Apple, Palm seen cutting into BlackBerry sales
Growing competition from new smartphones carved into Research in Motion’s (RIMM) June sales, according to a report to clients issued Wednesday by Piper Jaffray’s T. Michael Walkley.
RIM’s BlackBerry still has a huge market share — nearly 20% of the worldwide smartphone market, second only to Nokia (NOK), according to Gartner — but Walkley’s retail checks...
iPhone wait reduced to 30 minutes in New York City
There were only four customers in the queue to buy an iPhone 3GS when I showed up at Apple’s (AAPL) flagship Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon for what I’d been told would be the lunch-hour crush.
This is where I’d hoped to see iPhone demand collide with iPhone supply. I saw nothing of the...
iPhone share of U.S. smartphone traffic hits 69%
See the blue slice in the pie chart at right? It represents the iPhone’s share of U.S. smartphone traffic on the network maintained by AdMob, one of the companies that run those little ads that appear on the screen of your mobile phone.
We’ve been watching that slice grow over the past few months. In February...
Analyst: Palm has sold 150,000 Pres
With Palm’s (PALM) quarterly earnings due Thursday — along with Jon Rubinstein’s debut performance as CEO — analysts have started to place their bets on what the quarter will show.
First out of the box — or at least, first in our inbox — is RBC Capital’s Mike Abramsky, who expects investors to look past soft...
