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Tough day for Blackberry
On what should have been a great day for Blackberry, releasing its new Blackberry Z10 mobile smartphone in the US, the day turned out to be a major disappointment for the company and fans. Reports are coming in of no lines at AT&T stores, very little in-store promotion if any, and lack of interest from [...]
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Can RIM Name Change Help the Blackberry Maker?
The company RIM was laid to rest today and a new company has emerged, Blackberry. The announcement came at the much-anticipated Blackberry OS 10 launch today. The unexpected company name change came as a surprise for many of the media present that were there to see the latest OS and the new hardware that will [...]
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Microsoft Surface Pro Loses 40+ Gigs to OS
Set to release on February 4th, the new Microsoft Surface Pro has what some might call a slight flaw. The Windows 8 tablet device storage is gobbled up by around 41GB of out of the box OS and seems to leave little storage for day-to-day use. The device which has many excited about native applications [...]
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RIM Continues Pre-Launch Announcements with Blackberry 10 Preview
RIM has opened the doors to its newest and most anticipated OS Blackberry 10 to select partners to preview and test the platform and select handsets. This preview is one of the final steps to lead up to the public launch of the product to the public on January 30th. The preview has a lot [...]
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RIM’s Week Sounds Like a Katy Perry Song
RIM, the Canadian maker of the almost forgotten Blackberry device is having some month. First they’re hot, then they’re cold, then they’re in, then they’re out, they’re stock’s up then it’s down; I can tell you this much, someone’s wrong and someone’s right. Last month RIM finally announced a release date for its upcoming Blackberry [...]
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Public Outcry over AT&T blocking Facetime over Cellular Feature has Impact
AT&T seems to be slowly opening up Facetime over Cellular for users of iOS devices. With the release of iOS6, Apple integrated the feature into iPhone products allowing users to utilize Facetime on cellular networks and taking off the Wi-Fi only restriction. AT&T chose to initially only allow users of its then new “shared data” [...]
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Android and Samsung lead Smartphone Market Nokia Sliding Fast
Gartner has released its latest findings for mobile and smartphone sales see (press release) below. The report shows that Android leads the pack in operating systems; Samsung leads in smartphone sales, and shows Apple and Samsung dominating the market with a combined 46.5% of the entire smartphone market share. The findings, though not too surprising [...]
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Blackberry adds Voice over W-Fi to its Smartphones
RIM today announced a new feature that has been added to its BBM (Blackberry Messenger) service. The new feature, which adds voice calling over Wi-Fi provides users the ability to make voice calls for free to other messenger users see (press release) below. With the success of iMessage in Apple iOS devices, it would seem [...]
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Google’s New Line up of Smart Devices Hit the Market and Quickly Disappear
Google today released its new lineup of smart devices; but good luck getting your hands on one, as they appear to have sold out immediately after launch. The much-anticipated Google Nexus 4 smartphone in both the 8gb $299 and 16Gb $399 versions show “coming soon” on the Google Play Store indicating a sold out status [...]
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Blackberry 10 Finally gets a Launch Date but is it too Late for RIM?
In a press release today (see PR below), the once giant mobile player Research in Motion announced a launch date of January 30th, 2013 for its new Blackerry 10 OS and mobile devices. The company, which has eluded a launch date for some time and has seen droves of users migrate to other platforms, needs [...]
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Sprint Buys U.S. Cellular Customers for $480M
Sprint has just announced in a press release (see below) that it has acquired a part of U.S. Cellular’s customer base and wireless spectrum. The deal, which will bring $480M to U.S. Cellular, has certain customers in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio moving to the Sprint service. Around 585K customers will be [...]
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If there was any doubt, Gartner Confirms Mobile is an “Unstoppable Force”
Gartner continues to confirm what seems to be a definitive in the IT industry; mobile is here and is taking over the traditional, see (press release) below. Worldwide sales of smart devices which includes smart phones and tablets will hit 821M in 2012. The opportunity for IT businesses to manage this changing landscape is prime, [...]
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Apple sets new iPad Sales Records
After many were reporting a dismal showing at launch, Apple has seemed to redeem itself in weekend sales of the new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad. The Cupertino Company has reported via a press release (see below) that it has set a new weekend sales record with three million iPads sold in three days. [...]
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Do Mini Lines Mean iPad Mini Pricing Not Mini Enough?
Keeping to the mini theme for the iPad Mini launch, lines were kept to a minimum, while mini corn dogs were handed out to those who waited in line, and “mini me” himself Verne Troyer driving a Mini Cooper was spotted in an apparent mini marketing stunt by Apple. Ok I’m kidding, obviously Apple didn’t [...]
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AT&T Jumps into Cloud Business
AT&T has just released news of its new AT&T Locker cloud service see (press release) below. The new service, which will compete with Apple iCloud, Google+, Amazon, and others, provides photo and video storage and sharing to its customer base. The cloud service is enabled through an iOS or droid app, providing instant upload to [...]
