Friday, February 8, 2008

Is CounterPath an FMC consolidation play?

by alec on February 8, 2008

CounterPath is on the move.  Since their merger with Newheights, and refinancing at the hands of Sir Terry Matthews they've been on a buying binge.  February 1, it was FirstHand Technologies.  Just yesterday, Andy Abramson mentioned that BridgePort Networks had also been acquired by CounterPath, February 5th.

The common thread here is fixed mobile convergence.  They appear to be evolving from the softphone player that they were.  FirstHand was an enterprise FMC company.  BridgePort, was a carrier FMC company. 

This one will be interesting to watch.

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SquawkBox from Barcelona next week

by alec on February 8, 2008

CNET says that some of the big stories at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be iPhone look-a-likes, Femtocells, Mobile advertising, Location and Navigation, and Social Networking.  I'll be heading there myself, on Sunday.  I'm particularly interested to see how far beyond "here's my facebook button" mobile social networking can get.

Next week's Squawk Box's will all be created live in Barcelona, except for Fridays, which will be guest hosted as I will be travelling.

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Fast-busy on mobile video for Canucks

February 8, 2008

The Boy Genius report has dropped a couple of juicy gems in the last day or so for Canadians.  First came the news that Rogers would offer $7/month unlimited browsing and next that we'd soon be able to get our hands on the Sony Ericsson K850.  Finally a high end consumer phone with a reasonably [...]

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RIM: hot on Apple’s tail!

February 8, 2008

ChangeWave went public yesterday with their results showing that American consumers finally intend to dump their free contracted phones, and migrate to smart phones.  The big suprise?  Not that Apple iPhone was the top ranked phone they planned to buy… no.  How about that RIM Blackberry was the second choice? Jim Balsillie must be feeling [...]

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