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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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