It there’s one thing you can count on in the Canadian wireless market, it’s incredibly high wireless data costs. We should have known better than to get our hopes up on hearing speculation that Rogers and Fdio would be offering unlimited data plans with the iPhone 3G’s luanch in July. Rogers has announced their official…
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Virgin Mobile USA to acquire Helio in $39 million deal
Not completely unexpected, Virgin Mobile USA has today announced that it will indeed be taking over Helio. The MVNO joint-venture between SK Telecom and Earthlink has struggled to find even a modicum of success in a competitive and cut-throat US wireless market. And, it seems that Helio’s financial troubles have finally come to a head…
Nokia launches the 7210, 7310, 7510 and 7610 with a bang, say hello to the Supernova series
From most expensive to least expensive, here is what you need to know: The 7610 has the ability to capture a color with the camera and then apply that same, or roughly the same, color to the wallpaper and keypad of the device which I find totally freaking awesome and it reminds me of the…
Worldwide Mobile gaming revenue to hit $4.5bn this year
Well they are, according to Gartner at least! I am just going to pull some very brief highlights here: Mobile game revenues will reach $6.3 billion in 2011 North America will pull ahead of Western Europe over the next few years and be a larger market as Americans adopt more data services in general Asia…
Garmin and GyPsii sign multi-year agreement
Garmin has signed a multi year global agreement with GyPsii according to a statement from GyPsii. As we are aware, Garmin is known for it’s Sat Nav hardware, whereas GyPsii is a “geo-location and mobile social networking provider”. As per the agreement terms, GyPsii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, development licenses and…
EU legislation plans 70% cut in MTRs
Only yesterday did I report on the somewhat confusing statement from the European Commissioner regarding RPP (receiving party pays), but now we have more TLAs (three letter abbreviations) flying at us – now it’s MTRs, or Mobile Termination Rates… read on to see why although a 70% cut sounds good, it could actually mean things…
Blyk to enter 3 European Markets
Blyk has said that it is going to enter the German, Spanish, and Belgian markets next year. As we know, the network offers free calls and texts, to it’s 16-24 yr old demographic “members”, in return for accepting Ads. Strategy Analytics analyst Nitesh Patel said Blyk’s continued growth depended on demonstrating value to advertisers through…
Rumour Mill: Sony to go it alone, for the PSP phone…
Pocket-lint is reporting that Sony is considering to go it alone for production of the oft-rumoured “PSP Phone”. Previously we have seen patents, mock-ups, fakes, and suchlike – but no phone! Apparently the relationship between Sony and Sony-Ericsson has become somewhat frosty, over what sony considers the “strategic error” of giving SE it’s “Walkman” brand…
Cisco says Mobile data traffic could double annually up to 2012
No, not Simon says, but Cisco says… … and they are saying, that according to their Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast there are several IP networking trends we should expect – some highlights below: IP traffic will increase at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every…
LiMo Foundation and LiPS Forum combine to battle open-source competitors
As smaller competitors in an growing open-source mobile OS market, LiMo Foundation and LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) Forum members are in for a serious battle for open-source marketshare. With Nokia buying out Symbian to essentially seed the open-source Symbian mobile platform, and the OHA backing Google’s Android platform, there isn’t much hope for small-game. Oh,…