Bamboo Mobile, a Compass Intelligence practice, has just launched some exciting new research regarding the top trade-in and buy back programs for wireless devices.  Kate Pearce heads up this research and she has some great things to say about this market. “New programs have really brought much-needed attention to this issue.  In 2012, all of the major network operators had in-store trade-in programs; online options continued to grow and so did the availability of automated... [More]

On Wednesday, February 20th, AT&T announced the launch of its AT&T Partner Exchange. This new reseller program is unique in two ways. First, this is the first time AT&T is opening up its APIs (focused on core services and their network) to solution providers or resellers. This reseller program is also unique in that it all came about and was developed in the Plano, TX AT&T Foundry and I believe they started this around November, so 3 or 4 months and out the door. [More]

PTT or push-to-talk is still around folks.  It has been a long while since we have witnessed any note-worthy announcements around the PTT market, so it was very exciting to receive a few of the demo devices that AT&T sent to a few of our employees, including me, to test out their new Enhanced Push-to-Talk services.  The demo devices we received were the Samsung Rugby Pro phones that run over LTE and also provide shock, water, and dust protection (the phone is submersible up to 1 me... [More]

  Tomorrow is a big day for the healthcare market...it is the deadline for states to decide on whether they want to be reponsible for their own HIE (Health Information Exchange) or be a part of the Federal HIE program.  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently extended the deadlines for states to make their decisions, giving states until December 14, 2012 to decide whether to run a state-based exchange, and until February 15, 2013 to opt for a partnership ex... [More]

This 4th quarter is expected to show record numbers for the U.S. tablet market.  There are so many tablets being launched that it is hard to even keep up, although Apple is expected to remain the leader in this market by a long shot.   Recent news this week...Apple stated that within 3 days they sold 3 million iPads including their Wi-Fi new iPAD minis and 4th generation iPads (2.2 million of these were minis and the rest new and older generation iPads).  Let's take note of some o... [More]