...
I used to love my Treo handset. (Sadly I can't remember whether I owned the 600 or the 650). I loved the stylus, I loved the games, I loved the ringtone (you know, the same ringtone every other Palm user had). But sometimes you...
Swedish smartphone user interface vendor UIQ has filed for bankruptcy, according to media reports.Indeed, the move was foreshadowed in June when UIQ announced it would layoff 200 of its 375 employees and seek new lines of business. However, it seems the company's efforts did...
The first half of 2009 may see alarmingly slow handset sales worldwide and, even if the back half of the year improves markedly, all sources point to negative growth for the coming year. Forecasts for the magnitude of the anticipated slowdown, however, vary widely...
The handset market is one big sale this season, if you conveniently ignore the service contract gambit that recoups a carrier's investment in the subsidy that makes mobile phones artificially cheap. Just last week, one analyst noted that the new $200 price ceiling for...
Research In Motion Ltd. said today it will fight for its takeover bid for Certicom Corp., an encryption firm, after the latter sought a court injunction to thwart RIM's purchase. Certicom said it would weigh RIM's bid -RIM is offering Certicom shareholders $1.20 per...
Palm Inc. said yesterday that it is operating in an "extremely tough climate" with "continued challenges in coming months" as it prepares to launch a next-generation platform dubbed Nova along with new handsets.Palm is widely expected to present its new OS and, possibly, devices...
Editor's Note: Welcome to 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.The migration to mobile messaging and data was the story of the first half of...
The twin engines of global handset growth - China and India - are experiencing economic slowdowns that threaten "serious harm" to 2009 sales, according to a prominent financial analyst. The slowing of those emerging economies could drag global handset sales below negative 10% growth...
Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on Motorola Inc. on Friday to "junk (bond) territory," according to the Wall Street Journal.S&P's rating change was to "BB+" from "BBB." Moody's Investor Services warned last week that it, too, may cut its credit...
Nokia Corp. said last week that holiday-related handset sales will likely fall short of the company's last estimate, issued in mid-November. Three weeks ago, Nokia had forecast 330 million units, a slight drop from the year-ago quarter. Even with its much-vaunted visibility into...
