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Study: Wireless phone applications to be worth $11 billion by 2014

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

With an increasing number of smartphone users downloading wireless phone applications, new research shows that more are apt to pay a small fee for some of the services, causing experts to reassess the rising value of the app market.
The market for wireless phone applications will [...]

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Study: Smartphone users seek Nexus One, iPhone instead of BlackBerry

Monday, March 15th, 2010

About 40 percent of BlackBerry users would rather have an Apple iPhone and one-third have their mind set on Google’s Nexus One as their next smartphone purchase, according to a recent study by Crowd Science.
The Crowd Science survey also found that users of Google’s smartphone [...]

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Study: Smartphone sales to triple by 2012

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Total sales of smartphones will increase to 491.9 million units by 2012, more than triple from the 139.3 million level reached in 2008, according to a Connecticut-based research firm.
To demonstrate the growing demand for smartphones at all levels, a recent article from Bloomberg News compared [...]

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Study: 54 percent of workers check smartphones while driving, some citing the availability demands of tough economy

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A new study suggests that more than half of workers take advantage of smartphone technology while they are driving a car.
A survey by CareerBuilder, a major capital solutions firm, showed that 54 percent of participants – 52,000 workers from several industries – used their smartphones [...]

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Survey finds smartphones preferred to laptops as enterprise mobility platform

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Workers who use internet-enabled mobile devices from the road tend to prefer smartphones to laptop PCs, according to the results of a survey published today by iPass.
The company says that 63 percent of the 695 mobile employees that responded to the survey said they would [...]

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Report: Intel partnership with TSMC could be bust

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

A proposed deal between Intel and TSMC that would have seen the latter company manufacture versions of Intel’s Atom processor for use in enterprise wireless solutions is not going to happen after all, according to a report in the New York Times.
Intel’s Atom chief Robert [...]

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Devour could leave some users hungry, pundits say

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The first of more than 20 smartphones due to be released by the company this year, the Motorola Devour excels in some areas but falls flat in others, according to reviewers.
Forbes says that the Devour is very similar to Motorola’s earlier Droid smartphone, but with [...]

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Report: Apple’s purge of saucy iPhone content could have benefits for Google

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Mobile application developers recently frozen out of Apple’s App Store in that company’s sweep of salacious content could cross over to writing wireless mobile solutions for rival Google’s Android Market, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Fred Clarke told the Journal that "we [...]

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Will the iPad supplant the iPhone?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Among the numerous discussions touched off by Apple’s release this week of its widely hyped iPad tablet PC was one of function. Many tech experts question the device’s viability as a wireless mobile solution, given the rapid advancement of smartphone technology.
Indeed, some tech pundits seem [...]

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Expert: Crossover devices may lack an enterprise niche

Friday, January 15th, 2010

New enterprise mobility platforms like smartbooks, tablet PCs, and data slates have yet to find a well-defined role in enterprise computing, writes Lynnette Luna at Fierce Mobile IT.
Though the buzz around recent tablet projects – primarily the rumored Apple iSlate – has been intense, Luna [...]

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Kodak sues smartphone makers over camera patent infringements

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Apple is the target of a copyright infringement suit filed in U.S. District Court and a complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission by Kodak. The camera maker says that the enterprise wireless solution maker violated Kodak’s patent of a digital photograph preview technology.
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Expert: Crossover devices may lack an enterprise niche

Friday, January 15th, 2010

New enterprise mobility platforms like smartbooks, tablet PCs, and data slates have yet to find a well-defined role in enterprise computing, writes Lynnette Luna at Fierce Mobile IT.
Though the buzz around recent tablet projects – primarily the rumored Apple iSlate – has been intense, Luna [...]

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