RIMs next BlackBerry Curve will be all touch-screen, according to online rumors. RIMs roadmap is a source of speculation as it gears to compete with Apple and Google. – Research In
Motions next Curve will be touch-screen only, according to specs leaked on a
BlackBerry rumor blog.
The Canadian
company, currently fighting to maintain its share of the smartphone market in
the face of fierce competition from the Apple iPhone and Google Android, is staying
firmly …
News Analysis: AT&T doesnt have any time to waste once it loses its exclusive right to sell the Apple iPhone. It needs to play its cards right to keep the advent of the Verizon iPhone from slowing its growth. – Feb. 10 will be a landmark
day for Verizon as it begins selling the Apple iPhone. AT amp;T, on the other
hand, wont have much to cheer about. Over the past few years since the
iPhones launch in 2007, AT amp;Ts exclusivity deal in the United States has
helped the company generate boatloads of cas…
AT&T posted a strong quarter and customer additions that put it ahead of Verizon despite, it said, there being “no secret” that Verizon was getting an iPhone. – AT amp;Ts
pending loss of exclusive rights to the Apple iPhone cast a shadow over its
fourth quarter 2010 earnings call on Jan. 27, despite AT amp;Ts strong showing
on the wireless front; the carrier announced nearly 10 percent growth in
wireless revenue and the addition of 2.8 million wireless …
While New Year’s resolutions come and go with alarming speed, the determination to squeeze more productivity out of your working days is always a worthwhile endeavor. As small business owners struggle to do more with less, Apple iPhone owners can look to the App Store for applications designed to increase productivity and streamline workflows. The wealth of applications is aimed at everyone from road warriors to IT managers, offering such helpful selections as flight trackers, to-do lists and motivational calendars. In addition, many of these apps are free or available for under $5, and many are also available for Apple’s popular iPad tablet computer. With an emphasis on cost-saving as the economy stabilizes, small businesses should be on the lookout for technologies that increase productivity without breaking the bank& and in an increasing emphasis on mobility and an "always-on, always connected" mentality, these apps might be just what your business needs to stay competitive in 2011. Here’s a look at 10 applications designed to help you and your business do exactly that. – …
Verizon said it’s moving smartphone customers to its $30 unlimited plan. The plan reporteldy initally will include iPhone users, but only for a short amount of time. – Verizon Wireless has been preparing to launch a Code Division Multiple Access version of the Apple iPhone for nearly as long as consumers and the media have been speculating that the carrier would offer one, executives said during the carriers fourth-quarter earnings announcement.
“Weve been prepar…
RIM will soon introduce BlackBerry Balance software, a RIM executive told Reuters. The software offers a secure method of separating personal and professional data. – BlackBerry smartphones and enterprise users were for some time an undisputed duo. But just as Research In
Motion has gradually made inroads into the consumer market, popular consumer
devices such as the Apple iPhone and Google Android
-running smartphones have even more swiftly encroached on RIMs…
Without an Apple iPhone to help boost sales and grow customer numbers, T-Mobile is banking on Android, an eventual move to LTE and potentially selling its towers. – Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile, America’s
fourth-largest carrier after Verizon Wireless, AT amp;T and Sprint, is gearing
up to more effectively compete against its larger rivals. Without an Apple
iPhone to help it, the carrier’s game plan includes eventually upgrading to an
LTE (Long-Term Evolu…
OneNote, the note-taking application in Microsoft Office is available as a free download for the Apple iPhone from the iTunes store for a limited time in the United States. – OneNote, Microsofts note-taking application, is available
as a free download for the Apple iPhone and is available from the iTunes store,
Microsoft said on Jan. 18.
OneNote Mobile
for the iPhone is currently available in the United States only, with additional
locations to be announced as they …
News Analysis: Verizons introduction of its own version of the Apple iPhone will bring changes to every major U.S. carrier, not just to Verizon and AT&T. – The announcement by Verizon Wireless that the company soon would be selling a CDMA/EVDO version of Apples popular iPhone has an impact that goes far beyond customers who want an iPhone but dont want AT amp;T.
Verizon Wireless is expected to sell millions of iPhones
once they become available o…
A new survey from ChangeWave is the latest to suggest that the wireless industry is headed for a shake-up, with the February arrival of Verizons iPhone. – In more bad news for AT amp;T, a Jan. 13 study from ChangeWave
is the latest to suggest that the original Apple iPhone provider may suffer a
customer exodus once Verizon begins selling its own long-awaited iPhone Feb.
10.
Days before Verizons big Jan. 11 announcement “We are
pleased to intro…
News Analysis: People shopping for a new Apple iPhone finally will be able to evaluate the different features and services offered by two different major U.S. wireless carriers, Verizon and AT&T. – Smartphone shoppers in the U.S. finally have what theyve been dreaming of for the past three years, the ability to buy an Apple iPhone for a wireless carrier other than AT amp;T.
As predicted since mid-2010, the iPhone 4 is indeed coming to Verizon. Verizon President and COO Lowell McAdam and App…
Good news, Techies: Verizon Wireless users are welcoming a new addition to the smartphone family: Apple’s iPhone 4! The Apple iPhone 4 for Verizon goes on sale to customers on Feb. 10, ending AT&T’s nearly four year monopoly on the hotly-sought after gadget. Though the Verizon iPhone is not expected to tap into the carrier’s [...]
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Some Apple iPhones didn’t ring in the New Year, and customers are angry about the alarm-application malfunction. – While it might not sound as harrowing as the legendary Y2K bug that threatened to melt down every computer on the planet (depending on whom you talked to), Apple iPhone users rang in the New Year with a glitch in the clock application of their devices that caused the alarm function to stop working a…
Samsung reports its Galaxy S smartphone has shipped 10 million units, meeting its sales target for the Android-based device. – Samsungs Galaxy S smartphone has shipped some 10 million
units since its June 2010 release date, according to the company. That meets
Samsungs sales target for the device, which faces stiff competition not only
from the Apple iPhone but other Android offerings.
“Based on their brand power and th…
The updated iPads will support a combination of Wi-Fi, UMTS and CDMA capabilities, according to the report – Apple is planning to release three different versions of its update to the popular iPad tablet, according to
Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes. The claims come on the heels
of a report published earlier this week in the publication, which
quoted unnamed Apple iPhone suppliers saying Apple …
Are Skype and Apple poised to enable video calling on the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad and iPod? – Is Skype video calling for the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad
coming?
Engadget
is reporting that early on Dec. 24, there was a help document on the Skype site
detailing how to place video calls using Skype for iPhone.
quot;Youll just have to trust us, it was there! We swear!, quot; wrote the tech s…
Apple iPhone suppliers claim the company has increased its target iPhone 4 shipment numbers for Q1 2011. – With sales of the fourth generation of its popular iPhone smartphone
still going strong, computer maker Apple is taking steps to ensure supply meets
demand. The company raised its shipment goal for the first quarter of 2011 to
around 20 million iPhones, the technology blog DigiTimes reported.
T…
Microsoft came back from the brink in 2010, reversing a period of declining revenues as businesses and consumers began their post-recession tech refresh. Windows 7 continued to sell well, as did the companys business products. However, Microsoft continued to lose ground in smartphones to fierce competitors such as Google Android and the Apple iPhone, prompting the company to restart its entire mobile franchise with Windows Phone 7. At the same time, Microsoft also embraced an "all in" cloud strategy, seeking to expand beyond its traditional strengths in desktop software. That strategy includes offerings such as Office 365, which combines subscription applications such as SharePoint Online and Lync Online, and Windows Azure, its cloud-development platform. By doing so, Microsoft hopes to blunt the competitive effect of Google and other players in the cloud arena. Despite its aggressiveness in the cloud, however, Microsoft failed to capitalize early on the burgeoning tablet market. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has indicated that his company will leverage Intels upcoming "Oak Trail" Atom processors for a new generation of Windows tablets, but in the meantime Apples iPad and Android tablets continue to dominate. – …
A nude photo scare, the finale of Hannah Montana, and the bong hit heard round the web helped make teen sensation Miley Cyrus the year’s Most-Searched Person on Yahoo! Yahoo! has tallied up their Top 10 Search Terms of 2010 and the controversial Disney starlet was among six celebrities who made the cut among web [...]
