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Google Takes a Swipe at Pandora and Apple, Launches Internet Music Service

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 1:41 pm

In one of the worst-kept secrets around, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of its streaming music service, Google Play Music All Access, at its I/O developers’ conference. ...
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Samsung Captures Virtually All the Profit in Android Market

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 11:35 am

To say that Samsung Electronics dominates the market for smartphones using the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an understatement. The Korean electronics giant reaps 95% of ...
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China Mobile Earnings: Good News or Bad for Apple?

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 11:40 am

The world’s largest mobile carrier, China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL), reported first-quarter earnings today, posting revenue growth of 5.7% and profit growth of just 0.3%. In its press release, the ...
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Who Wants a BlackBerry? Not Many of You

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 9:00 am

The penalty for being late -- really late -- to market is almost always more severe than a company wants to admit. Especially a company that had a firm grip ...
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The Most Popular Mobile Apps in the World

Posted: April 9, 2013 at 9:00 am

With more than a billion smartphones in use around the world, it is entertaining, if not instructive, to look at what those phones are used for. Would you be surprised ...
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BlackBerry Struggles Continue

Posted: April 1, 2013 at 11:40 am

The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel does not tell us a lot that we didn’t already know. The most popular smartphone platform in the United States for the three months ...
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BlackBerry CEO Derides Apple — Australian Financial Review

Posted: March 18, 2013 at 10:55 am

In an exclusive interview with The Australian Financial Review, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) CEO Thorsten Heins took a swipe at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the venerable iOS operating system. Heins ...
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Smartphones to Top Mobile Device Sales in 2013; App Downloads to Top 7 Billion

Posted: March 4, 2013 at 2:22 pm

In 2013, for the first time, shipments of smartphones are forecast to top sales of feature phones. With shipments expected at 50.1% of all mobile phones shipped worldwide, smartphones are ...
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New HP Tablet May Be Too Little, and Too Late to Matter

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 4:45 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) wants back into the tablet market, an effort that the company previously jettisoned under prior misguided leadership. What is so different about this effort here is ...
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HP Pokes Microsoft in the Eye

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 10:30 am

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is hitting the morning wire with a couple of big stories. Yesterday the company said that it was preparing a 7-inch tablet, called the Slate 7, ...
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Tablets Now Comprise One-Third of All PC Shipments

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 1:14 pm

The cannibalization of the PC market caused by the overwhelming popularity of tablet devices might be even greater than you think. According to the latest data from analyst firm Canalys, ...
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Windows Phone Now Number 3 Smartphone Platform

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 12:41 pm

In a battle that has really just been joined for the third best-selling smartphone platform, Windows Phone from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has wrestled away third place from the precursor ...
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Analyst Shows Caution Right After BlackBerry 10 Launch

Posted: January 30, 2013 at 2:45 pm

Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has now debuted its very late release of the BlackBerry 10 operating system. While we have already seen releases that Verizon, Sprint and AT&T will ...
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Mobile Device Activations Skyrocket on Christmas Day

Posted: December 27, 2012 at 1:19 pm

Worldwide, some 17.4 million mobile devices were activated on Christmas Day this year according to research firm Flurry. That’s more than four times the 4 million average number of ...
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Apple Gains on Samsung, Google Mobile Market Share

Posted: November 2, 2012 at 2:24 pm

According to September data published today by comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), the mobile handset market share leader continues to be Samsung Electronics, followed by LG Electronics, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), ...
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