Ina Fried in Mobile on February 7 at 5:00 am PT
While Samsung and Apple battle for bragging rights atop the smartphone market, many of their rivals may find themselves battling for their lives.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 19 at 1:56 am PT
The company posted a loss of 207 million euros, and sold nine million phones in the quarter, down from 11.2 million shipments a year earlier.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 11 at 1:58 pm PT
The9, which is known for helping to bring games from the U.S. to China, is announcing a partnership with Sony Ericsson to operate its mobile app store there.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 9 at 1:08 pm PT
The head of AT&T’s cellphone unit also explains why Motorola and Research In Motion were notably absent from the company’s announcements on Monday.
Ina Fried in Mobile on November 3, 2011 at 9:21 am PT
The result is an interactive video, playable on the Web, that lets one view a run down a Utah desert from any angle.
Ina Fried in Mobile on October 27, 2011 at 2:36 am PT
Sony will pay 1.05 billion euros to Ericsson to get full control of the 10-year-old handset maker.
Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 6, 2011 at 9:00 am PT
In a sign of the central role smartphones will play in its future consumer-electronics strategy, Sony Corp. is nearing a deal to buy out Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson’s stake in their mobile phone joint venture, according to people familiar with the matter.
Sven Grundberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 3, 2011 at 2:59 am PT
Ten years ago, Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. and Swedish mobile-network vendor Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson put their mobile-phone units into a joint venture, creating Sony Ericsson in an effort to grab a profitable share of the booming global handset market.
Thomas Catan, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 30, 2011 at 5:20 pm PT
The Justice Department is intensifying an investigation into whether tech giants including Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion could use a recently acquired trove of patents to unfairly hobble competing smartphones using Google’s Android software.
Ina Fried in Mobile on July 27, 2011 at 2:00 am PT
The rise of low-cost smartphones will eventually mean such phones account for one of every two phones sold worldwide. But the market growth is not being spread equally.
