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Friday, November 20, 2009

Nokia R&D Workers Researching and Developing New Job Leads

LAYOFFS_BOBS_THUMBNokia’s workforce is deteriorating nearly as fast as its share of the mobile phone market. This morning, the company–which sacked 1,700 employees in March and another 450 in April–said it will cut 330 more jobs in its research and development group.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Time to Cut AT&T Some Slack, iPhone Users?

ATTthumbSince 2008, AT&T’s network in and around San Francisco has experienced an increase in 3G data traffic of 2,000 percent. If you find this metric as astonishing as I do, consider this: The increase in Bay Area data traffic is actually below the national average–significantly below. According to AT&T CTO John Donovan, 3G data traffic on the company’s wireless network has risen nearly 5,000 percent nationally in the past 12 quarters.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Apple: From Zero to 17.1 Percent Smartphone Share in 2.5 Years

imagesLest there be any doubt that Apple’s iPhone is redefining the smartphone market, consider this: In under two and a half years, the device has managed to claim nearly a fifth of the worldwide market for smartphones.

According to new data released this week by Gartner, Apple shipped some 7.04 million iPhones in the third quarter–up from just 4.72 million phones in the same period a year ago–for a 17.1 percent share of the market.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Apple: How Do You Say “Eat My Dust” in Finnish?

giantnokia At 37.9 percent, Nokia’s share of the global handset market is the largest in the industry. Odd then to learn that it is not the most profitable. And odder still to learn that that honor belongs to Apple, which has been in the handset market for just two years.

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Econalypse No Deterrent to Smart-Phone Purchases

phonethroughwallGiven the havoc the econalypse has played with other industries, the smart-phone market is in extraordinarily good shape. Shipments of the devices rose 4.2 percent to 43.3 million globally compared with 41.5 million shipped in third quarter of 2008.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Destroy the iPhone? I’m Sorry, Motorola, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That.

vertical1Verizon uncrated its latest iPhone challenger Wednesday morning, introducing the new $199 Motorola Droid, and it already has analysts buzzing about the life it may breathe back into Motorola, whose share of the phone market dropped by nearly half in the second quarter from 10 percent a year earlier.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

iPhone in “Striking Distance” of Unseating BlackBerry

iphone-vs-blackberryThe BlackBerry’s days as smart phone of choice among consumers in the U.S. appear to be winding down. While Research in Motion’s popular device is still the leader in the smart-phone space, with 40 percent market share, its dominance is threatened by Apple’s iPhone, according to ChangeWave Research.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

New from RIM: The BlackBerry Somewhat More Bold

bb-bold-9700-pressThere’s a new BlackBerry Bold headed to market. This morning, Research in Motion uncrated the BlackBerry Bold 9700, a more refined verison of its popular enterprise device, the BlackBerry Bold 9000.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Analyst Favors iPhone Carrier Polyamory

jobs_canyouhearmenow-250x205jpgThough Verizon’s new Droid ad campaign might seem to preclude one, Apple would be wise to ink an iPhone distribution deal with the carrier–if not to hasten iPhone adoption, then to slow rivals that would supplant it. That’s the argument put forth by Piper Jaffray analyst Chris Larsen in a research note to investors Monday.

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Friday, October 16, 2009

Nokia Reorg Actually “Job Rotation”

51X00X3ZKSL._SL500_AA240_Nokia describes the management overhaul it’s undertaking as a common “job rotation,” but coming as it does after its lousy third-quarter financial performance and a worrisome decline in smartphone market share, it seems perhaps just a little bit more. This morning the Finnish mobile phone giant tapped Rick Simonson, currently its chief financial officer, as head of its handset division. And the company named Timo Ihamuotila, currently global head of sales, CFO.

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Nokia’s Smart-Phone Slip

547909327_cdrih-l-150x150Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says the demand for mobile devices improved in many markets during the third quarter–but you wouldn’t know it to look at the company’s earnings. This morning, Nokia posted an unexpected 559 million euro ($836 million) loss for the period, its first in a decade. Worse, its smart-phone market share declined to 35 percent from 41 percent in the previous quarter.

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Friday, October 9, 2009

JD Power: iPhone Gives Rivals the Business

ballmerWphoneCustomer satisfaction with the iPhone continues to run high–among both casual and business users. Apple’s smart phone scored highest in the both consumer and business categories of JD Power’s Smartphone Satisfaction Study, besting rivals like Research in Motion and LG.

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Windows Mobile: “Unloved, Unappreciated, and Unlikely to Encourage Any Devotion”

balmer-winmobileNo wonder Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is so dismayed by the company’s Windows Mobile division: Most Windows Mobile users aren’t even aware their phones run it. In fact, according to the CFI Group, WinMo has such poor brand recognition that it was forced to group it in the “Other” category in its Smartphone Satisfaction Survey.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

BlackBerry Cobbler, Anyone?

blackberryWhat a disappointing report from Research in Motion. For its fiscal second quarter, the BlackBerry maker posted sales and an outlook that fell short of analysts’ expectations. Earnings slipped by four percent, with RIM making $475.6 million, or 83 cents, per share.

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Friday, September 18, 2009

Welcome to Thunderdome, Palm

jobster-blasterPalm CEO Jon Rubinstein likes to say smart-phone makers “don’t have to beat each other to prosper,” but it’s beginning to look like they–or, rather, Palm–might have to. Because while the Pre may have put Palm back in the game, it’s not clear how long it can keep it there.

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