2.1 billion mobile broadband customers by 2015, says Analysys : Wireless broadband services will create significant opportunities for revenue growth, and cellular technologies will take the largest share, according to a report from Analysys Mason. Globally, 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers will generate USD784 billion in service revenue by 2015. This revenue increase of about 2400% will be underpinned by continued developments in wireless technologies, improvements in devices and more flexible pricing options.

Embedded Systems Will Drive Demand for 4G Mobile Data: A major push to include embedded 4G technologies in a wide range of mobile and consumer devices will create a built-in market for anticipated 4G services such as mobile WiMax and LTE, but it also will force some fundamental changes in the mobile industry ecosystem, particularly in the relationships between network operators and device suppliers, according to the latest report from Unstrung Insider

WiMAX “is here and working today” - …: It is, obviously, in Intel’s interest to promote the idea that WiMAX is some kind of fourth-generation technology. It’s an idea which you’d think Andy Seybold has completely exposed as cobblers. So where did blogger Marguerite Reardon find this:

Got my copy of the IJMM and I must say it is very well done.
Designed to provide information on the mobile channel and its use for marketing, it includes 10 articles from academics, industry experts, thought leaders and global contributors. The fifth installment focuses on the development of a better understanding of the who, […]

Palm’s PDA’s are now more than three years old, and no updates are in sight. As August traditionally is the time of blowout sales, quite a few units may be moved soon. Ryan Kairer’s team traditionally has had excellent links to Best Buy - let’s look at their offers:
First of all, Palm’s PDA’s are discounted […]

I’m pretty skeptical of the value of Twitter.Nobody has been able to construct an obvious reason why I should donate my time to get my head around it, play with it, update it, follow other people and so forth. When I’ve expressed this view at events an…

I’m pretty busy this period in writing the O’Reilly AIR Cookbook. Unfortunately the book won’t be out for this summer but if you want to learn how to create cool desktop application with AIR using Flash, the well known David Tucker (the main author of the AIR Cookbook) has released a video coruse for Lynda.com site:

AIR for Flash Developers
with: David Tucker

I’ve been involved in a lot of discussion about concepts near the theme of the 7th mass media channel. A recurring theme is the “one web or two webs” thinking; and very closely involved with that is the iPhone and…

Palm’s Jon Zilber writes that his employer has just managed to sell the 2000000st Centro. No information is given on who the lucky victim was and whether we are looking at a sale to a carrier/shop or an OTC sale to an actual customer.
Nevertheless, the nice rate of Centro sales will likely provide Palm with […]

KDDI and Japan Rail have announced their new campaign to help encourage AU customers with the adoption of Suica. The summer handset series includes six models which have the RFID application pre-installed in an effort to enable users to start using their handsets a the preferred payment device at Suica enabled locations. We’d say that’s a full swing opposite from early days when JR required folks to have a View credit-card in order to get Suica onto their phones!

Google’s Sergey Brin estimated that “iPhone users do 30 times as many mobile web searches as users of other devices,” reports Search Engine Watch. Google anticipates search volume will increase as the iPhone and other sophisticated devices encourage mobile search.
As Search Engine Watch explains, “Mobile phones offer less space for mobile advertising. That’s offset by […]

Communities housing ALP developers should prepare for a steep raise in suicide rates as Access developers commit Seppuku due to their platform’s impeding failure.
According to The Inquirer, the PR firm of the carrier Orange has confirmed the discontinuation of the Samsung i800. This device was intended to be the first ALP device and should have […]

Verizon Wireless launch Casio G’zOne Boulder phone, a mid-spec, rugged phone in United States. This Casio phone withstands shock, water and dust environments. It looks like Verizon Wireless is going to stay away from Motorola’s rugged design phones, which consumers find at Nextel, before Nextel was bought over by Sprint.

The G’zOne Boulder is […]

I’ve been fascinated with E Ink displays ever since my days at IBM as an intern. An industrial designer alerted me to the technology, and talked about the possibility of making the packaging of a product be self-documenting.

Alas, that was back in 1998. Since then, other products have been announced. I’m especially interested in Readius […]

By Pavel Alpeyev and Mikako Nakajima
NEC Corp., Japan’s largest personal-computer maker, forecast sales of equipment and software services to carriers will increase 43 percent in three years as telecommunications companies upgrade their networks.
Revenue in the business will rise to 1 trillion yen ($9.3 billion) in the year ending March 2011, from 700 billion last fiscal […]