The tablet market will explode over the next five years with retail revenue increasing from US $34.5 billion in 2011 to US $121.5 billion in 2016, according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media. According to another survey called Retail Embraces Tablets...
Samsung Electronics was neck-and-neck with Apple in the fourth quarter race for first place in the white-hot smartphone market. Estimates based on Samsung's fourth quarter earnings report put the company's smartphone sales at 36.1 million, just below Apple's 37 million reported earlier this week....
The world's largest mobile phone maker put an end today to weeks of speculation today about sales of its Lumia smartphones, and what those sales would mean to its financial results. Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) lost $1.4 billion during the fourth quarter, and the...
Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn Technology Co. Ltd., which manufactures the Apple iPad, has received federal tax benefits for producing tablets in Brazil. The manufacturer was given reduced import tax rate for tablet components.
The determination, the country's official gazette reported Wednesday, provides for exemption or reduction...
Citing intense competition, unfavorable macroeconomic conditions and the effects of a natural disaster in Thailand, the president and CEO of Sony Ericsson Bert Nordberg justified the company's lower revenue for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011. Sales were down 16%...
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 net income during the...
Forget about the Colombia you may know from the 1990s. The current scenario is different and much more business friendly than in the past. The government’s plan to boost telecommunications in the country is set to increase competition among operators and expedite the deployment...
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 million units.
Apple's appetite for chips is shaking up the semiconductor industry. Research giant Gartner, Inc. says Apple is now spending more on chips than any other company, surpassing rivals Samsung and Hewlett Packard as the number one chip buyer for 2011. Gartner says Apple spent...
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 what we expected," Carlo...
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, totalizing 18.6 million new devices, according...
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 Kindle Fire were hot...
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.
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 was an incredible move,...
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 growth of every successful company...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we...
Shares of Chinese handset maker ZTE Corporation (0763.HK) rebounded a bit today after plunging Thursday on concerns about the company's lawsuit with Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and worries about its 2011 results, which have yet to be announced. Ericsson shares were flat after it released...
Desktop or laptop users are a bit more likely than tablet users to make a purchase from a retailer's website, but those tablet users who do buy something are big spenders. Adobe Systems(NASDAQ: ADBE) analyzed 16.2 billion anonymous visits to the websites of more...
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association reported that there are now 269 LTE-enabled user devices, manufactured by 57 companies in the market. This is a six-fold jump in six months and is a 36% increase in the number of devices identified compared with last October....
The positive buzz about Nokia's Lumia 900 is sounding very sweet to Qualcomm, maker of the 1.4-GHz Snapdragon APQ8055 chipset that powers the smartphone. After several years with no business from the world's largest mobile phone maker, Qualcomm appears to have repaired its relationship...
Audience, a maker of sound processing chips used in Apple's iPhone, hopes to find a big audience on Wall Street. The company has filed for an initial public offering to be led by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Credit Suisse Group AG and Deutsche Bank...
Near field communication (NFC) is on its way to getting launched in Brazil and could become a reality at the end of this year, told RCR Wireless News Mustafa Almansur, NFC programme leader for the Brazilian market at GSMA, a global association whose members represent more than...
India and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement for establishing a mechanism of technical and institutional cooperation in the field of telecommunications, with the purpose of development of telecommunications in both the countries.
