T-Mobile became the focal point of acquisition rumors, Android grew its massive market share, and Windows Phone overtook BlackBerry as the third-largest mobile operating system worldwide. Read more »
Three proposed acquisitions led the news in the third quarter of 2013. Meanwhile, Apple Inc. released two new iPhones and, just as importantly, gave the iOS 7 a major makeover. 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 »
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 »
The fundamental business model at the heart of the U.S. mobile industry is largely the same as it has been: Consumers pay for monthly buckets of voice minutes and data usage,… Read more »
But we also saw some new developments in recent months. Android tablets began to steal market share from Apple’s iOS, thanks largely to the success of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. And the… Read more »
The digital living room was also the scene of a lot of activity in the fourth quarter. Microsoft rolled out a major upgrade to its Xbox Live platform, adding dozens of… Read more »
The third quarter of 2011 was perhaps the most eventful and unpredictable in the history of mobile. Google signaled its intentions to move into the hardware market with the proposed acquisition… Read more »
Location-based marketing still suffers from user-privacy issues, user awareness and a lack of extensive local advertising networks. But the combination of GPS-enabled location pinpointing and the embrace of social networks has… Read more »
NFC has long failed to gain any traction in North America, but support from so many heavy hitters could finally move the needle for the technology. Read more »