Motorola: About 40% of Canadian company decision makers considering Android …
Motorola: About 40% of Canadian company decision makers considering Android smartphones for business use Android is becoming popular, Gartner Research estimated their total market share in Q2 2011 hit 43.4%.
Nokia and Microsoft Plan to Conquer North America Market
Chris Weber, who is leading the North American sales group for Nokia, recently shared the company’s strategy on conquering the smartphone market. According to Business Insider, Chris Weber revealed several major plans that are in the pipeline which will take the company to the top of the market and be “one of the greatest turnaround stories in history.” He also shared the same thinking with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop that the smartphone war is a battle of ecosystems (hardware, ...
Blackberry Playbook goes international next month
Unfazed by its recent Playbook recall in the US, Research in Motion has firmed up plans to release the device in the UK. The company’s flagship tablet will hop across the pond to its first international market, where it will go on sale beginning June 16. The news comes very recently after RIM had to put egg on its face by recalling several hundred Playbooks stateside over what it called a faulty software issue.
RIM recalls faulty Playbooks
This is the last thing Research in Motion needs to have in the headlines. The Playbook, regarded as RIM’s last chance to remain relevant in the changing mobile environment, is now the subject of the latest electronics recall. It’s not a sweeping recall, though.
Bits: Turn Your Android Phone Into a Remote Control for Your Home
Google wants people to use its Android software to operate a lot more than just phones and tablets. And at Google I/O, the company’s developers conference in San Francisco this week, the company showed off a future where someone could use an Android phone to turn on and off the lights, the dishwasher, a lamp or a sprinkler system — or anything else they want to.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc : Attracting People With Its Lucrative Deals
05.07.2011–The Xperia Arc is a recently introduced a mobile phone from Sony Ericsson, which is going to turn the fortunes of the company upside down. Sony Ericsson has been extinct in the field of making successful high-end smartphones for some time now, but it is going to be back in business once again as following the launch of the Xperia Arc.
Capcom profits soar with help from record AAA game sales
Good ol’ video games came through for Capcom over the twelve months ending March 31, 2011. The company reported “a history-making milestone” of five million-seller titles in the period, with Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (4.6 million units shipped) leading the pack. Additionally, Dead Rising 2 (2.2M units), Marvel vs.
Nokia phone/tablet strategy leak alleges Windows 8 slates and Vanjoki “backup”
Details on Nokia‘s alleged phone and tablet strategy for 2012 and 2013 have emerged, suggesting that the company is indeed looking to Windows 8 for its slates and that Maemo 6 will be rolled out for one final hurrah before being effectively dropped. Arch insider Eldar Murtazin has spilt the beans, claiming that Nokia is looking to release 5-7 mid-to-high end Symbian^3 handsets in 2012, along with a single tablet.
BlackBerry PlayBook updates “every few weeks” as RIM refines tablet
RIM made life difficult for early reviewers of the BlackBerry PlayBook with nearly daily updates of the QNX OS the tablet is based on, improving and tweaking in the run up to launch. The company isn’t threatening quite the same pace now that the PlayBook is on the market, but it is committing to very frequent updates: every few weeks, in fact.
Playbook launch day sales may be as high as 50,000
Projections show good news for the Blackberry tablet. Research in Motion needs the Playbook to bring the entire company back to relevance in this ever-changing mobile market, and RBC Capital Markets states it may be well on its way. The financial firm anticipates that as many as 50,000 Playbook units were bought from retail stores within the device’s first day on the market, when combined with pre-order numbers.
