Will Samsung Give Away BlackBerrys?
If Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has its way, Samsung will be unable to import many of it most popular smartphones into the Unites States. That would leave the South Korean company the difficult choice of…
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Newest first · Page 71Google Nearly Doubles Android Activations Since December
Speaking at an event to tout Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Motorola division, the company’s chairman — Eric Schmidt — said that Google is now activating 1.3 million Android-based devices every day. Of that number,…
Nokia’s New Phone Announcement: Doesn’t Anybody Here Know How to Play This Game?
Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), with an assist from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) this morning, announced two new smartphones from Nokia that will use Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system. The two tech giants did…
Make-or-Break Day for Nokia (NOK, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)
In what to many investors must seem like a slow-motion effort to revive the company, Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) today will introduce its latest smartphones running the Windows Phone 8 operating system from Microsoft…
Impact of Apple’s Win over Samsung to Hit Chip Makers (AAPL, SSNLF, SWKS, QCOM, AVGO, NXPI, SNDK, INTC, CEVA, RFMD)
Following its recent court victory in a patent infringement suit, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is seeking an injunction on the sale of a number of products from Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF). Sterne Agee’s Vijay…
RIM Market Share Heading Toward Zero
Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) just cannot win in its competition against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and other phone makers using the Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system. The company’s delays for…
RadioShack Ventures into No-Contract Wireless Market with Cricket (RSH, LEAP, AAPL, VZ, T, S)
RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) is at the point that the electronics retailer probably is willing to sell whatever product service will bring people in the door to its stores. The news today is that…
Production Delays Could Mean Short Supplies of the New iPhone
Rumor has it that Sharp has fallen behind schedule on production of screens for Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) latest iPhone, just weeks before a planned launch. In fact, Sharp has not started mass producing…
China Surpasses U.S. in Smartphone Volume
The American media and consumer electronics research groups tend to focus on the state of the smartphone market in the United States. Reports cover the market shares of firms that compete in the phone,…
Google, Apple Talking About Patents — Reuters
The CEOs of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) have been holding private — and so far, secret — conversations on a range of intellectual property issues, and including the current…
The Windows Mobile Experiment Begins
Analysts who watch the smartphone market will not have to wait for the legal battle between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung to advance any further before judging the future of the Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:…
Reality Sets In for Nokia and RIM After Patent-Boost Fades
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) won a decisive patent case victory over Samsung, and it is no surprise that Apple is asking that at least eight Samsung products not be allowed to be…
The Uncertain Future of Google’s Android
The primary concern about the future of mobile operating systems now that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has defeated Samsung in a court battle over patents is that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will be Apple’s…
Nokia Rises in Wake of Apple Patent Win
NokiaNokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) shares are up more than 10%, or above $3.40 a share, in premarket trading. Last week, a U.S. jury awarded Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) $1.051 billion in damages from Samsung…
The Aftermath of Apple vs. Samsung
It may take months for the shock waves from the Samsung legal loss in a patent suit with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to change the smartphone industry’s landscape. Samsung has to immediately decide whether it should redesign…