Tag archive: mobile phone software

In a slight departure from conventional wisdom (and backed up by countless surveys and studies) that people don’t want to pay for content on the Web, a new research report from Nielsen claims mobile phone owners are willing to pay for apps. Nielsen announced these findings in a “State of Mobile Apps” report at San Francisco’s AppNation conference. In a survey of 4,000 mobile phone subscribers in August, 59 percent of smartphone users and 9… Read More

That is the question. Wal-Mart is officially saying they didn’t pick sides, but their spokesman did also say they expected consumers to pick a winner in the coming months. Currently they sell the $350 Toshiba HD-D1 HD DVD and the $900 Philips BDP900/37 Blu-Ray player.  But this was a leak and it never was Wal-Mart’s intent to announce to their competitors that they expected to do to the DVD market what they had done to… Read More

A deal with Motorola, which recently unloaded its 19 percent stake in Symbian, a Microsoft competitor in mobile phone software, would represent a significant step for the world's largest software maker, which is trying to penetrate the market for mobile phone operating systems. Orange initially flagged the possibility of a deal in a June statement. The Financial Times, without citing sources, reported on Thursday that a… Read More