M:Metrics launched a meter-based software program that operates in the background of handsets as it compile wireless subscribers usage and behavior data to its clients. MeterDirect has been live as a beta service since December and is being launched as a commercial service.One of...
FlipswapFlipswap, an outsourced cell phone trade-in solution for retailers, said it has signed integration partnerships with retail management system providers iQmetrix, Work Wireless, TeleTracker and CellSell.Flipswap's Web-based software allows retailers to formulate a guaranteed trade-in quote for old phones. The value can then be...
Based on new statistics that suggest soccer moms and teens are warming to smartphones, Handango Inc. is making seven predictions for the smartphone and mobile content market for 2007. The global content provider with a distribution network of more than 16,000 content partners is...
IT'S BEEN IN THE MARKET for less than a month, but TV network executives are excited about advertising opportunities presented by MediaFLO USA Inc.'s mobile broadcast TV network.Each of the television networks running on the eight-channel lineup make use of theircommercial breaks in different...
Carriers are falling flat in their efforts to become a kind of wireless iTunes, according to new figures from M:Metrics.Less than 1 percent of all U.S. mobile users downloaded songs from a carrier's digital music store, the market research firm reported, while 2.9 percent...
Nokia Corp. sold more than half the 71 million smartphones purchased last year and Motorola Inc. followed, with less than 9 percent of the market, according to a new study by ABI Research. Nokia racked up sales of 40 million smartphones out of the...
Wireless users may be warming to the idea of mobile advertising, according to new figures from Harris Interactive.The market research group found that 35 percent of adult mobile users in the United States are willing to accept ads in exchange for cash, discount coupons,...
The market for enabling premium mobile content will grow to $7.4 billion by 2011 as consumers demand richer media on their mobile phones, according to new figures from iSuppli Corp.The market-research firm said technology companies that provide content-delivery infrastructure reaped $4.2 billion of the...
According to market-research firm iSuppli Corp., the number of handsets purchased as replacements this year will be double the number of first-time cellphone purchases, a statistic that could have significant implications for the market's players.iSuppli's figures show that upgrade handsets sales-where a shopper is...
Online mobile phone retailer Wirefly, a site operated by InPhonic Inc., released a report on the sharp growth in smartphone sales of late. The company said smartphone sales have increased 70 percent in less than six months from the third quarter of 2006 to...
One-third of wireless Web users in the United States and Western Europe say they will accept ads on their handsets in exchange for free content, according to a study from the Online Publishers Association.The survey of 6,000 consumers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, England...
Three of the top six handset vendors in the world lost market share last year, as did the "other" category that captures the multitude of second-tier vendors determined to swim upstream against a strong current. That current is generated by the momentum that scale...
Mobile gaming revenues in Latin America will triple in the next five years, according to new figures from EJL Wireless Research.The Redwood City, Calif.-based market research firm said the Latin American market will grow from $65 million last year to $195 million by 2011...
The hype surrounding dual-mode phones is overblown in the United States, according to research firm Ovum.The company issued a new report that predicts only about 2 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers will use a dual-mode device by 2010. Such devices typically combine Wi-Fi and...
Global VoIP over Wi-Fi equipment will drive $82 billion in revenue by 2012, according to Juniper Research, which projects that dual-mode handsets-cellular and Wi-Fi-will dominate that market. North America will account for nearly half the projected revenue, Juniper forecast. "The handset market is moving...
It's still all about the flip when it comes to mobile phones.A new report from research firm NPD Group concluded that while many factors are at play in a buyer's decision on a new cellphone, what remains most important is having a flip-phone form...
Corporate wireless management company mindWireless has stepped into the fierce debate over which carrier truly has the fewest dropped calls, offering up its own data that shows Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CDMA network usually is the most reliable.MindWireless said it used a sample of more...
Cellphone users are increasingly overwhelmed with the assortment of advanced features and functions on their phones, so much so that they rarely make use of services beyond simply placing a call, according to a new study by the CMO Council's Forum to Advance the...
Former users of mobile TV and video services in Europe outnumber current users by more than 19 percent, according to new research from M:Metrics.Users cited price, reliability and quality issues as the main reasons for not continuing with such services. Nearly half of users...
It was an intimate gathering of sorts last week as dozens gathered at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., for the Off-Deck Mobile Content conference."Off deck, on deck, it's all a growth story," Levi Shapiro, director of audience metrics at Telephia, said in...
A small group of players in the wireless industry have been gathering at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., this week for the Off-Deck Mobile Content conference. "Off deck, on deck, it's all a growth story," Levi Shapiro, director of audience metrics at...
W-CDMA technology will enjoy "exceptional" growth over the next several years, according to research firm Dell'Oro Group, expansion that will come at the expense of CDMA technology."While growth in W-CDMA remains tepid in the short term, we remain confident in its longer-term growth and...
The telematics sector could be on the brink of worldwide growth thanks to better wireless networks, devices and operating systems, according to new research from Visant Strategies.The study predicts the use of telematics services and applications will increase sharply into the next decade as...
Rarely does a handset launch embody the challenges and strategies of a carrier and its vendor partner as clearly as the recent offer from Sprint Nextel Corp. and Motorola Inc. of PowerSource handsets.Sprint Nextel has acknowledged that the loss of post-paid iDEN subscribers is...
