Another Move To Make Th...
The iPad has, quite quickly, become the tablet of choice for enterprises, with some 97 percent of all tablet activations in Q1 of 2012 attributable to Apple’s tablet, according to Good Technology . So it comes as no surprise that apps are rushing into the wake of those purchases to...
Why Can’t BlackBerry ...
Horace Dediu at Asymco has run the numbers and it’s not looking good. Samsung and Apple now control an estimated 99% of vendor profits with HTC scraping in with 1%. BlackBerry and Nokia barely register and, in fact, form a loss. First, I’d like to note why Dediu believes...Pusher Man: Verizon Rep...
A post on CNN Money found that during a quick assessment of 10 Verizon stores and reps in New York – arguably a small sample size – the representatives would pitch Verizon’s Android’s 4G phones over the “old fashioned” 3G iPhone. Said one rep:...
Decide.com Brings Its P...
Smart shopping service Decide.com , which started off with a focus on consumer electronics before its recent addition of home appliances , is a unique player in the comparison shopping market. The service doesn’t just return prices and reviews, it actually tells whether to buy or...
Fly Or Die: Draw Someth...
Draw Something has been a hot topic of late. About a month ago, OMGPOP, the company behind the hit game, was acquired by Zynga as the web gaming company attempts the migration over to mobile. The $180 million deal took Zynga’s daily user traffic up 25 percent , and even though Draw...Android Is Either “Wi...
In September 2010, I wrote a post that ignited an absolute shitstorm around these parts. “Shitstorm” in this case meaning a post with a thousand comments, the majority of which were spewed up by rabid Android fanatics. The title of that post: Is Android Surging Only Because...Yuri Milner, Dave Morin...
For a social network that’s, for lack of a better term, monogamous , social network for couples Pair has just raised funding from so many high-profile investors I’m having trouble picking who to include in this headline, and seriously running out of the room. Investors in the...Samsung Is The New King...
Sammy is now the big kahuna of cell phones. Today’s Juniper Research and comScore reports indicated that Samsung kicked Apple from the top spot in regards to smartphones. IDC also released a report today indicating the same thing while noting that Samsung kicked Nokia from the top...
Sony’s Gamer-Friendly...
Sony’s Android-powered Xperia Play debuted to mixed reviews last year, but according to a newly published patent, Sony was apparently toying with the idea of making something much more interesting before settling on the design they ran with. Not content with a single physical...