The smartphone market in North American is in flux, with Research In Motion Ltd. rapidly gaining ground by successfully crossing over into the consumer market from its traditional enterprise role. RIM has grabbed market share while competitors struggle with products and channels. One...
Looking to recoup its fortunes, in part, with a high-tier smartphone, Motorola Inc. launched its updated Q-the Q Music 9m-at Verizon Wireless. For Verizon Wireless, the launch updates its single smartphone offering from Motorola. The Q Music 9m will sell in tandem with the...
Dear Editor,It is with great interest that we read the article, "The MMS disconnect," (RCR Wireless News, Aug. 13). Sybase 365 believes that the article has many inaccurate assumptions and misleading statements, and would like to clear the air about several points.MMS interoperability in...
Sun Microsystems has tapped Synchronica plc to provide synchronization and device-management software.Sun will license components of Synchronica's mobile gateway for wireless synchronization of contacts, calendars, tasks and other enterprise-related data for its Java System Communications Suite and Java System Application Platform Suite. Synchronica, a...
Leap Wireless International Inc., Verizon Wireless and Qwest Communications International Inc. are on deck this week with new phones. The announcements come as several carriers also cut prices on a variety of devices, including T-Mobile USA Inc. halving the online price of its recently...
Mobile banking and payments are gathering steam in the U.S., but the space is also drawing significant interest abroad. Within recent weeks, a series of international companies have made banking-related announcements, including:-- Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which offers banking services in Europe, the...
A mistake in a media report earlier this month suggesting that Nokia Corp. had sold as many as 450,000 units of its high-end N95 handset in the United States during the second quarter immediately set chins to wagging.The N95 packs advanced Web browsing, multimedia...
VIENNA, Va.-Although Sprint Nextel Corp. made headlines yesterday with news of its WiMAX branding and push-to-talk plans, the carrier also-apparently inadvertently-gave its "Technology Summit" attendees a glimpse of several as-yet-unannounced handsets. Although Sprint Nextel representatives refused to allow attendees to take pictures of the...
Former Sprint Nextel Corp. VP Paul Reddick will serve on the advisory board of mobile software developer iSkoot.A startup based in Cambridge, Mass., iSkoot offers software that enables VoIP services for some smartphones and Java devices. Reddick served 10 years at the industry's No....
The nightmarish world of mobile digital rights management may have taken a small step toward sanity.Microsoft Corp. scored a big win last week, agreeing to license its PlayReady anti-software piracy to Nokia Corp. The world's largest handset manufacturer plans to embed the technology on...
First, Balda AG and its partner, TPK Holdings, won Apple Inc.'s business for the touchscreen module for the latter's iPhone.Now Balda's shareholders are agitating for the company to spin off its touchscreen business to bring more visibility to that business' value, according to German...
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' Avi Greengart, Jupiter Research's...
If you were expecting AT&T's rivals to slash, say, smartphone prices in the wake of the iPhone launch, you'd be wrong. A check on handset pricing over the past week revealed little by way of "me too" price cuts by the top-tier carriers.In fact,...
Welcome to our Monday column, Analyst Angle. Every Monday, the industry's leading analysts give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry, from carriers to content to handsets to infrastructure.The July 4th holiday is just behind us, and I'm still reveling in...
Handset manufacturers and wireless carriers have quickly warmed up to the idea of global positioning system services as a means to offset declining ARPU in China, according to a new report from iSuppli Corp. Handset manufacturers are increasingly developing devices that support GPS while...
Stanford University is teaming with L.M. Ericsson to offer classes via cellphones in Africa.The school unveiled a pilot project called Dunia Moja, or "one world," that allows students at three partnering universities in South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to attend lectures and interact with...
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. saw its stock jump more than 20% in early trading after it reported a 76.5% increase in revenue from the same quarter a year ago. Meanwhile, smartphone rival Palm Inc.'s stock is down nearly 4% after it reported...
The language being bandied about today by iPhone reviewers for consumer publications-think The New York Times and Wall Street Journal-is revealing. The gatekeepers have been seduced. But at least they appear seduced by the device-if not by AT&T Mobility's network coverage and capabilities-rather than...
AT&T Mobility unveiled price plans exclusively for the much-hyped Apple Inc. iPhone, which will be unleashed on the world later this week. (Perhaps showing who wears the pants in this relationship, the price plans are currently only shown on Apple's site.) The plans include...
Google Inc.'s search supremacy online continues to be handsomely carried over to mobile, according to the latest rankings of mobile Web companies from research and analysis firm M:Metrics.Google was visited by 62.5% of smartphone users in the United States in April, and by nearly...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s heritage in serving business users has dovetailed with HTC Corp.'s own ambitions and device evolution to produce the "Mogul," a $400 entry in the high-tier productivity market.The device is but a refresher model to the Sprint Nextel PPC 6700. But therein...
HTC Corp. moved from original device manufacturer to original equipment manufacturer at Sprint Nextel Corp. this week with an HTC-branded smartphone at the high end of the price range for the U.S. market.The Taiwan-based smartphone maker has been raising its profile globally and in...
AT&T Mobility says more than a million customers have signed up for information regarding the much-hyped iPhone, and Apple Inc.'s Steve Jobs has said that he expects the device to sell around 10 million units in 2008. An April survey by M:Metrics found that...
The Wizard of Oz can change his mind, it seems. Apple Inc. said that its forthcoming iPhone product will run applications created with Web 2.0 standards, opening the device to extended capabilities from third-party suppliers-a change in direction from the company's initial product announcement...
