Leap Wireless International Inc. (LEAP) fell back to earth during the second quarter following robust Q1 results and has announced a round of operational changes that it hopes will help turn around its fortunes in a market that has suddenly become obsessed with the...
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) upped its game today unveiling its latest smart phone, dubbed the BlackBerry Torch and available initially exclusively in the United States through AT&T Mobility (T). The device sports the device makers latest BlackBerry 6 operating system highlighted by increased...
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) appears to be putting the final touches on its rollout plans and the accompanying marketing blitz for its latest device.The smart phone and enterprise mobility pioneer is holding an invite-only event in New York City next Tuesday where...
There's no argument about the feverish pace of smart phone and handset sales of late, but it's always good to have some fresh hard numbers from Strategy Analytics to back it up.Smart phone shipments jumped 43% year-over-year to 60 million units globally in the...
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 future of smartphones is coming, and it is wide open … as in open source. The...
Something's up with that white iPhone 4. Barely a week ago, Apple Inc. (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs said the white iPhone 4 was on target to distribute at the end of this month. Then, seven days later, Apple announced that the white models were...
The downward trend for Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues. Few companies can sustain a nearly one-third drop in profit for long, but Nokia did just that in the recently closed second quarter, reporting a 31% drop in profit from last year.A single percentage point gain...
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) has been on a slow and steady march toward the consumer market for the better part of two years, and although much of its success of late has come from growth on that front its most current operating...
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) has been on a slow and steady march toward the consumer market for the better part of two years, and although much of its success of late has come from growth on that front its most current operating system and user interface look hardly consumer driven.
Microsoft employees, look under your chairs… yes, that’s right, you will all be going home with a brand new Windows Phone 7 device, yes, all 90,000 of you!
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.We have yet to learn of the bottom-line successes of the iPhone 4 or Droid X launch...
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Anyone that had their money on Apple Inc. (AAPL) announcing an unprecedented recall of its latest iPhone today walked away empty handed. While the odds were heavily against a recall of any sort, the constant pressure and negative press Apple has...
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.Greetings from Kansas City, home of the baseball team with the best batting average in the majors...
Adsmobil – The mobile advertising company has expanded its sales division, adding Thomas Anderson, formerly of JumpTap, and Wandrill Pruvot, formerly of Buzzcity. Anderson will serve as sales director, Americas, while Pruvot will act as sales director, EMEA.Highwinds – Steve Lidell has been...
How often do you hear your friends tell about their can't-fail app idea? All too often, once someone first gets their hands on a smart phone running on one of the more modern and flashy operating systems like Google Inc.'a Android operating system, Apple...
If there's one thing NTP Inc. is really good at, it's protecting patents with a fervor and winning handsome treasure along the way. Just ask BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM).After battling it out in court for the better part of five years over...
While nearly six in every 10 American adults are accessing the Internet via wireless technology, only 38% of all adults surveyed are accessing mobile data on a cell phone, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.Unfortunately,...
SAN DIEGO--Verizon Wireless is changing how it manages its BREW services in order to spur higher takeup rates from BREW customers and to encourage more developers to write applications for the operating system, Verizon Wireless CMO John Stratton told the audience during Thursday’s Uplinq...
Less than 2 months after being launched at Verizon Wireless and three months after its unveiling at a San Francisco bar at 10 in the morning, Microsoft Corp. has shut down its Kin initiative.Published reports indicated that the computer software giant ditched the Kin...
SAN DIEGO – During a press conference with reporters at Qualcomm Inc.'s Uplinq developer's conference, CEO Paul Jacobs said Qualcomm's relationship to its subsidiary, FLO TV, likely will change in the next year.Jacobs was touting the data-caching capabilities of FLO technology, which he said...
SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. has paid $3 billion to developers using its BREW platform, CEO Paul Jacobs told a crowd of about 3,000 during yesterday's keynote speech at the company's first Uplinq conference. That $3 billion amounts to an average selling price of...
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.Most of my blogs are chock full of numbers, trends, analyses. I like it that way. However,...
Alcatel Lucent (ALU) continued its strategy of connecting operators, enterprises and developers, buying ProgrammableWeb, a repository for more than 2,000 application programming interfaces, for an undisclosed sum.The acquisition will give Alcatel Lucent access to ProgrammableWeb's developer community, as well as the company's...
