Is a Sprint–T-Mobile Combo Written in the Stars? It’s time for US mobile market players to mentally prepare for a different set of dynamics — for an “un-carrier” to

Xiaomi Is Now Open for Business. Good Timing. Smartphone growth is decelerating fast in many markets, but sales in India are just getting hot. What makes this particularly exciting

The Samsung-Intel Relationship Deepens It’s been a tough journey for Intel in mobile. Its track record in courting handset manufacturers has been rather rocky — and sometimes simply unlucky

Is Nuance Neutrality in Danger? This could just be a Monday-afternoon market rumour: Samsung is said to be holding acquisition talks with Nuance Communications, the company that owns input

Consumer Electronics Devices Aren’t Medical Devices… Yet Google is expected to introduce Google Fit, a competing service to Apple’s recently introduced HealthKit and Samsung’s Sami, at the Google I/O

To Fill Its Maps Gap, Apple May Need to Go Dutch Apple’s recent Beats buy (see Instant Insight: Apple Acquires Beats) forces us to think about other gaps in

As More “Kill Switch” Laws Are Proposed, a PR Disaster Looms The statistics are worrying: in the US, 10 percent of smartphone users have had their devices stolen, in