mobile market
Apple nabs crown as current top US mobile phone vendor
arstechnica.com
For the first time since Apple entered the mobile phone market in 2007, it has been ranked the top mobile phone vendor in the US. For the latter quarter of 2012, sales of its iPhone accounted for 34 percent of all mobile phone sales—including feature phones—in the US according...
LG Plus becomes first of Korea's three operators to face customer sign-up freeze over illegal subsidies
thenextweb.com
South Korea’s three mobile operators were hit by a cumulative $40.1 million dollar fine for illegal mobile subsidies last month, and now the country’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has begun its second course of action, suspending the carriers from signing up new customers for fixed periods. LG Plus is the first...
LG Plus becomes first of Korea's three operators to face customer sign-up freeze over illegal subsidies
Heck Yes, Microsoft Absolutely Should Make Its Own Phone (MSFT, NOK)
www.businessinsider.com
Microsoft's attempts to crack the mobile market have thus far failed. The latest comScore data shows it is still losing marketshare in the U.S., even with critically acclaimed phones from Nokia. It's in fourth place, behind Research In Motion, and far behind Apple and Android who are running away with...
Mozilla chairman and CTO begrudgingly endorse h.264 video support
www.theverge.com
Following an impassioned discussion last week on a Mozilla developers forum, the organization's CTO Brendan Eich and chairman Mitchell Baker have thrown their support behind allowing the popular H.264 codec to be accessed by some of its browsers. In two separate blog posts, the Mozilla executives begrudgingly admitted that...
You Wanna Know How You Survive? You Get Sponsors.
pandodaily.com
I sound like a broken record at this point, what with my proclamations of advertising clinging to the life-preserver that is the mobile market. But I’ll say it again: Advertising, as it currently stands, is not going to continue to work. It’s not only inefficient and annoying for the viewers...
HTC, Where Innovation Is Bought (And That’s A Good Thing)
techcrunch.com
HTC’s is the Cinderella story of the mobile market — they’ve gone from low-key provider of Windows Mobile hardware to Android-powered smartphone titan within the span of just a few years. Impressive as that is, HTC has done much more than just push out smartphones. In the past year alone,...
Opera to add more ‘feature’ to Samsung feature phones with new browser deal
thenextweb.com
Opera Software will soon receive a significant usage boost of its Opera Mini browser after it announced that it has partnered with Korean smartphone giant Samsung to preload the software on a number of its feature phone devices. Opera Mini will be available on Star3, Star 3 Duos, Champ Deluxe and...
50% of Advertising Will Be Digital, Says Google Exec
thenextweb.com
It’s a bold claim, but if we look at the how and why it makes a lot of sense. Nikesh Arora, Google’s president of global sales says that he expects up to 50% of all advertising, within the next 5-8 years, will be digital. The paradigm shift toward purchasing online...
Google's Venture Arm Wants Its Hand in More Mobile Deals
allthingsd.com
Venture capitalist Rich Miner knows a thing or two about the mobile market. Though he focuses on making investments for Google Ventures these days, Miner’s prior role was working with Andy Rubin to create a little start-up called Android. In his early days, Miner consciously tried to focus on areas...
The Kindle deal will help Bing, but Windows 8 is its real chariot to mobile market share
thenextweb.com
There’s an interesting piece out today in Business Insider (BI), highlighting a new deal that Microsoft appears to have landed with Amazon, entitled “BIG WIN FOR MICROSOFT: Bing Is The Default Search Engine On The Kindle Fire HD.” As you know from our previous coverage, the Kindle Fire HD is a new device out...
Podcast: Q&A, Google Voice on Windows Phone? Chromebook on iMac? AirPlay v. Bluetooth?
gigaom.com
With the mobile market becoming a central part of everyone’s lives, it should make things simple, right? Not so fast: All this mobile tech can be equally as confusing with different platforms, networks, devices and more. That’s the idea behind our newest GigaOm podcast. You can call in or tweet...
Motorola's Opportunity: Droid Razr M vs. iPhone 5
www.readwriteweb.com
Apple is expected to announce the newest iteration of the iPhone on Wednesday. It will likely - and finally - have a bigger screen along with 4G LTE, better central and graphics processors, and Apple's vaunted Retina display. The problem for Apple? Manufacturers like Motorola are beating it to the...
Global smartphones in use pass 1bn, but next billion could come by 2015: Report
thenextweb.com
The number of smartphones in use worldwide has passed the 1 billion mark for the first time, according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics, which estimates the landmark was surpassed during the third quarter of 2012. Strategy Analytics believes that there were 708 million smartphones one year ago, during the third...
Here's AT&T's plan to grow now that everyone has a mobile phone
gigaom.com
AT&T reported middling financial results for the third quarter with revenue of $31.5 billion leading to net income of $3.63 billion. Those sales are essentially flat from the same quarter a year before as is income. But behind those numbers is a shift occurring as AT&T’s big bet on wireless...
Intel agrees to purchase 1,700 patents from Interdigital
www.electronista.com
Intel has agreed to buy 1,700 mobile patents from InterDigital. The $375 million cash deal sees patents for Wi-Fi, 3G, and LTE technologies head to the processor giant, which is expected to expand its push into the mobile market. The patent sale comes six months after InterDigital decided against selling...
Intel Announces CEO Paul Otellini Will Retire In May, Mobile Weakness Could Be A Factor
techcrunch.com
Intel today announced that CEO Paul Otellini will retire in May. In a press release, the company said that Otellini will take his leave at the company’s annual stockholder meeting in May, with the stated intent of easing the management transition during the next 6 months. Otellini has been CEO...
Three reasons to root for RIM
bgr.com
I have expressed skepticism that RIM (RIMM) will really be able to pull off an epic comeback and reestablish BlackBerry as a legitimate contender with the iPhone and the barrage of Android smartphones that get released every year. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want it to happen. Quite the...
CSR Racing is earning more than $12M a month on iOS, says NaturalMotion
www.insidemobileapps.com
NaturalMotion Games reports its hyper-popular free-to-play game CSR Racing is earning more than $12 million a month on iOS. The staggering number, which translates to in-app sales of more than $400,000 a day, is a new high water mark for just how much money a game can earn on Apple’s...
The new business model: Competing with partners!
www.computerworld.com
Whether you blame Google, Microsoft or Apple, the old way of doing business in the mobile market is falling away. Mike Elgan explains why that's not necessarily bad....
ComScore: Samsung Widens Lead As Top Mobile Brand In U.S., Android 51% Of All Smartphones
techcrunch.com
Samsung doesn’t break out actual unit sales figures for its mobile handset business, but many analyst houses are estimating that it is the brand to beat anyway. The latest tip comes from ComScore, which today released the results of its regular poll of 30,000 U.S. consumers to gauge the state...
T-Mobile CMO would like to abolish phone subsidies, but won't actually do it
www.theverge.com
T-Mobile's chief marketing officer Cole Brodman said he wants to get rid of device subsidies, though he has no intention of actually doing so. The executive made the comments during a panel at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle this week when asked how he'd improve the mobile market. I...
Docomo and Baidu complete investment in mobile content platform, DeNA benefits
www.insidemobileapps.com
Japanese mobile phone operator Docomo announced today it has completed its investment in Baidu Yi Xin Network Technology, its joint venture with Chinese search engine Baidu. Originally spotted by TechCrunch, Docomo’s $22.5 million investment gives it a 20 percent ownership stake in the new mobile content distribution platform. According to...
Reports: FTC investigates Google over Motorola patents
www.computerworld.com
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's Motorola Mobility unit to determine whether it is stifling innovation in the mobile market by refusing to license certain patents to its competitors, according to published reports....
The mobile market isn't saturated yet: Over half of the world is unconnected
gigaom.com
The days of easy mobile growth are gone in the developed world, and those who want a smartphone have one — or 1.57 mobile connections according to recent research. That’s why the theme of third-quarter wireless industry financial results calls in the U.S. have focused on how carriers will grow...
RIM, Windows Continue To Lose Mobile Market Share -- comScore
marketingland.com
Today comScore reported August US mobile market share data. Consistent with the pattern of the last several months, Samsung continued to be the leading hardware maker, although Apple and HTC were the only OEMs to see growth since May. Among smartphone operating systems, iPhone and Android have... Please visit Marketing...
More Industry Bloodletting: Nokia To Cut 10,000 Jobs Over Next 18 Months
www.readwriteweb.com
The mobile space will see a shakeout of sorts over the next 18 months. Nokia, the Finland-based maker of mobile phones, announced Wednesday that it will cut 10,000 jobs from its worldwide workforce through the end of 2013, as it attempts to regain its once-dominant place in a market increasingly...
Samsung Plans Multiple Tizen Smartphones for 2013
allthingsd.com
Samsung’s intentions for Tizen, the Linux-based mobile platform it’s developing with Intel, grow clearer by the day. Earlier this week, we learned that NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest wireless carrier, has quietly signed on to help bring a Tizen handset to market. Now comes news that the device will be one...
Apple's Public Relations Department Opening Up Under Tim Cook
www.macrumors.com
For years, Apple Public Relations has issued press releases for major product announcements, handed out exclusives and loaner units to a few select reporters and columnists, and occasionally signed off on an interview with one of the senior executives when it suited their marketing message. That strategy gave the company...
Chinese mobile subscribers grew to 987.58 million in January
www.theverge.com
China is already the biggest mobile market in the world, and it's only getting bigger, as the country's three state-owned telecom companies revealed a 1.2 percent increase in subscribers in January. In total China's mobile subscriber base grew to 987.58 million in January, though only a small percentage of...
Crossbar Raises $20M For Memory Storage And Possible Successor To Flash
techcrunch.com
Crossbar has raised $20.5 million from undisclosed investors for its memory storage technology that could be a possible successor to flash. According to a Form D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Crossbar has an intent to raise $21 million. Crossbar has previous investments from Correlation Ventures, with additional...
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