Even though the wireless handset market will rebound this year, the world’s top 10 contract manufacturers will continue to struggle as they try to recover from a disastrous 2009, according …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Disastrous 2009 lingers through 2010 for ODM, EMS segments: Handset shipments to rise this year, iSuppli predicts >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Capital Markets: Nokia acquisitions, Qualcomm dividends and more >by jscarboby jscarbo
Adtran Inc. reported first-quarter results, including a 15% increase in sales to $127 million from $110 million during the first quarter of 2009. Net income increased 20% to $18.2 million, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Top 10: Worldwide wireless operators No.'s 11-20 >by jscarboby jscarbo
Editor’s Note: The companies listed below represent the No. 11 through No. 20 largest wireless carriers worldwide based on subscriber numbers at the end of 2009 unless noted. For a …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Analyst Angle: Seven unlimited prepaid trends >by jscarboby jscarbo
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.It …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Mobile gaming, are you game? >by jscarboby jscarbo
Mobile gaming has certainly come a long way over the past decade. I remember sitting with friends playing Snake on the Nokia 6110, mastering the two finger diagonal controls to …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Google's Schmidt maintains mobile first mantra >by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie Barak
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt revisited what is rapidly becoming a popular theme for the search engine giant – the mobile world – at the firm’s inaugural cloud computing event, Atmosphere …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Android for Intel Atom devices spells trouble for ARM >by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie Barak
Android scored another victory this week, as chip-giant Intel Corp. announced at its Developer Forum in Beijing it had ported Google Inc.’s OS to its Atom microprocessors, the latest move …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Nokia, Sony Ericsson jump on social phone bandwagon >by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie Barak
Popularity. It’s what all the cool kids strive for, and it would appear the mobile playground is full of these social wannabees. Just a day after Microsoft unveiled its “deeply …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Bits, bytes and buzz from WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2010 >by jscarboby jscarbo
***HTC “4G” WiMAX smartphone due Q3*** A sales lady at one of the major Taiwanese Teleco’s let slip a surprise bit of info; apparently HTC will have a WiMAX enabled …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">FLO to update offering >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
Qualcomm Inc.’s FLO TV Inc. subsidiary said it plans to expand its mobile television offering later this year with the inclusion of interactive capabilities, pay-per-day and event passes and a …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Mobile WiMAX-to-WiFi device makes iPad or iPod Touch as good as your iPhone >by jscarboby jscarbo
One completely ingenious product spotted at WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2010, was a little mobile WiMAX to WiFi device running on an integrated Lithium ion battery which can be slipped …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">WiMAX vs 3.5G HSDPA >by jscarboby jscarbo
If you already have a data package with a teleco, you may not see the point in considering WiMAX as an option, but perhaps you should think again. After all, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">WiMAX rolled out across Taiwan and claimed as viable alternative to DSL >by jscarboby jscarbo
TAIPEI, Tawain–Taiwan was touted as being on the forefront of WiMAX adoption, with Japan, Malaysia and to some extent South Korea not far behind, according to executives at WiMAX Forum …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Cox wireless bundle could be game changer: (Or how I fell in love with the TV again) >by Tracy Fordby Tracy Ford
A few recent developments have made me believe that Cox Communications’ wireless offering can be a game changer for the industry. First, I started to watch the TV shows I …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">WiMAX vendors throw support behind 802.16m update >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
The WiMAX market is set for a speed boost as a number of chip providers and equipment makers said they plan to accelerate the interoperability of the WiMAX 2 standard. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: Borrowing brilliance for the SIP journey >by jscarboby jscarbo
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In my previous …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: The “Julius Jolt” – It's not Comcastic >by jscarboby jscarbo
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.That earthquake you …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">First screenshots of Opera for iPhone >by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie Barak
Just minutes ago, Apple finally approved Opera’s Mini browser for its app store after over 20 days. We bring you the first screenshots of Opera for iPhone.
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Opera browser boasts 50 million mobile users >by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie Barak
Opera is singing a rather triumphant aria today, with news that the browser has hit 100 million users globally, half of which are surfing on Opera Mini for mobile devices. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Blackberry and iPhone get official with Twitter >by sylvie barakby sylvie barak
Last week saw social media phenomenon, Twitter, take another leap forward in terms of smartphone saturation, with the release of Blackberry’s very own beta Twitter app. Twitter also announced its acquisition of Tweetie, a popular iPhone Twitter client.
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">The Buddha's Palm – acquisition time nears >by sylvie barakby sylvie barak
As recently predicted, Palm is “officially on the block,” and could be snapped up by a key mobile player very soon indeed.
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">The Buddha’s Palm – acquisition time nears >by sylvie barakby sylvie barak
As recently predicted, Palm is “officially on the block,” and could be snapped up by a key mobile player very soon indeed.
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Nokia's mysterious Everyone Connect event happens tonight >by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie Barak
Phone giant, Nokia, is holding a mysterious launch in just under 11 hours – so mysterious, in fact, that no one seems to know what the event is about. There …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Microsoft's Kin boasts Nvidia Tegra chip >by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie Barak
By now, we all know what Microsoft’s new Kin offerings do in terms of making one’s anti-social phone habits even more pervasive and irritating. But what’s powering the narcissistic device? …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Microsoft goes after social networkers with Kin line up: Verizon Wireless gains exclusivity at launch >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
The “social” generation tallied another victory this morning as computing giant Microsoft Corp. unveiled the latest attempt to infiltrate this narcissist, though apparently dominate, market made up of consumers that …