2012

Apple shares are up more than 6% this morning after a blockbuster quarterly earnings announcement yesterday afternoon. The company said strong sales of the iPhone 4S helped boost net income to $13.1 billion, or $13.87 per share, more than double …

A new report by CyberMedia Research states that the overall Indian mobile handsets market recorded sales of 15.4 million units during November 2011, taking the total handset shipments during the first eleven months of calendar year 2011 to nearly 166 …

Device subsidies associated with the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone at the beginning of the fourth quarter had a pronounced impact at Verizon Communications (VZ) with the company just missing earning per share estimates and margins taking a sequential hit. …

Shares of Nokia bounced back today after a steep sell- off yesterday on news that its orders to chip supplier ST-Ericsson were sluggish. “The revenues of Nokia have collapsed and this is why the revenues of ST Ericsson are not …

Austin-based Wireless History Foundation said it will begin accepting nominations for the 2012 Wireless Hall of Fame through March 15. Nominations will be accepted in four categories: service provider; technology; industry associate; and “pioneer,” with nominees needing to have at …

Clearwire (CLWR) said it accumulated a company record $362 million in revenues during the fourth quarter of last year, which was more than double the amount posted during the final three months of 2010 and slightly ahead of analyst estimates. …

Colombian government’s plan to boost telecommunications in the country is set to increase competition among operators and expedite the deployment of 3G services, broadband Internet and MVNO operations. Forget about the Colombia you may know from the 1990s. The current …

Top executives of India’s telecom companies Tuesday met the country’s Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal to discuss contentious issues plaguing the sector.

The highway is deemed to serve the increasing Internet-traffic demands between Western Europe and Russia via the Baltic States.

Big information technology companies posted positive results for their recent fiscal quarter and their optimist outlook for 2012 may suggest a growth in IT spending. However, Gartner recently reduced its worldwide ICT spending growth forecast from 4.6% to 3.7% for …

Blog and press reports have indicated that Apple has hired formerly Sony Ericsson U.S. president and head of the North America region, Anderson Teixeira, to be head of Apple’s Latin America business. Indeed, Teixeira has updated his LinkedIN account, showing …

Emerging countries are expected to play a bigger role in the e-commerce market by 2015, according to a new study by Forrester Research. During last week’s NRF 101st Annual Convention & Expo, Forrester Research presented a study that showed the …

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. Brazilian Picture The number of mobile broadband capable accesses in Brazil grew 82.18% last year, …

The enthusiastic acceptance of Apple’s Siri, with its combination of speech recognition and natural language understanding, has demonstrated the practicality and attractiveness of a voice-enabled personal assistant user interface.

2011 was another year of diversity for the mobile industry. With a raft of new smart devices, tablets, applications, services and new pricing plans, consumers and enterprises alike have had more choice than ever when making use of the mobile …

Analysts predict that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will sell as many as 48 million iPads this year, about four times as many tablets as Amazon is expected to sell, based on projections for the Kindle Fire. Both the iPad and the …

Samsung Electronics Thursday announced that it has started producing embedded multi-chip package (eMCP) memory for use in the rapidly expanding market segment for entry-to mid-level smartphones.

Washington, D.C.-based think tank NDN released an economic study showing that the evolution of wireless networks from 2G technologies to 3G technologies created 1.585 million new jobs in the United States between April 2007 and June 2011. The report, “The …

After Research in Motion (RIMM) announced Thorsten Heins as its new CEO, market analysts seemed to be looking for the company’s next steps. Tech analyst Jeff Kagan noted that with now former co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis’s stepping down …

The Bay Area Regional Interoperable Communications Systems Authority approved a $95 million agreement with Motorola Solutions (MSI) to provide a public safety network using LTE technology across 700 MHz spectrum in the San Francisco area. The network, dubbed the Bay …

Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) reported that its co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have stepped down. The beleaguered Canadian device maker said Balsillie and Lazardis will be replaced by former COO Thorsten Heins. “There comes a time in the …

Idea Cellular, India’s No. 4 operator by subscribers, reported 17% dip in consolidated net profit to $39.7 million from a year earlier for its third fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31.