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Why the Palm Pre won’t challenge the iPhone
The Palm Pre created a huge splash when it was unveiled at CES earlier this year. At last, people thought, a worthy competitor to the iPhone was upon us. The Pre, of course, is scheduled for a release sometime in the second quarter of ’09. This means a late June launch at the latest, and […]
Continue reading...Why Bono left Apple for RIM
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Blame it on a slow newsday, but a recent article in TheGlobalMail sheds some light on why former Apple posterboy Bono all of a sudden started showing up with BlackBerry’s in tow. According to the article, the U2 frontman told Toronto-based DJ Alan Cross a little bit about some new initiatives underway betweenn RIM and […]
Continue reading...Thursday Evening Link Roundup
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Palm Pre not going to be sold at Best Buy? – PreCentral (Palm is bleeding money, and they desperately need the Pre to be a runaway hit. Palm should do everything it can to get it into as many retail locations as possible, Sprint be damned!) John Carmack on porting Wolfenstein over to the iPhone […]
Continue reading...BlackBerry App Store expected to launch on April 1
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Unless its some sort of lame April Fools joke, BusinessWeek is reporting that RIM’s attempt at an app store will go “live” on April 1. On Apr. 1, Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion, is expected to take the stage at the wireless industry’s annual trade show in Las Vegas and open the virtual […]
Continue reading...Windows Mobile Store closely mimics Apple’s model, and why Microsoft is in trouble
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
As competitors like RIM and Nokia scramble to emulate the success and efficiency of the iTunes App Store, Microsoft is givng new meaning to the phrase, “Imitation it the sincerest form of flattery.” Earlier today, Microsoft divulged new information about its own efforts to develop an app store for Windows Mobile devices, and so far, […]
Continue reading...Palm Investor Roger McNamee talks about the Palm Pre [Video]
Monday, March 9, 2009
Check out this interview that Bloomberg did with Palm investor Roger McNamee as he discusses the upcoming Palm Pre. In the interview, McNamee acknowledges that the BlackBerry is the king of corporate email and that the iPhone is the king of music and movie playback. What I find interesting is that McNamee proceeds to position […]
Continue reading...No 99-cent apps will be allowed on RIM’s new online store for BlackBerry devices
Thursday, March 5, 2009
With app stores seemingly emerging from every which way, RIM was able to snag the name “BlackBerry App World” before someone else stole the ‘world’ moniker. App World almost sounds like the equivalent of Disney World, only geared for young nerd instead. BlackBerry’s new online app store was originally scheduled to go live on Wednesday […]
Continue reading...Tuesday Evening Link Roundup
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The latest links, hot off the press… iTunes launches indie store – Prefix Mag Safari 4 is 42x faster than IE7 and 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 – CNET Apple pulls pre-release iPod from EBAY – WritersBlockLive BlackBerry sales top iPhone sales in December – Electronista Premium-priced MacBook Pros top sales at Apple retail stores – […]
Continue reading...Everyone join in on the App Store Party!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Two days into the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it seems that everyone and their mother is coming out with an App Store. Here’s a quick run-down of all the app store party goers via Fortune: Nokia’s Ovi Store. An online app and media portal that comes “pre-integrated” on Nokia’s (NOK) new N97 (right), but […]
Continue reading...iPhone reaches 1% market share in worldwide cellphone market
Sunday, February 1, 2009
When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone in 2007, he pointed out that the market for cellphones worldwide was far greater than the market for any other type of consumer electronic device. Apple’s goal with the iPhone, Jobs went on to say, was to achieve a 1% market share in the cellphone market in 2008. […]
Continue reading...iPhone market share climbs to 16.6% worldwide
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
According to a research note from Needham analyst Charlie Wolf, the iPhone now has a 16.6% market share for smartphones worldwide, an incredible feat for a phone that has only been around for a year and a half. As Windows Mobile continues its decline, Apple finds itself trailing only RIM’s lineup of BlackBerry’s in smartphone market share […]
Continue reading...Study: iPhone twice as reliable as BlackBerry
Monday, November 10, 2008
A new study has come out indicating that the BlackBerry has twice the failure rate as the iPhone. Check out the full story over at CNET. “The SquareTrade study, released Saturday, looked at more than 15,000 handsets that were covered by the company’s policies. It found iPhones had a malfunction rate of 5.6 percent in […]
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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