Mobile Devices

More bad news from RIM.  Sales dropped last week 33%. As if that weren’t bad enough, the company’s self-acknowledged life preserver, BlackBerry 10, now won’t be available until early 2013. That is after the Holiday shopping season. It will be after the expected Octob

We could say Happy Birthday to the iPhone, but that would be under reporting the news. More important than the iPhone’s 5th birthday is the mobile era it introduced. Phones became more than just voice and messaging devices. They became productivity and entertainment powerhouses

While my previous post chronicled potholes on the 3 operating system (OS) highway, this past week carried some pleasant surprises.  First, I added a device to the stack by using a windows desktop PC at home. Granted this is the same OS as the laptop in my experiment, but it is a diffe

Microsoft unveiled the new Surface this evening at an exclusive press-only event in Hollywood. It was presented as a tablet, but the term ultrabook was thrown around a few times. Surface is clearly a product aimed at fusing the laptop and tablet worlds and there are many aspects to be

The 3 operating system (OS) experiment had been going well. Then I ran into an issue that first cropped up while at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt NY conference. WordPress is not optimized for the iPad. At least it’s not optimized for creating and editing content even if i

When Microsoft cut a $1 billion deal with Nokia to bring out the Windows Phone, it was tying its mobile future to the former king of cellular phones. Likewise, Nokia was tying it’s future to the current but fading king of the PC. Both companies were taking a chance on a partner

What can a MUPPET teach us about mobile computing? More than you might think.  The number of devices we need is an important question for the enterprise. It is a core variable in planning for IT support, application access requirements and WiFi planning. Of course, the answer lies in

I was struck by comments in my most recent article on RIM (A World without BlackBerry: Impact or No?) that the company needs to wake up and realize it is a software company. The comment resonated because that had been my opinion as well until I looked at the numbers. It may be that RI

Apple Insider reported today that Apple and Samsung are likely to extend their combined market share to more than 50% of smartphone sales next year. The numbers originate from Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley’s investor note today. His analysis shows that combined Apple