Feb

2012

BlackBerry Playbook OS 2.0 Update Arriving Next Month, Get Your Android Apps Ready?

by Joe Sirianni
tagged android apps, blackberry, Blackberry Runtime, OS 2.0 Update, Playbook

Like someone eating McDonald’s while sitting at a Burger King, the BlackBerry PlayBook is all set to receive its highly anticipated 2.0 OS update which will allow the use of Android applications. And by highly anticipated I mean highly anticipated by BlackBerry users not Android fan-boys. The update is supposed to drop next month and the company [...]

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Jan

2012

Does RIM Have What It Takes To Catch Up To Android, iOS and Windows Phone?

by Joe Sirianni
tagged Android, Apple iOS, blackberry, Microsoft Windows Phone, rim

As many know by now, the mighty duo of CEO’s at RIM, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have stepped down only to promote one from within. Taking over as single and only CEO of Research in Motion is Thorsten Heins, a four year COO who worked closely under Jim and Mike. In recent news, he’s [...]

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Jan

2012

RIM’s New CEO Doesn’t Get It Either

by Jim Farmer
tagged blackberry

Meet Thorstein Heins, the poor sap who just took over RIM. Thorstein is to be RIM’s saving grace, using his “hip” guy attitude he is supposed to turn RIM’s image around. However, if you take into account his recent interview with Crackberry, it’s obvious that like his predecessors he’s pretty much oblivious to the competition. [...]

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Jan

2012

Samsung Shoots Down Rumors Of Possible RIM Purchase

by Roy Alugbue
tagged blackberry, microsoft, rim, Samsung

Talk about being in an awkward position for RIM. After previously hearing Samsung was among the major companies interested in acquiring RIM, Samsung went ahead and shut down any notion and rumor they are purchasing the company. In fact, Samsung spokesman James Chung adds Samsung hasn’t “considered acquiring the firm and are not interested in [...]

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Sep

2011

Android Shows Steady Growth In Millennial Media’s Newest Mobile Mix Report

by Justin Routhier
tagged ad impressions, Android, blackberry, iOS, iphone, lg optimus, microsoft, millennial media, mobile mix, mp3, report, rim, smartphones, tablets

The Mobile Mix report for August 2011 was released over the weekend and awards Android the gold metal for 54% of overall impressions in a seemingly two-man race for traffic across the Millennial Media mobile advertising network. iOS nabs silver with 28%, RIM limps behind with 13% for the bronze and Microsoft seems to have [...]

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Sep

2011

Survey: Smartphone Users Tell Swiftkey/TouchType What They Really Want

by Justin Routhier
tagged Android, apple, blackberry, email, HTC, iphone, LG, motorola, Samsung, smartphone, sony ericsson, survey, Swiftkey, text message, touchtype, typing

The makers of the wildly popular text entry tool SwiftKey X have posted the results from a survey that asked “What do smartphone users really want?” Swiftkey/TouchType conducted the survey in partnership with the online smartphone retailer and manufacturer Smartphone Experts and included over 30,000 participants. This surveyed group of predominantly Android platform users was 91% [...]

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Aug

2011

Android and Samsung continue to dominate according to comScore

by Robert Nazarian
tagged Android, apple, blackberry, comscore, Google, iOS, LG, market share, microsoft, motorola, rim, Samsung, U.S., us

The Android freight train shows no signs of slowing as its market share in the U.S has climbed to 41.8% for the three month period ending July 2011. Back in April it was at 36.4%. Apple was able to gain market share as well, but marginally. They are now at 27.0%, which is a gain [...]

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Aug

2011

BlackBerry QNX-based handsets will receive Android app support

by Robert Nazarian
tagged blackberry, QNX, rim, support Android apps

Back in March, RIM announced that the PlayBook would run Android apps. We wondered if this would hold for BlackBerry handsets. RIM made it official that upcoming QNX devices will support Android apps. This is a smart move as RIM’s market share is on life support, but what they really need to do is ban [...]

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Aug

2011

Android Now at 40% of Smartphone Share

by Dustin Karnes
tagged 7, Android, apple, blackberry, Google, iOS, market, microsoft, Nokia, Phone, rim, share, symbian, windows, wp7

We all know Android is growing; there’s no denying the numbers. Just like there’s no denying that Apple has a large share, RIM is dying, and Windows Phone is off somewhere by the fence huffing spraypaint. In the latest mobile subscriber number results from comScore, Android has now gobbled up a whopping 40 percent of [...]

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Aug

2011

Choosing Your Smartphone Over Sex? A Growing Problem In America?

by Joe Sirianni
tagged Android, blackberry, iphone, Sex, smartphone, survey, Telenav

In a recent survey given by the folks over at TeleNav, the company found that one-third of Americans were more willing to part with sex rather than their mobile devices. As a tech blogger and mobile device junkie myself, my initial response was “yeah, so what’s the problem here?” And then it hit me! Wait [...]

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