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Published :08/23/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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As the personal computer morphs from the desktop to the laptop to the hand-held, it’s natural that a company like Dell would want to get into the mobile handset game. The smartphone market may be the growth engine for handset manufacturers, but there are only so many slices in the pie. |
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Published :08/23/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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At a recent USENIX Security Symposium, the leader of (Google) Android security, Rich Cannings, said that “The smartphone OS will become a major security target.” Rich is correct: The number of smartphones is on the rise, and these devices are capable of holding lots of sensitive personal and business data. |
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Published :03/22/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Well, yes and no, depending on which vendor you talk to. On Friday, Sony-Ericsson said that it expects to ship 42% fewer handsets in the first quarter of 2009 than it sold in the previous quarter, an announcement which does not augur well for the mobile industry.
Overall global mobile handset sales declined in the fourth quarter of 2008, and 2009 is shaping up to be a challenging year for handset manufacturers as consumers retrench and retailers and distributors reduce inventories. But is all doom and gloom? |
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Published :03/18/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Yesterday Apple provided a preview of OS 3.0 for iPhone, which is scheduled for availability this summer. iPhones have achieved a remarkable level of ubiquity since its launch in mid-2007...it is now available in 80 countries and on 25 carriers. Its success has been built on breakthrough handset design...but even more importantly, an SDK that provides developers with the same APIs that Apple uses internally...thus making it a platform for thousands of mobile applications.
Lest you think that the iPhone is merely a cool gadget for consumers, consider this...business software giant Oracle now has five BPM and CRM applications which run onthe iPhone, including Oracle Business Indicators and Mobile Sales Assistant. And J.D. Power recently ranked the iPhone as #1 in customer satisfaction for business smartphone users. This should be raising alarms at RIM, and in particular at mobile device market leader Nokia.
RIM has continued to increase market share for its Blackberry line as the smartphone pie grows in size, but Nokia is moving in the opposite direction....raising questions about Nokia's smartphone strategy and how Nokia will reverse the current trend. |
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