LONDON—Smart phone OS vendor Symbian Ltd. announced increasing shipments and rising revenues in the second quarter, and promised more of the same in the future. "Looking forward … I expect to see an acceleration of Symbian smart phones in the lower-cost device market segments,...
The Symbian operating system, championed by Nokia Corp. in its smart phones, currently has a majority of OS market share, a state of affairs likely to continue for the foreseeable future, according to projections from market research firm IDC. This is likely despite the...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Not only has Motorola Inc.'s Q device set a new low point for smart-phone pricing at around $200, it also has achieved a low production cost as well, with materials and manufacturing costs of only $158, according to a teardown analysis completed...
ROSEMONT, Ill.-The answer to industry's and investors' lingering question-what the heck is Motorola Inc. going to do to follow up its monster handset hit, the Razr?-came last week in this Chicago suburb as the company unveiled new phones and boasted about its operations and...
Competition can bury you or spur you to greatness. In Motorola Inc.'s case, given its stellar performance in the second quarter, greatness is the result. And that has given the mobile handset vendor the proverbial Big Mo—as in momentum—which Motorola calculates will be further...
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp.’s Mobile and Embedded Devices division achieved profitability for the first time, the company announced. The division houses the company’s smart phone efforts. Microsoft’s division logged an operating income of $2 million for the year, a turnaround from a loss of $65...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.—Not only has Motorola Inc.’s Q device set a new low point for smart-phone pricing at around $200, it also has achieved a low production cost as well, with materials and manufacturing costs of only $158, according to a teardown analysis completed...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—In a move apparently designed to assuage investors’ concerns, Palm Inc. announced that it would bring its Treo smart phone sporting Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system to Vodafone Group plc by the end of the year. Palm currently offers its Windows-powered Treo...
LONDON—Symbian Ltd. announced the release of its operating system version 9.3, touting it as providing shorter start-up times for smart phones and applications. Symbian OS licensees are currently developing handsets based on v.9.3 and product launches are expected next year.Symbian, which holds about 69...
The deadline for compliance with the European Union's laws on hazardous substances in consumer goods came and went on July 1 without much fanfare and little news on whether major handset vendors struggled to meet the requirements. Two tidbits surfaced, however, that shed some...
WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. yesterday reported fiscal first-quarter 2007 revenue of $613 million, a 35-percent jump from the year-ago quarter, but profits for the quarter of $129.8 million were down slightly from the $132.5 million profit in the year-ago quarter. The company said...
Telephia Inc., a consulting firm that provides measurement information on the mobile industry, said it filed a lawsuit against fellow research company M:Metrics Inc. on claims the company violated Telephia's intellectual property. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the...
SAN FRANCISCO—Telephia Inc., a consulting firm that provides performance measurement information on the mobile industry, said it filed a lawsuit against fellow research company M:Metrics Inc. on claims the company violated Telephia’s intellectual property.The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for...
Embarq Corp. is setting off into the wide world of telecom, and expecting its ability to offer wireless service to help the company stay afloat. The local landline company, freshly spun off from Sprint Nextel Corp., officially began offering its products to business and...
Motorola Inc. will finally bring its much-touted MOTO Q smart phone to market as you read this, probably the last time it will announce a handset far in advance of its launch, to avoid tipping off competitors and so its executives won't have to...
Hello! And welcome to the first edition of our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR to rant and rave about whatever rubs...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Verizon Wireless plans to be the exclusive provider of Motorola Inc.’s Q smart phone. Although the carrier has not said when it plans to begin selling the phone, Motorola chief executive officer Ed Zander recently said the device likely would become available in...
LONDON—Symbian Ltd., the privately held software firm that offers operating systems for mobile handsets, offered first quarter results showing increasing revenues and unit shipments. The company said 11.7 million devices running its software were shipped in the first quarter, up 73 percent from the...
ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it won a contract to supply its DVB-H mobile TV platform to Finnish radio and TV services distributor Digita Oy. The companies said Nokia’s Broadcast Solution, the MBS 3.0, will support the broadcasting of different types of digital content such...
LAS VEGAS—Crown Castle International Corp.’s mobile TV subsidiary, Modeo L.L.C., announced it contracted with High Tech Computer Corp. to build a DVB-H-capable phone, which Modeo will sell in the second half of this year. The phone will be able to play TV broadcasted over...
ATLANTA-Being fashionably late to a party can cut two ways-it gets you noticed, but the assembled crowd inevitably registers a thumbs up or down on your appearance. So Nokia Corp., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and market watchers will observe with keen interest how Nokia's 9300...
Imagine this: a company's chief financial officer uses his smart phone to download a game while waiting at an airport-but the game contains a virus that sends all the data on the phone to a Web site, and the company's financial results get posted...
TAOYUAN, Taiwan-In a surprising turnaround, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it will sell phones running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating system. DoCoMo previously had allowed only phones running either the Linux or Symbian OS. In a brief announcement, DoCoMo said it reached an...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp.'s Mobile & Embedded Devices business-which houses the company's smart phone efforts-posted its first-ever quarterly operating profit, helping the software giant meet Wall Street earnings expectations for the fiscal second quarter. The company reported $93 million in revenue from its mobile business...
