Shares in UK mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse took a dive Thursday after Vodafone announced it would be dropping the company as a retailer for contract subscriptions. Instead Vodafone has signed up Phones 4U as an exclusive third party retailer for Vodafone contract customers on the UK high street. Vodafone said it aims to benefit from [...]
3G is a low priority for mobile users across the globe who see the technology as costly and unnecessary, according to a study by market information company, TNS. The firm noted little increase in 3G usage amongst consumers who see mobile TV and internet surfing as a waste of time and money. The firm says [...]
Sony Ericsson looks to have hit the sweet spot by attaching the Cyber-shot and Walkman brands of its Japanese parent to its mid and high end phones. The mobile phone manufacturer on Thursday reported that net income for the third quarter almost tripled over the past year, shooting up to Eur298m (£201m), compared to Eur104m [...]
T-Mobile USA entered the mobile email fray late Thursday, unveiling its exclusive “Dash” Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone. The Dash device – also known as the Excalibur and manufactured by Taiwan’s High Tech Computer – looks very much like it is aimed straight for the BlackBerry/Motorola Q/Nokia E61 market. Whilst in Europe, SMS is the messaging [...]
sometime in 2008, the firm said Wednesday. The world’s biggest producer of mobile phones revealed plans for the technology as it rolled out a WiMAX-enabled version of its lightweight base station. While stationary computers can connect to WiMAX today, there will not be a mobile version available till later this year which gives Nokia more [...]
In the latest twist in the increasingly tedious Qualcomm versus Broadcom patent dispute, both sides have claimed victory. Late Tuesday, an administrative law judge at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Qualcomm has not infringed two of the three Broadcom patents in question. However, the ITC also found that Qualcomm does infringe five [...]
T-Mobile USA intends to deploy Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) devices in at least one market before year-end, in a bid to maintain a competitive edge while it rolls out 3G. The operator last week said that work on its 3G network has already begun, with a majority to be completed before 2008. But in the [...]
Worldwide shipments of PDAs and smartphones increased 57 per cent during the first half of 2006, totalling 42.1 million units when compared to the same period last year. The statistics, released Monday by industry analyst Gartner, found that the smartphone market is experiencing exponential growth, increasing 75.5 per cent on last year with 34.7 million [...]
Research in Motion (RIM) will become a victim of its own proprietary solutions and is doomed to extinction within a decade unless it embraces open standards. This is the argument put forward by Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, the firm that put the scream feature into stolen mobiles. Brinkschulte believes RIM’s reluctance to embrace open [...]
The rate of overall worldwide mobile handset growth will slow dramatically beginning next year as saturation in developed markets starts to balance out the booming growth in emerging regions. So says Telecoms.com’s parent, Informa Telecoms & Media in its latest report “Future Mobile Handsets”. Since the slump in the worldwide handset market at the turn [...]
A step in the right direction but does it go far enough?
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I agree with Dan about this being a excellent read, and that QNX is not well known but sooner or ...
Excellent read with some actual facts compared to the hack journalist/bloggers on the interest. Many don't understand what QNX ...
The main issue with Telenor is that whether they made underhand payments to ge the licenses. If they did, then ...
Over The Top providers have become the staple wildcard in almost any sector set on a collision path with mobile. By and large they are very good at what they do: connecting a user with their chosen content or service by whatever means available.
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