Whether you're looking for true love or virtual love-or simply want to play hooky from work-your mobile phone can help.While handset manufacturers and carriers are scrambling to make space-age mobile devices that double as on-the-go entertainment centers, savvy wireless users are using phones for...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Two U.S. content companies made European purchases. Mforma Group Inc.'s spending spree continued as the mobile entertainment publisher acquired U.K. gaming company Blue Beck.A 3-year-old creator of console and mobile titles for Electronic Arts, THQ, Jamdat and Mforma, Blue Beck has become a...
Two U.S. content companies made European purchases Thursday.Mforma Group Inc.'s spending spree continued Thursday as the mobile entertainment publisher acquired U.K. gaming company Blue Beck.A 3-year-old creator of console and mobile titles for Electronic Arts, THQ, Jamdat and Mforma, Blue Beck has become a...
Nearly half of U.S. teens who own mobile phones are on family plans, and a growing number of them are using prepaid services, according to two recent studies.A poll by research and analyst firm The Yankee Group indicates 45 percent of phone-owning teens are...
While application developers and others in industry debate whether the enterprise or the consumer market will strike gold first, technology giants like Microsoft Corp. see much crossover between the two, perhaps suggesting they will develop alongside each other. The word "prosumer" has been embraced...
BOSTON-The majority of U.S. mobile gamers are women, according to a new study from the Yankee Group that shows 58 percent of mobile gamers in the United States are women, compared with 42 percent who are men. Interestingly though, 29 percent of male mobile...
BOSTON-Although the global wireless equipment market experienced a 2-percent recovery in 2003, darker days are ahead, according to a new Yankee Group report, "Infrastructure Equipment Market Sees an End to the Revenue Freefall, at Least for Now." The analyst firm expects a 1-percent increase...
BOSTON-The majority of U.S. mobile gamers are women, according to a new study from the Yankee Group that shows 58 percent of mobile gamers in the United States are women, compared with 42 percent who are men. Interestingly though, 29 percent of male mobile...
BOSTON-Mobile data will generate all mobile revenue growth in Western Europe until 2008, according to new research from the Yankee Group. The analyst firm predicts mobile voice revenues will stall at around $124 billion, while data revenues will more than double over five years...
High-profile nationwide carriers and niche-focused mobile virtual network operators are not the only wireless service providers that stand to benefit from specific marketing geared toward the highly desirable youth market. A survey released last week by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association and the Foundation...
Paul Neilson, senior vice president of technology services for Monster Worldwide, doesn't really care about latency statistics for push-to-talk services, kilobit-per-second measurements of high-speed wireless networks or processor specifications for advanced smart phones. The single most important factor in Neilson's corporate wireless decision-making process...
BOSTON-Predictive analytics firm Compete Inc. reported that Adam Guy has joined the company as director of its wireless industry practice. Prior to joining Compete, Guy was a senior analyst at The Yankee Group where he focused on wireless carriers and their approaches to distribution,...
BOSTON-Home networking may become yet another battleground for service providers attempting to acquire and retain customers, according to recent results of the Yankee Group's 2003 Canadian Technologically Advanced Family Survey.The survey showed 37 percent of Canadian broadband subscribers are interested in home networks. Moreover,...
T-Mobile USA Inc. posted first-quarter customer growth second only to Verizon Wireless and more than double its next closest competitor, reaffirming claims that once consumers could port their phone numbers, they would gravitate to carriers offering the highest perceived quality or greatest value wireless...
Wireless customers are often viewed as the most valuable asset a carrier has, though they are often the hardest to quantify. While having more customers usually translates into higher revenues, analysts note the cost of acquiring and servicing those subscribers has to be weighed...
BOSTON-Wireless usage is accelerating the decline of landline use, according to a new study by the Yankee Group.The report said the number of U.S. households that have completely cut the cord remains small. However, half of wireless households report that wireless usage has replaced...
Canadians are often referred to as more polite, humble and reserved versions of their southern counterparts with whom they share a relatively open border stretching for thousands of miles. That demure demeanor, which seems to lapse during certain hockey events, has translated to the...
LONDON-Multinational corporations could represent a key battleground for mobile operators, according to a new report from the Yankee Group that shows that such organizations are making decisions regarding mobile data and voice part of their corporate strategies.For the report, Yankee Group surveyed members of...
Nextel Communications Inc. may have finally found some competition for its highly touted Direct Connect walkie-talkie service as independent testing of Alltel Corp.'s recently launched Touch2Talk service showed similar performance to what most analysts have dubbed Direct Connect's industry-standard service levels and superior performance...
Telecommunications bundling has made a strong comeback over the past year, with nearly all of the country's regional providers offering some form of packaged deal to customers. Those bundles usually include a wireless link either through a direct subsidiary as is the case with...
NEW YORK-Following a downward trend, average revenue per user in major European markets is rebounding and will continue to rise, according to newly released research from the Yankee Group. The research firm expects ARPU in European markets to hit $33.72 in 2007, up from...
Following a robust holiday season that witnessed less pricing competition from nationwide operators, carriers waited the customary month into the new year before putting away their limited holiday promotions and rolling out new rates that are expected to set the stage for the rest...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s future as well as the future plans of its suppliers and employees were put on hold last week as the carrier announced its board of directors had decided "to explore the company's strategic alternatives," which most industry observers equated to...
To Internet or not to Internet is the question.Some carriers have embraced the idea of selling wireless content over third-party Internet sites, while others have steadfastly rejected it. Content providers like Walt Disney Internet Group are clamoring for the technology in hopes that it...
