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Wither the 'smartphone': Reorganizing the mobile market when all devices get smart

Wither the 'smartphone': Reorganizing the mobile market when all devices get smartSkyfireAny of you mobile geeks using Skyfire yet?On my N95 it takes 1st prize as the 'best app'.If you haven't tried it, you must. You can run it and launch any web site in Flash, Silverlight, for example...

Tags: Smart phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Cellular phones, smart phone, mobile, mobile market, Skyfire

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

How Dell can win in mobility

How Dell can win in mobilityThey can't.Their computers are garbage and Dell should shut down and return the money to the shareholders.yes rightwhat do you know?it seems not much."What today?s phone makers do is make a bunch of different phone designs, with different feature sets sold at different price points."as...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi, Wired Network, mobile market, Dell Computer Corp., phone, mobility, mobile, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-02-04

Can open source save the mobile market?

Can open source save the mobile market?I was waiting for somebody to.......pick up on MS using NetBSD.Now how about you all write something on the Super supercomputer the government asked IBM to build that will run on Linux. :-)Did you overlook the obvious?[i]The President should ask why that device in...

Tags: Wi-Fi, E-mail, Wireless and Mobility, WiMAX, mobile market, open source, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-02-04

Google phone, Motorola Razr2 will finally catapult role of open source, Linux in mobile market

Google phone, Motorola Razr2 will finally catapult role of open source, Linux in mobile marketExcellent story!nt

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Motorola Razr2, Google Phone, mobile market, Motorola Inc., open source, Google Inc., Linux, mobile, phone

Discussion threads 2007-10-30

Google bets on mobile market

Google bets on mobile marketThe 700MHz frequency band is analog broadcast TV.As they move to digital spectrum, this will more than likely remain for that purpose though perhaps digital TV. The people in America want heir TV, they want to be pacified, they want their ads for stuff they...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RSS, TVs, TV & Home Theater, spectrum, Google Inc., mobile, mobile market

Discussion threads 2007-07-31

AMD's Centrino challenger: Turion

AMD's Centrino challenger: TurionAMD already owns IntelAMD has taken market share from Intel in every segment including laptop-desktop and the lucrative server market. In fact AMD had greater desktop sales than Intel last quarter, which is a milestone.The 35W A64 laptop chippies have basically made Centrino obsolete like the rest...

Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, Mobile Market, AMD Turion, AMD Sempron, Intel Centrino, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., laptop computer

Discussion threads 2005-01-07

Additional Resources

In Smartphone Wars, Darwinism Triumphs Over Intelligent Design

With the release of the Verizon Droid, the smartphone market now has two apex predators with advanced, feature rich mobile embedded operating systems. There's no room for smaller or less evolved players, and survival of the fittest in the war of the handsets may very well mean industry and carrier...

Tags: Intelligent Design, Smartphone, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-11-08

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Radio Hamburg 1.0.2 (Mobile)

Radio Hamburg is one of the most popular radio stations in Germany. It was the first private station to go on air in Hamburg and has been, since 1993, number one station in the Hamburg radio market and thus the most listened to channel in the town. Radio Hamburg plays...

Tags: Mobile, Radio, Liquid Air Lab, Radio Hamburg, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-05

How fast can remote monitoring move?

Ler's use mu computer and my iPhoneMay sound nuts, but my notebook mine happens to be a Mac and my iPhone have the ability to work with a lot of medical devices - IF the makers build the connectors and write the software.I can enter my blood sugars on an...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Smart phones, Doc, monitoring, patient, computer, EKG, phone, Apple iPhone, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

HTC HD2 coming to major US carrier in early 2010

I know the latest smartphone market share data shows both Windows Mobile and HTC down over the last year, but there is one HTC Windows Mobile device that has me quite excited and if it comes to the US with support for T-Mobile then I will buy it. HTC today...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Carrier, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Q3 09 Canalys smartphone data shows RIM increasing 40% over 2008

Canalys posted their 3rd quarter 2009 figures and as you can RIM had an amazing year going from 15.2% to 20.6% of the global market share (an increase of 40.8%). A bit surprisingly to me, Nokia actually saw a 6% increase in its market share too while Apple predictibly increased...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Market Share, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Motorola and Palm; will 2009 be designated as a comeback year?

wrongwell matthew, because you have been wrong consistently about the smartphone market the last few years i would argue they are both doomed, when you like them. the pre doesn't help palm as it should regardless of critical acclaim and motorola will participate in the race to the bottom (margin...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Mobile operating systems, RIM OS, Palm Inc., Pre, GSM, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Xobni expands to include enterprise but where are Web, Mobile and even Mac versions

Search tools more than important!!!Good that mostly everbody knows that in business life nothing works without e-mail and even that important is a reliable and fast search tool for Outlook! One of those is Lookeen It has so many features which lighten your work that is amazing. It works with...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mail.app, Entourage, Web, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

(Philips Tapster--photos)

more information please ...The following introductory statement is lacking the beef: [i]"... the product will never set foot on a retail shelf."[/i]WHY will it never appear on the retail shelf?What is it, and why should I want it?Even cycling through the photographs, each with a little info about...

Tags: Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Tapster, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Do you really want to carry another device just for Twitter?

A Twitter Device? Hmmm... it will probably be a hit for christmas and then die a painful sudden death!never really liked their stuffNever really liked their stuff - limited devices for prices that are still too high? No thanks.Frankly, I'm [b]much[/b] more interested in devices with Wi-Fi than with cell...

Tags: E-mail, Cellular phones, Peek Classic, Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Sony Vaio X (VPC-X115KX/N Signature Collection, gold)

Sony has thus far taken a position just adjacent to Apple's when it comes to the question of Netbooks. Rather than embracing these low-cost, low-power systems that have become incredibly popular with bargain-hunting consumers, Sony stayed out of the market initially. Its subsequent entries have skirted the outer edges of...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Vaio X, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-02

Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, Palm

To Stay in Business,eventually they will turn to Android.The SAME WAY did HTC and MOTOROLA.and IT will not Take Long!RE: Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, PalmRIM forever!droid is cool, but read the comments on the original article.this guy is probably waaaay off.IT Analysts are kind of...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Handhelds, droid, IT-Analysts, Motorola Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Inc., phone, Pre, v60

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)

Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...

Tags: Desktops, Maingear, personal supercomputer, supercomputer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-11-02