Yep, that’s if Sharp, NTT DoCoMo, and Nissan have anything to do with it! Sharp and DoCoMo have apparently developed a Mobile phone that also works as an electronic key for Nissan cars. It incorporates Nissan’s “intelligent key system”, which is standard on some existing cars – something like 950,000 of them since 2002. We’ve…
New liquid lens technology uses sound and water for smaller cameraphones
Sure, pixel count and optical quality are key to determining a cameraphone’s worth. But, not much consideration is given to the size of the camera module in today’s high-end cameraphones. Smaller camera lenses make for smaller camera modules – in turn making for smaller, slimmer, and more power-efficient cameraphones. Different research teams are looking into…
Apple on track to move 5 million iPhones in Q4 2008
The latest estimates are in, and they have Apple shipping something like 5 million iPhone 3G units for fiscal Q4 which ends on September 30. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster has raised his previous iPhone 3G sales estimates from 4.1 million by the end of September to a more optimistic 5 million units by the end…
China: CDMA handset sales to top 80 million units a year by 2012
According to CCID Consulting, CDMA handset sales in China are expected to reach 60 million in 2010 and further expand to 80 million units in 2012. At the same time, the number of CDMA subscribers is likely to top 167 million in 2012, representing a four-fold increase from the numbers at present. Companies that will…
Juniper Research: User generated content revenues to reach $7.3 billion by 2013
According to the Juniper Research’s report titled “Mobile User Generated Content: Dating, Social Networking & Personal Content Delivery 2008-2013 (Second Edition),” ad-funded social networks will provide the bulk of revenues in the mobile user-generated content (UGC) space by 2013. The report says that the total value of the market — which includes social networking, dating…
Study: 20% US homes to shun wireline phones by 2009
In an increasingly more connected and wireless world, it just doesn’t make sense to pay for wireline service. Free weekend and night minutes, free mobile to mobile calling (albeit within the same network), and relatively cheap wireless minutes are making landline telephones increasingly less essential to the average household. The numbers back up that notion.…
Utah Most Tech Savvy State
Really? When I read this I was a little shocked! But maybe I shouldn’t have been. The state was chosen based on a survey of state CIOs and senior execs from across the US. It was conducted by the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory group. The survey has been around for…
Juniper Research: 700 million users to have NFC-enabled phones within 5 years
Juniper Research’s new analysis of the NFC mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 700 million mobile subscribers globally will have NFC-enabled phones by 2013 that will enable them to make low value purchases using nothing but their mobile phones. In its report titled “Mobile Payment Markets: Contactless NFC 2008-2013,” Juniper found that there is a significant…
JupiterResearch: Mobile social networks could be the next killer app for mobile
JupiterResearch has found that social networks hold the potential to be a killer application for mobile phones. According to a new report titled “Mobile Social Networking: Assessing Social Strategies for Carriers and Handset Manufacturers,” mobile phones primarily play a disconnected role from social networks today. However, despite relatively low adoption of mobile social networking activities,…
Compass Intelligence: U.S. businesses will spend $11.6 billion on mobile apps by 2012
A new research from Compass Intelligence argues that businesses in the U.S. will spend roughly $11.6 billion on mobile applications by 2012. This year alone, U.S. businesses are expected to spend an estimated $4.9 billion on such mobile apps as productivity, contact management, GPS/navigation, email, security, file sharing, collaboration and others. Compass argues there are…