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Earnings: Palm Swings To Loss On 11 Percent Revenue Drop; Volume Disappoints Open link in new window
submitted 216 days ago by mocoNews (via moconews.net)
Troubled smartphone maker Palm (NSDQ: PALM) announced quarterly revenue of $349.6 million, down 11 percent from last year's $392.9 million. Losses came to $9.6 million ($.09 per share), a reversal from a $12.7 million ($.12 per share) profit in the year-ago quarter (Palm's Q2). Total smartphone sell-through came in at 686,000, which is a disappointment, as analysts had been looking for 750,000 or
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US Residential Mobile Phone Spending In 2007 Set To Surpass Landlines Open link in new window
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US residential spending on mobile phone service in 2007 should surpass the amount spent on landlines for the first time, the AP reports. Government figures say that US households spent an average of $524 on mobile bills in 2006, compared to $542 on landlines and pay phones, and market researchers say mobile spending should come out on top in 2007, thanks to people dropping their landlines and goin
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Mobile Still Seen As A Casual Gaming Platform: Report Open link in new window
submitted 216 days ago by mocoNews (via moconews.net)
Despite ever-advanced handsets and software, a new report says consumers still perceive mobile phones as casual gaming devices, reports Cellular-News. Parks Associates, the firm behind the report, says that even though 3D, multiplayer and other advances are established in the mobile market, most consumers aren't yet aware of them, which means casual games will continue to dominate sales. Less than
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Real CEO Glaser: Operators Should Follow Cable TV Model To Sell Content Open link in new window
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Mobile operators should follow the lead of cable TV operators by bundling content together and selling it in packages, says RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) CEO Rob Glaser in an interview. He argues that putting content in packages would deliver users more content at a lower price than today's a-la-carte pricing, and would generate more overall users of mobile data and content services. Glaser has little
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Vivendi In Talks To Buy Remaining Part Of French Carrier Neuf Cegetel Open link in new window
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Vivendi (EPA: VIV) is in talks to acquire the remaining part of French telecom provider Neuf Cegetel it doesn't own, according to a statement Neuf made to the Paris stock exchange. Vivendi's French mobile-phone unit, SFR (which is 44 percent owned by Vodafone), owns about 40.5 percent of Neuf, the country's second-biggest broadband provider; French trading group Louis Dreyfus is the other major sh
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Mobile Content Bits: Footy MVNO; Frengo; IM Ads; Skype; Helio Player; College Bowls Open link in new window
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-- Football MVNO for TMN: Portuguese mobile operator TMN and the Porto Football Club are launching a new prepaid MVNO, reports Telecom Paper. Aside from the usual voice calls and SMS, the new Dragao Mobile service offers exclusive club content to customers, according to Telecom Paper. Customers will also get 5 percent of the value of each top-up returned to their bank account for use on FC Porto p
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700 MHz Auction Applicants Revealed; Paul Allen Among Them Open link in new window
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The Federal Communications Commission released the names of 266 "short-form" applicants for the 700 MHz spectrum auction scheduled to start Jan. 24. (Pdfs of the lists here and here.) Among the names: Vulcan Spectrum LLC with Paul Allen, majority owner of Charter (NSDQ: CHTR) Communications; AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobility Spectrum LLC; Google; Advance/Newhouse Partnership; Cox Wireless; MetroPCS; Qualcom
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Dutch Operator KPN Finds Success In Germany With Cheap Calls, Not Content Open link in new window
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Dutch mobile operator KPN has found success in Germany with the cut-rate, no-frills, no subsidized handsets mobile plan it offers through Base, a brand it had imported from Belgium. Indeed, as Businessweek notes in its feature article on KPN, it's shaken up the Vodafone-T-Mobile "duopoly" in the country. While the two operators are duking it out trying to offer consumers more bells and whistles--w
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Android Full Of Bugs Open link in new window
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A "sizable number" of developers have complained that the Android tool kit is "plagued by coding errors" reports the Wall Street Journal, although the article only quotes two. "Functionality is not there, is poorly documented or just doesn't work. It's clearly not ready for prime time," said Adam MacBeth, who earlier this year helped found mobile software start-up MergeLab." As is pointed out, And
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China Forms $54 Million Fund To Promote Homegrown Mobile TV Standard Open link in new window
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Chinese regulators have established a 400 million yuan (US$54 million) fund to give the Chinese mobile TV technologies a bit of a push over the next three years, reports Variety, adding that the aim is to avoid paying royalties to foreign firms to use their technology. There's no mention of which particular technology is to be favored (if any) but the fund will administered by the State Administra
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