Canadian vendor Research In Motion (RIM), joined the social networking revolution this week, making Facebook available to BlackBerry users. Mike Lazaridis, founder of RIM and Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, unveiled the application at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show in San Francisco on Wednesday. T-Mobile USA has been selected to be the first [...]
Ericsson’s chief financial officer, Karl-Henrik Sundstrom, fell on his sword on Thursday, as the Swedish kit maker reported a 36 per cent drop in income for the third quarter. The company sent shockwaves through the market last week after it cut its third quarter forecasts, following a shortfall in mobile network sales and upgrades. Net [...]
$15 billion, that’s how much. 23 year old Mark Zuckerberg must be a very happy man today, after Microsoft shelled out $240m for a 1.6 per cent stake in Facebook. The social networking hype machine has obviously been chugging away since Murdoch paid out $580m for MySpace and I wonder how much longer before the wheels fall off the bandwagon? eBay’s already admitted it got a bit over eager when bidding for Skype and all this crazy spending is starting to look a bit ’90′s…
US carrier Verizon shook up the broadband market with the launch of a 20Mbps symmetrical fibre offering this week. The FiOS 20/20 service gives subscribers an upload and download speed of up to 20Mbps over Verizon’s all fibre network. This week is has been made available in parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. [...]
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer was whipping up support for Windows Mobile in the enterprise space on Monday, unveiling a whole bunch of business offerings at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment Summit in San Francisco. The company announced a dedicated mobile device management server, Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, designed to help companies [...]
UK-based mobile phone retailer the Carphone Warehouse launched another MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) this week, with the aim of delivering low cost services under the Talkmobile brand. Talkmobile is offering postpay contracts for either 9, 12 or 18 months, for £12, £15 and £18 respectively. Inclusive minutes total 50, 75, or 100 depending on [...]
From mid November, US operator AT&T will make more than 5 million music tracks available to its subscribers via the Napster Mobile service. AT&T wireless will be able to search the music catalogue, preview samples of each song and purchase and download the music from their wireless handsets in less than a minute. Customers will [...]
Californian electronics shop Apple reported that it has sold 1.38 million iPhones to date, after shifting 1.119 million in the third quarter. Apple introduced the iPhone on June 29 and sold its 1 millionth device 74 days later. The iconic device is due to reach European shores next month, first arriving in the UK and [...]
Finnish vendor Nokia put a new spin on the User Generated Content (UGC) phenomenon on Tuesday, with an addition to its own social network, Mosh. Where the Mosh environment allows users to communicate and share their content, the Seek feature allows users to make requests for content not yet available. “Seek allows Mosh users to [...]
It wasn’t just Apple’s own spirits being lifted by the success of the iPhone this week. Exclusive US carrier AT&T probably had a lot to thank Steve Jobs and co for as its wireless subscriber base topped 65.7 million at the end of the third quarter. AT&T added 2 million net subscribers during the quarter [...]
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