Blog » February 2010

The low-end digital still camera (DSC) market is coming under intensifying competitive pressure from cell phones that are sporting increasingly high-resolution image sensors, according to iSuppli.    

Shipments of smartphones from Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) and Compal Communications in 2010 will be much lower than market expectations due to slow sales of Palm's Pre and Pixi series smartphones,    

Sales of handsets with dual-SIM cards in the global market are expected to double in 2010 after the segment registered a strong growth of 74% in 2009, according to industry sources citing data from market resea    

Worldwide handset sales to end users totaled 1.211 billion units in 2009, a 0.9% decline from 2008, according to Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the market registered a single-digit growth as handset sa    

Research firm Gartner today raised the growth expectations for the global handset market that it made just two month ago. Now, the firm predicts the market will grow between 11 percent and 13 percent this year-    

In an effort to challenge the growing power of Apple, Google, RIM, and other mobile market leaders, a group of 24 telecom companies at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain announced the formation of an    

Handset makers are increasingly looking to use "augmented reality" technology to give an edge to their smartphone applications and services. LG has said it will pre-load an augmented reality applicati    

TechCrunch submits: By Robin WautersMotorola (MOT) this morning announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of BitBand, an Israel-based provider of content management and delivery syste    

Trefis submits: Nokia (NYSE:NOK), which competes with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM), and Motorola (NYSE:MOT), continues to lose market share in emerging markets like India, China and Bra    

The 3-Liner: Motorola (MOT) is a future growth pure play in mobile, with its share price hampered by its poor past management and inconsistent history. The investment thesis for a long play in MOT is centered o