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Articles tagged with: Social Networking and Rim
Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
Related Tags: android, google, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, samsung, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, personal, symbian, smart, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android, churn, os
BlackBerry Users Seem Keen on MySpace
Corporate email phone manufacturer, BlackBerry has announced that over 400,000 of its customers have downloaded an application to connect to the teenage website, MySpace - within a week of it being launched. more
Related Tags: smartphone, smartphones, blackberry, storm, email, connect
As Mobile Web Usage Explodes, Full-Featured Browsers on Smartphones See Strongest Growth
One of the undisputed bright spots in 2008 has been the continued rapid growth of web usage on mobile devices. While growth of web usage is up across all mobile device classes, one of the biggest areas of growth has been smartphones. ABI Research sees this growth continuing over the next five years, with highly capable Internet browsers on smartphones expanding from 130 million in 2008 to 530 million by 2013. more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, iphone, smartphone, rsa, smartphones, abi-research, admob, opera
Maturing Palm Centro Again Signals Need for Innovation
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- As Palm is learning, consumers are a fickle bunch. more
Related Tags: android, google, t-mobile, iphone, smartphone, motorola, t-mobile-usa, apple, apple, ipod, smartphones, sprint-nextel, palm, blackberry, sprint, nextel, jon-rubinstein, chief-financial-officer, operating-system, razr
Apple iPhone's Halo Effect Yet to Reach Software Developers
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Sliding software prices have damped the halo effect many music and software companies expected from selling their products through Apple's iPhone software store. more
Related Tags: motorola, cisco, itunes, ipod, gartner, apple, compete, research-in-motion, app-store, symbian, mobile-music, ben, monkey, mp3, music, razr, true, sega
Two-Thirds of Girls Put Off Tech-Jobs Due to Lack of Role Models
Research published by Research In Motion reveals that nearly 90 percent of girls aged 11-16 think using technology is cool and regularly talk to their friends about it. Just over a third (38%) of them chat about the latest technology on a daily basis - anything from social networking to online gaming and mobile downloads. Despite this love of technology, only a quarter (28%) of girls have considered a career in technology compared to more than half (52%) of boys. more
Related Tags: blackberry, research-in-motion, teenagers, bbc, UK
India to Increase Monitoring of Mobile Phone Records
India's government is to set up a Centre for Communication Security Research and Monitoring to help security agencies intercept mobile phone calls and analyse billing records. The centre will also keep copies of select Call Data Records (CDRs) in a permanent archive, Minister of State for IT and Communication Jyotiraditya Scindia informed Lok Sabha in a written reply. more
Related Tags: encryption, blackberry, research-in-motion, research-on-motion, India
RIM Unveils Application For Facebook On BlackBerry Devices
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Research In Motion said Wednesday that users of its BlackBerry mobile devices will now receive optimized access to popular social networking services from Facebook Inc., amid an effort to bolster the company's appeal to non-business customers. more
Related Tags: t-mobile-usa, t-mobile-usa, cisco, blackberry, research-in-motion, facebook, operating-system, mike-lazaridis
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