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The Worst Apple App Of The Day: Starbucks

The Apple (AAPL) App Store has about 150,000 applications which have been downloaded more than 3 billion times. Most of the apps are free, but some cost $50 or more. 24/7 Wall St. has…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

The Below Average CEO: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo Of Nokia (NOK)

Average: “an estimation of or approximation to an arithmetic mean”–Webster Among the public companies in the handset business which trade on US exchanges, Nokia  (NOK) has performed the most poorly over the last year. The…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Sony Prepares For A Come-From-Behind Defeat

The Holy Grail of consumer electronics devices is one that would combine the best features of the Apple (AAPL)  iPad, iPod, and iPhone. Sony (SNE) means to introduce products to challenge the Jobs &…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Apple (AAPL) Sues HTC As Handset Wars Intensify

Kodak (EK) sued Apple, RIMM, and Motorola (MOT) for patent infringements. Nokia sued Apple (AAPL). Nokia claims to have patents that the Apple uses in the iPhone. Now Apple (AAPL) has filed a patent suit against…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

QUALCOMM Throws Cash At Falling Stock (QCOM)

This is nearly funny, or at least ironic.  I had been working on a piece to post at 5:00 PM addressing the steady chart meltdown happening at QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM).  It seems as…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Twenty-Six Percent Of US Gets News Via Handset

Twenty-six percent of Americans now get news via their cellphones, according to a Pew Research poll of 2,259 people taken between December 28 and January 19. The study shows that 43% of people under…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Palm Moves Further Down The Road To Obscurity

Palm (PALM) may not be dead, but it is dying. It could not survive that ongoing success of smartphone leaders Apple (AAPL) and RIM (RIMM). The iPhone and Blackberry just keep gaining sales are…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

The Race For The Broadband Baton That No One May Want

Google (GOOG) announced that it will test “superfast” broadband in more than 50,000 households and will offer connection speeds that are in some cases one hundred times faster than current services. It is ironic that the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Wireless Call Quality Drops

A new study by JD Power shows that wireless call quality fell sharply during the last six months. Part of this is undoubtedly due to overloads of 3G networks which are swamped with data. But quality…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

An Attack On Google Wireless Search Market Share

There are occasional conversations among regulators in the US and EU about whether Google (GOOG) has too much of the search engine advertising market. In America, it controls about 70% of the industry. That…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

RIM Warns Of Major Bandwidth Crisis

RIM (RIMM) maker of the iconic Blackberry smartphone, warned that bandwidth has started to become scarce in markets like the US. It would make sense. The 3G high-speed infrastructure which was built over a half decade…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Android Gets More Legs

The Barcelona annual telecom meet-up has given Microsoft (MSFT) the chance to unveil its new Window Mobile 7 software. It has also given 24 wireless carriers that chance to unveil a product which will…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Microsoft’s (MSFT) New Mobile Product Is Too Late

Microsoft (MSFT) launched an impressive new version of it mobile operating system. Windows Phone Series 7 will offer Zune multimedia features and game features and functions from the Xbox. Unfortunately, almost no one owns…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago