Microsoft expects sales of its Windows Mobile platform products will account for 40% of the global smartphone market in fiscal 2012 (July 2011-June 2012), according to Eddie Wu, managing director of Microsoft ODM embedded devices, Asia, Daniel Shen and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“Microsoft currently focuses its efforts on promoting the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating [...]
The LiMo Foundation, Android’s chief competitor in the mobile open-source community, today announced eight new members, including Verizon Wireless, along with leading South Korean network operator SK Telecom and Mozilla Corp., parent of the Firefox Web browser.
Like Google’s Open Handset Alliance, which promotes the Android platform, LiMo is a global consortium of mobile communications firms [...]
Sweden has concluded their auction of 2.6 GHz spectrum by the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). Auctioning 190 MHz in the in the 2.6 GHz band raised a total of SEK 2.1 billion (USD 346 million).
Five companies won licenses. Intel Capital acquired one block of 50 MHz TDD spectrum for USD 26.2 million. [...]
MySpace has embraced data portability, and partnered With Yahoo, Ebay and Twitter, says TechCrunch. MySpace is announcing data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships in a project called MySpace “Data Availability”.
The key goal is to allow users to maintain key personal data at sites like MySpace and not have it be locked [...]
Advertising on mobile devices will exceed $1 billion this year and could increase to about $7.6 billion by 2013, according to a report from Juniper Research.
Streamed and broadcast TV services will become the most lucrative delivery channel for mobile advertising by 2010, said the research company.
Short message service campaigns account for the largest proportion [...]
India’s 12 wireless operators signed up a record 10.16 million new subscribers in March, bringing the total customer base to 261.09 million.
According to Unstrung, that made India the second largest wireless market in the world, overtaking the U.S. with its 258 million subscribers. China is by far the largest market, with a subscriber base of [...]
Opera Software today unveiled the first major third-party browser for Android, the Google-backed open mobile phone operating system.
The Olso, Norway-based firm has a “technical preview release” of its Opera Mini browser available at labs.opera.com for Android developers to give feedback on. This preview will precede a beta release of the browser later this year. [...]
Chetan Sharma Consulting has an End of Year 2007 Global Wireless Data Market survey.
They say the global service revenues for 2007 were $700 billion, with the data service revenues more than $120 billion. China signed its 500 millionth subscription, and both India (in Feb 08) and the US crossed the 250 million subscription mark. [...]
CTIA WIRELESS 2008, the $500 billion global wireless industry’s largest show opens today at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Running April 1-3, it brings together all industries affected by wireless technology with attendees from more than 125 countries and more than 1,200 exhibitors showcasing devices, infrastructure, entertainment and business applications.
Keynote speakers including mobile [...]
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier with over 376 million customers, announced that it will begin testing the country’s homegrown 3G standard — TD-SCDMA — next week. The carrier said it will issue 20,000 handsets and 5,000 data cards to select customers with free airtime. China Mobile will also offer an additional [...]
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