This is precious – Nokia shows the world the right ways to hold a phone in your hand, an unambiguous reference to Apple’s ugly antenna issues with iPhone 4. Exploiting the fact that holding Apple’s new phone in a certain way kills the signal bars, dubbed by the media the iPhone [...]
The New York Times walks through the timeline of the current Google and Apple rivalry and reveals that the competition has become quite personal. Yet according to interviews with two dozen industry watchers, Silicon Valley investors and current and former employees at both companies most of whom requested anonymity to protect their jobs or [...]
Last fall, Apple made a formal bid to acquire AdMob, a rapidly growing mobile advertising company, for $600 million. AdMob specializes in developing ads that run inside mobile phone applications, like those on the iPhone. While Apple conducted due diligence on the deal, AdMob agreed to a 45-day “no shop” provision, a routine clause that [...]
ITC to probe Apple, RIM over patent violation The US International Trade Commission has said it will investigate Apple and RIM for patent violation, following a complaint from Kodak. read more Read more on TG Daily For Chip Makers, the Next Battle Is in Smartphones An Intel plant for semiconductor chips at its complex in [...]
Apple’s iPad to’ ignite’ table computer market ABI Research says that Apple’s iPad highlights the “real start” of a tablet computer market that should grow more than tenfold by 2015. Read more on Independent Online Adobe’s creative legacy & the proprietary aspirations of Apple & Google I’ve spent a lot of time working with Adobe’s [...]
For Apple, It’s a Macworld After All Apple has a way with marketing, which is why it’s products sometimes miss the boat. But the company has done mostly everything right. Read more on TheStreet.com Apple: Less Hype, Better Products The company needs to focus more on solid marketing and product development. Read more on Forbes [...]
Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. By Slash Lane Published: 12:50 PM EST Apple’s smartphone market share increased by more than 5 percent in 2009 as total iPhone shipments surged by a massive 81.9 percent over 2008, a study released Thursday shows. [...]