GLG News by Smart Phone Software Experts (North America)

Amazon’s stock price is up more than 25 percent today after its second blockbuster quarterly earnings report in a row. eBay is losing market share to Amazon. This trend appears likely that it will continue.

- The market is interested in the iPhone’s impact on Apple’s earnings - There is not enough data in this quarter’s earning to determine success or failure but there are several items to look for in the coming months

· Sprint’s business is under scrutiny as they have several big technology bets in place and have been losing customers · While dropping a few “abusive” customers is not that significant, this is not a good time for a public relations hit · While dropping a few “abusive” customers is not...

1) The iPhone was the right product at the right time for AT&T; 2) Verizon was quite reasonable with its decision to pass on the iPhone

Source of revenue when seeling iPhones:  revenue from device and revenue from plan/subscription.  Both need one another.  Newer devices garner attention while older devices reach end of life. Gaining control of the platform is the end issue.

1) The iPhone launch has brought increased visibility and a heightened customer focus to the mobile phone market, 2) but this is far from creating a revolution in a highly competitive market.

The tech world is going to shift as new customers/users come online from other developing nations.

- Mobile location-based services are in their infancy - Many future mobile applications will integrate location data providing large and local merchants, as well as advertisers, an additional consumer contact point

- Mobile handsets have become must-have personalized devices - Handset manufacturers continue to work diligently to create next-generation products to spur consumer replacement

- MVNOs in general are struggling to succeed - Amp’d Mobile’s subscriber portfolio details are particularly alarming and call into question the operator's business model