The Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry has not been pulled down from its perch as one of the world leading cellphones by either the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Google- (NASDAQ: GOOG) powered smartphones. On…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is the first to take a bite into Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM). Shortly after today’s closing bell, H-P and Palm said they entered into a definitive agreement where HP will acquire…
Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) will release a new operating system which it says will allow its customers to move around the internet more quickly and make the use of its screen dynamics easier for consumers…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) reversed course today and said it will not offer its Nexus One handset on the Verizon Wireless network. The reason for the decision is a secret but almost certainly represents a large…
Among them, Verizon Wireless, AT&T (NYSE: T), Sprint (NYSE: S), and T-Mobile have almost 260 million wireless subscribers in the US. The population of the US is 305 million people and some of those are…
Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) margins must be under pressure. In its latest earnings report its said that its forecast the global handset market was intact. It also said it market share would rise to 33% from…
QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is back to getting a cold shower after earnings. If this feels familiar, it is because the same happened last quarter. The CDMA chipset maker posted earnings of $0.59 EPS…
In one of the more ho-hum announcements in recent memory, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Spain’s Telefonica S.A. (NYSE :TEF) today announced a strategic alliance to “develop future products and services designed around enhanced data-first…
Less than two years ago Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) was a $150 stock. Recently, however, pressure from new smartphones, particularly the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, taken together with the general market sell-off…
Microsoft (MSFT) launched its new KIN handsets today. The description in the press release made it almost impossible to understand how the smartphone works and what its market might be. One thing that Redmond…
The new Apple (AAPL) iPhone operating system, known as OS 4.0, was only introduced two days ago. Hackers have already broken into the system so that they can run pirated software on the handset.
Apple’s (AAPL) cost to build its new iPad is extraordinarily low compared to what the firm charges consumers. iSuppli, a research firm which analyzes hardware expense of goods, estimates the total cost to build an iPad is…
Verizon (VZ) CEO Ivan Seidenberg must never have used an Apple (AAPL) iPhone which runs on the AT&T (T) Wireless network. The Ma Bell cellular service is notorious for dropped calls and slow 3G service.…
Most market experts would not have expected Apple’s (AAPL) market value to have passed Walmart’s (WMT) or GE’s (GE). But, it has even though the maker of the iPad and iPod had revenue of only $36…
A strategic document obtained by Caixin describes China Mobile’s plans for multilevel cooperation on the wireless media frontier.