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“Media tablet hype around devices such as the iPad has also affected consumer notebook growth by delaying some PC purchases, especially in the U.S. consumer market. Media tablets don’t replace primary PCs, but they…
In an interview with PCMag, Rubin said, “Look, the world doesn’t need another platform. Android is free and open; I think the only reason you create another platform is for political reasons. Why doesn’t the whole world…
Now that NYT and WSJ were both tipped off about the coming of a CDMA iPhone, I think it’s a safe bet. Is this significant? What is the CDMA addressable market? Here is a chart showing for the “CDMA 3G” subscribers…
The contact, says [Ticonderoga’s] White, shipped more than 6 million parts to Apple during the third quarter of the year and expects to ship 7 million more in the fourth quarter. Since Apple uses one unit of this…
With the number of active Nokia service users now reaching 140 million worldwide, the company today announced that more than 200,000 people are currently signing up daily to Ovi, and that Ovi Store has reached the…
“I am sure there are things we could have done better and innovations we missed,” Ms. Suominen added. “But that happens to all companies. We have been very successful with some other innovations.” She cited Nokia’s large…
Despite being based on Android, a Facebook phone would be competition for Google as much as it is for Apple. Google benefits from ad revenue tied to their search and other services which would likely be supplanted by…
The operator instinct for consumer hostility knows no national boundaries. Here is a table with no less than 100 numbers to ponder when deciding on an iPhone plan: Contract plans for iPhone at China Unicom.
Since wireless subscriptions in the US are running at about 100% penetration, it’s possible to classify the wireless subscribers as representative of the entire population. So it’s safe to categorize the population of…
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…