When is this mobile music business really going to take off? Not any time soon, a new Jupiter research report reckons. Just five percent of US mobile subscribers sideload tunes…

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Here’s a novel notion: Research firm Gartner has warned the mobile industry—and especially handset makers—that they need to start factoring in gender and age when they are designing products for…

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A strong uptake of flat-rate voice and data plans will create capacity problems on 3G networks and backhaul systems, predicts ABI Research. The analyst warns that increased use of SMS…

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The Latino market continues to be an attractive one for the mobile industry, with figures like “3.1 percent of the general population used their mobile devices to watch videos, 6.7…

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— Broadband soars: The GSM Association reports mobile broadband increased tenfold in the last year, rising to 32 million connections from just three million. The number of operators offering…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) resurrected its N-Gage games device as a platform for Nseries phones at CTIA last week - now M:Metrics has given us data showing why the handset maker…

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Ad-funded content models could be gaining ground, according to new research from Ipsos Mori commissioned by T-Mobile that found over a third of 16 to 34 year-olds who own a…

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Reports and opinions are all over the map when it comes to the debate on whether mobile broadband will replace Wi-Fi, or if Wi-Fi will continue to play a role…

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Are the new services being developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO), Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and others threatening the carrier’s…

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With so much confusion about how much the mobile advertising market is worth and how fast it will develop (See post from Sunday), I wanted to ignore the latest report,…

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Talk about suspect numbers: IDC has come out with some wild predictions: that worldwide wireless subscribers and customers to grow by a little more than a billion over the next…

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Advertising is the next big opportunity in mobile—by some estimates released this week, it will be a burgeoning $250 billion industry within two years, but other more conservative estimates predict…

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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…

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MobiTV, the mobile video provider, released key information on the demographics and habits of mobile TV watchers in the U.S., saying that its viewers collectively love TV, are highly mobile,…

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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…

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So much for mobile TV’s travails. French broadcaster Canal+ reports it now has 250,000 subscribers for its mobile TV offering carried by the SFR and Bouygues networks. Subscribers grew 225…

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Not that many countries outside Asia are using it in a big way, but proportionally fewer Americans are watching mobile TV than anywhere else surveyed, Nielsen Mobile VP Jeff Herrmann…

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- Downloads: More research, this time from mobile search and ad vendor Medio, says mobile web searches now have more momentum than searches for downloadable content. Though downloads remained the…

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Mobile media users are creatures of habit but are willing to find content in far-flung places. A report published in Barcelona by mobile value-added company Olista says over 60 percent…

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Recently introduced cheaper data plans are finally beginning to popularize the mobile internet in Britain. Over 17 million people - or 23 percent of UK mobile users - used the…

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Bango, which is mainly known for its mobile payment services, is now augmenting that function with a new research tool. The company tells us that its Bango Analytics service can…

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ABI Research has predicted that the total number of subscribers to mobile TV services (both broadcast and unicast) will grow to 462 million by 2012, driven by the expansion of…

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Juniper Research has issued its (typically bullish) predictions for mobile content, predicting the total global mobile content market will rise from $20 billion in 2007 to more than $64 billion…

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The mobile web is taking off! Sort of… A study by JupiterResearch (Mobile web sites: Designing for mobility) reports that about 40 percent of web site operators have launched mobile…

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JR Tokai Express Research has conducted a survey into Japan on the attitude towards the iPhone. Japan is considered a tough market for Apple because it’s already a sophisticated market…

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