In an overcrowded market just aching for something fresh and exciting HTC has designed a phone with specific attributes meant to appeal to women. One major example of this design strategy is a charm that attaches to the phone that is meant to be dangled outside of the owner’s purse. This charm will light up [...]
Verizon Wireless is continuing its aggressive competitive strategies by introducing a new unlimited prepaid plan that will cost $50 for unlimited talk, text, and web. Verizon is attempting to expand the attractiveness of prepaid plans with this new deal. In the past prepaid plans have been marketed to lower income customers but with more attractive [...]
Dell is reaching out to foreign markets to try and get some sort of customer base for its tablets and mobile phones. Dell and Baidu, China’s leading search engine, are teaming together to bring China Dell tablets and mobiles. Right now China’s market is dominated by Apple and the iPhones, but Dell is scrambling to [...]
The United States Justice Department has recently filed a lawsuit to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile on the grounds of antitrust laws. The Justice Department has stated that a merger between the third and fourth largest mobile technology companies would create substantially less competition and cause all of the problems associated with a [...]
Sprint recently announced that they will be selling the ever-popular iPhone series starting this October. This addition to the Sprint catalog will add much needed sales to the struggling company, struggling at least compared to its peers, and this addition will also help the high selling iPhone continue its sale numbers, maybe even enough to [...]
Google recently announced that it is buying Motorola Mobility for approximately $12.5 billion. Mobility will now come under the Google umbrella but Google said it is allowing Motorala Mobility to function separately for now. Motorola and Google both have visions on where they want to “Android ecosystem” to expand to, but of utmost importance is to keep [...]
In the past wireless companies had unlimited data plans that were introduced before the more current tiered plans. Customers who were grandfathered in with their old unlimited data plan usages have been continually allowed to use the unlimited resources. However, all that will change on October 1st. AT&T has announced that they will no longer [...]
Microsoft threw itself into the the competitive smartphone market last year with the introduction of its Windows Phone 7 operating system. The market is currently being dominated by iPhone and Android users, with Android alone being responsible for approximately 48% of the overall market share. Microsoft has introduced an updated version of its operating system [...]
Mozilla, creators of the wildly popular Firefox web browser and other software programs, has decided to start coding an operating system for mobile phones and tablet devices. This operating system will be similar to the Android but will be written from scratch. Also, the new OS called Boot to Gecko, will be the chief rival [...]
The meteoric rise in popularity of the smart phone has brought with it news of communicating, have fun, and doing business. Today, businesses are looking towards the future to adopt strategies that take advantage of the near ubiquitous use of modern smart phone technology. One innovation that is quickly growing in popularity is the mobile payment [...]
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