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Windows Phone Thoughts: AT&T set to release multiple Windows Phones
That makes a total of six devices for [AT&T] who is looking more and more like the premier Windows Phone 7 partner. via Windows Phone Thoughts: AT&T Set to Release Multiple WP7 Devices. With Verizon shaping Android into…
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IBM CEO: the PC era ended three years ago
But one area where IBM won’t compete with HP is personal computers. In 2005, IBM sold its PC business to China’s Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion. The PC era, Mr. Palmisano said Tuesday, ended three or four years ago. “We…
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What Apple and Android owe to Symbian and RIM
Following up on survey data showing that up to 25 percent of Americans have moved to smartphones, here is another survey (Comscore) which shows that US smartphone users are at about 23 percent. Comscore also surveyed…
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Per Lindberg predicts things
“The N8 is certainly a step in the right direction, it’s much more multimedia,” Per Lindberg, an independent technology analyst at MF Global in London, told Marayam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television’s “Countdown.” “But…
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Nielsen: Nearly 25 percent of US adults use smartphones
Nearly all U.S. adults have cell phones, and 1 in 4 uses a smart phone, compared with about 16 percent last year, Carson said. Nielsen, which surveyed 4,000 mobile-phone subscribers in August, predicts that the majority…
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iPad in the enterprise: Once the head goes, the body follows
In my talks with about 100 senior-level people at as many companies over the past six months, the feeling is that the tablet is here to stay and it’s going to be bigger than everyone expected it to be. It’s an always-on,…
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FaceTime and the elevation of emotion over function
With 50 million clients installed likely this year, FaceTime is a service which may have potential. By potential I mean, of course, its potential to make a dent in the universe, the universal goal Jobs has set for Apple…
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When will the smartphone become a commodity?
I am taking a comment thread and promoting it to an article so as to expose it to a larger audience. There are two points of view: Ariel writes: I believe that next year and perhaps the year after that will see intense…
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Horace Dediu (asymco) on Twitter
Having been literally inundated by one request, here is my Twitter page: Horace Dediu (asymco) on Twitter. Let the following begin.