Mobile

WebOS For Sale Again?

by Mike Mansell August 31, 2011

Boy, the mobile industry sure has been interesting lately. In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen HP essentially give up and walk away from their entire mobile operation, discontinuing the development of WebOS and slashing what may very well have been a promising future in the mobile industry.

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Even at $99 the TouchPad is a Bad Buy

by Mike Mansell August 23, 2011

But as I’m sure you’ve heard, HP recently made a pretty stunning announcement that they were intent on removing themselves from the mobile industry, and as reports have also speculated, the larger hardware industry altogether. And now that the company is looking to root itself into the software industry HP has taken a number of steps to tie up their loose ends in the hardware sector.

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Is RIM A Target for Acquisition?

by Mike Mansell August 17, 2011

Google’s recent acquisition of Motorola has left many of us questioning if RIM is next in line to be acquired? While RIM isn’t exactly producing cutting edge technology right now and their efforts in the past years (the BlackBerry Torch and the BlackBerry PlayBook) have been somewhat pitiful are they appealing enough?

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Has Google Burned Bridges With the Motorola Acquisition?

by Mike Mansell August 16, 2011

Now that Google is buying out Motorola Mobility, will its relations with other smartphone manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung be damaged? It’s entirely possible.

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Sprint Turns Down PlayBook 4G, But This Isn’t the End

by Mike Mansell August 15, 2011

This afternoon I read a post from Wired that discussed the BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM’s first ever tablet, and the fact that Sprint recently turned down the opportunity to strike a deal with Resources In Motion to produce and sell a 4G version of the tablet. Now, with the amount of competition in the tablet industry [...]

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HP’s New Strategy: If You Can’t Beat Them, Undercut Them

by Mike Mansell August 11, 2011

How do you compete with the iPad? For a while now it has seemed as if manufacturers have had their heads in the sand and haven’t been able to figure out the answer to this simple question, but this week HP took up the a new approach which I honestly think will help them gain a much better edge in the tablet industry. If you can’t beat them, undercut them.

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Forget Android Tablets, We Want Chrome OS Tablets

by Mike Mansell August 9, 2011

Even though Google’s Android mobile operating system has covered quite a bit of ground in the smartphone market over the last few years, there really is no denying the sad reality that the OS hasn’t proven to be of any success in the tablet market yet. But why?

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Malware: Perhaps the Fastest-Growing Android Development

by Mike Mansell August 5, 2011

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

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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The Google Patent Hypocrisy

by Mike Mansell August 1, 2011

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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