The U.S. mobile imaging market is expected to generate more than $500 million in revenues in 2013, according to a new report form research firm Parks Associates.The company said it believes the mobile imaging market will grow beyond photo-sharing services to include personalized content...
No one can miss the dark clouds streaming overhead, but analysts say that without the expected growth in smartphone sales, those clouds might blot out the sun altogether. Handset sales, of course, drive chip sales, and most analysts have been revising their forecasts downward...
So there I was in the front section on the west front of the U.S. Capitol, within yelling distance of the man who would forever transform presidential campaigning and fund-raising by leveraging cellphone texting, the Internet and social networking en route to becoming the...
Zeemote Inc., which offers a remote control for mobile gaming, tapped a new CEO and expanded its front office with two additional hires.Former Virgin Media executive Ernie Cormier will take over the reigns from co-founder Beth Marcus, who will serve as CTO and focus...
Bluetooth technology has largely replaced wired headsets and is now making inroads in new markets, according to a report from IMS Research.The emergence of the A2DP profile, which allows stereo sound to be transmitted over Bluetooth connections, has created several new opportunities for Bluetooth...
A handful of forces appear to be shaping a year to come that is likely to include numerous device launches featuring the fledgling Android operating system. Whether that will spell success for the license-free, Linux-based, open source OS is far from assured, though at...
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...
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications lost a quarter of a billion dollars in the fourth quarter as sales were down 23% year-on-year. SEMC shipped 24.2 million devices in the fourth quarter, down 21% year-on-year, and down 6% sequentially. The vendor shipped nearly 97 million devices...
Motorola Inc. today said it shipped only 19 million handsets in the fourth quarter of 2008, down from 25.4 million in the third quarter and less than half the 40 million handsets shipped during the fourth quarter of 2007.The company also said it would...
As the market digests news of Nortel's financial failings, a new report forecasts the rest of the global telecom equipment vendor market also will have to gird for a rough 2009 - with some players remaining relatively unscathed while others could be forced into...
In about two weeks, when the world's leading handset vendors deliver their earnings statements for fourth-quarter 2008, analysts will be expecting not just numbers but some critical commentary to understand how the world may have changed. With mobile phones and service increasingly becoming a...
While there's much talk in official Washington about including stimulus funding and incentives for broadband deployment (and more recently about setting aside a portion of the package's $775 billion total for a national dual-use 700 MHz network and the troubled DTV transition), it appears...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
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 unprecedented concentration of spectrum in the hands of Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility...
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.It was a year most of us would like to forget, but one we're certain...
Aircell L.L.C. CEO Jack Blumenstein looks into the future of in-flight Internet services and sees an aircraft devoid of television monitors or screens on the back of seats. Blumenstein envisions travelers watching movies, playing games or surfing the Web by connecting their own personal...
Nokia Corp. said today it would stop producing its mobile Internet tablet designed for a U.S.-based WiMAX network, raising questions on the phone maker's view of that nascent market. The N810 WiMAX Edition MID was Nokia's only product for WiMAX, which is slowly rolling...
The District of Columbia cancelled today's scheduled cellphone jamming demonstration at a city jail, but the controversy apparently is not over.Cellular industry association CTIA yesterday petitioned a federal appeals court to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Jan. 2 order permitting the D.C. Department...
Editor's Note: The following lists ranks the 10 most popular handsets in the United States for the month of November. Rankings were provided by AvianResearch L.L.C.
The firm derives its ranking via its Monthly Retail Store Survey, which is based on responses from 100 service...
The cellphone jamming dispute between the mobile-phone industry and CellAntenna Corp. has dramatically escalated, with a high-profile legal battle playing out in the nation's capital in advance of a planned demonstration tomorrow at a local prison to show how inmates' wireless calls can be...
In mobile's brief lifetime, marketers have experimented with the medium both as a brand-building and a direct-response channel, with no major proof points having emerged on either side.The case for using mobile as a direct-response channel, however, could resonate more in the present climate,...
Only 45% of U.S. mobile consumers use their phones for anything more than making calls, according to figures released this week from NPD Group. But nearly lost in the press release is this little tidbit: Verizon Wireless' customers are less likely than those of...
Looking to turn around its struggling handset division, Motorola Inc. unveiled three new handsets it plans to show off at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.The company, which has had to cut its workforce amid a company restructuring, is touting its new...
The holidays are over and that usually calls for a sigh of relief. Unless of course you're a retailer who lost money. Each year, from Black Friday until the end of December, retailers in the wireless industry shove products, rate plans and accessories down...
