Admob, the mobile advertising firm, has published the report of mobile phone analytics and market shares figures for October 09. iPhone remains number 1 in generating mobile web traffics, both in US and worldwide.  Android is number 2 in US but number 3 worldwide because Symbian is much established worldwide.  Symbian is not established in US and we can’t even see it in the US chart.  Android is coming up very fast and it is [...]

Sony Ericsson, the No. 4 phone manufacturr, has announced a massive restructuring worldwide and will eventually cut 4000 jobs (out of 9900). Sony Ericsson will close its Research Triangle Park operation by the third quarter of 2010, cutting 400 plus jobs.  And the consolidation will eventually leave Sony Ericsson with four R&D centers: Lund, Tokyo, Beijing and Redwood Shores. Sony Ericsson has been struggling to be profitable for years, with this cost cutting move and [...]

Watch out, Skype!  Google has just acquired the VoIP provider, Gizmo5.  And this will expand Google’s ability to provider a truely integrated voice services, on top of Google Talk and Google Voice. One of the service that Gizmo5 can value add to Google’s existing services will be the VoIP gateway service to the local PSTN lines.  It allows people on the software VoIP client (like Google Talk) or even VoIP phone to call the landlines [...]

During a recent interview with CNet, Niklas Savander, executive VP of Services at Nokia,  talks about the future of the Ovi store and Nokia’s plans to steal back market share in America. “The Finnish device maker says it’s fighting back with its own cool phones and an Internet services platform called Ovi that will allow consumers to buy digital content, such as music and videos, get maps for navigation service, and manage contacts and photo [...]

During a recent interview with Forbes, Taiwan, HTC CEO Peter Chou says “Technically, we could make the HD2 an Android phone, but I have to take care of Windows Mobile.”  He also admits “Windows Mobile innovation has been a little slow and interest in Windows Mobile phones has been declining” and “We’re working hard on these kinds of products to get excitement about Windows Mobile back.” HTC is trying to seperate the 2 platform to [...]

HTC becomes one of the largest smartphones manufacturer in just a few years.  For the past few years, they have not been doing active marketing.  And this has been changed now, we are seeing a lot more marketing activities from them and the commercial ads are just part of the activities.  Plesae take a look at the following TV commercials, I think it is pretty cool. One more after the break.

Nokia, the mobile phone giant, has just hit Apple with a patent infringment lawsuit. Nokia claims that “all iPhones models shipped” infringe on ten of Espoo’s patents relating to GSM, UMTS, and WiFi. According to Nokia’s press release, it has already successfully entered into license agreements including these patents with approximately 40 companies, “virtually all the leading mobile device vendors,” and Apple’s refused to agree to “appropriate” license terms. We shall keep our eyes on [...]

First time in 10 years, Nokia had just posted a 559 million Euro loss for the 3rd quarter.  It is also reported that its marketshare for smartphone has also drop from 41% to 35%.  That’s a big number for just 3 months. The loss comes after a reported 20% drop in sales and 1.17 billion euros in write-downs, mostly for impairment charges on Nokia Siemens Networks.  It was also facing touch competition in the smartphone [...]