Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011, a milestone for the computer industry.
RIM’s First BlackBerry 10 Handset Could Be Smaller Version Of Playbook
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) will be pinning its comeback hopes on the first generation of BlackBerry phones to run its BlackBerry 10 operating system, and it seems to have settled on a design. Leaked media images to a friendly outlet suggest that RIM wants to borrow cues from the Playbook tablet when...
Tablets: Apple’s Lead Narrows Among Widening Field Of Android Makers
With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A report out today from Strategy Analytics said that for Q4 it was Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the company that effectively created the market for tablets two years...
Kantar: Apple Back On Top As Bestselling Smartphone In The U.S.
Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is back on top as the bestselling smartphone in the U.S. Android has managed to hold on to its position in the UK but there, too, Apple massively increased its share...
Nokia Clears The Decks Of Its Burning Platform Ahead Of Results Tomorrow
One day before Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is due to announce its next set of quarterly results, Nokia has made three announcements: a milestone reached with Series 40 feature phone purchases, and a buyer for its manufacturing plant in Romania, and a re-casting of its quarterly results for the three quarters preceding the one...
New RIM CEO Won’t Split Company Up: "I Don’t Think There Is a Drastic Change Needed."
The new BlackBerry boss makes his first (conference) call.
Polar Mobile Raises $6 Million For Magazine Apps, Cross-Platform Services
Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and...
Endgame: RIM’s Balsillie, Lazaridis To Step Down From CEO Roles
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) has finally decided to get serious about its predicament: co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are stepping aside after a disastrous year in which the company squandered its once-dominant position in the smartphone market.
Updated: RIM Said To Court Samsung’s Bid After Pushing Others Away
It’s hard to see Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) making it through 2012 without some sort of massive change, but could that really involve a sale of the company to Samsung? That’s what a new report claims, flying in the face of earlier reports that RIM’s management and board of directors were leaning...
That iPhone Can Be Dangerous! "Saturday Night Live" Wants to Help
And it also wants to mock "the YouTube generation" that it hopes will end up watching these clips.
Has RIM Hired Goldman Sachs To Explore A Merger Or Sale?
BlackBerry maker RIM’s official line has been that it is not for sale, but this week, persistent rumors that it could get bought anyway got another fillip, in the form of a report that the handset maker has hired Goldman Sachs to advise it.
Research: Small Screens Better For Content; Bigger Screens For Productivity
The tablet market is still in its relative infancy and has been largely dominated up to now—both in sales and basic concept—by the iPad from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). But that could be changing in the year ahead, and those making tablets are thinking about what might be the best form factor for their...
