We had an inkling that the fourth quarter smartphone sales crown was close: Last month, Strategy Analytics suggested it was a dead heat between Apple and Samsung. On Tuesday, research firm… Read more »
With low barriers to entry, the photo and video app market consists of a large number of developers and is certainly not limited to a handful of well-financed startups: According to… Read more »
To deal with the BYOD wave, Gartner recommends that companies roll out mobile data protection, mobile device management and fund special mobility strategy teams within IT to handle the issue. IT… Read more »
Gartner posted its worldwide mobile device report for the first quarter of 2012 this morning, and there are a couple of surprises in the data. Samsung and Apple claimed about half… Read more »
Android may have some shortcomings, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made enormous advances with manufacturers in terms of getting its OS on thei… Read more »
Apple’s big (or not so big) announcement was yesterday, but the flurry of analysis and opinions continues this morning. And most of that activity centers on Apple’s decision not to launch… Read more »
Smartphones were up 74 percent in the second quarter of 2011, accounting for a fourth of all mobile device sales, versus just 17 percent last year. The companies benefiting most from… Read more »
Location-based marketing still suffers from user-privacy issues, user awareness and a lack of extensive local advertising networks. But the combination of GPS-enabled location pinpointing and the embrace of social networks has… Read more »
According to Gartner, mobile phone sales for the first quarter totaled some 428 million devices, with just 23 percent being smartphones. With so much room to grow, there would appear to… Read more »