Smartphone firms try to reclaim magic
The Washington Post The smartphone revolution has reached Joe Cecconi, which may mean it isn’t a revolution anymore. The retiree from Fairfax County got his Samsung Galaxy S III six months ago,...
View ArticleInfographic: Emerging Markets Mobile Attitudes
Upstream The 2013 Emerging Markets Mobile Attitudes Report from marketing technology company Upstream, which commissioned YouGov and Vanson Bourne to poll the views of a representative sample of 3,670...
View ArticleEuropean mobile market slows
Warc LONDON: Samsung, Sony and LG were among the brands gaining ground even as the market for mobile phones in Western Europe shrank in the first quarter of 2013, new figures have shown. The latest...
View ArticleGrowth Accelerates in the Worldwide Mobile Phone and Smartphone Markets in...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – The worldwide mobile phone market grew 6.0% year over year in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile...
View ArticleTablet Shipments Slow in the Second Quarter As Vendors Look To Capitalize on...
IDC Press Release SAN MATEO, Calif., August 2013 – As expected, worldwide tablet shipment growth slowed in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), according to preliminary data from the International...
View ArticleWhite paper: Mobility in Brazil
The Brazilian mobile device market is booming – mobile phone penetration levels are reported to be well over 100%. This might not be the full story though – a 2011 Nielsen report into global youth...
View ArticleIDC trims tablet forecasts, expects wearables, ‘phablets’ to affect sales
Computerworld US Researcher IDC today slightly lowered its tablet shipment forecast for 2013 and beyond, saying that competing technologies, including larger-sized smartphones and futuristic wearable...
View ArticleWorld Tech Update – 9/29/13
IDG News Service Nintendo cuts the price of its Wii and debuts the 2DS handheld, NASA plans to bag an asteroid and we get ready for IFA next week.
View ArticleWorld Tech Update Video – 10/10/13
IDG News Service Coming up on WTU this week Samsung’s Galaxy Round has a new form factor, Microsoft’s Ballmer hints at Office on iPad and MIT powers up with new wireless charging technology.
View ArticleWorld Tech Update – 10/24/13
IDG News Service Coming up on WTU this week Apple debuts the iPad Air, Nokia bets on its camera technology, we try out the Samsung Galaxy Round smartphone and MIT creates a prototype that can see...
View ArticleWorldwide Smartphone Shipments Top One Billion Units for the First Time
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – The worldwide smartphone market reached yet another milestone, having shipped one billion units in a single year for the first time. According to the International Data Corporation...
View ArticleWorld Tech Update – 1/31/14
IDG News Service Coming up on WTU this week Lenovo makes a big buy, Facebook debuts Paper for iPhones, President Obama addresses NSA spying and NASA updates its communications network.
View ArticleTablet demand slows during mobile device boom
USA Today The smartphone market’s been kind of a mess lately. Between Apple’s big iPhone shortfall, the slowdown at Samsung and the financial messes at HTC, BlackBerry and Motorola, there just hasn’t...
View ArticleWorld Tech Update- 2/14/14
IDG News Service Coming up on WTU this week we prep for Mobile World Congress, Virgin Atlantic tries out Google Glass at London’s Heathrow and TV sales slump.
View Article1.9 million smartwatches shipped in 2013
IDG News Service Global smartwatch shipments reached 1.9 million units last year, and Google’s Android mobile OS captured a 61 percent market share, according to Strategy Analytics. The nascent...
View ArticleWorld Tech Update- February 27, 2014
IDG News Service On this week’s WTU we’re at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where Samusng debuted its new Galaxy S5, Sony introduced a smartphone that can shoot 4K video and Nokia picks Android...
View ArticleWhy isn’t @Apple on Twitter?
CNBC @Google has 8 million followers on Twitter. @Microsoft has 4 million. @Samsung and @Yahoo have a million each. @Apple has a measly 26,000. Before shouting in the social streets that the world’s...
View ArticleSmartphone innovation is slowing, so what’s next?
Computerworld In the last year or so, there has been a noticeable slowdown in innovations in new smartphones — with both hardware and software. In a five-year smartphone forecast through 2018 released...
View ArticleWorld Tech Update- April 17, 2014
IDG News Service Coming up on WTU this week Google buys drone maker Titan Aerospace, NHK shows off 8K television and we go inside the world’s most powerful X-ray laser.
View ArticleLinkedIn Hits 300M Users, Pushes Mobile Options
MediaPost LinkedIn on Friday announced it has surpassed 300 million active members worldwide, up from 277 million at the end of 2013. The roughly 36% growth rate in the first quarter from a year ago is...
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