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• BlackBerry shakeup: Too little, too late for marketers?

  January 24, 2012

  BlackBerry maker Research In Motion's effort this past weekend to dig itself out of a hole by replacing the top leaders may not warm the hearts of marketers looking to place bets on mobile platforms that will pull their weight through this decade.

• Nokia bets on smarter feature phones with Smarterphone acquisition

  January 9, 2012

  Nokia is betting that mobile customers in developing nations will want smartphone-like devices and not the real thing.

• Can a Google tablet compete against iPad, Kindle Fire?

  December 28, 2011

  Google could be the next technology company to throw its hat into the tablet ring, but can a Google tablet compete with the immensely popular iPad and recent newcomer Kindle Fire?

• Research In Motion’s problems multiply

  December 19, 2011

  Research In Motion said late last week that it expects to launch smartphones powered by its new QNX operating system later in 2012 – several months later than it had previously promised.

• Is there room for tablets other than the iPad and Kindle Fire?

  December 7, 2011

  The tablet market has claimed another victim, with Dell announcing that the Streak 7 is no longer available in the United States.

• RIM PlayBook feels the heat from Kindle Fire

  December 5, 2011

  Research In Motion’s recent decision to write off $485 million worth of PlayBook tablet inventory points to the influence that Amazon’s Kindle Fire is having on the tablet market.

• Is a failed AT&T/T-Mobile USA deal good news for handset makers?

  November 29, 2011

  AT&T and Deutsche Telekom recently withdrew their application with the Federal Communications Commission for approval of the proposed AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA.

• The perils of a confused mobile strategy for Hewlett-Packard

  November 10, 2011

  The last couple of months have not been easy for WebOS developers, with the future of the mobile operating system in question as Hewlett-Packard considers what role to play in the mobile space.

• Will Nokia’s Windows embrace win over US consumers, carriers?

  October 31, 2011

  The lukewarm reception for Nokia’s first smartphones on the Windows Phone operating system suggests the company has work cut out for it in terms of gaining a bigger role in the United States mobile space.

• HP embraces PC tablets, undecided about media tablets

  October 31, 2011

  HP is not exiting the tablet business after all and will make new tablets on the Windows 8 platform as it looks to compete in the enterprise space, the company said last week.

• Sony races Apple to deliver integrated TV-mobile experiences

  October 28, 2011

  Sony said this week that it is acquiring Ericsson’s stake in the 10-year-old Sony Ericsson mobile handset business for $1.47 billion. The move could boost Sony’s role in mobile by allowing it to create content-driven smartphones that integrate across multiple screens.

• Siri cofounder leaves Apple as iPhone 4S sales continue to grow

  October 27, 2011

  Dag Kittlaus, the cofounder of Apple’s new voice-recognition search and personal assistant Siri, has left the company just weeks after the iPhone 4S debuted.

• Apple: iPad market will be larger than PC

  October 19, 2011

  Sales of iPads were up 166 percent during Apple’s most recent fiscal quarter, with the company predicting that the tablet market will be bigger than the PC market.

• Record-breaking iPhone 4S pre-orders reflect strength of Apple brand

  October 11, 2011

  With pre-orders for the new iPhone 4S breaking previous records, consumers once again show that they will embrace new Apple products regardless of how the tech community receives them.

• Apple’s Steve Jobs passes away

  October 5, 2011

  Steve Jobs, the man who led Apple to a phenomenal comeback from a near-death experience and went on to change the way consumers live, work and play, passed away Oct. 5 after a long spell of illness.

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