Nokia Corp. and Sprint PCS continued to make nice, as the carrier announced it will sell a second mobile phone from the world's No. 1 phone maker.Sprint said it will sell the Nokia 3588i for $150, a device that features a color screen, text...
New research shows global sales of camera phones hit 25 million in the first half of this year, surpassing digital camera sales and marking perhaps the most notable event in the mobile-phone industry in recent years.According to research firm Strategy Analytics, mobile-phone makers sold...
Hollywood, meet wireless.It seems the Boob Tube is the latest mobile phone add-on for the world's wireless industry, a business constantly hunting the next new technology to astound and astonish the average phone shopper. Indeed, U.S. shoppers will get their first taste of a...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-One-third of wireless application developers in the People's Republic of China are now deploying wireless applications, according to results from Evans Data Corp.'s Fall Chinese Wireless Development Survey, which polled 600 wireless developers in China. Meanwhile, 37 percent said they will deploy...
Hollywood, meet wireless.Several new products from the world's biggest consumer electronics companies could allow mobile-phone users in the near future to tune into their favorite TV shows, from soap operas to the latest Broncos game.Most recently, Sony Corp. introduced a new video recorder accessory...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-One-third of wireless application developers in the People's Republic of China are now deploying wireless applications, according to results from Evans Data Corp.'s Fall Chinese Wireless Development Survey, which polled 600 wireless developers in China. Meanwhile, 37 percent said they will deploy...
Primus Telecommunications Group Inc. announced an innovative plan to sell low-end mobile phones in Europe, a move that further expands the mobile-phone market to include telecommunications providers. Further, the company said it plans to introduce a tri-band phone that will work in the United...
Jeffrey Glass could be considered a player in the mobile-commerce industry, although you won't find the "m-commerce" designation in any of the literature about his company. However, as president and chief executive officer of M-Qube Inc., Glass for almost three years has been encouraging...
LA JOLLA, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced its Phone Suite Version 7 (V7) product for mobile phones will now work over the Linux-based operating system, a move the company said is a nod toward the growing market for Linux-based phones."Handset user experiences available today lag...
AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has unveiled an addition to its i.MX line of multimedia applications processors with the i.MX21, which is based on ARM926EJ for mobile phones and personal digital assistants."The i.MX21 not only enables smart LCD displays and exceptional video-including multitasking capabilities...
Communications company Primus Telecommunications Group Inc. announced an innovative plan to sell low-end mobile phones in Europe, a move that further expands the mobile-phone market to include telecommunications providers.Primus is a global telecommunications company offering bundled voice, data, Internet, digital subscriber line, Web hosting,...
GOTEBORG, Sweden-Speaking from one of L.M. Ericsson's major design headquarters in the company's home base of Sweden, Hakan Eriksson pronounced Ericsson's massive cost-cutting and reorganization efforts a success, while at the same time painting a relatively glowing outlook of the wireless industry.Eriksson works as...
WASHINGTON-Congress last week dipped its toe into the dirty waters of digital pornography, an emerging issue with financial and intellectual property implications for mobile-phone operators globally.Last Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was designed to focus primarily on the use of peer-to-peer networks to distribute...
READING, United Kingdom-Market research firm Canalys said shipments of mobile phones with integrated cameras in the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions are quickly increasing, rising 166 percent in quarter two compared with quarter-one sales.Total shipments of imaging-phone devices totaled 3.8 million units in...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-Video via mobile phone will be the No. 1 reason wireless subscribers upgrade to third-generation services, according to a new study from Datacomm Research Co."A large market for short videos is emerging: mobile-phone and portable computer users," explained Michael Hentschel, the report's author....
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Micro fuel cells face a number of hurdles before wide-scale use and acceptance is possible, according to research from ABI. The firm emphasized that regulatory approvals must be granted for final product designs and a distribution network must be established for those...
TOKYO-Sharp Electronics has developed a 128-megabyte flash memory, which offers a maximum access time of 60 nanoseconds, which the company calls the industry's fastest.It is aimed at mobile phones and other wireless devices."These new high-speed memory devices mark a dramatic step toward satisfying these...
Motorola Inc. will introduce a mobile phone running Microsoft Corp.'s Smartphone operating system this month, and European operator Orange will sell the device, according to a report in the Financial Times.Motorola declined to comment on the report, citing company policy not to discuss industry...
LONDON-A U.K. supplier plans to offer push-to-talk services in the United Kingdom through an alliance with Wizcom Ltd., which owns retail outlet chain Phones4U. In October, Fastmobile's Fastchat service will be available through Phones4U stores in the United Kingdom.The service will initially be sold...
Sprint PCS reported that an undetermined number of its wireless customers in area codes beginning with 41 and 42 were affected for about six hours Thursday by a software glitch that prevented them from making calls between mobile phones and from receiving calls from...
Following months of raised forecasts and hopeful outlooks, research firm IDC presented perhaps the most optimistic wireless industry outlook to date, predicting that sales of mobile phones will break the 500-million mark next year. The firm said advanced phones, including camera, third-generation and smart...
Following its solid earnings and its retrieval of the No. 5 handset maker slot, Sony Ericsson released a range of new phones and devices, including a unique toy racecar that mobile-phone users can control through Bluetooth technology.Sony Ericsson's range of new announcements spanned the...
WASHINGTON-Other states and localities planning to implement a ban on the use of handheld mobile phones while driving may want to look at a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety about the impact of such a ban in New York."One year after...
SAN DIEGO-CDMA giant Qualcomm Inc. announced it will add support for removable miniSD and SD cards in its line of Mobile Station Modem chipsets. The move is a nod to the growing power of mobile phones and the resulting need for additional storage capabilities.Such...
