Typically a June announcement from Apple would have a significant impact on the wireless industry, but following last year’s announcement adjustment of an updated iPhone to the fall the wireless industry could be breathing a sigh of relief.
Apple is kicking off its annual Worldwide...
LAS VEGAS - Like most large multi-nationals, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) can be challenged to orchestrate its different verticals, which ranges from business-focused products to end user-user focused personal devices. Distilling the range of objectives can even be complicated to digest, even for HP's employees –...
China's Huawei is continuing its push into the consumer device market with the introduction of its first LTE handset in the United States, the Huawei Activa. MetroPCS will sell the Activa for $149 (with a mail-in rebate) and will not require a contract.
The Activa...
Samsung Electronics has named Kwon Oh-hyun as its new CEO, replacing 61-year-old Choi Gee-sung. Kwon has been running the Korean conglomerate's components business, where he helped the company expand into logic chips.
As CEO, Kwon will now assume control of Samsung's blockbuster mobile device...
Brazilian Datora Telecom is seeking to get a big share of the machine-to-machine market. The company has just announced a mobile unit dubbed Datora Mobile. At the same time, the company also said it aims to get 15% of the country’s M2M market over...
AUSTIN, Texas – Amidst reports of layoffs and lawsuits, BlackBerry-maker Research-In-Motion is reaching out the people who could represent its best hope for survival: software developers. Today the company kicked off the U.S. leg of its BlackBerry 10 Jam tour in Austin, Texas. From...
Google Maps is one of the most popular smartphone apps and one of the most lucrative, as advertisers are quick to see the value in location-based mobile ads. Now Apple is reportedly working to move into Google's territory with its own maps application to...
Two big IT events happened in Las Vegas last month: Interop and Symantec Vision. Both events made a very good impression on me when I downloaded the apps and found out I could do my check-in,
Editor's Note: This analysis was taken from an article that Ovum will be publishing in its subscriber newsletter in June, 2012.
Summary
Ovum recently attended a Nokia-hosted analyst event in Dubai, where the vendor explained its current business and future prospects in the Middle...
Summer is here and with it a hot new smartphone - but this June it's not an iPhone that will have consumers lining up outside retail stores. While Apple is widely expected to delay its new iPhone launch until fall as it did last...
For 4 straight years, Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference was the launchpad for the company's newest iPhone, and this year the company may again try to change the mobile landscape with a June announcement. Last June Apple disappointed some of its loyalists by not...
Intel (INTC) and China's Lenovo have launched an Android 2.3 smartphone powered by Intel's Atom Z2460 processor, and next week a similar Intel-powered smartphone will go on sale in the UK.
Lenovo's LePhone K800 will retail for about $524 on Lenovo's 360buy.com website. With...
Following days of reports predicting job cuts, Research In Motion said it expects to report an operating loss for its first fiscal quarter ending June 2 due to continued slow sales of its core BlackBerry products. The news follows a $125 million loss posted...
BERLIN – Germans take their days off very seriously, but in the early hours of May 29, just after a Monday holiday when most stores were closed in Berlin, many were up bright and early for the new Samsung Galaxy S III.
The new Android...
Share of Research In Motion (RIMM) are up this morning on reports that the Canadian company is preparing to lay off thousands of employees. Executives at the struggling maker of BlackBerry smartphones and tablets have said in the past that they hope to cut...
So what kind of smartphone do you have? Is it an Apple iPhone, an Android, or a BlackBerry? As 3G and even 4G networks are deployed across Latin America, smartphone adoption is soaring. And once they experience the power, versatility and sheer fun of smartphones, people can get almost addicted to them.
For the third time in as many years, reports of a Facebook smartphone have surfaced, and this time they are accompanied by quotes from engineers who are said to be working on the device. The New York Times reported Sunday that the newly public...
Are you prepared for the second wave of apps? A new Forrester Research report aims to answer this question. "We believe the market is poised for a second wave of consumer apps that are more personalized and contextual," Thomas Husson, Forrester Research principal analyst,...
Almost 60% of all smartphones sold in the first quarter were Android-powered, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Apple's iOS phones accounted for another 23% of sales volume, giving the top two operating systems a combined total market share of almost 75%.
Samsung...
Tablet makers now have a new chipset option when configuring devices for AT&T Mobility. Nvidia (NVDA) says its Icera 410 LTE multimode data modem chipset is good to go on AT&T Mobility's growing LTE network. The modems are for tablets and notebooks, but Nvidia...
While Hewlett-Packard adapts to a changing PC market by reducing its workforce, Dell is reducing the size of its products. This week the company tried to temper a disappointing earnings report with promises of smaller, more mobile products later this year.
Dell (DELL) saw its...
Over the next five years, shipments of consumer machine-to-machine devices are forecast to grow at a 39.8% compound annual growth rate to reach 37.9 million devices in 2016, according to a new research report from Berg Insight. According to the firm, the number of...
Just a few weeks after taking Apple's title as the world's top seller of smartphones, Samsung has scored another victory over Cupertino: The Galaxy S III is emerging as the most pre-ordered smartphone in history, with reported advance orders of 9 million units, more...
