June 5 Roundup

Today's "Huh?" moment is supplied by BusinessWeek's Tech Beat blog, which states Allen Nogee at In-Stat thinks Qualcomm might want to scoop up troubled Amp'd to use the MVNO as a "testing ground for new services." Qualcomm is an investor already and I guess it makes sense at some level, but does Qualcomm really want to alienate all of their other "partners" who aren't currently pissed at them?

Other analysts in the news for June 5:

• Jon Peddie at JPR about volume is no promise of success: semiconductor opportunities in handheld market
• Julie Ask at JupiterResearch about MVNO's - Not Much New to Say
• Julie Ask at JupiterResearch about Using Ring Tones to Save Lives
• Michael Gartenberg at JupiterResearch about HTC Touch Innovates the Windows Mobile Platform - First Take
• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about The iPhone fever is back again
• Jill Finger Gibson at IDC about Value Proposition of Fixed-Mobile Convergence Services Still Unclear To European Consumers
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Orange "flat"rate looks a bit mountainous to me
• Stephen Baker at NPD Group via the New York Times about Gadgets for All of You
• Todd Kort at Gartner via the International Herald Tribune about Investor betting on Palm's future
• Julie Ask at JupiterResearch via the Orange County Register about Amp'd files for bankruptcy
• Tole Hart at Gartner via BusinessWeek about Amp'd Mobile Runs Out of Juice
• Credit Suisse analyst Rob Semple via Barron’s Online Tech Trader Daily about Apple: Credit Suisse Boosts Target; Sees iPhones Sales Of 5 Million in '07, 15 Million in '08