Well, maybe. Nomura International analyst, Richard Windsor, issued a note to clients that Motorola could be considering dumping their mobile phone business to concentrate on evolving into an “enterprise and government company.” Windsor also speculated that Chinese investors might buy-out the troubled handset manufacturing once-giant. However, this end-game is “unlikely as those [Chinese] vendors don’t…
Archives for January 2008
Juniper Research: North American mobile games revenues to reach $3 billion by 2012
According to the new report from Juniper Research titled “Mobile Games: Subscription & Download 2007-2012 (Fourth Edition)”, the North American market for mobile games is expected to rise from less than $800 million in 2007 to more than $3 billion by 2012. At present, around 18 million Americans download or rent mobile games at least…
Ma.gnolia goes mobile, finally
Fans of the Ma.gnolia web-based bookmarking service will be glad to know that they’ve finally launched the mobile version of their website. Now you’ll be able to access not only your bookmarks, but also your contacts and groups while on-the-go. The easy to use and so-not-demanding interface is also there — any web-enabled mobile phone…
Why does Japan have the ultimate form factor, yet Europe sticks to the classics?
When the Nokia N82 came out I heard a lot of people, N95 owners in particular, say that even though the shiny monoblock offers no significant new features, the sole fact that it is a candy bar was enough reason to pick it up. As someone who was given a Nokia N95 as a present,…
Video: ShakeSMS, a feature I want to see in every mobile device
Symbian Freak brings us a video demonstration of ShakeSMS, a new application that utilizes the accelerometer inside Nokia’s Nseries lineup to bring up your text messages in one easy motion. Scenario: You get an sms. Take your phone out of your pocket (remember it is still locked), shake it, it brings up the text message…
Nokia to purchase Trolltech for $150 million
Trolltech, a Norweign company that specializes in cross platform frameworks, is in talks to be bough out by Nokia for around $150 million. Nokia plans to use the newly acquired talent to reduce development cycles and redundancy. Take the contact list for example, currently the S40 and S60 guys have to write separate versions of…
MocoSpace cons VCs for $4 million more, $7 million total
Last year MocoSpace raised $3 million in VC funding for a mobile only social network. Recently they just received another $4 million. With over 2 million members generating over a billion pageviews a month my main beef with this company is that the experience is online only. While the big social networks have both a…
T-Mobile to get Palm Centro too?
File this under “sooo not confirmed,” but apparently T-Mobile is also standing in line alongside AT&T waiting for Sprint’s Palm Centro exclusivity to expire. How we know about it? Well it’s Palm’s CFO whose giggling (when asked about the prospects) we should thank for the information. That’s hardly an evidence you might argue, but what’s…
Sky Dayton goes from Helio’s CEO to Chairman
Sky Dayton is stepping down as a CEO of Helio only to become the company’s chairman. Helio’s current president and COO Wonhee Sull, a former executive at SK Telecom, will supersede Sky and will hopefully cut some costs along the way. In addition to cost cutting, the personnel change may also reflect SK Telecom’s intent…
ColorWare adds SideKick 3, LX to the mix
Usually known as the unofficial Apple products’ painters, ColorWare just added new products to the mix. Earlier we saw them doing their “thing” with latest BlackBerry devices, and this time it’s the SideKicks they want to customize. For about $129 you can personalize your SideKick 3 or LX with your own unique color scheme. SideKick…