On 16th October, 2008, Fonearena was represented by Ritu at the ITC Grand Central, Mumbai where a demo of the Windows Mobile 6.0 on the Samsung Omnia was given to three mobile phone enthusiasts (Ankit Saxena and Rupesh from the WATblog were co-invitees). Microsoft was represented by Sumeet Gugnani, Director – Mobile Communications Business, who also ...

A number of sites are picking up on the recent announcement that Microsoft sold 18 million Windows Mobile licences in the last fiscal year, 2 million short of it's stated 20 million target.As reported here at SeattlePI, the shortfall is largely attributed to anticipated devices coming to market later than expected, according to recently installed Senrio VP for the Mobile Communications business An

LG Electronics reported second-quarter revenues from its mobile communications business of KRW 3.85 trillion, up 34.3 percent from a year earlier. Handset sales rose 38.6 percent to KRW 3.75 trillion. The handset operating margin improved to 14.4 percent thanks to growth in high-end models and improvements in operational efficiency. The Korean company shipped in total 27.7 million phones during th

Microsoft has added another firm to its mobile arsenal, announcing this week that it's buying MobiComp, a Portuguese mobile content sharing and back up company. There's no word on the terms or the price of the acquisition, but Microsoft did say the company will now fit into Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business. Microsoft could well be planning

Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business Senior Vice President, Andy Lees, has written a letter to all Windows Mobile Partners, thanking them for helping to make Windows Mobile such a successful product. Today, more and more competitors are jumping into the smartphone market or announcing upgrades, with features we delivered to customers years ago. Overall, we all benefit from the increased atte

Microsoft has finally completed its buy of smartphone software maker Danger. Now part of the Redmond fold, Danger will be part of the Premium Mobile Experiences team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. Apparently, according to Microsoft, acquiring Danger will let it “deliver cool, new, fun

Microsoft's just announced that its $500M buyout of Sidekick maker Danger is complete, and that it's rolling the new team into its own unit, the Premium Mobile Experiences division. Ready to follow the chain of corporate command? PMX is under the Mobile Communications Business unit at MS, which itself falls under the Entertainment and Devices Division responsible for the Xbox and Zune. Got all tha

Microsoft recently hired Len Kawell as a ?Distinguished Engineer in the Mobile Communications Business Group." His job involves: "Scaling Windows Mobile to new kinds of kinds of devices with larger screens and faster processors - also known as Mobile Internet Devices, or MIDs." Could this be Microsoft admitting that the very thought of sticking Vista on a

Can it really be true? Cats are apparently lying down with dogs these days, with Microsoft apparently revealing that it's in talks with Nokia over Windows Mobile. From Sky News: "There are a lot of discussions happening with Nokia", Pieter Knook, senior vice president, Mobile Communications Business for Microsoft said to journalists at the company's press

So it looks like Pieter Knook, SVP of Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business, is out, according to the WSJ. We're not entirely sure why he's retiring (when we met him last year he seemed sprightly enough), but he'll be replaced by Andrew Lees, VP of Server & Tools Marketing and Solutions Group, a man that's spent the last decade on MSDN and TechNet stuff. So, you know, the guy clearly knows th