Good Technology released their Q4 2014 report, and iOS devices are clobbering Android. Led by the enormous surge of iPhone 6 devices, iOS was 73% of all smartphone activations in the quarter,… Read more »
Xiaomi has suddenly emerged as one of the world’s largest smartphone producers, but those phones generate razor-thin margins. The company’s ever-increasing footprint may give it a chance to build lucrative app… Read more »
Samsung continues to struggle to become a major provider of mobile software services in a world dominated by Android and iOS. So the company hopes to use Tizen to build vast… Read more »
Major players like Apple, Google and Samsung have launched platforms in a bid to create new data services in the healthcare and fitness markets. Read more »
Apple Pay may finally pry open the door for a mobile payments market that remains almost entirely untapped in the U.S. And a soon-to-be independent PayPal could be ready to pounce… Read more »
While carrying some amount of risk and a high amount of resistance from entrenched vendors, modular handsets may present a viable economic and ecological alternative as we look toward the inevitable… Read more »
Number crunching leads to some not too surprising results for Microsoft’s Surface, which is increasingly looking like a boat anchor, pulling the company down. The company’s 8-K statement filed with the… Read more »
Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor in China during the second quarter. Duplicating that success in outside its homeland will be difficult, but Xiaomi’s success provides some important… Read more »