The Little Wet Dog suspects that Comcast may soon be coming out with their own cell phones! Beware motorola, samsung, nokia and lg! The cable giant is now in your back yard!
Acccording to Fierce Wireless - Comcast has just hired Dave Williams (former CTO of Telefonica) to act as their SVP for wireless and technology strategy. Smells pretty much like he’ll be kicking off their new cell phone division.
This makes the Little Wet Dog think…
- Is comcast going to make a strong bid to Motorola to acquire it’s dying mobile phone division?
- Is comcast going to be another strong new entrant to the cell phone market and go head to head with giant microsoft?
- Is this just another distraction while Comcast comes out with another amazing invention?
- Should we all play with frisbee’s just a little bit more?
Only time will tell! Check back soon friends!
One of Motorola’s biggest competitor’s to its smart phone business declares a a $74 million loss! Will this help Motorola regains its sharehold in the mobile phone market?
Fiercemobile writes: “Palm revised the warning it gave at the end of February which alerted investors to a $31.5 million loss: Now the company has recorded a $57 million loss for the company’s third quarter. The revised loss follows a $25 million write-down for auction-rate securities that lost value since the collapse of the debt market earlier this year. Palm said last week that it had sold a million Centros in the U.S. since it introduced it last September.” - Fierce Mobile
According to recent NY times article - “The handset maker Pam Inc said on Monday that it lost more in the third quarter than it initially reported because of a recent revaluation of securities affected by the tight credit market. The company reported a revised loss of $57 million, or 53 cents a share, in the three months ended in Feb. 28, rather than the $31.5 million that it reported last month, according to a securities filing. The company earned $11.8 million in the period a year earlier. The revised loss comes as a result of a $25 million write-down for auction-rate securities that have lost value since the collapse of that debt market in February. Auction-rate securities can have terms of up to 30 years, but the interest paid on them is reset at auctions periodically. The auctions held by large banks and other financial institutions for these securities recently have found few — if any — buyers. The $300 billion market is in trouble in part because the bond insurers that back them face downgrades by credit rating agencies.” - NY Times
So what does that mean for the cell phone giant? Does this give Motorola breathing room as it goes through its own restructuring and layoffs? Stayed tuned for more!
From Edgat.com:
by Darren Murph
Well, what do you know? We heard that RIM was gearing up to ship BlackBerry handsets to Russia in 2008, and lo and behold, the addiction is indeed sliding over to the world’s largest country. British American Tobacco became the first client of BlackBerry service in the nation, and it’s being provided by the beautifully-named Vimpelcom.
As expected, Vimpelcom’s customers will be handed the same 8700g model that was introduced to Chinese users when RIM broke into that territory last July. As it stands, the aforesaid operator is already in talks with some 40 more potential corporate clients, and rival Mobile TeleSystems is also getting set to unleash BB service with 30 corporate clients. Kudos, Russia — prepare for splintered relationships, 24 hour work days and a feeling of anxiety you can’t even fathom when service collapses for even a moment.”
According to a recent article on picketpicks “Apple has pretty much sewn up the whole multi-touch user interface malarkey on the iPhone via a series of patents it registered during the device’s development. This obviously makes it impossible for other companies to imitate any of the functions without incurring a whooping great bill from Apple.But that doesn’t mean that companies can’t try and work around the patents by coming up with some ideas of their own which is exactly what Nokia has been doing behind closed doors for some time now. A patent unearthed by Unwired View that dates back to six months post iPhone announcement, indicates that Nokia has all manner of wacky ideas planned for its hotly tipped S60 touch interface.
Besides workarounds for many of the basic functions that Apple has tied up legally Nokia has also developed an interface method that doesn’t even require you to touch the screen where the phone reacts to hand gestures made in three dimensional space and can even track the movement of your hand. Sounds very space age indeed though we can’t help but feel we would look like a berk if caught trying to conduct what would look for all the world like a primitive form of sign language with our handset. Still very interesting though.” - Pockpicks
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