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Posted at January 9, 2012 by 0 Comment

iOS Market Share Up From 26% In Q3 To 43% In Oct/Nov 2011

According to a new report from research firm NPD, iOS’s U.S. market share (by sales) jumped from 26% in the third quarter of 2011 to 43% by October and November. Android, however, came out on top, with 47% market share during those two months, down from 60% in Q3. Says NPD, over the course of 2011, the smartphone battle saw iOS and Android distancing themselves from the competition, turning it into “a two-horse race.” Overall, smartphone sales continue to grow, NPD says, and accounted for two out of every three handsets sold in October/November 2011. For comparison purposes, ...

Category : Android,Apple,Blackberry,Mobile,Windows Mobile 7
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BlackBerry PlayBook’s Next OS Plays To RIM’s Strengths: Email, Calendar, Productivity

CES generally isn’t RIM’s stomping ground, but the Canadian company is here in force. Chief among RIM’s news is details about the upcoming PlayBook refresh. Available for download next month, PlayBook 2.0, as RIM is calling it, seems to right many of the PlayBook’s wrongs. This is the feature set the tablet so badly needed at launch. RIM is finally bringing email to the PlayBook. PlayBook 2.0 will bring a host of new email management tools to the tablet: unified inbox with social network integration, tabbed email, rich-text email editing, multi-account search. The unified inbox sounds like a souped-up ...

Posted at January 09, 2012 by 1 Comment
Category : Blackberry,Mobile
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RIM to license BlackBerry software to rivals?

Could it be a three-in-a-row of drastic measures for BlackBerry makers Research in Motion? A report yesterday suggested co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis would be ousted as co-chairmen of the board. In addition, earlier today a rumour from unnamed sources close to Boy Genius Report suggests RIM will pull everything except for their upcoming BlackBerry 10-based phone, codenamed "London." The next step, according to Jefferies and Company analyst Peter Misek, would see RIM licensing their software to third parties. The same third parties that, as of now, stand as their chief competitors: those that produce ...

Posted at January 06, 2012 by 0 Comment
Category : Blackberry,Mobile
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RIM cancelling all future phones except for Blackberry 10?

Research in Motion may be taking some drastic moves in order to get back its position in the smartphone marketplace. A new rumor at Boy Genius Report, using unnamed sources, claims that RIM has pulled the plug on all of its future smartphone products except for the one that will be using RIM's upcoming Blackberry 10 operating system. The smartphone that will run Blackberry 10 is currently being developed under the code name London. The story claims that RIM is shopping the smartphone around to wireless carriers. RIM has already announced that the first smartphone with Blackberry 10 running ...

Posted at January 06, 2012 by 0 Comment
Category : Blackberry,Mobile
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RIM board looking to replace co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie as chairman?

The Financial Post is reporting that the RIM board may soon be looking to replace co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie as chairman. According to the report, RIM is facing constant pressure from the shareholders and is looking to replace the current co-chairman roles with Barbara Stymiest, an independent director who joined RIM's board back in 2007. A committee of independent directors have been examining the structure of RIM's board, and while Lazaridis and Balsille would remain co-CEOs, a single chairman would take their place on the board of directors. What are your thoughts? Would this be a good move for ...

Posted at January 03, 2012 by 0 Comment
Category : Blackberry,Mobile,Technology News
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