More signs pouring in the iPhone benefitted big time during the holidays. In particular, new research finds some 36 percent of consumers buying the iPhone 4S between October and December 2011 were abandoning other platforms, such as Android or the BlackBerry. The findings were...More Than Third Of iPhone 4S Buyers Coming From RIM, Android
More signs pouring in the iPhone benefitted big time during the holidays. In particular, new research finds some 36 percent of consumers buying the iPhone 4S between October and December 2011 were abandoning other platforms, such as Android or the BlackBerry. The findings were...RIM Gets New CEO, Chair As Co-Owners Step Down Amid iPhone Pressure
Research in Motion announced over the weekend that the company’s two co-founders have stepped down as co-CEOs of the embattled BlackBerry maker in favor of two relative unknowns. RIM’s Chief Operating Officer Thorsten Heins becomes the new CEO while Royal Bank of Canada executive...Why the Emotional Criticism of iBooks Author Is Wrong
A smattering of journalist authors are freaking out over Apple’s license agreement for the free new iBooks Author tool. ZDnet’s Ed Bott called the license agreement “greedy and evil.” PCmag.com’s Sascha Segan wrote: “Like iBooks Author? Apple now owns you.” Even Daring Fireball’s John Gruber called...Samsunged: TV advert slams Apple’s iPhone over lack of stock turn-by-turn navigation software
Samsung is continuing its anti-Apple rant with a new television commercial titled “Samsunged.” Once more, the South Korean conglomerate laughs off those who would wait in line for a new iPhone. The commercial opens with the familiar scene as line waiters get a visit from their Galaxy SII-toting friend, and they promptly feel envious over...
Demand For Kindle Fire Cooling As Orders Cut In Half
After a red-hot introduction and a hectic holiday period that left Apple looking over its shoulder, orders for Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire tablet are slowing, cut in half to 3 million units for the first quarter of 2012, Friday reports claim. During the last...Windows Phone Will Be More Popular Than iOS In Just Three Years… What? [Report]
It sounds like a plot line straight out of Hollywood: washed-up cell maker teams with down-on-its-luck software giant to overtake a Silicon Valley tech behemoth. But researchers believe 2015 will be the comeback year for Nokia with Microsoft Windows Phone...Forget The iPad, Comrade! Here’s The $1,600 Red Pad, Endorsed By The Chinese Communist Party
Back in 2004, I couldn’t afford $499 for an iPod, so instead I got a 20GB Dell DJ for $299. Honestly, it wasn’t a bad little MP3 player, but it looked like it had been designed by some sort of extraordinary, irradiated orangutan toiling...How much of the school tablet market belongs to Apple?
100% according to a survey of educational technology directors conducted in October
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In the wake of Apple's (AAPL) iPad textbook announcement Thursday, it might be useful to take a second look at Piper Jaffray's October survey of 25 school technology directors. The sample is small, concedes Gene Munster, who conducted the survey, but so...
iOS catches up to Android in December sales, thanks to iPhone 4S
iOS and Android were nearly neck-and-neck in winning the favor of new smartphone buyers during December 2011, according to a recent report by Nielsen. While Android still dominated in overall market share both in current...
China set to surpass 1 billion mobile connections
China is closing in on the 1 billion mobile connections mark, according to a new Wireless Intelligence report. China has always been a world power in wireless, but it’s set to become more significant still as its huge population embraces mobile data services.
Guardly app becomes an on-campus safety tool for students
Personal security app Guardly, which launched back in April 2011 on the iPhone and iPod touch, announced Thursday morning that it will now offer a special program for students at 67 universities and colleges across Canada, designed as an extension of on-campus security measures.
AT&T introducing new data plans for phones and tablets Jan. 22
AT&T announced it would introduce new data plans for phones and tablets on Sunday, Jan. 22. There will be three phone plans: $20 for 300MB, $30 for 3GB, and $50 for 5GB with tethering. While the two tablet plans will be: $30 for 3GB and $50 for 5GB. In the past, AT&T made available $15 for 200MB, $25...
