The results from the fourth quarter of 2009 are in, and weve gone over the available numbers for prepaid carriers. They didnt seem absurdly high, and in fact a few carriers missed their estimates. Even so, prepaid adds accounted for 65 percent of net new adds industry-wide in the fourth quarter, according to IDC. Then again, with Sprint losing customers and T-Mobile adding more prepaid subscribers...

In a segment that BNN calls BlackBerry for Babies, Zeebu Mobiles Dan Gagliardi talks about their product BabyGo, and its success in App World. While the product is available for iPhone, it was interesting to see the focus remain on BlackBerry. According to IDC Canada, Zeebu Mobile Inc. is one of the top 10 software companies to watch. Watch Zeebu Mobile on Business News Network. Check out Zeebus f...

It has become painfully clear that smartphones are where the growth is in the handset market. Evidence of this is seemingly everywhere: IDC reports the converged mobile device market (translation: smartphones) grew nearly 30 percent year over year in 2009, and will continue to gain momentum this year. Qualcomm's CEO Paul Jacobs sees the smartphone market splitting into a high-end segment and ...

Companies in today's briefs include: Cricket Communications, Samsung, ABI Research, Mu Dynamics, IDC, MasterCard, Globecomm Systems, Venturi Wireless, Inmarsat.

This IDC white paper, commissioned by Flexera Software, provides a summary of the capabilities that constitute a licensing and entitlement management approach, or what IDC calls software product life-cycle management

Earlier this month, research firm IDC released sales figures for 2009 showing Apple holding 14.4% of the smartphone market for the year on nearly 82% sales growth over 2008, with the company grabbing third place among smartphone vendors behind Nokia ...

The eyes of the tech world were firmly on Barcelona during Mobile World Congress. Europe and Android were center-stage, surprising since the two subjects dont seem to get along at the moment. Several weeks ago, IDC released a report suggesting that Europeans shy away from Android or dont have any clue about the OS. I immediately

Earlier this month, research firm IDC released sales figures for 2009 showing Apple holding 14.4% of the smartphone market for the year on nearly 82% sales growth over 2008, with the company grabbing third place among smartphone vendors behind Nokia ...

The world's mobile worker population will pass the one billion mark this year and grow to nearly 1.2 billion people - more than a third of the world's workforce - by 2013, according to IDC, the most significant gains will be in the emerging economies of Asia Pacific, where a strong economic recovery and new interest in unified communications will drive healthy growth in all aspects of mobility... ...

Research firm IDC predicts that some 1.2 billion workers will be using enterprise mobility tools by 2011, a number that represents about one third of the total workforce worldwide. The firm forecasts that the U.S. market will continue to lead in terms of the number of mobile workers. It predicts 75.5 percent of workers will be mobile by 2011. The European market is predicted to grow much slower, u...