HTC Highlights How Fickle The Mobile Market Can Be: That Spells Opportunity
Looking at HTC over the last week or two, it’s almost hard to believe that it is the top-ranking smartphone maker that the analysts claim it… Read more at paidContent »
RIM: $485 Million Charge On PlayBook Surplus, Admits It Won't Make Targets
News today from Research In Motion that underscores why, sometimes, the number of shipped devices is not always the best short-term indicati… Read more at paidContent »
Has Microsoft Missed The Boat With A Tablet OS? Forrester Says Yes
Android device makers, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and (catastrophically) HP (NYSE: HPQ) have made little dent so far in the tablet market, currently d… Read more at paidContent »
Crunch Time For Apple's Rivals: iPhone Sales In UK Grew Again In October
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) acolytes will probably be saying “told you so” when they hear of this: sales of the iPhone, which had been in decline in… Read more at paidContent »
iPhone 4S propels Apple back to growth in U.K. smartphones
Apple won an impressive 42.8 percent of all U.K. smartphone sales in October, based largely on the introduction of the iPhone 4S. It’s the first time since Nov. 2010 that Apple saw its share of the U.K. smartphone market grow. Read more »
Mobile Ad Figures Show Android Has Secured Its OS Lead, Apple A Device Lead
Monthly figures out from Millennial Media once again show that Android is the most dominant OS on its mobile ad network — the mobile platfo… Read more at paidContent »
Why not even a $199 PlayBook tablet will help RIM
Holiday shoppers seeking a tablet bargain have another option: Research In Motion has slashed the starting price of its BlackBerry PlayBook line by $300, meaning it’s only $199 for the 16 GB version. But more PlayBook sales could actually be worse for RIM. Here’s why. Read more »
Update: No Flash Yet On Android Ice Cream Sandwich, But Does It Matter?
Today we either saw the first effects of Adobe’s decision to stop developing Flash for mobile, or another example of why it has not gotten v… Read more at paidContent »
Nomura: Amazon's Kindle Fire 'Devastating' For Other Tablet Makers
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The Kindle Fire, retailing for only $199, could be the Android tablet that sells in volumes and provides real competition against the iPad f… Read more at paidContent »
Canadian Retailers Try TouchPad-Esque Fire Sale On RIM's Playbook
Will a $300 price cut do for RIM’s struggling Playbook tablet what it did for HP’s defunct TouchPad tablet? Canadian retailers are slashing… Read more at paidContent »
LiMo Foundation wants alternative app store. Good luck with that.
Two big mobile app stores aren’t good, says Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation. Citing barriers to consumers, carriers and developers, Gillis is looking for a “service neutral” app ecosystem, but at this point, such an effort is akin to spitting in the wind. Read more »
Nokia Drops More Hints Of An Upcoming Windows 8 Tablet
Considering all the issues and upheavals that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has had in its core business of mobile phones — what with the declining mar… Read more at paidContent »
Survey: For enterprise workers, iPhone beats BlackBerry
A quarterly survey by iPass released Wednesday says iPhone market share has overtaken BlackBerry’s in the workplace. iPhones’ popularity for mobile workers isn’t just a result of taking share from RIM, however. The overall market is expanding, too. Read more »
Gartner: Android Now Over 50 Percent Of Smartphone Sales, The Rest Decline
Android may have some shortcomings, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made enormous advances with manufacturers in terms of getting its OS on thei… Read more at paidContent »
Samsung Wins The Right To March Trial In Bid To Ban iPhone 4S In Australia
One more development in the legal fight between Samsung and Apple: a court in Australia has granted a March date for a case being brought by… Read more at paidContent »
Android accounts for more than half of smartphone sales
One in every two smartphones sold in the world is an Android device, according to Gartner, which said that Google’s mobile platform has doubled its share in the past year and surged to a 52.5 percent smartphone market share worldwide in the third quarter. Read more »
Reviewers May Find Faults, But Developers Say Kindle Fire Is Big Big Big
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The Kindle Fire tablet may not be all reviewers’ cup of tea, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) seems to have gotten one thing just right: it’s picked… Read more at paidContent »
Kindle Fire, First Reviews: Hot Gadget Or Just Another Lukewarm Tablet?
A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets. Read more at paidContent »
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Connected world: the consumer technology revolution
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks but also our cars, the books we read, the albums we download and even our own health and wellness habits (to name just a few areas). With that in mind, GigaOM Pro has singled out certain areas in the technology industry where we see this shift to constant connectivity taking place most drastically. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Google To 'Support' Android OEMs Facing Lawsuits As LG Makes A Deal With IV
Some heartening news for Android device makers today from the mouth of Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will continue to… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Flash In The Pan: Adobe Confirms End Of Mobile Flash And 750 Jobs
Update: Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) how now posted an item on its own blog confirming that it will stop developing Flash for mobile devices, and will… Read more at paidContent »
HP Keeps Us (And Meg Whitman) Guessing: Still Undecided On WebOS Fate
HP (NYSE: HPQ) may have a strategy in mind for what to do next with webOS, its operating-system-in-search-of-a-device, but today was not the… Read more at paidContent »
Mobile Startup Funding: Strangeloop $10 Million; Urban Airship $15 Million
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What will be the most-used medium for consuming mobile content in the future: the web or apps? It’s a question that gets hotly debated, and… Read more at paidContent »
Microsoft: Talking To Huawei For Android Patent License; Inks Openwave Deal
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be adding one more OEM to its list of Android licensees, and this one is a biggie: Huawei, the ambitious Chines… Read more at paidContent »
Does the Siri outage reveal its success?
Siri went down on Thursday for its first extended outage — around five hours, according to most counts. Five hours is hardly three days (like another noteworthy recent mobile service blackout), but the reaction of media and users show Apple’s personal assistant is making its presence felt. Read more »
Two Tracks For Digital Music: Aspiro White Label Deal; 7digital Tablet App
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more at paidContent »
Nielsen: Android Grew Its Smartphone Marketshare; iPhone Stayed Flat
Some stats out today from Nielsen for Q3 show that Android is continuing on its growth trajectory in the U.S. but in the last quarter Apple’… Read more at paidContent »
Woes Piling Up For RIM? BlackBerry Makers’ Shares Dip Below Book Value
More turmoil this week from BlackBerry maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) that could not be mitigated by the news of the launch of a new distribution de… Read more at paidContent »
HTC Led Q3 U.S. Smartphone Sales, Nokia To Wait Until 2012 To Challenge It
Figures out from Canalys tracking smartphone shipments worldwide in Q3 have once again demonstrated that the flood of Android handsets on th… Read more at paidContent »
BBM Music helps RIM dance through its transition
Research In Motion’s BBM Music service moved from beta to general availability on Tuesday, allowing BBM friends to share music tracks. This is clever, adding new value to the old BBM service as RIM continues to transition from BlackBerry to its new BBX operating system. Read more »
Why the decline of the iPad is highly exaggerated
Yet another analyst report has joined the chorus of those claiming Apple will see its majority market share for tablet devices slide to less than a majority by 2014-2015. It’s quickly becoming a theme, but one which I find hard to back up in reality. Read more »
Why 1 in 2 smartphones in the U.K. run Android
When visiting the U.K. and looking at the locals, odds are that every other one is using an Android device. BlackBerry is now the second most carried, followed by Apple’s iPhone; the old no. 2. How did this happen, and is it likely to continue? Read more »
Squawk! Angry Birds/Fruit Ninja ‘Rip-Off’ Reaches Number-One In App Store
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game release… Read more at paidContent »
Kantar: Android Was The Only OS Whose Sales Grew In All Markets It Surveys
We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs — and the popularity of some specific… Read more at paidContent »
Nokia Spreads The Lumia Love: 85k Free Devices To Developers, Bloggers
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has pushed hard to get its first two Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows-based phones out before the holiday season. The indust… Read more at paidContent »
