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Chinese Government Cracking Down On Spam - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 25 Mar 2008 05:38 AM PST

What’s the Chinese government’s definition of spam? According to the State Council’s Office for Rectifying Malpractice, it’s a “wrongdoing…which is profit-seeking in defiance of public interests,” for the Nasdaq-traded Chinese…

DoCoMo Phones To Be Stripped Down For Lower-Price Options; I-Mode-Free - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 23 Mar 2008 07:13 PM PST

This is an about-face for NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), which has always sold on its extra data and content features: the Japanese operator will sell some stripped-down phones without data…

EC Support For Mobile TV Standard DVB-H May Not Be Enough - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Sun 23 Mar 2008 03:00 PM PST

The European Commission has thrown its complete weight behind mobile TV standard DVB-H, but that still might not make mobile TV a success in Europe, reports IDG. First off, there’s…

China Mobile Content Services Booming; Content Sales And Digital Ad Revs To Hit $710 Million By 2013 - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Sun 23 Mar 2008 01:57 PM PST

China Mobile’s has been on a growth streak for some time. IDG News reports the country’s largest operator--and indeed the world’s--China Mobile grew by 68.1 million new subscribers last year--about…

Nokia Expects 2008 Replacement Sales To Increase Market Share; Asian Pacific Sales Offset Declines - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 21 Mar 2008 04:15 AM PST

A mixed bag for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Just a day after Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) warned that sales of mobile handsets were slowing, and a week after Texas…

Buongiorno Invests $15.5 Million Into Social Net BING - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 20 Mar 2008 05:44 AM PST

Mobile entertainment company Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) is investing 10 million euros ($15.5 million) to upgrade its mobile social network BING. First launched in June 2007 in South Africa and Austria…

Japan Is Saying No To New 2G Phones, Meanwhile The U.S. Is Just Getting Over Analog - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 18 Mar 2008 01:10 PM PST

While most Japanese users have advanced handsets capable of surfing the Internet, watching TV and other high-end applications, tons of U.S. users are still trying to wean themselves off of…

Nokia Signs $2 Billion Deal To Supply Handsets In China - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 07 Mar 2008 03:31 AM PST

Another big win for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). The Finnish handset giant announced today that it had struck a deal with Chinese mobile phone wholesaler China Postel to supply $2 billion…

Hurray Cancels Its $160 Million Merger With TV Producer Enlight - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 06 Mar 2008 07:06 AM PST

Chinese mobile content provider Hurray has nixed its planned $160 million merger with TV production company Enlight. The two companies said in November that they would combine, melding their various…

SK Telecom And Citigroup Launch Mobile Banking JV - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 06 Mar 2008 03:17 AM PST

South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) and Citigroup, the US’s largest bank, launched a joint venture today to offer mobile financial services in select markets in Asia and…

SK Telecom Takes 42.2 Percent Stake In Chinese Music Label - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 05 Mar 2008 05:20 AM PST

South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said today it is purchasing a 42.2 percent stake in Chinese music recording company Beijing-based Taihe Rye Music to allow it…

Disney Tries Again: Launches MVNO With Softbank In Japan - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 03 Mar 2008 06:00 AM PST

Following two failed MVNOs in the US, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has gone to Japan, where on Saturday, it launched an MVNO--Disney Mobile--with Softbank, the country’s third largest operator. AFP reports…

China Mobile “Open” To Apple’s iPhone; Woz Uses Motorola Razr Not An iPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 03 Mar 2008 05:11 AM PST

Has China Mobile been talking to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) over iPhone—or hasn’t it? Reuters reports that China’s largest mobile operator by customer base said today it had not been in…

Virgin Mobile Launched In India: Not An MVNO
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 02 Mar 2008 09:42 PM PST

Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) has launched its mobile service in one of the biggest and most competitive mobile markets in the world: India. It has announced a ‘brand franchise’ agreement…

Emerging Markets And Feature-Rich Phones Upped Handset Sales in 2007: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 28 Feb 2008 11:12 AM PST

Consumers thirsting for high-end phones with TV tuners, GPS, touch screens and fancy cameras, along with first-time phone owners in emerging markets, drove worldwide phone sales to 1.15 billion last…

Morpho Takes Investment From Nokia For Mobile Imaging Technology - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 25 Feb 2008 09:44 AM PST

Tokyo-based Morpho, a developer of mobile imaging technology, has raised an unspecified investment from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Growth Partners, Nokia’s VC arm. Established in 2004, the company has developed technology…

Complexity And Fear Keep Consumers From Shopping On The Phone: Study - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 22 Feb 2008 01:25 PM PST

The mobile phone is too complex for users to feel comfortable using them to buy physical goods, however, consumers in the U.S. and the U.K., say they are likely to…

U.S. Telecom Growth Is Strong In 08, And Won’t Be Affected By A Poor Economy: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 22 Feb 2008 12:44 PM PST

Growth in the U.S. telecom industry will accelerate a whole percentage point to 9.3 percent in 2008 over last year and is unlikely to be significantly impacted by a broader…

Google’s Prime Position On Japan’s Mobile Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 20 Feb 2008 04:09 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have lost its contract to be T-Mobile’s search partner in Europe last week, but apparently, it has won Japan’s mobile web battle, according to a Businessweek…

@ GDC: How Mobile Game Developers Avoid The Carrier’s Deck In Japan - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 19 Feb 2008 05:05 PM PST

David Collier, who runs a mobile content provider in Tokyo called Pikkle, told developers today at GDC Mobile how Japanese game developers are avoiding two of the industry’s biggest headaches—sharing…

Shipments of Japan’s Mobile TV Enabled Handsets Hit 20 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 19 Feb 2008 04:00 AM PST

Shipments of handsets that run Japan’s mobile digital TV service OneSeg has hit 20 million less than two years after its launch, reports IDG News. According to Japan’s Telecommunications Carrier…

The Case Of Missing iPhones - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Feb 2008 01:07 AM PST

NYT discovers that the 1.4 million missing iPhones (not registered on their respective networks in U.S. and Europe) have landed up in, lo and behold, China. Well, a lot of…

Mobile Spam Is Coming To The U.S.: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 14 Feb 2008 07:36 PM PST

Several reports came out this week saying that unwanted text messages, or spam, sent to the mobile phone is on the rise. Quoting a report by mobile security firm Cloudmark,…

Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son Warns Operators Not To Become “Dumb Pipes” - 2 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 14 Feb 2008 05:37 AM PST

Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son warned operators they risked becoming “dumb pipes,” if they did not move swiftly to control mobile content, reports TotalTelecom. Speaking on Wednesday at the MWC, Son…

Mobile Music Leads Games 3-1 In China: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 12 Feb 2008 01:33 PM PST

Mobile entertainment is popular among the Chinese, with 34.8 percent reporting they listened to mobile music and 10 percent played a downloaded mobile game in December, according to M:Metrics, which…