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Apple and AT&T both betting on Beats for music streaming

You wait forever for a digital music announcement, and then two come at once. Around 7 May the tech press started buzzing about AT&T looking at selling off Muve Music, the downloading service it...

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Gaming and the search for new blue oceans: Nintendo says it can survive...

Most people are unlikely to think of Apple and Nintendo having a lot of similarities. One is a juggernaut in the smartphone and mobile device market, while the other is a videogame manufacturer that...

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iPad Mini price was right for customers but not for Apple as confirmed by...

At the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Apple made several product announcements, including additions to its Macbook range, an upgrade to its PC operating system called Mavericks, advances in its...

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Apple launches instalment scheme in China

In a bid to compete with its smartphone rivals in the largest mobile market in the world, Apple has started offering instalment plans for its products in China, the first OEM in the country to do so...

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Vodafone’s Red Hot leasing scheme: No need for Jedi mind tricks

Vodafone has become the latest UK operator to jump onto the handset leasing bandwagon, with its new Vodafone Red Hot tariff. Similar to O2 Lease, which launched late last year, the scheme allows...

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4G in the UK: Timelines settled, now fight for the customers

The UK’s 4G saga may have reached its climax in August with Everything Everywhere receiving permission to launch its own LTE network early, but the story isn’t over yet. UK regulator Ofcom announced...

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The end may be in sight for the UK’s 4G saga

Back in April I looked at some of the issues surrounding Everything Everywhere’s proposal to launch LTE services over its existing 1800MHz spectrum, noting that all parties, regulator and operators,...

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Samsung Galaxy S III is taking innovation to another league but how big is...

Today, Samsung introduced the third generation of its flagship smartphone brand, the Galaxy S III. The phone will be branded as the official 2012 Olympics phone. This device belongs to the super-phone...

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Apple and Google could emerge as European MVNOs on the back of new roaming...

The thought of Apple becoming an MVNO and offering its customers IP voice and messaging services as a cheap alternative to conventional voice and SMS is one that keeps many mobile operator CEOs awake...

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IP&TV 2012 round-up

As always Informa’s analyst team was out in force at this year’s IP&TV World Forum – the last IP&TV World Forum, it turns out, as the show re-brands to TV Connect for 2013 and beyond. This...

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CeBIT 2012: Connected everything and a preview of Microsoft Windows 8

M2M and connected devices were an important part of the CeBIT fair in Hannover, which took place this week – exhibitors were keen to show off their solutions for everything from vending machines to...

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O2 Lease: On Second Thought…

Following up from last week’s post, it occurs to us we have to give O2 a little more credit in thinking up their O2 Lease scheme. Some back-of-the-envelope calculations seem to indicate that the rental...

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Facebook pips Apple iMessage with launch of Facebook Messenger cross-platform...

Facebook has taken the wraps off Facebook Messenger, a separate mobile messaging application which has been developed by the same team that developed the Beluga group messaging application (Facebook...

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