The introduction of another Wi-Fi only tablet is part of a troubling trend for wireless carriers.
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Analyst Angle: The Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit – Good news: Intellectual property is alive and well
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerBy now, just about anyone who follows technology knows that on Aug. 24, nine jurors in California voted in favor of Apple with the largest patent lawsuit victory
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Cloud computing services have transformed how enterprises buy technology and even how chief information officers (CIOs) deal with corporate demands. In Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, cloud computing (in …
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April 20 marked the one-year anniversary of the so-called “location-gate” controversy in which it was first revealed that Apple (and soon after Google) were tracking subscriber location information and storing that data
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Google reported today in a government filing that it plans to cut 4,000 jobs, or about 20% of Motorola Mobility’s workforce in an attempt to streamline operations and “shifting the …
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The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly ordered Google to pay a $22.5 million fine for deceiving users of Apple’s Safari web browser.
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Strategy Analytics’ Neil Shah analyzes the Apple/Google smartphone platform duopoly.
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to make a $1.25 million “voluntary” payment to the United Stated Treasury in connection with an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission into the carrier not …
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Analyst Angle: Research In Motion – Will going with QNX prove better than Android?
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerFor a while there (before the introduction of the iPhone), it seemed Research In Motion just about had it all. BlackBerry sales were growing worldwide and the devices were so addictive that the public called it “CrackBerry.”
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In the last several weeks, two leading mobile operating system vendors moved into the mobile payments space. Apple announced its new mobile wallet Passbook that will debut with iOS 6 this fall.
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On Thursday, Verizon Communications kicks off the telecommunications earnings season with their release expected before Wall Street opens (Google, another closely followed company, announces after the bell).
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Many retailers sold out of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet this weekend, while some customers who pre-ordered the device complained that their tablets hadn’t arrived yet. The only retailer we found …
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It looks like the iconic device will debut in white this fall, with a camera in the center of frame, facing front and back.
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Ex-Nokia executives promise to maintain the Meego operating system.
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After launching its mobile device management (MDM) platform, called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion in the U.S., the Canadian Research in Motion (RIM) gathered journalists and clients in São Paulo to unveil the solution in …
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Apple is reportedly preparing to launch a tablet with a smaller screen size than the iPad to compete with Google’s Nexus 7. But Apple may need to shrink the price as well as the screen size in order to compete with the $199 Nexus 7.
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Google has made its popular Chrome web browser available for the iOS devices, and today Chrome is the most popular download in Apple’s app store.
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The low-price tablet isn’t likely to do much for Google’s bottom line in the near term, but it could be a very effective loss leader for the company if it builds momentum and market share for the Android operating system.
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Google TV is coming; Miami Heat parade to be livestreamed
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To some serious head scratching, Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablet device at a refreshingly non-star-studded event in Hollywood, Calif. (Sorry Steve Ballmer.) The device looks to somehow more thinly slice …
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Google Maps is one of the most popular smartphone apps and one of the most lucrative, as advertisers are quick to see the value in location-based mobile ads. Now Apple …
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Holiday weekends are usually quiet ones overall for business, and especially in the telecom world. Not this year. Between Leap’s iPhone announcement, Randall Stephenson’s wide-ranging discussion at the Sanford C. Bernstein conference,
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Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle’s Java APIs are not protected by copyright law. APIs …
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For the third time in as many years, reports of a Facebook smartphone have surfaced, and this time they are accompanied by quotes from engineers who are said to be …
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A new chapter in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit: A federal jury said Wednesday that Google (GOOG) did not infringe Oracle (ORCL) patents that protect Oracle’s Java technology. The decision …
