The mobile-phone industry took a collective deep sigh of relief, as new research found phone shipments are growing at an impressive rate and sales of new smart phones have leapt during the past year.Research firm IDC said worldwide mobile-phone shipments grew 19 percent during...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Palm Inc. released its new Bluetooth-capable personal digital assistant, while fellow handheld maker Handspring Inc. reported declining revenues and losses. Further, research firm IDC released results showing sales of PDAs continue to decline.Palm said its new Tungsten T2 handheld features more memory and...
Palm Inc. released its new Bluetooth-capable personal digital assistant, while fellow handheld maker Handspring Inc. reported declining revenues and losses. Further, research firm IDC released results showing sales of PDAs continue to decline.Palm said its new Tungsten T2 handheld features more memory and a...
Like '70s disco or roller skates, the wireless portal is now retro cool. Dude.In the heyday of the late 1990s, the wireless industry was awash with the wireless Internet and the possibilities therein. Wireless players from carriers on down to startups imagined opening Yahoo!-style...
Philippe Kahn foresees a global society transformed by mobile phones with integrated digital cameras.As industry analysts predict the vast majority all mobile phones will include cameras in the next few years, Kahn expects the ramifications of such a picture-capable culture to be extensive and...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The wireless local area networks semiconductor market will increase at a13-percent compound annual rate from 2002 to 2007 to $1.1 billion, according to a report from IDC."The next several years are going to witness rapid development of a WLAN infrastructure, which in turn...
Content provider Handango expanded its library of wireless applications to include more than 10,000 ring tones and graphics, a move that places the company squarely in the wireless industry and a strategy that some think could create a significant business in the near future."There...
PARIS-European company Musiwave has signed deals with Sony Music Europe and several independent record labels for its technology and services.The Sony agreement will make available to mobile phones Sony Music artist ring tones that are extracted from the original recordings of songs rather than...
PARIS-European company Musiwave has signed deals with Sony Music Europe and several independent record labels for its technology and services.The Sony agreement will make available to mobile phones Sony Music artist ring tones extracted from the original recordings of songs rather than simple tones....
LOS ANGELES-The wireless industry is looking to make a major show at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the main trade conference for the video game industry. A range of wireless players are announcing new products and new deals.Indeed, wireless gaming will likely be a big...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-LG Electronics has replaced Sony Ericsson Communications Inc. in the No. 5 spot for worldwide handset sales in the first quarter of the year, according to data released by IDC. Worldwide handset shipments were up 16.6 percent year on year in the first...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-LG Electronics has replaced Sony Ericsson Communications Inc. in the No. 5 spot for worldwide handset sales in the first quarter of the year, according to data released by IDC. Worldwide handset shipments were up 16.6 percent year on year in the first...
LONDON-The downloadable application market could generate a staggering $7 billion worldwide by 2008, according to wireless research and consulting company Strategy Analytics.The firm said wireless operators need to leverage their billing assets in order to develop both retail and wholesale download strategies. The firm...
The promise of the converged wireless device is a reality, although exactly what it will look like is still being debated.Those in the industry have long preached the inevitable marriage of computers and mobile phones, and the current selection of high-end devices seems to...
NEW DELHI, India--India, one of the fastest-growing wireless markets in the Asia Pacific region, is set for a churn. But it is unable to decide which way it will go--toward GSM or CDMA or perhaps both.The battle lines are clearly drawn between full mobility...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Echoing comments from many sectors of the industry, research firm IDC concludes that the market for wireless gaming "is emerging as a viable long-term opportunity for game developers and publishers, wireless carriers, and wireless handset providers," according to a the firm's new report...
TORONTO-Bell Canada announced its official entry into the wireless local area network (WLAN) market, through partnerships with U.S.-based Cisco Systems and Symbol Technologies .Using the 802.11b or Wi-Fi standard, Bell's package of WLAN products can be used in hospitals, warehouses, universities, restaurants, hotels, airports...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Christian Nicolai, Chilean under-secretary for telecommunications, said this year the investments in the telecommunications sector will fall 40 percent in comparison to last year to around US$600 million, of which US$200 million will be allocated to the cellular telephone market.Of the four...
TORONTO-Canadian and U.S. wireless carriers are planning soon to offer text messaging services across all their networks.Since April, Canadian cell-phone subscribers have been able to send text messages to users on any of the four national networks, after Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless...
NEW DELHI, India-Cellular phone customers in one of the fastest-growing markets in Asia are a happy lot, but this happiness is not shared by operators, as they face mounting losses due to high government tariffs. This is the trend in India, where the subscriber...
LONDON-As the tech sector continues a shaky recovery and telecom companies in Europe and the United States offer nothing much to write home about, the Middle East continues its love affair with the mobile phone unabated, and its operators continue to see strong increases...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Europe's largest mobile-phone retailer shows no signs of relinquishing its market-leading position, with Carphone Warehouse announcing a 16-percent increase in connections during the past four months.These 1.16 million new customers, who were split almost evenly between prepaid and contract connections, enabled the company...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Software firms across Europe have developed myriad mobile applications aimed at the business market during the past few years, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital to fund their development. But with few applications being widely used and businesses fearful of...
TORONTO-The number of Canadians using mobile phones is expected to more than double during the next four years, with the biggest growth spurt in the teenage and corporate applications markets, according to a new IDC Canada report.IDC forecasted that wireless penetration in Canada will...
