Six out of 10 doctors prefer iPhones
Healthcare professionals would seem a natural market for smartphones, especially if the Obama administration makes good its campaign promise to computerize U.S. health care records.
But which smartphone will doctors and nurses be using?
Software Advice, an Austin-based resource for software buyers, tried to answer that question last week. In what it admits was not a “super-scientific”...
Apple vs. Palm: Fresh shots across the bow
To the delight of a flotilla of tech writers, Palm (PALM) has responded to the shot Apple (AAPL) fired across its bow last week with a cheeky little blast of its own.
The issue is whether Apple will continue to allow the Pre to sync seamlessly with iTunes, the feature of Palm’s whizzy new smartphone that...
Apple plays softball with Palm
As you may have heard, Apple (AAPL) on Wednesday pulled the plug on a much-hyped feature of the Palm Pre: its ability to sync seamlessly with iTunes.
On Thursday Palm’s (PALM) shares took a nosedive, falling 7.4% in early trading from Wednesday’s high as the rest of the market was enjoying a midsummer bull run.
But by...
Pre developers, start your engines; users, submit your ideas
After stressing...
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...
Taking flight: why the iPhone still beats Pre for air travel
If you're one of the handful of people who follows me on Twitter, you know that I (plus wife and...
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...
iTunes 8.2.1 Released, Rains on Palm Pre’s Parade