Articles tagged with: Blackberry and Iphone

Wireless Census Reveals Shifts in Types of Wireless Devices in Use in Nth America

Wireless networking service provider, Meraki has released a one-day snapshot of the devices accessing its network in North America. The number of client devices, such as laptops and handheld devices, observed by the same set of Meraki access points grew dramatically by 41% from 149,687 devices on June 2nd 2008 compared to 211,190 on June 1st 2009.  more

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Business meets leisure as small businesses opt for converged devices

The use of social networking and business applications is fuelling a surge in the numbers of small businesses turning to converged devices such as iPhones and blackberry smartphones, according to research conducted by O2 in the UK.  more

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Blackberry LBS Apps 4-Times More Expensive Than iPhone, Android LBS Apps

Wi-Fi hotspot based location services provider, Skyhook Wireless has released a report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace and blackberry App World.  more

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General Mills Cooking With First iPhone App

Even Betty Crocker is using the iPhone. As marketers seek to strike a chord with time-pressed consumers, they've begun to turn to mobile devices. more

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RIM Unseats Apple in Smartphone Sales Ranking

According to The NPD Group, an aggressive "buy-one-get-one" promotion by Verizon Wireless helped RIM's blackberry Curve move past Apple's iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter (Q1) of 2009. RIM's consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in Q1 2009 versus the prior quarter, as Apple's and Palm's share both declined 10 percent each.  more

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Palm Pre Aims at the iPhone, Preliminary Cost Analysis Reveals

Palm is aiming high with its new Pre, a smart phone that rival's Apple's iPhone in terms of slickness - and in terms of hardware features - according to a virtual teardown conducted by iSuppli.  more

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Rogers 1st-Quarter Revenues Up but Profits Down

Canada's Rogers Wireless has reported a rise of 5% in first-quarter revenues to CA$2.75 billion (US$2.25 billion), but a slight dip of 2% in net profits to CA$256 million (US$210 million). Wireless network revenue grew by 8% year-over-year driven by postpaid net subscriber additions of 104,000, data revenue growth accelerating by 43% to 20% of network revenue, and a further reduction of postpaid churn to 1.09%.  more

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Mobile Handset Market Stays Afloat with 258 Million Shipped in 1Q-2009

Despite tough corporate and unemployment news making the headlines, the mobile handset-buying public did not head to the hills during the first quarter of 2009. Handset vendors had shipped 258 million handsets by the end of the quarter. Although that represents an 11% year-over-year decline, the result significantly exceeded the previous forecast of 253.5 million. "Green shoots are sprouting," is how ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders describes the latest figures.  more

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Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech

This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli.  more

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Study Finds Disconnect Between Smartphone Adoption and Ability to Manage Mobile Devices

The mobile device automation vendor, Zenprise has published the findings of an Osterman Research study which found that most enterprise IT departments are not equipped to handle the rapid increase in smartphone adoption. Of those surveyed, only two in five expressed confidence that all elements of their mobile messaging platform are fully protected against downtime.  more

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