2008

The mobile device management services market is expected to grow from $583 million in 2007 to more than $20 billion by 2013, according to a report from ABI Research.“The range of services needed to manage a business’s mobile investments requires …

Semiconductor giant, Intel is preparing to re-enter the mobile phone market as smartphone sales rise and data intensive services increase in popularity.

The iPhone is still the second-most sold smartphone in the U.S. behind RIM’s BlackBerry, but RIM and Palm gained ground in the first quarter at Apple’s expense.

Internet giant says phones with its Android software are still on track to ship this year, contrary to a report Monday.

Under pressure to help dispose some of the electronic waste it helped create, Best Buy Co. is testing a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure millions of obsolescent TVs, old computers and other unwanted gadgets …

You’re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?

Intel Corp. has been heavily promoting a new breed of pocket-size portable devices as a future market for its chips. Its competitors now hope to reap the benefits.

Apple’s iPhone took 19.2% of the US market for “smart” phones in the first quarter of 2008, according to research firm IDC.

Apple’s splash into the cell phone market proved consumers will pay for hip devices. Now the race is on to one-up the iPhone.. What a difference a year makes. This month, the hip iPhone celebrates its first anniversary, following its …

The fifth season of the FX series Rescue Me won’t air until next spring, but fans of the firehouse drama are being rewarded for their patience.

Don Reisinger considers the possibility of game developers getting into other forms of entertainment. Will it really work?

Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android “Android”, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google.

TD-SCDMA WORKS. That’s the view of one analyst who participated in trials in Baoding, China, as long ago as December 2006.A very modest supply of subsidized handsets and data cards by domestic and foreign vendors should hit the market this …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from NPD Group’s …

The buzz is inescapable. Next week, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is expected to announce the next iteration of the company’s iPhone at Apple’s annual developer conference.In the run-up to the purported announcement, several issues have been bandied about by …

Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based services are garnering a lot of attention in the mobile broadband industry, despite the fact that they are at least two years away from being deployed.

The handset maker expands its free cell phone recycling program in Africa.

Is the wireless industry in a class-action lawsuit feeding frenzy right now or does it just feel like it? We want to sue too: first we’re going to sue all the companies that use Starbuck’s references in their examples. We’re …

H&R Block Emerald Prepaid MasterCard cardholders will soon have mobile access to their accounts through a partnership among H&R Block, Metavante Mobile Financial Services and Monitise Americas L.L.C.Customers will be able to check their balances from their mobile phone and …

Mobile messaging services provider Sybase 365 said it won a deal with Australian stockbroker Bell Direct.Sybase will power Bell Direct’s mobile share trading platform, which allows stockbrokers to trade shares by sending a text message. Sybase 365 acts as the …

Perhaps no segment in mobile data remains as untapped as wireless e-mail.Research In Motion Ltd. continues to dominate the market for high-powered users, resulting in millions of CrackBerry addicts hunched over their flashy devices who don’t mind paying a premium …

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. – Dan Lyons, the man behind “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,” began his online experiment as the sensational alter ego of Apple Inc.’s CEO mostly because he hated his job at Forbes and was “freaking …

So it seems to me that the whole exclusive, subsidized handset business model is causing the wireless industry a lot of grief – unnecessary grief.For example: 1. The FCC was working with Verizon Wireless to create a national early termination …

While the Iraq war, sky-rocketing gas prices, healthcare, homeland security, global warming and immigration are among the top issues likely to register with voters in November, major candidates have completely ignored another issue that’ll undoubtedly be decisive in a presidential …