Social Networking: Is There a Market? Next Steps? Is it Meetro?
We have seen web-based applications/sites like LinkedIn, MySpace and Friendster become quite popular and expand the average view of what exactly networking is and how to organize a business/social...
View ArticleSprint Completes Takeover of Nextel
Sprint has completed its takeover of Nextel to create a unified company with 40 million customers, making it the U.S.’s third largest wireless provider. The combined company will go by Sprint Nextel...
View ArticleNPD Seeks to Answer Who’s Playing Mobile Games and Why
Almost half of the U.S. wireless subscribers now own phones capable of downloading games, and 27% of those (or 13.5% of the total population) play games (premium, free or demo) on their phones. This is...
View ArticleYahoo! To Release VoIP Offering
A research note fro Safa Raschtchy, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, suggests that Yahoo! Will release a competitor to Skype using peer-to-peer technologies to offer VoIP within the next few weeks....
View ArticleGoogle Continues Move Into Mobile With Android Inc Purchase
Google has acquired Android Inc. Little concrete information is known about Android except that the company is a 22-month-old startup based in Palo Alto, which has been working on applications related...
View ArticleQualcomm Expands Content Delivery Options
Qualcomm has purchased Elata to integrate the British company’s content delivery system for $57 million in cash. Elata’s delivery system, called ‘Senses’, allows carriers to bundle many different types...
View ArticleSkype May Be Going Public
News began to circulate last week about a preliminary meeting between Skype and BSkyB, a News Corp satellite unit, to discuss an acquisition by News Corp. News Corp, which includes holdings such as the...
View ArticleStates Continue To Discriminate Against Cellphone
To date, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, and numerous cities (e.g. Chicago) have various bans on the use of cellphones. In effect this week, a new Colorado law bans...
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Blackberrys To Include WiMax
Analysts are expecting Intel and Research in Motion (RIMM), manufacturer of the Blackberry) to announce a new partnership at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. As part of the deal, RIMM...
View ArticleNokia Dominates 3G
According to figures recently released by Strategy Analytics, WCDMA (3G) technology, accounts for 5% of the total handset sales during Q2 2005. While 3G is still in an early stage of development, Nokia...
View ArticleRumor: Palm to buy PalmSource
It is Monday morning and the markets are live with rumors from the weekend. The one that has jumped out first is a rumor that Palm may be buying back PalmSource. Palm spun off PalmSource in 2003 to...
View ArticleCell Phone is the ‘Most Indispensable Tool for Financial Execs
A new study by Robert Half Management Resources finds that your CFO likely cannot live without his cellphone. The study surveyed 1,400 CFO’s from a cross section of U.S. companies and asked them “Which...
View ArticleMotorola Acquires I-mode R & D Unit In Europe
Motorola said Friday that it has acquired a team Melco Mobile Communication researchers in Rennes, France. Melco Mobile is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Eletric Corp. This team will focus on design and...
View ArticleAirlines Look For Alternatives To Lifting The Cell Phone Ban
Late last year, the Federal Communications Commission proposed relaxing its ban on wireless phone use during U.S. flights. Since then, the FCC received thousands of calls and letters opposing the idea....
View ArticleMobile Users Demand Better Batteries
New research from TNS shows that mobile users across the world want one thing from device manufactures – better battery life. Consumers are definitely interested in converging devices and new features,...
View ArticlePalm Will Announce Windows-Powered Trio On Monday
A press event scheduled in San Francisco for Monday will see Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Palm CEO Ed Colligan Verizon Wireless President and CEO Denny Strigl make an announcement. Representatives...
View ArticleGizmondo Parent Company Loses $210 Million in Six Months
Tiger Telematics, maker of the Gizmondo, filed its annual report with the SEC showing a loss of $210 million in the first six months of 2005. The company attributes this loss to a large investment into...
View ArticleConnected or Addicted?
Paul Glen has a great opinion piece on ComputerWorld about executives being constantly connected, through cell phone and “crack-berriers”, and the actual need to be constantly on-call. The article...
View ArticleMobile Industry Adopts Ratings for Content
The Wireless Association (CTIA) has announced plans to adopt a voluntary content guideline system, similar to the ESRB, to “proactively provide tools and controls to manage wireless content offered by...
View ArticleNokia Shifts Away From N-Gage Device
Nokia’s VP of corporate strategy, Antii Vasara, admitted to Vnunet that the N-Gage did not meet the company’s projected targets. Vasara said, “N-Gage is still being sold but it was not a success in the...
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