As Apple prepares to introduce the next generation iPad in March, speculation is rife on its advanced features and how it is driving a wedge into Microsofts preserve of blue blood multinationals
As per AFP reports Toshiba the consumer electronics giant reduced its sales projection by 2 % and profit forecasts by 4% during the year 2011 due to production losses from its factories in north Japan hit by the March 11 disaster. Toshiba which manufactures nearly a third of the flash memory chips used world- wide [...]
Apple sold a million pieces of iPad2 during the first weekend of arrival as per a Reuters report. The new tablets flew off the shelves, ten times as faster as the original iPad which took 28 days to sell its first million. Few stores ran out of stock within 10 minutes of launch. Consumers in [...]
As per research firm Canalys, the Global sales of smartphone rose by 89% Year on Year to cross 100 million units during the last quarter of 2010. Spurred by gaming apps Android OS became the top seller with 33.3 million units toppling long time market leader Nokia Symbian with 31 million phones. Apple’s iPhone with [...]
As per a Reuters report global phone makers sold 32.9 million Android enabled smartphones in the last quarter of 2010 as against just 4.7 million sets in the last quarter of 2009 recording an unprecedented 7 fold year to year growth. Not surprisingly the Android OS outpaced market leader Nokia Symbian who sold 31million sets [...]
After hogging the limelight at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show last week showcasing high speed capability of the futuristic 4G network , Verizon invited its valued guests to its much awaited New York launch of the iPhone on the 11th January. Verizon at Vegas had displayed a slew of devices from Motorola, Samsung, LG [...]
Mobile marketing seems to be a hot topic at the moment, exposer and interest is growing fast, led mostly by the more well-known retailers. But to me it seems to a lot of different ideas are being shoehorned into the concept as a whole. Some aspects of mobile marketing have been around for years we just didn’t give it a name.
Two key issues for the internet user in the year 2011 will be privacy and security. How do you protect yourself from your advertisement hungry mobile and Internet service provider, the social media giant, the mail and search engine behemoths in 2011?……. And if you do happen to solve that riddle, how do you keep [...]
For 6 months Apple’s iPad ruled the Tablet market unchallenged. Last quarter it sold 4.19 million tablets which was lesser than the 4.5 million sets projected by analysts, simply because its supply chain could not meet the surging demand for its products. Amazed at the demand for iPad without a visible marketing push, Steve Jobs [...]
Samsung and Apple have upped the ante in the handset race leaving behind RIM, LG and Sony Ericson, and closing in on market leader Nokia, as both worked out glitzy models with a large number of applications. Apple iPhone Store is nothing like its competitors as it has forged far ahead in its mindboggling application [...]
The much awaited new avatar of Microsoft’s new Windows 7 mobile phone came with a few smart add on applications. The most talked about feature was the highly popular Xbox video games with its 23 million viewers enabling the ‘Xbox live world’ now to seamlessly invade your mobile space. Cross media applications with news, video, [...]
It’s a pretty safe bet to say that Google owns the internet, when they say jump we say how high, they constantly change the playing field so we in turn need to change our tactics to meet their new demands. They constantly update the algorithms and ranking factors in an effort to constantly offer the [...]
Two extremely interesting surveys were released recently on mobile usage trends with a focus on teens and young adults. The first was a Nielsen data report on the 300 million strong mobile community of China. This was followed early this month by PEW Internet and the American Life Project’s research on ‘Cell phones and the [...]
Reincarnation is a way of life for the 150 year old Finnish telecom giant Nokia. Having started on the banks of the river Nokia neighbouring Helsinki as a modest manufacturer of rubber boots, the company moved into cable manufacturing and subsequently into paper products, electrical generating equipment, industrial capacitors, consumer electronics, personal computers, household gadgets [...]




