Faced with uncertain financial conditions, corporations are cutting capital and operating budgets and the outlook for information technology spending this year - where wireless spend resides - has contracted from last year. "The outlook for 2009, based on pre-year forecasting, indicates an average...
Text messaging remains the most profitable value-added data service, according to a new study from research firm In-Stat.The company said short message service (SMS) and multimedia message service (MMS) technologies provide a potentially endless revenue stream for operators because they are inexpensive, ubiquitous, reliable...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. eked out a slim lead in market share over Motorola Inc. in the United States last year, in part due to the latter's fading fortunes, according to new numbers from IDC.Where Samsung showed 15.5% year-on-year growth between 2007 and 2008,...
Sales of GPS-enabled mobile phone are expected to buck the global trend of handset shipment declines this year, according to a report from ABI Research.And even though the market is expected to feel a pinch this year, unit sales of GPS-enabled phones should grow...
T-Mobile USA Inc. scored a 755 out of 1,000 possible points in J.D. Power and Associates latest wireless customer care performance study, the highest out of all carriers tested. The No. 4 carrier beat out Verizon Wireless, which previously topped the survey.This time, T-Mobile...
The difficult economy has had an effect on the Ultra Wideband market, with 2008 marking the exit of four UWB chip makers from the market, according to a report from research firm In-Stat.The company noted Focus Semiconductor declared bankruptcy, WiQuest went out of business,...
Can a clever product name translate to market share? And can an unpopular name sink it?Researchers at Strategic Naming Development say yes. In a consumer study, they found the most-favored cellphone names belonged to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Co., while the...
Top executives of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. have reached a deal to settle a dispute with Canadian regulators over the company's past stock option practices.
Wireless infrastructure vendors can get through this rough economic time if they stay true to their core businesses, even as the economy continues to take financial hits.The world's largest infrastructure provider, L.M. Ericsson, continues to buck the trend and posted a strong fourth quarter....
T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a bleak fourth quarter. The industry's No. 4 carrier said it added 621,000 customers during the final three months of 2008, which was below the 670,000 customers it added during the previous quarter and well below the 951,000 customers it...
Despite all the multimedia bells and whistles available to customers on their wireless phones today, nearly half of cellphone users still prefer to use their mobile phone only to make calls.A new report from the NPD Group said 45% of U.S. mobile-phone users prefer...
By 2011, more than 150 million customers worldwide will use their phone for mobile banking transactions, according to a new study from Juniper Research.The firm said mobile banking currently is more advanced in the Far East, but is growing steadily in North America and...
Mobile handsets bolstered sales and profits at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in the fourth quarter, as the Korean handset vendor cemented its No. 2 global position.The company shipped 53 million handsets in the quarter and garnered 18% global market share, its highest ever. That...
The U.S. mobile imaging market is expected to generate more than $500 million in revenues in 2013, according to a new report form research firm Parks Associates.The company said it believes the mobile imaging market will grow beyond photo-sharing services to include personalized content...
Bluetooth technology has largely replaced wired headsets and is now making inroads in new markets, according to a report from IMS Research.The emergence of the A2DP profile, which allows stereo sound to be transmitted over Bluetooth connections, has created several new opportunities for Bluetooth...
Mobile financial services are poised to become the next "it" application, according to research firm ABI Research."Mobile financial services have the potential to be bigger than mobile TV and premium mobile content in terms of numbers of subscribers," said senior analyst Mark Beccue. "They...
The current economic downturn will force companies of all sizes to proceed with caution as they continue to invest in enterprise mobility applications, according to a new report by Forrester Research.When businesses are cutting workers and costs to deal with the current bear market,...
As the market digests news of Nortel's financial failings, a new report forecasts the rest of the global telecom equipment vendor market also will have to gird for a rough 2009 - with some players remaining relatively unscathed while others could be forced into...
More Americans are pulling the plug on their landline telephone service and opting to live in households with only wireless devices, according to a recent federal report.In a survey conducted during the first six months of 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's...
Global mobile revenues are expected to exceed $1.03 trillion by 2013, generated by more than 5.3 billion subscribers, according to a new study from Informa Telecoms & Media.At the end of 2007, the mobile industry recorded revenues of about $769 billion and served about...
Forty percent of new network digital display platform installations will make use of SMS technology for interactivity by 2012, up from just 5% last year, according to a new report from MultiMedia Intelligence.The simplicity of SMS messaging and the ubiquity of wireless handsets will...
Resurrection of the spectrum cap could prove tricky for the Federal Communications Commission next year when Democrats seize control of the agency, given President-elect Barack Obama's call for expanded broadband deployment in a market dominated by telephone and cable TV giants and the promise...
U.S. carriers may say they're swimming through the current rough economic waters un-affected, but one factor keeping them afloat is the continued support from investors. While they might not be in danger anytime soon, ratings and investor recommendations have become increasingly more negative, putting...
