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"An open system can be much more vulnerable to attack both for the device software and the customer data," said telecom analyst Jeff Kagan. "I am sure it will be mostly secure, but there are always customers who will be victims of attacks before the patches are created." If no...

In any case, Verizon Wireless handsets "have not been exciting over the last several years -- not much sizzle," telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told LinuxInsider. "Yet the company is still strong and growing." Done well, the new partnership "could be a huge success for both Verizon...

"This device offers customers many new features they will like, such as Google mobile services and Google search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube and Google Talk," telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told LinuxInsider "This is Google's best effort yet to enter the wireless space," he added. "It l...

In many ways, the device is reminiscent of the Palm story, wireless and telecom analyst Jeff Kagan suggested "In the 1990s, Palm was a hot electronic organizer; then it started offering a phone feature," he explained. "Now, when we think of Palm devices we think of a smartphon...

"Motorola was the No. 1 handset maker in the 1990s -- they lost that position to Nokia and have been trying to recapture the market ever since," telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told LinuxInsider. "They did well with the Razr a few years ago, but never had anything else to follow up."

The deal caused Sprint to write off US$31 billion in related charges and had ramifications for the company's internal structure and customer relations components that caused it to lose its way to a degree, said Jeff Kagan, an independent telecom industry analyst Sprint is two ...

"Palm did a good job whipping up a frenzy," independent mobile phone analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "We tend to measure everything by Apple and the iPhone. These are devices that are capturing the imagination, and Palm has not been able to keep up. This was Palm's last shot. Were they going to come out with a device that was going to save them? We want to see multiple competitors to the iPhone to keep prices low and innovation high. Palm has been successful at that [with the Pre] so far."

"The strategy here is to duplicate Apple's success," independent mobile phone/telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "A number of carriers and other companies are going to try to make lightning strike twice. That said, these are tight economic times, and that can skew the results, so it might sound like a funny time to set that kind of pricing."

"The 3-D S-Class user interface sounds interesting -- most users find most of the user interfaces too confusing," Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecom industry analyst, told TechNewsWorld. "Many of the customized user interfaces are preferable, especially if they have graphics ...

"VoIP phones are growing in popularity -- and 20 to 25 percent of customers are canceling home phone service. Some of them are going wireless only, and others are using one of the VoIP competitors like the cable television companies. This Verizon Hub is a way for Verizon to battle that migration," Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecom industry analyst, told TechNewsWorld.

"It's way too early to tell," said independent telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan, who has had an opportunity to check out the G1. "It's cool, it's great, it's definitely good software and definitely worth looking at, but it's not that different from the iPhone. They both basically do the same thing."

"It's a good bunch of companies to start with, and it sounds like a solid idea," independent telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times However, DECE needs to realize that it will need to stay flexible as more consumers demand the ability to take their con...

"This time around the customer has a choice," independent analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "Verizon does not want to give the customers a reason to look elsewhere for service. Telephone companies have a lot better reputation in the marketplace compared to cable TV companies, which take forever to get things done, but this [strike] would be a black eye on Verizon's part."

It couldn't have been easy for the FCC to come to this point, telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times, because the arguments for both sides have value. "In a perfect world, we would give free bandwidth to everyone. In the current environment it comes down to who will pay for [supporting] the content online -- the user or the ISP."

However, the new service could simply be an attempt by T-Mobile to find an alternative revenue path as the pool of new subscribers continues to shrink in the U.S., according to Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecom industry analyst "All of the telecommunications space is changing...

"We have seen unlimited pricing plans become very popular during the last several months ... [but] they are not for every customer," Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecom industry analyst, told TechNewsWorld. The lower the cost, he noted, the more customers it applies to. "At $9...

Messaging may be a much more passenger-friendly way of keeping people connected while flying, telecom industry analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times Even business travelers who need to stay connected recognize that allowing mobile calling during flights is problematic, ...

"The cell phone industry continues to grow and change," wireless and telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told TechNewsWorld Focus on Power Users...

Indeed, this study won't be the last to raise such issues, wireless and telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told TechNewsWorld "The more technology is part of our lives, the more these kind of uses come up," he said. "Who is tracking and why? And if they are tracking, do we know about ...

At the time, those investors believed the company was undervalued and felt that with strategic direction changes, additional value could be unlocked, telecom industry analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times The private backers bought Alltel just as the economy began to sl...