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iPhone versus Blackberry: Horse race or Deathmatch?

November 12, 2009

Infoworld’s product review format in the 1990’s was famous.  It consisted of a detailed and hard hitting qualitative review, accompanied by a grid rating the reviewed product on a number of different critieria.  Finally a weighted average of those criteria scores produced a single numeric score.  Many a company was made or ruined by that [...]

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BlackBerry Doomed?

October 29, 2009

Toktumi’s Peter Sisson asks Is the BlackBerry Doomed? and goes on to compare his recent experience of developing for BlackBerry with his experience as an iPhone developer.  Many of his complaints – non-standard hardware and OS versions in particular – are the same issues we ran into two years ago when we developed and delivered [...]

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RIM buys TorchMobile, gains modern mobile browser

August 24, 2009

So there you have it.  RIM acquires TorchMobile, putting to bed the endless complaints about their browser, and fulfilling the promise made just days ago that they would provide an iPhone class browser on BlackBerry by next summer. TorchMobile are none other than the creators of the WebKit-based Iris browser.  The good burghers of Waterloo [...]

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Verizon courts developers too late?

July 14, 2009

GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham interviewed Verizon’s Ryan Hughes yesterday about the mobile application store that Verizon is building.  Developers will be able to build applications for whatever platform they want from Windows Mobile, Palm, Android and BlackBerry and receive a revenue share for whatever is delivered on the Verizon network.  The carrot? Developers can also tap [...]

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The meaning of Nokia’s poor results

April 17, 2009

As a mobile phone user I’m sure I’m a bit of an oddball.  I regularly carry two devices – an iPhone and a Nokia N95 – and have a small collection of handsets that I’ve used at one point or another over the years.  I carry the iPhone because it’s hands down the best mobile [...]

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Will mobile rebels suffer the same fate?

November 16, 2008

Doug Mohney’s The Fallen – Crashed and struggling VoIP companies is worth a read, if for no other reason than to learn the fates of some of the companies we have all known in the VoIP industry.  One could summarize what he has written as: the carrier competitors,  excepting Vonage, ran out of money.  Vonage [...]

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Why WebKit make sense for MSFT

November 7, 2008

Speculation that Microsoft might replace the IE rendering with WebKit is running high this morning after remarks made by Steve Ballmer in Australia.  Although hardly a ringing endorsement of WebKit, here’s why Steve (and Steve Sinofsky, Mr. Windows) should consider this: The battle to own the presentation layer of the Web was lost long ago.  [...]

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BlackBerry finally gets Truphone

October 29, 2008

Great news for the travelling BlackBerry user yesterday came in the form of an announcement from Truphone that Truphone is beta-testing software for the BlackBerry. Users of Nokia devices and the Apple iPhone have had Truphone for some time, and are already accustomed to Truphone’s low low international calling rates.  Best of all, early reports [...]

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Squawk Box October 22: RIM Announcements

October 22, 2008

This morning’s discussion focused on the announcements RIM made at their developer conference yesterday. RIM’s application store is coming in March, and developers will get 80% of the revenue from the store, as opposed to the 70% that Apple is offering. Plus:  New Web Tools Become Available (still using Java as foundation); WebSignals allows developers [...]

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RIM unveils a storefront

October 22, 2008

Yesterday RIM announced the BlackBerry Application Storefront and BlackBerry Application Center, their response to the undeniable success that Apple has had with the iPhone AppStore.  Kudos to RIM for creating opportunities for developers outside the carrier orbit, and for paying attention to customer experience when it’s clearly the winning strategy here.  Moreover, RIM’s choice to [...]

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