Category Archives: blackberry
Google Acquires Patents – and Also Motorola
Google + Moto is the BIG NEWS of the summer. It was big enough to grab me out of my blog vacation. While the pundits are filling the airwaves with analysis on this one , I view it perhaps more … Continue reading
Filed under Acquisitions, advertising, android, Apple, blackberry, Cable, Droid, Google, HTC, iPad, mobile advertising, Mobile Application Stores, mobile commerce, smart phone, Smartphone
Microkia – Birth of a New Species? or Death of Old Ones?
Last Week Nokia announced that they were ditching their Symbian Smartphone OS in favor of Windows Mobile 7. For those consumers who live, work and play in North America this announcement barely warrants a yawn. For the rest of the … Continue reading
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Filed under android, Apple, blackberry, Google, iphone, microsoft, mobile, Mobile Application Stores, mobile commerce, Nokia, smart phone, Smartphone, Windows, Windows Mobile, wireless
HP answers Palm Code Blue
The Smartphone business has been very busy this week. One day before Verizon officially releases the Droid Incredible (I am tracking mine via Federal Express), HP scoops in and acquires Palm. Palm does have some pretty good technology and mobile … Continue reading
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Filed under Acquisitions, blackberry, cloud computing, iPad, iphone, Ipod, microsoft, mobile, mobile advertising, Mobile Application Stores, netbooks, Nokia, smart phone, Smartphone, Social Media, Verizon, wireless
Mobile Content : Case Study for Economic Recovery?
The deluge of economic doom and gloom in the news would make Chicken Little seem like a wide-eyed optimist. Headlines scream at consumers with news like: -Auto Sales Plunge 45% to 27-Year Low -Unemployment Rate hits 8.1%, Most Jobs … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, auto sales, bailout, blackberry, citicorp, iphone, mobile, Mobile Application Stores, unemployment
The Future of Mobile – Without Phone Numbers
The most striking exchange at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the give and take of jabs between Sol Trujillo , CEO of Telestra and Josh Silverman, CEO of Skype. Sol represents the mobile business of the present … Continue reading
Twitter-Versy!
Last week it was reported that Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich) Tweeted himself into the news by giving real time updates as he traveled to Iraq. He was in a delegation led by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio. His … Continue reading
Filed under blackberry, facebook, Iraq, location based services, mobile, politics, social networking, Twitter, Web2.0
