Great perspective article about Samsung and LG’s efforts in the smartphone market. As with anything in a high growth technology based business, only time will tell, however, this commentator sees both companies as real threats to any smartphone manufacturer. Samsung’s third quarter results posted a year over year increase of 18 plus percent in handsets […]
November 10, 2010
(Release) Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 417 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 35 percent increase from the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales grew 96 percent from the third quarter last year, and smartphones accounted for 19.3 percent of overall mobile phone sales in […]
October 12, 2010
There are some interesting points in this article. First is the amount of development that will have to be done to ensure all the old Windows Mobile Apps can work on the Phone 7 platform. The next question is how RIM will respond (Triton 4G?) as well as Nokia, although Nokia is betting a lot […]
October 8, 2010
Last night, the first annual WAMM (Wireless And Mobile Media) awards were held in Atlanta at the AT&T campus. Siteminis Mobile Solution platform was named as a finalist along side titans in the industry Apple, Google, Microsoft and RIM in the category Best Development Tools or Platform. Although the balloting was tight, Microsoft tied with […]
October 1, 2010
This is really no surprise, 11 million people in the US have watched video over a mobile device this year (up 60%). Tablets are a new form factor and the inevitable product growth spurt has already begun with the new RIM Playbook, with many more vendors and products to hit the street this year. Take […]
September 29, 2010
Over a breakfast event at its BlackBerry DevCon 2010 event, taking place in San Francisco, a RIM VP confirmed that the QNX operating system announced in their new PlayBook tablet would in fact be finding its way to smartphones in the long run, and ultimately replace the existing BlackBerry OS. Of course that kind of […]
September 28, 2010
Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM – News)(TSX:RIM – News) today redefined the possibilities for mobile computing with the unveiling of its new professional-grade BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet and BlackBerry® Tablet OS. Perfect for either large organizations or an “army of one”, the BlackBerry PlayBook is designed to give users what they want, including uncompromised web browsing, […]
August 20, 2010
Another day, another tablet rumor in the air! Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) will use software from infotainment specialist QNX for its tablet product rather than its own BlackBerry 6 platform, according to a Bloomberg report. The report, citing three unnamed sources, said RIM plans to use the software from QNX because it can use developers […]
November 11, 2010
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