MobileNest

According to the market research firm iSuppli, global mobile-phone market revenue is expected to shrink by almost 5% from last year’s historic high. The expected decrease is related to slowing growth and falling prices.
iSuppli projections:
mobile phone global revenue will decline to $109.7 billion in 2006 (4.7 percent down) from $115.1 billion in 2005

revenue will [...]

Yahoo! Go Mobile, a new service designed to let consumers take their favorite Internet content and services with them on their mobile phones. Yahoo! Go Mobile will be launching with AT&T and Cingular Wireless in the United States and with Nokia in multiple international markets in the coming months.
Key features of Yahoo! Go Mobile include:
Yahoo! [...]

Vodafone Group is set to introduce a new streamed music offering after launching a streamed mobile TV service. The move will help boost revenue beyond its core telephony business.
Vodafone the Europe’s largest mobile phone operator has joined forces with Sony NetServices to launch the Vodafone Radio DJ service, personalized music channels streamed to customers’ handsets [...]

Google has acquired a small Canadian company, Reqwireless.
According to the Financial Post, Reqwireless makes Web browser and e-mail software for use on wireless devices.

Motorola ROKR E1 was anounced to be the first iTunes mobile phone by Apple. Steve Jobs, chief executive, told a media event in San Francisco the $250 phone would hold 100 songs and would be sold exclusively in the US by Cingular Wireless, the biggest mobile operator.
ROKR E1 Features:

iTunes player with dedicated key
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Online music provider Napster has announced the addition of a host of mobile phones to the list of MP3 players and mobile devices compatible with the Napster To Go portable subscription music service. The Motorola phone Moto Q is the latest addition to the list of the new generation.
Napster To Go-compatible phones include handsets from:

Audiovox
HP
HTC
i-Mate
Orange
Palm
Samsung
Siemens
Sierra

TechWorld’s article points out new issues facing management due to increased popularity of mobile phones - “mini-PC”. It is expected that more than a third of the company-installed base will use the mini-PCs by 2008.
Some of the issues that management needs to start thinking about:
Identify mobile device management approach.
Focus on protecting any device [...]

Apple is planning to cash in on the growing market by combining phone and music players. Apple called a press conference for next Wednesday to potentially use it as a platform for launching a handset combining the software behind the iPod with a phone capable of holding thousands of songs.

Video enabled mobile phones are being used to deliver marketing messages by real estate agents. In one early application of the “permission marketing”, a real estate agent is using this new marketing way to allure new customers. A potential property buyer can send an SMS with a special code word to a number carried [...]

Japan and China will join forces to develop a fourth-generation mobile phones expected to come into practical use around 2010.
The fourth-generation mobile phones are expected to transmit data as quickly as optical fiber, taking the streaming of high-quality images to the next more desirable level.
China presents itself as the huge potential market in the deal. [...]