Despite a strong majority of retailers having a mobile strategy in place, the promise of mobile shopping has yet to ring true at the cash register, though it is steadily increasing, according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc.According to “The State Of...
Hollywood is rather adept at telling compelling stories, and the latest plot to come out of the LA studios concerns Apple's third generation tablet, already in the advanced planning stages and very much 3D, we're told.
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is planning to expand the role of one of its greatest assets, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), through a just announced acquisition of Germany-based ubitexx GmbH.The company's ubi-Suite device management solution will be incorporated into the BlackBerry Enterprise Server...
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) has released an update to its Playbook tablet software which includes support for video chatting between PlayBooks, a new Facebook app optimized for its 7" screen and an improved browser that’s “more compatible with...
It's been fairly obvious for a while that Amazon is planning to release a fully-fledged tablet. Having already got their hardware feet well and truly wet with the Kindle, the online retail giant has been slowly putting the building blocks in place for their own tablet ecosystem built atop Android. Now rumours are beginning to circle that they have tapped giant OEM Quanta to build the device, to be released later this year.
The challenge with mobile applications remains that while every brand wants one, consumers are constantly using new platforms to communicate. Thus, applications are going beyond smart phones and tablets to connected TVs and automobiles, noted Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution.The 10-year-old Kirkland, Wash.-based company...
Sony Corp. (SNE) is the newest company to try its hand in the tablet market, showing off two tablets that operate on Honeycomb, also known as Google Inc.'s Android 3.0, at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan. The initial names of the...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) said it is making its OpenPlug Studio toolkit available for free to application developers as the network vendor tries to flesh out the ecosystem for more enterprise end users. The toolkit allows developers to write applications for a variety of...
Fort Worth-based RadioShack Corp. (RSH) reported a 30% decline in first-quarter profits this week and points at its agreement with T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) as the culprit. The chain said it has lowered expectations for earnings to $1.60 to $1.80 per share, a decrease...
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 telecommunications earnings season began with a bang this week with Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), AT&T Inc....
SK Telecom | April 19, 2011 | Press Release
 Plans to secure a rich 4G LTE handset lineup – smartphones, tablet PCs, data modem, etc. – within the second half of 2011
 Opens an era of high-definition/3D video content via wireless networks
 Dramatically reduces time required to...
AT&T Inc. (T) counted on connected devices to drive first-quarter growth, with 1.3 million connected devices added in the period, compared to only 62,000 postpaid retail net additions. The nationwide operator now counts 97.5 million wireless subscribers on its network.In a quarter where...
63% of traffic generated by Smartphones, Tablets and Feature Phones will transfer onto the fixed network via Wi-Fi and Femtocells by 2015 says a new Juniper Research paper. According to the Mobile Data Offload & Onload report, 9000 petabytes (PB) will be offloaded from...
Motorola | April 12, 2011 | Press Release
Coming first to Claro´s users, the Lapdock™ accessory for Motorola ATRIX provides an enhanced and more interactive computer-like experience
SÃO PAULO – April 12, 2011 – Motorola Mobility, Inc. and Claro announce the arrival of two highly anticipated products: Motorola XOOM™, the world’s first tablet with the...
Motorola Mobility | April 14, 2011 | Press Release
The pre-sale of the world’s first device running Android™ 3.0 (Honeycomb) that delivers a powerful tablet experience on a 10.1-inch widescreen HD display starts tomorrow through Personal’s website
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Motorola Mobility, Inc. today announced...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Latin America in 2011 will present a whole host of challenges and opportunities for the world of wireless said Erasmo Rojas of 4G Americas on Tuesday, speaking at Informa's LTE Latin America summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Rojas said there...
Over at Microsoft Corp.'s MIX Developer Conference in sunny Las Vegas, Microsoft has demoed a new preview build of Internet Explorer 10, and also dropped a little premature Easter egg – the build of IE10, and the underlying Windows OS, were both running on a 1 GHz ARM chip. Sneaky.
LAS VEGAS – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski used his time before broadcasters to appeal to them about the benefits of voluntary spectrum auctions, the reality of today's spectrum landscape and to quietly chastise his host, the National Association of Broadcasters, for “distracting”...
Further proof that the prepaid space is the mobile industry’s hottest segment came this morning with AT&T Mobility (T) announcing it will begin offering its first smartphone through its GoPhone offering. LG Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Thrive has been tapped as the initial prepaid smartphone...
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.It is clear that consumers with mobile broadband plans have huge pent-up demand for video content. The...
LAS VEGAS – Mobile broadcast TV is making headway in the United States, with more than 60 broadcast networks offering service in a couple dozen markets, but scale will only come to the market when wireless operators embrace the concept, panelists at the National...
Amazon.com Inc. appears to have a penchant for jumping into untested markets recently, for example with the launch of their Cloud Player, which has attracted more than a cursory glance from the music industry. Now the online retail giant is looking to shake things up again by offering a new, cheaper Kindle with build-in ads.
Funny things, analyst forecasts. The short-term ones tend to be fairly accurate, but the long-term predictions often fall entirely flat. That's not the fault of the analysts, it's due to the inherent unpredictability of mobile and technology markets. Nobody saw Android's success coming, just as nobody thought poor old Nokia Corp. would be in the sorry state they are today ten years ago.
