GLG News by Smart Phone Software Experts (North America)

 · KDDI is in search of growth beyond its mature, competitive home market · The company is looking to establish an MVNO in the US targeting Japanese consumers · The US MVNO economics are challenging at best, and with a small target audience, KDDI will find it very difficult to...

· Advertising shapes most forms of media and communications · The mobile phone has thus far been a personal, private device largely free from advertising · The economics are quite compelling and it is a matter of time before advertising appears on mobile handsets

Environmental concerns are starting to become a bigger issue for data centers.Today this impacts only the big users, but soon everyone will be affected.Data Center Power consumption is on the rise.

· US mobile market is expanding (subscribers are up to 210 million with 143 million handsets sold in 2006) · Mobile operators want to increase mobile data revenue, not just subscribers and handset sales · Mobile handsets need to be subsidized, and compelling applications need to emerge,...

Dell said its board’s audit committee had “identified a number of accounting errors, evidence of misconduct, and deficiencies in the financial control environment.”Dell also said it was working with its independent auditors to determine whether it would have to revise financial statements.Dell did not...

Motorola makes a quarter of the world’s mobile phones but it has been plagued over the last six months by sluggish profits.Motorola had tried to gain market share too aggressively, instead of focusing on better profit margins and innovative new features.

The wireless communications giants have long depended on minutes packages, broad coverage and trendy phones.Looking to help retain and attract customers, each of the major players is avidly inking exclusive content deals with sports and entertainment properties.The biggest issue for all the wireless...

Deal makes strategic senseOracle will be successful at being the lens through which SAP most important customers view and analyze data

NPD marketing manager David Riley offered to clear up some potential discrepancies with regard to how previous NPD launch week data for Windows operating systems has been reported.Some retailers surveyed provided NPD with monthly sales data rather than weekly. As a result, NPD decided to no longer extrapolate...

Apple’s entrée into the Smartphone market has raised the bar for traditional handset manufacturers. There is now a significant competitor adding a fresh (non-mobile phone OEM / ODM) perspective to the mobile user experience. This can only benefit users in the long run. Some key implications: ·...