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The UPhone will run on a “totally new” operating system that Unicom developed based on Linux, Zhang Zhijiang, who heads the company’s technology department, said in an interview today at the Mobile Asia Congress in Hong…
Samsung’s mobile marketing lead for the country, Sitthichoke Nopchinabutr, also provided a surprise and hinted that the company might turn on Google and focus primarily on Windows Phone. About 15 to 20 phones based on…
Morgan Stanley’s Web 2.0 update came out yesterday and it’s full of nice charts. Here is one: Note that the expectation for smartphones to overtake all PCs (including netbooks) will happen when smartphones sell more than…
You really can’t stress this point enough: We’re a decade past Napster, but the music industry still runs on CD sales. In Warner’s case, digital now accounts for 25 percent of overall revenue. via Warner Music Renews…
iOS has nearly three times more games than the previous twenty-five years of gaming combined. via The staggering size of iOS’s game collection. Most of the comments in the linked article complain that there is no filter…
Operators “had high hopes until 2007 or 2008,” said Patrik Karrberg, a researcher in the London School of Economics’ Department of Management. The hopes dimmed after the emergence of iPhones and improved data speeds that…
In other words, to differentiate and succeed in the mobile device space, you need to own a veritically integrated stack strategy — software, hardware and services — like the one Palm is now building out with the help of…
People throw around the idea of things being or becoming “commodities” but there is little clarity about what “commodity” status implies. If you look up the word, it has nothing to do with technology or innovation. In…
I updated to Basic Maths theme v. 1.1. I am trying a new, “native” theme iPhone users. Please let me know if there are problems with it in the comments below.
When I applied the modularity dichotomy to smartphone operating system there were several implications that came to light. One was the question of whether the market has reached the point where products were “good…