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Tech Startups Told To Cut Back Spending; Analysts Say Downturn Will Hit Wireless Industry - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 11:42 AM PST

Now that we are weeks into a financial crisis, not only are the predictions starting to surface on how technology, and specifically wireless will be affected, but actions are starting…

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RAZR Still The Top Selling Cellphone In The U.S. - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 09 Oct 2008 10:49 AM PST

Even though it has lost its sense of cool, Motorola’s RAZR is still the best-selling cellphone in the U.S. more than four years after it first hit the scene, Electronista…

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Text Messages Increasingly Used By Families And By Those Who Date: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 11:55 AM PST

Families are increasingly using text messaging to stay in touch, while the short snippets of text are also being to flirt and send love notes, according to two surveys released…

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Analysts Lower 2009 Worldwide Growth Estimates For Handset Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 07 Oct 2008 06:08 PM PST

Analysts are revising their forecasts downward for 2009 global handset sales, citing lengthening phone replacement cycles despite the prevailing thought that cell phones are the last thing consumers will give…

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Almost One In Three iPhone 3G Customers Switched From Another Carrier: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 06 Oct 2008 11:36 AM PST

Almost one in three who purchased Apple’s iPhone 3G in the U.S. from June to August switched from another carrier to join AT&T (NYSE: T), according to a new report…

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Will The Wireless Industry Be Hurt By The Financial Crisis? - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 29 Sep 2008 05:21 PM PST

Tech stocks took a huge hit today, following the house’s failure to pass a bailout plan intended to rescue the nation’s financial system and the Dow tumbling 778 points. To…

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Most Companies Aren’t Tracking Mobile Traffic: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 26 Sep 2008 02:04 PM PST

At least 70 percent of businesses are not measuring mobile traffic to their sites and it’s mostly because they don’t know how to track unique visits from mobile devices, according…

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Apple Cuts iPhone Production Target By 20 Percent; Battery Lawsuit Dropped; Unlocked In Hong Kong - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 26 Sep 2008 12:06 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has cut its 2008 iPhone 3G production target by at least 20 percent to 14 million units, according to estimates by Pacific Crest, ZDNet reports. The firm…

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UK’s Big Five Carriers Link Up With IAB On Mobile Advertising Push - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 23 Sep 2008 03:34 PM PST

It’s been a long-time coming, but the big five carriers in the U.K. have struck a deal with the Internet Advertising Bureau to push mobile advertising into a medium that…

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Google’s Android Estimated To Gain 4 Percent Marketshare Among Smartphones: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 19 Sep 2008 10:47 AM PST

With Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) first Android phone just days away from being unveiled, the predictions have started flying. In the final three months of the year, Strategy Analytics is estimating…

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Mobile Content Bits: Games Go Mainstream At Handango; Animal House Going Mobile; Nokia Media Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 17 Sep 2008 03:10 PM PST

-- Games and entertainment are hottest categories at Handango: Handango released its Yardstick for the first half of the year and reported that games jumped from fourth place to first…

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Mobile Social Networking To Generate $7.3 Billion Worldwide In 2013: Report - 3 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 16 Sep 2008 11:02 AM PST

Worldwide mobile social networking revenues will surge to $7.3 billion in 2013 thanks largely to advertising, according to a new report from Juniper Research. User-generated content ranging from social networking…

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Company Raises Cash To Find Lost Electronics; Survey Says New Yorkers Lost 31,544 Phones In Cabs - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 16 Sep 2008 08:29 AM PST

San Bruno, Calif.-based Global Lost & Found said today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of money to support its company focused on tracking and recovering portable electronics, such…

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Mobile Search Grew 68 Percent in the U.S. and 38 Percent in Western Europe: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 15 Sep 2008 04:07 PM PST

At least 20.8 million U.S. wireless subscribers and 4.8 million European users accessed a search portal in June 2008. Those figures represent an increase of 68 percent in the U.S.…

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@ CTIA: Teens Want Solar-Powered Phones And Simple Features - 1 Comment
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 12 Sep 2008 12:44 PM PST

CTIA closed the week with a focus on teens. Following some seemingly requisite video footage of teens talking about their cellphones in Miami, Austin and Los Angeles, Trip Hawkins, CEO…

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RIM Still Leads U.S. Smartphone Market; Apple Leaps To Second: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 08 Sep 2008 11:00 AM PST

If there’s one bright area area in U.S. mobile handset sales, it’s the smartphone segment, according to a report released today by the NPD Group, which looked at sales in…

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Mobile Content Bits: Flash-Java SDK; PlayPhone’s TV Channel; Business App Market; HipCricket; Qik - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 04 Sep 2008 02:56 PM PST

-- *Sony* *Ericsson* releases SDK for Flash-Java technology: Four months ago, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) Developer World announced Project Capuchin, which allows developers to use features from both…

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Mobile Web Usage Up 29 Percent; Carrier-Driven Traffic Continues To Decline: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 04 Sep 2008 11:17 AM PST

Mobile web usage grew 29.4 percent from Q1 to Q2, a period that saw a spike in searches for Barack Obama that was second only to “movies/movie listings,” according to…

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3G Adoption In The U.S. Exceeds Western Europe: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 04 Sep 2008 02:00 AM PST

When it comes to mobile, the perception is that the U.S. is always behind Europe, but a new report being released today says that when it pertains to the adoption…

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Smartphone Sales Will Jump 52 Percent This Year To 190 Million Units: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 27 Aug 2008 11:42 AM PST

Consumers worldwide are expected to purchase as many as 190 million smartphones this year, representing an increase of 52 percent compared to last year. Gartner Research Director Carolina Milanesi told…

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Mobile Ads Will Be Worth $12 Billion By 2011; Carriers Must Work Hard To Get A Piece: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 26 Aug 2008 09:32 AM PST

The worldwide mobile advertising market will be worth more than $12 billion by 2011, Gartner forecasts, but cautions that carriers must be careful if they want to get a piece…

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Mobile Web Usage In U.S. Will Soon Surpass The U.K.: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 26 Aug 2008 08:48 AM PST

Usage of the mobile web data is gaining traction in the U.S. at such a rate that in the next month it will surpass the United Kingdom, which has long…

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Analyst Predicts Apple Will Sell 13 Million iPhones In 2008; And A Whopping 45 Million In 2009 - 1 Comment
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 22 Aug 2008 12:08 PM PST

Frequent Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) forecaster Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, has come out with a whopper of a prediction that dwarfs many of his previous iPhone guesses. He’s…

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VZW-Google: The Top Mobile Search Provider At 61 Percent : Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 22 Aug 2008 10:01 AM PST

Following the news about Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless’ plan to partner with Google on a comprehensive search deal that will peg the search giant as the default search provider on…

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Digital Switchover Stymies Free Mobile TV In US - 2 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 20 Aug 2008 06:59 AM PST

Would mobile television in the US take off if US consumers didn’t have to pay for it? At the three carriers that offer mobile TV services--AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE:…

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