Apple’s iPhone production is ramping up to levels that suggest it’s “increasingly becoming carrier-agnostic” and could mean we’ll see a Verizon iPhone sooner than expected, according to one analyst. If such a deal is inked by year’s end, he sees quarterly sales rising to 17 million. Read More »
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Google is adding a new User Experience Director for Android and it’s none other than Matias Duarte, the designer behind Palm’s beautiful webOS interface. But this isn’t the first time Duarte has worked with Andy Rubin — before Google, these two collaborated on the Danger Sidekick. Read More »
Are you enjoying an all-you-can eat 3G data plan on Verizon Wireless? The buffet is over when Verizon’s 4G LTE network arrives later this year. At that point, the menu will change to one of tiered pricing, shifting the usage forecasting burden to consumers. Read More »
Mobile payments are an incredibly promising phenomenon, so much so that the top venture capital firms are lining up against each other for a fight. Now, the teams are basically complete, with newcomer VC firm Andreessen Horowitz taking its spot next to San Francisco-based Boku. Read More »
Operators are increasingly looking to machine-to-machine services to help offset a saturated handset market and data congestion on their networks. But the new world of M2M will require the emergence of new partnerships and business models. Read More »
In October 2009, Mozilla’s outgoing CEO John Lilly told me that Mozilla would soon release an app that gave iPhone users access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and set of tabs from their most recent browser session. Now Firefox Home-app is all-set to launch. Read More »
Sony’s news today that it has developed a thin, OLED display flexible enough to roll around a pencil (or any other 4 mm object) got me thinking about screens. The screen is quite literally your window to the web, so what features do they need? Read More »
The FCC, as part of its effort to boost competition by lowering the cost of switching providers, today released a survey showing that early termination fees influence consumer behavior and how unexpectedly higher phone bills hurt consumers, especially younger phone users. Read More »
T-Mobile USA President and CEO Robert Dotson will leave as of May 2011 to be replaced by Philipp Humm who was the former CEO of T-Mobile Deutschland. But Humm will have to address T-Mobile’s falling prepaid subscribers and fight for growth in a saturated market. Read More »
Mobile computer sales in the first quarter of 2010 grew 43 percent over the same quarter in 2009, but two of the top five vendors enjoyed even higher growth rates. It’s no coincidence that these were also the first two that jumped into the netbook market. Read More »
The T-Mobile HSPA+ network expansion continues as three more areas of the U.S. can take advantage of the faster 3G speeds. Or are they “4G speeds” as T-Mobile is now claiming? My previous hands-on experience with both HSPA+ and WiMAX can answer that question. Read More »
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