All the stories tagged with business
RIM Drops Another 3% In Market Share [NPD Research]
08/22/2011, According to fresh research numbers from NPD, RIM/Blackberry is experiencing another 3% leg down in terms of overall smartphone market share. This gives RIM an 11% market share, while Apple has 29% and Android has 52%. Downwards pressure momentum continues [...]
Hulu Could Be Bought for $2B
08/22/2011, It has been rumored for some time that Hulu was looking for a new owner. However, the valuation and potential buyers are still a hot topic. Although we won’t know for sure until someone actually signs a deal, the Wall [...]
HTC+Beats $300M deal: It’s about differentiation
08/11/2011, HTC is acquiring Beats Electronics LLC, the company behind the Beats audio , visually known as “the red cord”, for $300M. From what HTC’s Peter Chou has said, HTC will effectively be the only smartphone company to integrate its audio [...]
Google, A Patent Attack Victim. Really?
08/03/2011, David Drummond, the Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Google has gone on the record and addressed the patent litigation situation that Google’s Android finds itself into, with foes like Microsoft and Apple, among others, on the other [...]
Samsung Mobile Up, LCD Business Under Pressure
08/01/2011, Samsung has published its quarterly results, and overall, the mobile division is lifting the whole company as the LCD business remains under enormous price pressure. Overall, mobile telephony is still a growing segment of the market, with more than 11% [...]
How Far Can You Leverage a Brand?
06/23/2011, With the launch of an Android-based Sidekick and the close of the Danger service, can the brand recover its status as a cultural icon? The inevitable shuttering of the Danger service earlier this month came and went without a lot [...]
Are We in an ARM Bubble?
05/17/2011, At the moment, a single company is at the very core of the mobile revolution: ARM. From its glorious debuts as Advanced RISC Machine, a computer maker, to its fall to oblivion, to its re-birth as the premier intellectual property [...]
VMWare Horizon App Manager
05/17/2011, VMWare, one of the main force behind cloud computing, has realized that having people use many different services in the enterprise does create some unique challenges. They can be as obvious as remembering many passwords, or as difficult as creating [...]
HP Probook 5330m: a good looking laptop that makes IT managers happy
05/08/2011, As consumers get used to having good looking and entertainment-capable laptops at home, they are also demanding consumer-friendly design and features at work. That’s precisely what HP aims to offer with the Probook 5330m. Using its Forge design philosophy, HP [...]
Motorola XPRT headed to Sprint
05/05/2011, Today, Sprint has announced that they will be adding two new Motorola Android phones catered to the business crowd. First up we have the Motorola XPRT. Sprint’s first Android world phone designed for the business user. It features a 3.1″ [...]
BlackBerry Balance to balance work and play on your BlackBerry phones
05/02/2011, Folks who are tired of having to charge two devices every night just because they need a BlackBerry phone for work and one more for their personal lives, will be glad to know that RIM has officially announced a solution [...]
Nokia E6 officially launched
04/12/2011, Nokia has just removed the covers off their upcoming business Symbian phone – the E6. Next in line after the highly successful E71 and E72 phones, the E6 features the same QWERTY candy bar shape, but this time it packs [...]
Bloomberg releases Businessweek+ magazine app on iPad
04/11/2011, While publishers are busy fighting for a better incentive when selling magazine subscriptions though iTunes on the iPad, Bloomberg has decided to go ahead and release an official magazine app anyway. Called Bloomberg Businessweek+, this app isn’t designed to take [...]