Samsung and HTC both unveiled new LTE smartphones this week at CTIA 2012 in New Orleans. The Samsung Focus 2 will be a $49 Windows phone offered by AT&T and the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE will be another Android 4.0 phone for Verizon...
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion says its BlackBerry 7 smartphones have been approved for use by the U.S. Department of Defense, proof that despite its sliding market share RIM still wins when it comes to security. The Canadian company says its smartphones will give DoD...
Samsung Electronics took a step into Apple's backyard this week, buying Palo Alto-based mSpot to add a digital content hub with cloud storage to its mobile devices. Samsung says it will integrate mSpot's movies and music into upcoming mobile devices, meaning that Samsung will...
NEW ORLEANS - In a study released by the WiFi Alliance, 90% of participants said that they would stick with their current mobile service provider, while 70% said that they would switch service providers, if necessary, to gain access to such a service. Sounds...
Little by little, the iPhone is making its way to rural America. Today Kentucky's Bluegrass Cellular and Nex-Tech Wireless of Kansas both announced that they will offer the iPhone 4S starting this month.
"It helps put us on an even playing field with the...
NEW ORLEANS - The GSM Association announced the commercial launch of its OpenAPI gateway, along with its adoption by a consortium of three mobile network operators in Canada - Bell Canada, Rogers and Telus. The gateway offers application developers the ability to connect to...
As the wireless industry descends on New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, device manufacturers are introducing new products at an unprecedented pace. While carriers scramble to predict customer demand, they must also manage an increasing influx of returns and exchanges from...
The convergence of mobile communications and broadband Internet connections has created countless new opportunities and challenges for wireless telephony. This marriage of technologies has given birth to devices that are changing lives and changing business practices. Just as mobile devices are bringing together people...
Brazilian Foxconn plant employees in the city of Jundiaí, Brazil, gave up going on a strike that was proposed last week due to bad working conditions. In a meeting held yesterday, employees voted for no downtime. The strike was contemplated as a way...
Describing its new flagship smartphone as "a human product that understands you," Samsung today launched the Galaxy S III. The new phone will be available through 296 carriers in 145 countries.
Samsung says its new phone, which features a huge 4.8 inch screen, will...
For most folks, news of heightened venture capital activity, especially when centered on a particular hot industry trend, should conjure a very appealing mental image: Jobs.
Today, LifeStreet Media, a mobile advertising platform vendor, announced a $66 million investment from Nautic Partners. In addition...
Mobile phone giant Nokia said it has filed claims involving 45 of its patents in the United States and Germany. The patent lawsuits take aim at products by HTC, ViewSonic and BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion.
"Though we'd prefer to avoid litigation, Nokia had to file...
Seoul Broadcasting System is reporting that Korea's National Tax Service is asking Samsung to pay about $350 million (400 billion KRW) in additional taxes after authorities reportedly uncovered tax evasion and transactions with overseas subsidiaries at non-market prices.. Samsung has been under investigation by...
Motorola Mobility (MMI) appears to be another victim of Samsung's dominance in the smartphone market. The company lost $86 million in the first quarter on revenues of $3.1 billion. Losses would have been even steeper without the positive contribution of the company's cable box...
Beleaguered BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIMM) gave away thousands of free phones to software developers today as it kicked off its annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Fla.
The Canadian company realizes that the lack of a software ecosystem is crippling its once-dominant line of...
Microsoft's decision to invest in Barnes & Noble's Nook has some of its loyal corporate customers wondering if the Nook might become a Windows 8 tablet that could bridge the gap between consumers and corporate IT departments. Many chief technology officers have been eagerly...
Shares of Barnes and Noble (BKS) skyrocketed today on news that Microsoft (MSFT) will invest $300 million in a new subsidiary Barnes and Noble is forming to market and distribute its Nook tablet. Microsoft will also develop software for the Nook, even though it...
A California judge has ordered Samsung and Apple to send their CEOs and top lawyers to settlement talks next month. Tim Cook and Choi Gee-sung will meet May 21 and 22 in the San Francisco court of Judge Joseph Spero, a judge who is...
At times, it appears as though wireless industry giants such as Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA can do just about anything they want. Especially in the U.S. the size and reach of the largest operators enable them to operate with...
Samsung's Galaxy may now outshine even Apple in the smartphone market, and analysts say the Korean giant has surpassed Nokia as the world's leading handset vendor. Samsung does not report the number of phones shipped each quarter, but 93 million is the estimate from...
Brazilian workers in the city of Jundiaí have threatened to go on strike against Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn beginning May 3 if the company does not fix problems related to water, food, and transportation. Local newspaper Jornal de Jundiaí first reported the situation on April 25.
Evandro Santos, director at...
Boosted by the growth of smartphone use, mobile banking is on track to become as common as Internet banking in Brazil during the next five to seven years, industry analysts say. From 2010 to 2011, current mobile banking accounts grew by 49% to reach...
Apple (AAPL) put a shine on the US stock market Wednesday, rising 9% and regaining most of the ground lost earlier this month. Fears that the engine of the mobile revolution might be slowing down were quickly put to rest yesterday when Apple once...
If up to this year companies only investigated enterprise mobile solutions, 2012 might prove to be a milestone year for companies to finally include them in their IT strategy, Paulo Camara, mobility services manager at Ci&T, said in an exclusive interview.
“We are facing a...
