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Nokia buy Palm? Not so fast…

November 17, 2009

Last week rumours circulated (again) that Nokia might acquire Palm.  Palm shares rallied, but seem to have settled back down this week. The “deal”, after all, is a Wall Street wet dream, and not much more.  It’s true that Nokia’s stock price is suffering and that Nokia’s share is slipping in the smart phone market. [...]

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Does Blackberry need a PR rethink?

October 17, 2009

Gizmodo’s Brian Lam is ticked off.  The Blackberry PR team didn’t provide him with a review unit of the new Storm 2 before launch, and consequently he didn’t write a review. Only the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal got the units, apparently. RIM has consistently ignored bloggers for a very long time, [...]

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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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RIM and Nokia need a Manhattan… project, that is.

July 1, 2009

The Boy Genius has published an angst filled missive directed at RIM on the future of BlackBerry OS.  Here are a few choice quotes: “RIM’s OS is more than antiquated, it’s borderline laughable.” “There’s so many limitations to RIM’s OS, and even RIM’s data network that it offsets all the wonderful things they’ve managed to [...]

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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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Two Bold moves by RIM.

March 5, 2009

RIM stirred the pot yesterday when they unveiled the BlackBerry App World (the new renamed Blackberry application store), and details of their pricing plans leaked out.  The two most important details: RIM has set the pricing tiers for App World, and in the process eliminated $.99 and $1.99 as price points for applications.  Blackberry applications [...]

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Mobile Darwinism at work.

January 26, 2009

Is there a trend underway?  Mobile startups everywhere are looking beyond cheap voice calls as generous minute packages have niched these players into providing cheap international long distance and not much more.  Om Malik profiles several this morning, including the newly “rebooted” iSkoot. The conditions are right for these companies.  As first Apple, then Google, [...]

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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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