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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, IDC's Shiv...
Smartphones will come of age as the primary venue for mobile Internet content in the U.S. this year. The proliferation of these devices will reshape the sector and force content companies, operators, and advertisers to retool.Companies in the mobile advertising sector have been busy...
The wireless industry applauded the introduction of a new bipartisan bill to repeal the Internal Revenue Service's requirement that employees keep records of cellphone calls and mobile e-mail usage for deduction purposes.The measure, co-sponsored by Reps. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) and Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.), targets...
Microsoft Corp. kick-started its effort to grab a piece of the hot, youth-oriented messaging and social networking market by acquiring Danger Inc., the software driver behind the popular Sidekick devices at T-Mobile USA Inc. The purchase price was not disclosed. Microsoft's stock declined nearly...
Palm Inc. will close all but one of its retail stores over the next five weeks, in keeping with its effort to cut costs and focus on its next-generation smartphone platform, according to the company.Palm has eight branded stores in California and 26 "stores...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and...
An informal survey of four analysts on the mobile devices on display at the International Consumer Electronics show this week in Las Vegas quickly took different directions with a common theme. Mobile, handheld devices on offer were "evolutionary," not "revolutionary" and that ratcheted up...
Mobile content company Handmark Inc. will bulk up its game library with the acquisition of Astraware Ltd., a U.K.-based game studio, for an undisclosed sum.Handmark, a Kansas City, Mo.-based firm, develops and distributes enterprise and entertainment applications for BlackBerry devices and other smartphones. Astraware...
Sling Media Inc. announced its video-viewing software will run on Blackberry devices starting later this year. The company will demonstrate the new application on Research in Motion's Blackberry Pearl 8120 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.Sling Media said the BlackBerry...
Palm Inc. almost looks like two companies these days, depending on which way the light strikes.Palm is focused on keeping the productivity-based Treo line from slipping into irrelevance, while it experiments with form factors and features for a future in the consumer market.This past/future...
Palm Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter results and its outlook for the next quarter, announced yesterday, took its stock down nearly 10%, to the lowest point in four years. The smartphone company reported a net loss of $9.6 million on modest revenue. The company's revenue reached...
The day before Palm Inc. delivers its latest quarterly results-for the fiscal second quarter ending Nov. 30-a "key product" it missed delivering earlier in the holiday spending season has arrived at Verizon Wireless.The Treo 755p, priced at $300 online, with contract, will also be...
Palm Inc., which employs about 1,250 people, yesterday made job cuts of undisclosed magnitude, the company said."Palm is working to sharpen its focus and better align resources behind core initiatives that will make the greatest impact to our business," the company said in a...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors --RBC Capital Markets lowered its price target on Palm Inc. after the company warned its second-quarter results will likely come in...
Patent-holding company Acacia Research Corp. announced settlements with Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. after filing a lawsuit earlier this year through a subsidiary that claimed the operators were violating a patent on synchronizing information on wireless devices. Terms of the deals were...
Palm Inc.'s stock plunged more than 16% after the company acknowledged that "a key product" failed to launch in the lucrative fourth quarter, that sales would badly miss its own estimates and that a financial loss loomed.The company's quarterly revenue is now expected in...
In its annual rating of wireless service, Consumer Reports christened Verizon Wireless and Alltel Corp. its top picks-and largely panned service from Sprint Nextel Corp.Based on nearly 48,000 responses from Consumer Reports' online subscribers, the magazine ranked the five largest wireless carriers' performance in...
As the wireless industry kicks into high gear for the upcoming holiday shopping season, and handset makers pull out all the stops to hype their latest offerings, now seems a good time to take a tour of some similarly much-hyped phones from the industry's...
Just as we suspected: Smartphone sales far outpace the overall handset market in growth and will continue to do so over the next five years, according to new data from In-Stat. Projections call for a 30% compound annual growth rate for smartphones, in contrast...
A new survey finds that U.S.-based users of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices are the most satisfied with their handsets among smartphone users. That may not sound like a surprise to anyone who knows that RIM is by far the largest market share...
Despite caveats that smartphones and enterprise devices are only roughly analogous, based on whether the operating system can be modified to run enterprise applications, the North American smartphone market offers a snapshot of enterprise handset vendors and their wares. According to recent market data...
If you've ever tossed a strand of spaghetti against a refrigerator to see if it sticks-and, therefore, is fully cooked-then you have a sense of what handset vendors and carriers go through each fall. The analogy is inexact because the issue isn't whether that...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA I.T. Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including iGR's Iain Gillott, JupiterResearch's Julie Ask and more. Visit www.RCRNews.com/analyst for more...
The first glimmer of quantifiable iPhone impacts is in, courtesy of NPD Group.The news is not-so-good for Palm Inc. and carriers T-Mobile USA Inc. and Alltel Corp. Research In Motion Ltd., however, appears to have nothing to fear.The top-tier carriers report third-quarter earnings beginning...
