Adobe s Flash Lite is widely recognized as one of the most pervasive software platforms in the mobile market. It s fast penetrating the...

SIM cards, the tiny chips that authenticate the subscriber to the network, are a market of 2 billion unit sales per year. A market which...

Some things remain true: Markets always shift and the lord giveth and the lord taketh. In the mobile handset industry we have seen...

The mobile browser business has been dealt with a swift blow within the space of a week: Teleca announced that it halts investments into...

The mobile software industry is never short of challenges. Manufacturers and software vendors are constantly riddled with the question of...

Handset software is a fascinating topic in the mobile industry, albeit one that is often misunderstood. Application environments like...

If you were at 3GSM a couple of weeks ago, you would have noticed that the term ODP has become quite widely used. Unlike other...

One of the simplest and most brilliant ideas I ‘ve read in a while comes from Deloitte’s telecommunications predictions for 2007. This...

With voice ARPU steadily declining and data ARPU undercompensating, network operators should re-examine their data services strategies....

Conferences are becoming a booming business in the mobile industry. Besides the incumbent Informa Telecoms & Media, there at least 10...

If you haven’t been to the Carnival of the Mobilists before, you should give it a spin. Every week the Carnival is hosting a page-long...

Understanding users can’t buy content if they can’t find it, an increasing number of mobile operators and content providers are...

Mobile Linux is a fascinating topic. As an operating system for mobile handsets, Linux commands responses ranging across dismissal, FUD...

As an interaction designer working in the mobile space and as someone who follows Apple’s products with interest, the iPhone announcement...

Another idea for mobile phone retail stores is selling hardware features – imagine buying a phone and then adding an FM radio capability...

The jury is still out on whether convergence will continue and mobile phones become the ultimate in-pocket-Swiss-army-knife-machine. I...

Mobile phone retail shops are under-utilised today. They could be used to sell not only phones, but mobile data services as I argued...

Open source software has existed in mobile phones since Motorola’s Linux-based A760 was launched in early 2003. Open source has come a...

Motorola’s acquisition of TTPCom in June bought the OEM ownership of the AJAR operating system for low-end handsets. In a corporate...

Qualcomm has been struggling to sell BREW handsets outside CDMA markets for some time now. Its first breakthrough came with operator O2’s...