Mobile

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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The Kindle Fire: This Season’s Hot Tablet?

by Mike Mansell September 29, 2011
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What do you get when you combine Amazon’s well-established “Kindle” eBook reader with the power and flexibility of Google’s Android mobile operating system on an elegantly designed seven-inch full-color touch-screen tablet?  As this week has shown us, the answer to this question is Amazon’s new “Kindle Fire”; a much awaited tablet computer that offers a competitive [...]

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Sprint to Kill Off Unlimited Data?

by Mike Mansell September 27, 2011
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While Sprint has long built the company image around its unlimited data plans, Sprint’s CTO says that may change in the future.

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Windows 8 Will Impact Microsoft’s Presence Even Outside of the Desktop

by Mike Mansell September 23, 2011
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Considering Microsoft’s on-off history with releasing successful operating systems it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Microsoft’s success with the Windows platform from here on out (in a world where Apple is thriving and consumer-focused Linux distributions are popping up like advertisements for Internet Explorer users) rests on their ability to make another [...]

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Rumor: 3G iPod Touch Coming This Year?

by Mike Mansell September 19, 2011
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If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from following Apple over the last few years it would have to be the fact that the company seems to plan everything (unless you count suppliers for white iPhone components) extremely strategically.  Unlike other companies that try to make their innovations as rapidly as possible, Apple, from what [...]

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Verizon Introduces Less Than Impressive Pre-Paid Unlimited Service

by Mike Mansell September 14, 2011
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As much as I know the word “unlimited” is really over-used in marketing and advertising, I really must admit that I do like the concept of not being tied down to fixed limits with services that I subscribe to.  Of course, I understand that even with “unlimited” services there is always some sort of limit [...]

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Will AT&T and Verizon Re-Implement Unlimited Data Plans?

by Mike Mansell September 13, 2011
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When it comes to the various sub-sections of the general technology industry, the single most interesting market that I’m following right now is hands-down the mobile industry.  Sometimes it really is a bit of a challenge to realize how far innovations in the mobile sector or any other subset of the tech industry for that matter [...]

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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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The Lenovo A1 Tablet Definitely Has Price On Its Side

by Mike Mansell September 2, 2011
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As worthless as I felt the discontinued HP TouchPad was when it went on sale last month following HP’s announcement that they planned to step out of the hardware game, I must admit that there was a brief moment where I honestly considered whipping out my Visa card and ordering one for myself.  After all, [...]

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