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Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.The penalty for being late — really late — to market is almost always more severe than a company wants to admit. Especially a company that had a firm grip on a...
courtesy of SamsungWith more than a billion smartphones in use around the world, it is entertaining, if not instructive, to look at what those phones are used for. Would you be surprised to find out,...
courtesy of Apple Inc.For the three months ending in February 2013, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) widened its lead over Samsung Electronics as the top smartphone OEM in the U.S. by nearly 4%. Apple now...
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel does not tell us a lot that we didn’t already know. The most popular smartphone platform in the United States for the three...
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.Although earnings surprised on the plus side this morning, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) reported lower unit shipments than analysts were looking for, and its subscriber...
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.Today marks the U.S. launch of the new BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen phone from the eponymous BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). The new phone goes on sale at AT&T Inc....
courtesy of Apple Inc.By one analyst’s count, the Chinese will buy about 30% of all mobile phones shipped in 2013, or 240 million units of a total approaching 840 million worldwide shipments. While...
ThinkstockWe have reported at great length how the world of semiconductors has changed drastically in the past five years. A business that was once dominated by personal computers, laptops and...
courtesy of Apple Inc.In a refrain we’ve all heard more than once already, research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) reported today that the U.S. market share leader among smartphone manufacturers...
courtesy of SamsungIn 2013, for the first time, shipments of smartphones are forecast to top sales of feature phones. With shipments expected at 50.1% of all mobile phones shipped worldwide,...
ThinkstockTypically the Mobile World Congress exposition focuses on the smartphone and handset part of the industry, and at this years recently completed show in Barcelona that was once again the...
courtesy of SamsungAccording to a recent survey from Nielsen, mobile phone penetration in nine countries — five developed countries and the four BRICs — is above 80% in all nine. South Korea...
courtesy of Apple Inc.During the fourth quarter of 2012, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shipped an estimated 27.4 million units of its iPhone 5 to world markets. The company also shipped 17.4 million...
ThinkstockWith a population more than four times that of the United States, it is only a matter of time before China becomes the world leader in any number of areas where the U.S. has long been the...
courtesy of Apple Inc.The growth of mobile phone sales, so hot for so long, has cooled. Research firm Gartner reports that sales of these devices fell 1.7% to 1.75 billion in 2012. Maybe the problem...