Archive for 'Mobile Broadband' Category
Nokia and Microsoft Get Closer with Silverlight Deal That Challenges Adobe
7 March 2008• Nokia Adds Second Microsoft Platform with Rich Content Tools to Series 60
• Former Enemies Become Frenemies in Effort to Sideline Google
London-based Wireless Watch reports on the latest move in software giant Microsoft and handset giant Nokia getting closer. To get the complete issue, please e-mail paperboy@riderresearch.com.
Nothing highlights how the mobile axes of […]
Once You Go Online, You Never Go Back
22 February 2008The Internet is the media that “online users” spend the most time looking at, about 32.7 hours a week, according to a new IDC study.
“Online users” are defined as people who have accessed the Internet in the last 30 days. Internet time accounts for a little under half of the total average time an online […]
A 3G iPhone and a Growing 3G Network for AT&T
22 February 2008The single biggest complaint about Apple’s iPhone seems to be the slow speed and uncertainty of the AT&T network that it uses.
AT&T and Apple have some sort of long term deal (exact terms were never announced) but they are pretty much married except for Wi-Fi and perhaps WiMAX. That made AT&T’s announcement last week that […]
What Google Learns about Mobile Search in Japan
22 February 2008Google says in the BusinessWeek article “Japan: Google’s Real-Life Lab” that it’s learning a lot about search on mobile devices in its operations in Japan where most all the country’s 100 million cell phone users, seemingly, use their handset to access the Net - and do that at speeds comparable to what most European and […]
Africa Mobile Internet: Where No Broadband Has Gone Before
1 February 2008Africa’s demand for Internet access is on the rise but the continent lacks major line-based infrastructure, leaving the door for mobile Internet to wide open.
Operators in Africa are expecting a 40% to 50% growth in mobile Internet demand between the 2006 numbers and 2009, according to research by Frost & Sullivan. As the switch from […]
Zodigo: Mobile Content Search Engine That Needs No Mobile Device to Use
1 February 2008Interactive TV software developer Zodiac Interactive has announced a new mobile content search engine, Zodigo, currently being shown off at the Demo 08 conference.
Zodigo is a software platform built for digital TVs, Blu-ray and HD-DVD players, gaming consoles, and Web sites like Zodigo.com. Yes, Zodiac is hoping that you will use your plasma TV or […]
Skyfire Brings PC Internet Experience to Mobiles – No WAPs or .Mobi Needed
1 February 2008Skyfire has unleashed a mobile browser that makes browsing on a smartphone feel like browsing on a PC.
Skyfire lets smartphone users have a “real Web” experience by utilizing and working with Flash, Ajax and other Web technologies. Skyfire is not used to access mobile-friendly sites and WAP sites, it is used to access the […]
AT&T, Yahoo Re-marry
1 February 2008AT&T says who needs Google’s search, Adsense or Android as long as there’s Yahoo. The two have extended their multi-year, multi-platform agreement that calls for AT&T to use Yahoo’s search and advertising on its mobile phones and broadband service. AT&T’s MyYahoo services will be made available to the BellSouth broadband subscribers it acquired. Once the […]
AT&T: Mobile Internet Usage Fees Up 58%
29 January 2008- 2m iPhones Activated
- Double Digit Growth in Broadband Subscribers and Revenue
- Added 10,000 U-verse Pay-TV Subscribers Per Week in December
AT&T, always early to report despite being the US’ largest traditional telco, issued its financials this week for 2007’s fourth quarter. Digital media highlights include:
- Added 396,000 broadband subscribers, increasing its subscriber base to over […]
SFR Chalks Up Mobile Internet Contracts
29 January 2008SFR, one of the largest mobile phone operators in France, said in two months it has signed up 250,000 subscribers with unlimited mobile Internet access contracts. This blows its target of 100,000 users out of the water. Rival company Orange had only sold about 70,000 Apple iPhones though it had forecast 100,000 sales. […]