Hulu.com, that magical place where we all watch our favorite movies and television shows of present and past (Rocky and Bullwinkle, anyone?) free of charge, has announced that beginning as early as May it will institute a so-called "metered" pay wall, which leaves some...
Having the whole family crowd around one screen in the living room is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, as a plethora of options have begun to pop up around the average home, be they PCs, TVs, handheld consoles, smartphones or tablets. But...
Computer maker, Toshiba, has confirmed it will be bringing out tablets of its own to try and capture some of Apple’s market share pie.Feeling confident after seeing sales skyrocket by 50% in the first quarter, Toshiba said it was preparing to launch various different...
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.
As I review the new crop of phones being launched, one thing strikes me about...
While the “civilian” fanboy response to Apple Inc.'s iPad was as expected the analyst community, which also includes a number of fanboys and girls, appeared more rational. Most comments were regulated to the embedded functionality of the device with few commenting on its networking...
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 wireless industry is at a critical inflection point for smartphones. According to Gartner Inc., smartphone sales...
More than a year and a half after announcing plans for a cellular technology equipped device, Garmin International Inc. is finally set to enter the U.S. market with its navigation-centric nuvifone G60 scheduled to launch at AT&T Mobility on Oct. 4 for $299 after...
The converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing two to five...
With investments already made into WiMAX, the wireless broadband technology will be able to withstand the current economic downturn in a year that will see some additional network deployments, according to the WiMAX Forum.Because of the current economic climate, WiMAX providers are not being...
Text messaging remains the most profitable value-added data service, according to a new study from research firm In-Stat.The company said short message service (SMS) and multimedia message service (MMS) technologies provide a potentially endless revenue stream for operators because they are inexpensive, ubiquitous, reliable...
The difficult economy has had an effect on the Ultra Wideband market, with 2008 marking the exit of four UWB chip makers from the market, according to a report from research firm In-Stat.The company noted Focus Semiconductor declared bankruptcy, WiQuest went out of business,...
The cellular modem market experienced an upswing in sales last year, with unit shipments reaching 20 million, according to a new study from analyst firm In-Stat.The company said the growth in sales was driven by carriers beefing up their 3G data service offerings.The market...
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...
The number of mobile lines in North American enterprises will outstrip landlines within two years, according to a new forecast from Gartner. That shift will take place as corporations move to IP-based telephony and thus have a cost-effective means to integrate mobile and fixed-line...
Despite its youth, the mobile gaming industry has already reached the billion dollar benchmark, according to a report from In-Stat.The firm said it believes significant momentum for the gaming industry worldwide will continue to make the sector a key contributor to wireless data usage...
BOSTON - The future apparently belongs to mobile Internet devices (MIDs) that will be connected to broadband wireless networks like WiMAX and offer graphically rich, touchscreen-based interfaces, at least according to a glimpse of the future provided by Intel Corp.'s Anand Chandrasekher.Chandrasekher, VP and...
Shipments of consumer electronics devices embedded with Wi-Fi technology could reach nearly 1 billion by 2012, according to new research from In-Stat.More than 294 million devices with Wi-Fi shipped last year, said In-Stat.Wi-Fi is a valued technology for the CE market due to its...
After a strong showing in 2007, worldwide base station shipments appear weak this year, according to research from In-Stat.The firm said 2007 was marked by new 3G network rollouts worldwide along with strong GSM growth driven by markets like India, Africa and China. However,...
Ultra-mobile computing devices could outsell desktop and notebook computers in the long term, and semiconductor companies are taking note of that trend, according to a report from In-Stat.The firm noted Intel is preparing to challenge ARM, a company that has cornered the embedded mobile...
The pace of action on the world's infrastructure stage has increased over the past several months, with a number of major carriers announcing multibillion-dollar buildout plans, intellectual property owners realigning their stances, and infrastructure vendors desperately trying to keep up with it all.The...
Overnight, it seems, mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, are the topic du jour.But like many overnight sensations, the MID category is constructed of a fragile combination of long-term toil in the lab and a giddy if ephemeral sense of demand that has a long...
CORPORATIONS' IT "SPEND" THIS YEAR is markedly less than last year, yet mid-year changes have yet to surface, according to several sources. An annual survey of CIOs conducted by Gartner each fall projected flat to less than 3% growth in corporate IT spending for...
User-generated video content has proved more popular than expected, with significant growth in China, according to a new report from In-Stat.Higher-quality content and increasing file size maximums will push the demands of bandwidth to a faster growth rate than the number of files/videos served,...
