Sierra Wireless Inc. said yesterday that its revenue and profits exceeded its guidance for the first quarter and forecast sequential growth, in the wake of a chastened outlook from competitor Novatel Wireless.Sierra Wireless' stock was down more than 4% this morning.The company, which makes...
AT&T Mobility continued its steady growth during the first quarter of the year, reporting customer additions on par with the previous year and gains in customer revenue that helped push the carrier's revenues up more than 17%.For the quarter, the industry's No. 1 carrier...
Increasing customer interest and availability of W-CDMA and GSM handsets are pushing mobile location-based services from the realm of hype into the world of reality.A new report from ABI Research predicts LBS revenues will grow from $515 million last year to $13.3 billion worldwide...
Competitive pressures are leading American companies to adopt mobility for the obvious reasons: increasing productivity, decreasing costs and distinguishing themselves among their competitors.The top three carriers in the United States - AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. - are attempting to secure...
Cisco is opening up two pieces of its branch office gear to application developers in an effort to reduce the amount of equipment businesses have to place and manage in small business locations.
Alcatel-Lucent has tapped Sierra Wireless to supply embedded modules for the infrastructure vendor's wireless laptop security, management and tracking system called the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG). Sierra Wireless components embedded in the NLG will provide high-speed access to mobile broadband networks, the...
Sun Microsystems Inc. raised eyebrows and garnered splashy headlines when it announced plans to acquire MySQL Inc. for $1 billion. But what the deal means in mobile - or just about anywhere else, for that matter - is far from clear.A Swedish outfit with...
When Microsoft Corp.'s CEO Steve Ballmer publicly mentions someone's name as a respected veteran who will run a new company in partnership with his juggernaut, people listen. At CTIA I.T. & Entertainment 2007 in late October, Ballmer told a standing-room-only crowd that Mort Rosenthal...
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 M:Metrics' Seamus McAteer, Ovum's Roger Entner...
A suite approach to offerings and the acquisition of a mobile unified communications solutions company will strengthen Avaya's presence in the UC marketplace.
LONDON-Wireless operators' revenue from enterprise mobile e-mail and personal information management is forecast to triple in the next four years, reaching $600 million by 2009, according to new figures from independent market analyst Datamonitor. The firm found that wireless e-mail has shown slow but...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersRobert W. Baird raised its 2006 estimates on BellSouth Corp. from EPS of $1.90 to $2.20 on a change in accounting related to acquisition-related amortization...
NATICK, Mass.-The global market for commercial mobile software, including operating systems, application frameworks, Java service and provisioning solutions, is expected to reach $1.6 billion by 2008 from $560 million last year, according to a new study released by Venture Development Corp. The report, "The...
SEATTLE-TeleSym, which provides mobile Voice over Internet Protocol solutions said it has entered a manufacturing agreement with Active Voice L.L.C. Active Voice will manufacture TeleSym's SymPhone enterprise mobile VoIP solution, including assembling and shipping SymPhone Call Registry and SymPhone Call Connector servers to TeleSym's...
DRAPER, Utah-Senforce Technologies Inc. said the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command has chosen its Enterprise Mobile Security Manager to provide secure wireless communications for air crews as they travel around. The product will work together with the Panasonic Toughbook rugged laptops with Intel...
LONDON-Mobile device management is a daunting task for any company, but it is particularly difficult for smaller businesses, according to Strategy Analytics' "Market Outlook: Strategic Perspectives on Enterprise Mobile Device Management" report.The report examines MDM solutions that allow information technology professionals to control remote...
LONDON-U.K. fixed-line carrier British Telecommunications plc launched a mobile virtual network operator service for the corporate market, dumping its former wireless subsidiary MmO2 for rival carrier Vodafone U.K. as the wireless service supplier.BT Mobile, which has plans for a fully converged fixed and mobile...
Nokia Corp. said deals with Visto Corp. and Good Technology Inc. to expand the messaging options on its handsets. Nokia has a similar agreement with Visto and Good rival Research In Motion Ltd.Nokia signed a deal to extend Visto's e-mail push solution into two...
While primarily a stomping ground for carriers and content developers to meet and deal, this year's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show, held last week in San Francisco, also provided a platform for the launch of several new wireless handsets. Audiovox Communications Corp. led...
Sprint Corp. announced it will be the first carrier to offer palmOne Inc.'s new Treo 650 smart phone. The device, which will retail for $600, includes phone, e-mail, Web, organizer, MP3 player, digital camera and camcorder capabilities. Sprint said it will also offer a...
BOSTON-The market for data cards in Western Europe is potentially large, according to a new report from The Yankee Group.Operators, faced with restricted third-generation coverage, capacity and handsets have focused on business users and cellular PCMCIA cards for initial commercial third-generation services, said the...
The global market for enterprise mobile device platforms is forecast to reach $12.3 billion by 2008, according to a report by Venture Development Corporation, "Enterprise Mobility Solutions: Mobile Devices, WLAN Infrastructure, Software and Services." Shipments of mobile computing devices including rugged, "fully rugged" and...
BOISE, Idaho-Wireless enterprise company Extended Systems Inc. reversed past losses with a slim profit in its second quarter, but the news failed to please Wall Street as the company's stock dropped slightly following its report to about $6 per share.Extended Systems reported a net...
