Sony Ericsson's Project Capuchin

The platform enables flash UI execution within the J2ME environment. Doc & Tools are available here.

VZW increases fee on SMS aggregators

Update: VZW says it has not decided if the fee will be increased... backing down?!

1 cent to 4 cents. So a $10,000 campaign will costs $40,000. Huge jump. This does not affect consumers. VZW is the first one to raise the fee which send shockwave to the advert. & marketing industry.

Smartphone Q2 2008 Market Share by Sales

Google to be VZN search partner

Google is already Sprint's search partner. Will this mean that VZN will eventually like to adapt Android.

Sprint launch NFL video app

This Java-based app is powered by Hands-On Mobile which has already launched multiple sport related apps (NBA, NASCAR, CBS Sports). This will only be available on Moto RAZR VE20 at this point. NFL is aggressively targeting the mobile segment. The announcment did validate the fact that Sprint is still only interested in Java platform at this point - probably the by product from the Sprint Nextel merger.

Mobile Ad market

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Mobile ad. revenue already reached $1B this year, and expected to reach to $7.6B by 2013. Ad spending on mobile TV services is expected to grow from $335 million to more than $2.5 billion in 2013. Idle-screen advertising will grow from $7 million this year to more than $500 million by 2013, according to Juniper.

Mobile data growth

http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2007/08/partial-state-of-mobile-data-market.html

HTC handset sales

HTC reports their Touch sales figures exceeded over 1 million units since launched in Oct. The company also says the total handset sales has reached 15 million so far for 2007.

Sprint breaks-up with ClearWire

Sprint announced today that they have terminated the partnership with Clearwire, sending Clearwire's stock down 28%. Analysts also believed that Sprint's rollout plan will be reduced.

iPhone w/ Intel inside. JP operators to cut rate

It is reported today that Apple may come out of a iPhone based on the Intel Moorsetown Mobile Internet Device chipset in 2009. Intel has been pushing Taiwanese companies to adopt the MID platform but with little success. However, we should start seeing UMPC coming out in 2008 with MID platform.

On the other news, NTT DoCoMo announced 30% cut in monthly rate in exchange of higher handset price (average $540). KDDI has announced 20% cut in monthly rate with the same offer. How will that affect the Japanese handset manufacturers. I think the turnover rate for new handset will be longer and thus slower sale.

DMCA made unlocking cellphone LEGAL

Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network. Source

Moto moving away from Qualcomm

After the long battled litigation between Broadcom & Qualcomm, here is latest defector of Qualcomm. Motoroloa announced that they will switch their future future 3G chipsets suppliers to TI & Freescale based "on business reason". On the bright side, Federal Court is allowing carriers to continue importing new phones with Qualcomm's chips. Though the chips cannot be imported directly into the US.

iPhone file voice commands patent

VoiceSignal is demoing a iPhone with voice command to control the songs and music. Apple also files a patent that allow voice command to control menu controls. I believe this is an evolution path that Apple will have to adapt for enhancing its touch screen only interface.

Analyst predicts mobile sale to drop in 07

Infonetics expects worldwide revenue for mobile phones to total only $117. 5 billion in 2010, an 18% drop from 2006. iPhone & Samsung's Blackjack are expected to boost smartphone sale. Another repeating theme is the WiFi convergence device. The company predicts a double digit growth through 2010 reaching a total market of $145 billions.

AdMob served 5 billionth ad

In less than 9 months, the company has served more than 5 billionth ad to mobile users.

T-Mobile Financial result

Added 857,000 new subscribers. Total of 27 million. Churn rate downed to 1.8%. ARPU is at $53.

Patent Reform Legislation Introduced

The new legislation will be the first patent reform since 1950s. The new bill will award patent to first to file (not the first to invent), curtail the infringement damage and new framework for litigation.

Wireless broadband growing faster than cable or DSL

In January, the FCC released its High Speed Services Report, which provided clear evidence that consumers are turning to wireless for their high-speed broadband needs. Between June 2005 and June 2006, there was a 2,800% increase in the number of high-speed wireless lines in-use. In fact, during the first six months of 2006, wireless accounted for 59% of all new high-speed lines. This last statistic indicates that wireless broadband is growing faster than cable and DSL combined

Beceem customers

Beceem has announced that Sanyo will use their MobileWiMax chip on the CDMA/WiMax dual mode handset. Samsung is also to use Beceem's chips in their WiMax handsets.

Rumor - Google to make mobile devices

Ex-Danger founder Andy Rubin has joined Google. And recent job post on Google suggested that the company intends to explore in the wireless communications devices.