Archive for October, 2006

Nokia: Market Share is More Important than Profit

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Nokia’s financial figures for the third quarter of 2006 are out now and it is found that Nokia is doing great as far as mobile phone sales are concerned. Nokia is the market leader now in the cell phone handset industry. Now, out of 3 cell phones sold in the ...

Pay N Talk Phones Coming To An Office Depot Near You

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Today American Telecom announced that they are going to be offering Pay N' Talk prepaid cell phones at 1,200 Office Depots across the United States. The phones come bundled with free minutes as part of the Pay N' Talk program. Pay N' Talk service offers consumers the opportunity to ...

Mobile Phone music industry: Rising in Asia

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

M for MONEY and M for MUSIC, I think the mobile music industry is now finally getting the sound of money in their music. Started with nothing five years ago, the mobile music industry has turned into a major money maker in Asia-pacific. According to a report published in cellular-news.com The ...

Palm and Pumpkin to Spread Mobile Phone Technology?

Monday, October 16th, 2006

No, I am not joking and there is no pun here. If you are living in Europe or in America, it will be difficult for you to imagine that there are many places in the world where access to electricity is a tough ask for many people. So, mobile phone ...

Philips Says Good Bye to Cell Phone Business

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Philips is an electronic giant and it had achieved some decent success in the electronic field over the years. So, nearly a decade ago, Philips bosses thought that entering into the cell phone industry was a smart idea. May be it was a good idea at that time but Philips ...

Cell Phone in Hospitals: Good or Bad?

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Let’s say you have come to see a friend of yours who has been hospitalized. Suddenly, you remembered that you have to call some one. No problem, you have your mobile phone!!! But wait, mobile phone can not be used inside hospital. So what you would do? You would get ...

China: Real Name for Real Mobile Phone Registration

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

China may boast for its huge number of mobile phone users (431.8 million in August, 2006) but this huge number has become a major headache. A large number of users use pre-paid phones. The major advantage of pre-paid phone is that it does not require the user to provide his ...

Telemarketers Are In Trouble With Cingular

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

There's some trouble for Sebell Telecommunications LLC based in Miami, Florida. Cingular Wireless filed three lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Georgia to stop telemarketers from making unsolicited and illegal calls to Cingular customers. Cingular alleges that Sebell conspired with a company in the Dominican Republic, ...

Mobile Security: The Next Big Business?

Monday, October 9th, 2006

It is not the next business- it is already a big business. There are over 2 billion mobile phone users in the world. Well, in poor countries, most users do not bother that much about the safety of the content of their mobile that much. Still, mobile phone operators have ...

Vietnam Has 17 Million Mobile Phone Subscribers Now

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

I admit that against a population of 83.6 million, 17 million mobile phone connections is not a high figure. However with just $620 GNI per capita, this is a success story in the cell phone world. At the beginning of the year, the number of mobile phone subscribers was 10 ...