Sony Ericsson

Ericsson AB (ERIC) reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, which lifted profits to $554 million, up 360% from a year ago.Sales were basically flat, however, bringing the company’s year-over-year revenue down by 2.7% to $7.12 billion.“Group sales in the …

Editor’s Note: KDDI’s Dr. Hideo Okinaka, VP and general manager of Japanese operator KDDI Corp., spoke about the operator’s perspective on deploying various technologies across its networks, during a keynote address at 4G World in Chicago, and during a worldwide …

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’s very clear that Google Inc.’s Android operating platform is gaining …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd. has no plans to develop devices for the Symbian operating system. Instead, the device maker appears intent on pushing forward with the Android OS.Sony Ericsson is no new fan to Google Inc.’s OS of choice, …

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.Greetings from Kansas City, where the summer is wrapping up and the Chiefs …

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. It almost goes without saying, but our communications world has changed a …

Just months after Qualcomm Inc.’s (QCOM) Snapdragon processor began shipping in smart phones with a clocked speed of 1 GHz, the company is making plans to ship a new CPU core running at 1.5GHz in a matter of months.According to …

Mobile device sales surged to 325.8 million units worldwide during the second quarter, a 13.8% year-over-year increase, according to a report from Gartner Inc. The report noted that smart phones accounted for 19% of sales worldwide to end users, a …

It’s been nearly a decade since Sony Corp. (SNE) and LM Ericsson (ERIC) formed a joint venture to combine their strengths in the mobile device market, but Sony has so far left its gaming background off the table.Apparently that’s about …

There’s no argument about the feverish pace of smart phone and handset sales of late, but it’s always good to have some fresh hard numbers from Strategy Analytics to back it up.Smart phone shipments jumped 43% year-over-year to 60 million …

North America continues to fuel L.M. Ericsson’s (ERIC) financial results, accounting for 27% of the company’s second-quarter revenues. Q2 sales in North America jumped a whopping 128% year over year, while Ericsson reported fewer sales in every other geographic sector. …

FiberLight L.L.C., which provides fiber optic network solutions, said it completed a private debt offering of $22 million with CoBank. The deal includes a $20 million note and a $2 million increase in its revolving credit line. The company said …

BARCELONA, Spain – The world’s handset makers pulled out all the stops this year in their attempts to grab attention and generate interest in their products. At this year’s Mobile World Congress trade show, Nokia Corp., LG Electronics Co. Ltd., …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. eked out a slim lead in market share over Motorola Inc. in the United States last year, in part due to the latter’s fading fortunes, according to new numbers from IDC.Where Samsung showed 15.5% year-on-year growth …

The short-term forecast for the handset market calls for pain and belt-tightening, no matter which market analysis you favor. And those analyses range from pretty harsh to very harsh. “We expect the first quarter of 2009 to be the absolute …

LG Electronics Co. said today that its handset shipments grew year-on-year and sequentially on a day when market leader Nokia Corp. acknowledged declines in both metrics.The Korean vendor credited new models launched in Europe and “timely pricing strategies” for its …

Zeemote Inc., which offers a remote control for mobile gaming, tapped a new CEO and expanded its front office with two additional hires.Former Virgin Media executive Ernie Cormier will take over the reigns from co-founder Beth Marcus, who will serve …

A handful of forces appear to be shaping a year to come that is likely to include numerous device launches featuring the fledgling Android operating system. Whether that will spell success for the license-free, Linux-based, open source OS is far …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications lost a quarter of a billion dollars in the fourth quarter as sales were down 23% year-on-year. SEMC shipped 24.2 million devices in the fourth quarter, down 21% year-on-year, and down 6% sequentially. The vendor shipped …

In about two weeks, when the world’s leading handset vendors deliver their earnings statements for fourth-quarter 2008, analysts will be expecting not just numbers but some critical commentary to understand how the world may have changed. With mobile phones and …

Just in time to miss the annual retail orgy, the aptly named Phenom Communications Inc. has launched the latest cellphone-and-everything-else-on-your-wristwatch gadget. “The Most Innovative Gadget in the World” (Phenom’s words) can be yours for only $295!The name of the SpecialOPS …