More Galaxy S III vs. the iPhone
People who review smartphone products are giddy over the new Galaxy S III, and the consensus is growing that the product is better than the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone in many ways. According to…
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The Samsung Galaxy S III is supposed to have the most impressive launch in the US based on sales since the release of the Apple iPhone 4S. UK sales have already been remarkable. One…
What Does The Microsoft Surface Cost To Build?
Speculation continues about what the success or failure the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Surface tablet will be. One of the observations about the machine is that Microsoft kept its development secret from all of the…
Nokia Deathwatch: Breakup & Liquidation Value Over Operating Value (NOK, RIMM, GOOG, AAPL, MSFT)
If you have not asked yourself about the ultimate death of Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK), it is time to rethink this situation as one which is growing more and more likely each month. It…
Microsoft’s Surface and the Problem of Branding
Huge South Korean electronics company LG Electronics will abandon its tablet PC effort, according to Bloomberg. LG is among the five largest cellphone makers in the world. It should have the ability to make…
Verizon’s Super-Fast Broadband
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has launched what it calls that FiOS Quantum Internet. The product runs on its fiber network, which connects millions of homes. Verizon invested $23 billion in this infrastructure as it tries…
Nokia Fires 10,000 as Its “Burning Platform” Gets Smaller
NokiaWhat CEO Stephen Elop called Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) “burning platform” just got much smaller. He described Nokia with that analogy immediately after he joined Nokia just over a year ago. The company will fire 10,000…
New Voice/Data Plan Good for Verizon, Not So Good for Users (VZ, VOD, T, S, DTEGY, PCS, LEAP)
Less than a month ago, Verizon Wireless indicated that it would adopt a data plan that would allow its users to share data among a number of different devices, instead of having to have…
Rumor: Is Nokia Really Takeover Bait? (NOK, RIMM, AAPL, GOOG)
NokiaNokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) has been one of the greatest disasters in telecom and communications out there as far as raw market value lost. Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is a runner-up, and the giant…
Apple-Motorola Suit Dismissed: Judge is Not Impressed (AAPL, GOOG, ORCL)
US District Court Judge Richard Posner has decided, for the moment, to dismiss two-year old patent litigation involving Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Motorola Mobility, now merged with Google Inc.(NASDAQ: GOOG). The trial, scheduled…
As Virgin Mobile USA Gets iPhone, Apple Running Out Of Distributors (S, LEAP, AAPL, T, VZ)
Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) already has the iPhone for its namesake brand. Now we have word that its Virgin Mobile USA is following the lead of Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) by…
Apple’s Best Hope — Block Samsung in the U.S.
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) best hope to keep from losing substantial market share to Samsung in the United States is to block the distribution of the South Korean firm’s new Galaxy S III. The Samsung smartphone has sold…
Android to Top Mobile Operating Systems, But Windows Will Outpace iOS by 2016 (GOOG, AAPL, MSFT, NOK, RIMM)
Growth in mobile phone shipments this year is expected to be about 4%, the lowest growth rate since 2009. That’s according to the latest global mobile phone tracking data from IDC. Total phone shipments…
Cheap Nokia Phones
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched a line of inexpensive touchscreen phones, perhaps to offset its failure in the high end of the smartphone market. Tens of millions of people around the world still do…
Netflix to Build Its Own Content Network (NFLX, INTC, GOOG, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, AKAM, LVLT, LLNW)
Yesterday’s announcement from Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) that the company would its own content delivery network (CDN) based on the Open Connect standard. White-box provider Intequus will build the servers which will feature 100…