Nokia had fun on stage today introducing its brand new hero smartphone, the Lumia 1020. At an event in New York City, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop showed off the smartphone’s 41-megapixel camera that sports a variety of interesting features. But Elop, even on this momentous event, could not escape the...
BlackBerry continues to play the role of Jekyll and Hyde in the smartphone market. In its latest quarterly earnings report, there is some room for optimism: it shipped 6.8 million smartphones, up from 6 million over the last quarter. Revenues were up to $3.1 billion, about $400 million more the...
At some point, rumors become so persistent it is hard to dismiss them out of hand. Apple building cheaper iPhones retailing for $99? Yeah, there may be something to this after all.Reuters reports, based on sources in Apple’s Asian supply chain, that the company is considering building two new iPhones....
On Tuesday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook likened the wait for next month's iOS 7 unveiling to being a kid on Christmas Eve, teased Apple's interest in wearable tech and claimed the company has a "very grand vision" for the future of television. Cook touched on several topics during an on-stage...
In front of a packed house at the Marriott World Resort in Orlando, BlackBerry President and CEO Thorsten Heins proudly showed off the company's newest devices, including the low-end Q5 designed for developing markets, talked-up the company's updated BB10 platform (10.1) and announced that BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) was going cross-platform. Heins...
Google Glass is now “unofficially officially” out in the wild, early reviews are in, and they’re not spectacular. I’ve been a Glass skeptic from the start, but now I’m just going to come right out and say it: If the developer version is at all an accurate representation of what...
Windows Phone got some good news and some bad news today from the consumer research firm Kantar. The bad: Microsoft's smartphone OS accounted for a meager 5.6% of all U.S. smartphone sales in the first quarter. The comparable number for Android was 49%; for iOS, 44%.The good: Windows Phone's showing was a...
The next Hollywood blockbuster may not be made using a smartphone, but that day is soon coming. This year's Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature, Searching for Sugarman, was shot mostly on traditional, costly 8mm film. The director shot some final scenes, however, with his iPhone and the $2...
Thorsten Heins was supposed to be the steward that oversaw the final collapse of one of the great technology companies of the last 30 years. When Heins took over Research In Motion in early 2012, not many people gave him a lot of hope. “Thorsten Heins Is A Patsy Set...
As BlackBerry steers its ship to hopefully happier seas, the smartphone maker is struggling to gain momentum. In its first quarterly earnings report since changing its name from Research In Motion to BlackBerry, the Canadian company announced stagnant earnings on the strength of six million smartphones shipped and 370,000 BlackBerry...
In June 2007, Apple launched the first iPhone, marking a new era in corporate mobility. Before the fashionable mini-computer, people used smartphones for voice, texting and email. With the iPhone and its remarkable touchscreen users could also be entertained with music, video and games. Corporate executives became so attached to...
Earlier this week, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins called the iPhone outdated. Did he have a point?Speaking to The Australian Financial Review, Heins said, “The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.”It is hard to argue with...
BlackBerry executives are used to bad news. Whether it's losing contracts with large enterprises or watching the company's stock price plummet, it has not been a pleasant couple of years for the company formerly known as Research In Motion.One of the most consistent sources of good news to BlackBerry over...
At SXSW 2013, Google took the wraps off of a new set of apps for the augmented reality visors that will soon be taking our faces by storm. Google didn't release any video of the proceedings, so I shot my own. Enjoy.Watch a demo video of thew new New York...
Remember when Facebook was going to reinvent media and advertising? Its grandiose promise was that Facebook could deliver targeted ads with pinpoint accuracy, delivering ads that were perfectly aligned with people's interests. As Mark Zuckerberg famously intoned in 2007, "Once every hundred years, media changes."If that's the case, how come it's now...
BlackBerry is issuing the first software update to its BlackBerry 10 operating system this morning to address usability issues concerning apps, camera, calendar, contacts, browser and, perhaps most importantly, battery life.Apps Optimization & Camera UpgradeThe biggest complaints that initial users of the BlackBerry Z10 have voiced have revolved around app...
Former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie has entered his own vote of no confidence in the company he helped run into the ground back when it was known as Research in Motion.In an SEC filing today, Balsillie revealed that he sold off every single BlackBerry share he owned last year. He used to...
Today on Reddit, private commercial spaceflight company SpaceX set its software engineers loose in an AMA. On the site, AMA stands for "Ask Me Anything", and an AMA thread (found on /r/IAmA/) is a no-holds barred session of questions and answers in real-time via Reddit's nested comment system.In the past,...
I tried to love the new BlackBerry Z10. I really did.The operating system is interesting, it handles communications well and has generally decent hardware. I planned on making the Z10 my personal device for at least a month to really get a good understanding of what it is and where BlackBerry...
Guest author Chris O’Connor is chief executive of mobile solutions provider Taptera.The booming mobile applications market is a hot topic right now at many a water cooler in Silicon Valley and beyond. I've toiled in the mobile market since 2007 and in those years I've witnessed more than my fair...
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