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Adobe Kills Flash for Mobile, Steve Jobs Nailed It.

by Jeff Weisbein November 9, 2011
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The news that Adobe is killing Flash for Mobile means that Steve Jobs was right, what does it mean for the mobile industry?

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RIM Should Make the Move to Android

by Mike Mansell September 30, 2011
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RIM isn’t getting anywhere in the smartphone market, would the move to Android-based BlackBerry’s help the company in an uphill battle against Apple.

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Amazon’s Tablet the Kindle Fire Designed After the PlayBook?

by Jeff Weisbein September 26, 2011
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According to Ryan Block over at gdgt, Amazon’s new tablet set to be announced this Wednesday is in fact built by the same people who built the RIM PlayBook.  How is that the case you ask?  According to Block’s sources, RIM originally outsourced a substantial amount of the hardware design and production of the PlayBook to [...]

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Despite Lackluster Performance RIM Is Still King of the Enterprise Market

by Mike Mansell September 23, 2011
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The other day I came across an article that immediately caught my attention.  The article discussed the fact that RIM’s BlackBerry product line has begun to fall behind in the business mobile sector.  While I’ve been pretty critical of BlackBerry devices in the past, this article has definitely given me a bit of a new perspective on [...]

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Baidu Forks Android, Teams With Dell for Yi OS

by Mike Mansell September 6, 2011
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Exactly two months ago I talked about a new partnership that U.S.-based Microsoft Corporation teaming up with China-based search engine Baidu to provide English results in a move that many like myself thought would ultimately make Baidu a potentially solid competitor to Google; not only in China, but in the United States and other English-speaking [...]

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Malware: Perhaps the Fastest-Growing Android Development

by Mike Mansell August 5, 2011
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Just yesterday I wrote about a move on the part of Google to enhance developers’ know-how and ability to create feature-rich tablet-focused applications for the Android mobile platform.  Many people, myself included, believe that this well-played move will help Google to overcome one of the largest issues with its mobile OS; the fact that many [...]

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Google’s Smart Strategy for Engaging Developers

by Mike Mansell August 4, 2011
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When it comes to the mobile industry, the one factor that can honestly and truly “make or break” a device in the open industry is the support and availability of third-party apps.  Just look at the first generation Apple iPhone and the first release of the iPhone OS.  Sure, it was advanced for its time, [...]

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Next Generation iPhone Will Crush the Competition

by Mike Mansell August 3, 2011
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In business there is nothing better than winning over new customers.  After all, when your product or service is of quality enough to gain serious traction in your industry you can pretty much be certain that you have done something right.  However, even winning over a customer isn’t always a surefire guarantee of long-term success.  [...]

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The Google Patent Hypocrisy

by Mike Mansell August 1, 2011
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If you asked me to name one thing – in business and in life – that drives me up the wall it would hands-down be hypocrites. That said, I realize that people are never going to see eye-to-eye all the time, and in all honesty I think that differing opinions on various subjects ultimately does quite a bit of good by brining issues into the open and forcing people to make an attempt at solving things.

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Are Android Tablets Doomed for Failure?

by Mike Mansell July 27, 2011
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Towards the beginning of the year the tablet-ready 3.0 version of Google’s wildly popular Android mobile operating system, dubbed “Honeycomb” ,was the bees knees in the tech industry. So when the release finally made way into the hands of consumers back in February, a month before the official release of Apple’s second generation iPad, many thought that it would finally help to take Android to new heights in the tablet market.

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