Thursday, November 09, 2006

November 9 Roundup

Analysts in the news for November 9:

  • Stuart Carlaw at ABI Research about The $15 Bluetooth Headset ($7 BOM)
  • Compete about FAMILY SERVICES: WOULD PARENTS RATHER SPEND LESS OR KNOW MORE and PEARL, Q & E62 LAUNCHES SHOW GROWING CONSUMER INTEREST IN SMARTPHONES
  • Allen Nogee at In-Stat about T-Mobile Launches WiFi/Cellular in Seattle
  • Ramon Llamas at IDC about Lack of New Devices Contribute to Continued Decline of Handheld Market
  • Jean Philippe Bouchard and Andrew Brown at IDC about European Handheld Demand Evaporates in 3Q06 as Converged Device Volumes Grow 30% Year on Year
  • Michael Gartenberg at JupiterResearch and Michael Goodman at The Yankee Group via CNNMoney about Microsoft (MSFT) to pay Universal Music cut of Zune sales
  • David Card at JupiterResearch about Zune Singles Have to Be Profitable? Who Knew?
  • Michael Gartenberg at JupiterResearch about How to make a music phone good enough to use
  • Michael Gartenberg at JupiterResearch about Can't Buy Me Love (or can you?) - Universal Gets Paid for Zune
  • Ross Rubin at NPD Group about No Universal generosity on Zune sales
  • Tony Cripps at Ovum about Motorola's (MOT) open source mobile Java initiative
  • Ed Snyder at Charter Equity Research, James Faucette at Pacific Crest Securities, Neil Strother at NPD Group and Albert Lin at American Technology Research via the Chicago Tribune about Razr gaining reinforcements
  • Todd Kort at Gartner via Computerworld about Intel (INTC) drafts privacy license for mobile device software