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Apple to maintain tablet lead over Android
Explore reghardware (Apr 11 2012) Marketing
...t reckons some 118.9m of the things will ship this year - almost twice the number shipped in 2011.… Apple to maintain tablet lead over Android RIM, Microsoft elbow in as rivals fight By Tony Smith • Get more from this author 11th April 2012 10:08...
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Gartner Says Worldwide Media Tablets Sales to Reach 119 Million Units in 2012
Explore gartner.com (Apr 9 2012) Marketing
...nits in 2012, a 98 percent increase from 2011 sales of 60 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. Apple's iOS continues to be the dominant media tablet operating system (OS), as it is projected to accoun......ling to consumers as well," Ms. Milanesi said. "This is exactly the same trend that vendors such as RIM had to face in the smartphone market. The difference here is that tablets have ... (Read Full Article)
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Google planning to brand and sell Android tablets
Explore Channel Register (Mar 30 2012) Marketing
...11, Android-based devices including Amazon's Kindle Fire had 32 per cent market share worldwide and Apple's iOS had 64 per cent with others - including HP, RIM and Microsoft - constituting the remainder, Canalys revealed. Tim Coulling, analyst at Canalys, des... (Read Full Article)
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Mozilla Hopes to Break into Smart Phone OS Market
Explore HTML5 (Feb 28 2012) Marketing
...ne, and Google's mobile operating system Android is powering half of those being sold, followed by RIM's BlackBerry models with 22.5 percent and Apple's iPhone (News - Alert) at 18.5 percent, for example. But those statistics do not fully convey the ... (Read Full Article)
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Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Soared in Fourth Quarter of 2011 With
Explore gartner.com (Feb 14 2012) Marketing
...p of the market as their brands and new products clearly stood out. LG, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Research In Motion (RIM) again recorded disappointing results as they struggled to improve volumes and profits significantl......its 2010 Market Share (%) Nokia 422,478.3 23.8 461,318.2 28.9 Samsung 313,904.2 17.7 281,065.8 17.6 Apple 89,263.2 5.0 46,598.3 ... (Read Full Article)
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Brazil sues Twitter over police checkpoint tweets
Explore The Register (Feb 7 2012)
...hen it's the location of a breathalyser-testing point. The US has been having similar debates, with Apple and RIM both excluding police-checkpoint-notification apps from their respective stores, though websites co... (Read Full Article)
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Study: Tablet Market To Hit 125 Million Units
Explore techweekeurope.co.uk (Feb 7 2012) Marketing
...He’s curbed his model to account for market consolidation. Specifically, tablet vendors, including Research in Motion, HP and other Android OEMs, failed to gain any traction versus Apple, Samsung and Amazon. Motorola, HTC, RIM and HP all slashed prices, often quite aggressively, to sell off inventory and grab some market sha...
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RIM brings in new CEO but will it be enough?
RIM has announced it has replaced co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie with Thorsten Heins, the cur......s in new CEO but will it be enough? By Ryan Kim Jan. 22, 2012, 10:14pm PT No Comments * Tweet * * * Research in Motion, scrambling to keep up in a smartphone market it once led, has announced it has replaced co-CEOs M...
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RIM replaces long-time co-CEOs Balsillie and Lazaridis
Explore FierceWireless (Jan 22 2012)
Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, long-time leaders of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM), will step down as co-CEOs and co-chairmen of the struggling company. RIM announced Sunday that COO Thorsten Heins, who joined the company four years ago, will become CEO an......ompany as vice chairman and Balsillie will remain a board member. The management shakeup comes as RIM struggles to stay relevant when faced with competition from ... (Read Full Article)
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Massive Defections from BlackBerry?
Explore IP Carrier (Jan 13 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...on their smart phone wish list, Drippler apparently believes.
The other 75 percent want out of the RIM ecosystem and most of them want either an Android device or iPhone. Massive unhappinessThat might n......ppinessThat might not be especially surprising, given the growth of consumer preferences for either Apple or Android devices. Smart phone forecast
Microsoft devices now are the wild card, though. Massive ...
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Comment Mentions: Microsoft Apple Research In Motion Ltd.
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How Apple won the West (and lost the world)
Explore The Register (Jan 3 2012)
Android, even RIM and Java, taste victory Open ... and Shut The spread of high-end smart phones throughout the rich......world can realistically plan to buy iPhones and iPads. Small wonder, therefore, that as dominant as Apple has been in developed economies, it remains a pipe dream in emerging economies, which continue to b...
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2011 in Review, Reviewed: Telco 2.0 News Review
Explore STL Partners (Jan 3 2012) Business Models
...ne-hacking scandal. It was also the year of Anonymous and WikiLeaks, another data story, the year Apple dominated the industry, and the year the long-delayed Duke Nukem Forever arrived and sank without t......wever, are sold at much the same price anywhere in the world. It's been an exciting few days at RIM, where the two CEOs agreed to accept a dollar each as salary after the company took ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Qualcomm IMS Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Chart: How Google And Apple Won The Smartphone Wars
Explore TechCrunch (Jan 2 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...ference just one year can make. In our Year in Tech post, I pointed out that 2011 was the year that Apple and Google won the smartphone wars. I put together the chart above from comScore U.S. mobile subscr...... from 43.8 percent to 75.6 percent between August, 2010 and November, 2011. During the same period, RIM’s Blackberry tumbled from 37.6 percent to 19.7 percent ...
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The year Flash lost the mobile war: a look back at 2011's top IT stories
Explore Ars Technica (Dec 28 2011)
...h losing the mobile war to HTML5, RSA succumbing to a hack leaving SecurID products exposed, HP and RIM making big mistakes in core markets, cloud services taking off (while suffering some outages), and ......nterprise. Here's a recap of the year's top stories in IT.
Flash loses mobile war to HTML5
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote his "Thoughts on Flash" open letter in April 2010, it was ...
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RIM: Next-generation phones not out till late 2012
Explore World News (Dec 15 2011)
...closed the delay on a conference call with analysts. TORONTO (AP) — BlackBerry (News - Alert) maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Thursday that new phones deemed critical to the company's future will be delayed until la......so has been having a hard time finding a niche in the tablet–computer market, which is dominated by Apple's iPad. RIM continues to enjoy success overseas, but market researcher NPD Group (News ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Google Apple Research In Motion Ltd.
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Nokia says we are Fed up With iPhones
Explore blog.tmcnet.com (Dec 13 2011) Marketing
...es and functions such as bluetooth sharing etc.) so they lost share rapidly.
This in turn allowed Apple to take over the market rapidly wiping away just about everyone immediately and RIM more slowly.
The only thing which has slowed Apple down so far is the abundance of amazing Android-based phones. And Nokia too could become a winner i...
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Comment Mentions: Microsoft Samsung Communications and Technology Blog
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Clearwire to raise $595M via stock offerings
Explore FierceWireless (Dec 6 2011)
... gaming? * Dell discontinues sales of Android Streak 7 tablet * Samsung scores U.S. patent win over Apple * RIM's BlackBerry service outage * HP's decision to kill its webOS device business * Open Range's bankru... (Read Full Article)
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Google Ditches Gmail App Support For BlackBerry
Explore eweekeurope.co.uk (Nov 10 2011)
... its Gmail App for BlackBerry, and won’t be providing any more updates or fixes Google has added to Research in Motion’s ongoing headaches with the news that it is dropping support for its Gmail App for BlackBerry han...... to access Gmail through the mobile web app here in their BlackBerry web browser. The news comes as RIM is haemorrhaging market share worldwide as consumers and businesses increasingly opt ...
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Comment Mentions: Google Apple Research In Motion Ltd.
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With 4S Now Tops Among Big 3, Apple Grabs 52% Of Industry Profits; Doles Out Huge Bonuses
Explore TechCrunch (Nov 5 2011)
...f profits among the top vendors, up from 18 percent last quarter, while HTC accounts for 9 percent, RIM comes in at 7 percent, with Nokia at 4 percent. Though Apple’s 52 percent share of the operating profits of the top eight vendors is impressive in spite of the ...
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Apple iPad Dominance Will Disappear by 2015
Explore eweekeurope.co.uk (Nov 2 2011) Marketing
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...ill own roughly 10 percent of the consumer tablet market by that 2014-2015 timeframe, beating down Research In Motion’s QNX operating system, but losing out to iOS (30 percent) and Android (50 percent). Apple to dominate business markets In the enterprise space, Microsoft will occupy closer to 15 percent of......er to 15 percent of the tablet market, while QNX hovers at around 10 percent – suggesting that both RIM ...
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Microsoft, posting revenue gains, eyes number three smartphone position
Explore TELEPHONY Online (Oct 21 2011)
...n. Microsoft is hoping that these fans, along with those of Xbox LIVE, can draw consumers away from RIM's BlackBerry and earn it that third ring behind Google and Apple. "Now that the deal is closed, we are starting the integration of Skype’s world-class services and ...
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Report: Android tablet market share grows from 2.3% to 26.9% in 12 months
Explore FierceWireless (Oct 21 2011) Marketing
Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and tablets running Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform gobbled up 94 perce......s.
Meanwhile, tablets running Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows got 2.4 percent of the market and Research In Motion's (NASDAQ:RIMM) QNX-based PlayBook tablet scored just 1.2 percent of the market.
Overall, total t...
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BlackBerry Business Users To Switch, Survey Finds
Explore eweekeurope.co.uk (Oct 19 2011)
...s revealed A new survey from Enterprise Management Associates should be causing sleepless nights at Research in Motion. It found that more than 30 percent of BlackBerry users in large enterprises (those with greater th...... indicated they were completely satisfied with their BlackBerry smartphones, versus 44 percent of Apple iPhone users. Increasingly, employees are using their own mobile devices for business purposes, so ...
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RIM considers compensating carriers in wake of BlackBerry outage
Explore FierceWireless (Oct 18 2011) Mobility
Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) co-CEO Jim Balsillie said the company is considering compensating wireless carriers a......ng like that to happen, if it were to happen."
The outage came days ahead of the global launch of Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 4S, and Apple said it sold 4 million devices last weekend. The outage also came ahead of the start of RIM's BlackBerry Developer Conference, which starts today ...
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