Health and fitness emerged as the newest major platforms in the mobile industry during the second quarter of 2014. The flurry of activity illustrates how quickly the mobile-health industry is maturing… Read more »
Comcast is aggressively building out a network of Wi-Fi hotspots in a move that may eventually threaten established cellular carriers. The strategy could spur further consolidation and may have an impact… Read more »
Dish Network is reportedly considering making a bid for T-Mobile in a move that could result in a bidding war against Sprint. While federal regulators might be inclined to put the… Read more »
The mobile industry saw some important consolidation unfold in the second quarter as the lesser tier-one carriers made some strong alliances: Sprint agreed to be acquired by Japan’s SoftBank and began… Read more »
Spain’s Telefonica this week became the first carrier to launch handsets running Mozilla’s Firefox OS. Even if it fails to gain any real market share, the HTML5-based platform will influence how… Read more »
Roughly half a dozen new mobile operating systems will come to market over the next 6 to 12 months. Many of these look to be more sophisticated than the older ones… Read more »
The mobile platform wars escalated once again in the first quarter of 2012 as BlackBerry finally took the wraps off its much-anticipated new operating system. Meanwhile Android continued to build on… Read more »
Increasing competition in the U.S. has reportedly prompted AT&T to consider expanding its business to Western Europe via acquisition. The move would be a big gamble for the major U.S. carrier,… Read more »
Apple stole the spotlight in the third quarter with a fascinating series of both positive and negative headlines. Its iPhone 5 was met with record sales that were nonetheless stymied by… Read more »
Shares of MetroPCS shot up after Deutsche Telekom confirmed it is in talks to combine the prepaid carrier with T-Mobile USA. The two carriers are a good fit for several reasons,… Read more »