http://mobileinternetreporter.com Where Content Meets the Mobile Internet Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:37:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Frost & Sullivan has put out a new report forecasting that wireless data usage in the North American market would go up although the mobile communications market in the region is close to saturation. While mobile data revenues are projected to increase as more consumers own 3G-capable devices, voice will continue ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/06/27/wireless-data-usage-will-surge-in-north-america/ Mobile phones based on Google's Android software platform have been delayed because of the difficulties involved in integrating different hardware, software and service issues, according to the Wall Street Journal. Android phones that were due by the second half of 2008 are unlikely to appear until the fourth quarter and ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/06/27/android-handsets-delayed/ Greater 2.5G/3G penetration and demand for Web 2.0 applications will boost subscribers using mobile Internet services to more than 1.7 billion by 2013 from 577 million currently, according to a new Juniper Research study. China and the Far East are projected to be the largest market for the mobile Web ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/06/27/mobile-web-users-set-to-soar-2/ - Price Cut to $199 for 8GB Model - Twice as Fast 3G iPhone at Half the Price - SDK Downloads Top 250,000 - Debuts MobileMe - 'Exchange for the rest of us'   About 12 months after the iPhone hit the market to a gushing chorus of "oohs and aahs," Apple marked the first ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/06/17/apple-takes-iphone-to-next-level/ Just in case you are a fan of Microsoft's Zune media player, don't hold your breath for a Zune phone. Microsoft's president of Entertainment & Devices division Robbie Bach made it clear the other day that the software giant had no plans for a Zune phone. Here's what Bach told ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/06/13/microsoft-no-plans-for-a-zune-phone/ Apple's iPhone is not the only smartphone making news these days although it may seem that way. Palm expects to sell two million units of its Centro smartphone in 2008. Palm's senior VP of marketing Brodie Keast told Reuters the company had shipped one million units of Centro through the ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/06/13/palm-to-sell-2m-centros-in-2008/ Consolidation in the mobile phone business continues with France Telecom's announcement this week that it has begun negotiating to acquire TeliaSonera, Sweden's incumbent telco, by offering some $42 billion in cash and shares, 39% more than TeliaSonera's share price on April 15. TeliaSonera said its board of directors had rejected ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/06/10/france-telecom-makes-42b-offer-for-teliasonera/ Verizon Wireless has agreed to buy Alltel in a deal valued at $28.1 billion. If the deal is consummated, Verizon Wireless would surpass AT&T and become the US's largest wireless carrier. http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/06/10/verizon-wireless-agrees-to-buy-alltel-for-281b/ - Cox and Cablevision Have Their Own Wireless Plans, the Latter Reviving Wi-Fi Mesh - Charter and Mediacom Leaning towards Joining Clearwire Group The following analysis is excerpted from a Wireless Watch report. To get a free copy of the complete report, please e-mail paperboy@riderresearch.com with your name and the name ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/05/17/the-cablecos-various-sundry-wireless-plans/  - Wi-Fi, Not WiMAX Cablevision will spend over $300 million to build a network of Wi-Fi hot spots primarily across its footprint on Long Island, NY but also in others parts of the New York City market. The service will be free to Cablevision customers. The company has already begun ... http://mobileinternetreporter.com/2008/05/17/cablevision-goes-wireless/