August 28, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for August 28:

• Ian Fogg at JupiterResearch about 3g Mobile Phone Battery Life
• Ian Fogg at JupiterResearch about Swisscom Markets a Naked DSL Fixed-Mobile Bundle
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Nokia removing VoIP capability from N-Series phones?
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about US elections and innovative mobile apps
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about GSMA toning down rhetoric towards reality
• Tom Byrd at CCS Insight about Samsung Takes a Corny Approach to Going Green
• Joshua Martin at Yankee Group about Navigating on the Anywhere Network
• Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi via Reuters about Weak economy to sap handset market growth
• Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray & Co via Bloomberg.com about Apple Working on IPhone Update to Fix Security Flaw

August 26, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for August 26:

• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about GPS Phones
• Mark Mulligan at JupiterResearch about You Say You Want A Revolution...
• Mark Mulligan at JupiterResearch about What I Want From Apple
• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about Digital Politics
• Ed Kountz at JupiterResearch about More mobile...FDC's GoTag study and a Visa U.S. Update
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about When is mobile VoIP not really mobile VoIP?
• Gerhard Fasol at eurotechnology.japan about 75% of mobile phones in Japan ship with digital mobile TV
• Gerhard Fasol at eurotechnology.japan about Last 2G phone shipped 8 months ago in Japan
• Andreas Constantinou at VisionMobile about Application Environments: Order from Chaos

August 20, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for August 20:

• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about So what's up with the 3G performance in the iPhone?
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Highlights from Ofcom's 2008 report on the UK Communications Market
• Dale Vile at Freeform Dynamics about iPhone: First impressions of a Blackberry user
• Robert Caunt at CCS Insight about Finding a Standard for Mobile Barcodes
• Philippe Winthrop at Strategy Analytics about The iPhone 3G Is Now Ready for Enterprise Mobility: So Says Gartner

August 14, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for August 14:

• Chris Jones and Caroline Chow at Canalys about US PND market doubles in Q2
• David Card at JupiterResearch about Play Ball!
• Gerhard Fasol at eurotechnology japan about How many iPhones were sold in July in Japan?
• Jake Saunders at ABI Research about The Gloves Just Came off the Chinese 3G Operators
• Ross Rubin at NPD Group about iPhone 3G will go head-to-head with rivals at Best Buy Mobile
• Ross Rubin at NPD Group about iPod looks that won’t stop a clock dock
• Howard Wilcox at Juniper Research about Mobile Money Transfers Opportunity for Service Providers to exceed $5bn by 2013
• Joshua Martin at Yankee Group about Want a best buy on the iPhone?
• Joshua Martin at Yankee Group about Today, I was not the very model of the Anywhere Consumer

Is AT&T in Cahoots with Text Messaging Spammers?

Sorry for not posting the past two weeks but I was away for work and then took a short family vacation.

Since switching to the iPhone 3G last month, I've noticed an huge increase in text message spam. Before on my Samsung Blackjack I only received a few text spam per month but now with the iPhone 3G I'm getting at least 4-5 per day!

Given I was an AT&T customer with the same mobile number and a bundled Medianet data/text plan prior to the iPhone 3G, I can only surmise that AT&T somehow notified text spammers when I switched to their 3G data plan and added on 200 text messages for $5 a month.

Anyone else experiencing this?