Samsung Galaxy S II teardown reveals major redesign, cutting-edge tech
As part of its new Teardown Research Service, market research firm ABI Research has torn Samsung’s Galaxy S II apart in order to analyze and …
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Annual mobile app downloads to jump to 182.7 billion by 2015, IDC says
According to a new report from research firm IDC, annual mobile app downloads are expected to jump from just 10.7 billion in 2010 to 182.7 …
Apple not reviewing location data, researcher says
On Wednesday, researchers from O’Reilly claimed to discover a tracking feature in iPhones and 3G iPads that reportedly sent location data back to Apple. Another …
Connected device sales will grow 77% to 39 million in 2011, Berg Insight says
In a report titled Emerging Wireless Consumer Devices published this month by Berg Insight, the firm claims that sales of connected consumer devices will grow …
BlackBerry Desktop Manager 2.0 for Mac now available
Although it has been available in a beta version for the past several weeks, BlackBerry Desktop Manager 2.0 for Mac had yet to be given …
Android dominates Verizon smartphone sales; BlackBerry tanks
Investment research firm ITG has been investigating the sales figures from Verizon Wireless and it has come up with a pretty interesting find: the vast majority of …
RIM now accepting App World submissions for PlayBook applications
Today, Research In Motion announced that it has “opened the BlackBerry App World vendor portal to begin accepting BlackBerry PlayBook apps from developers.” The company …
BlackBerry 6 kernel gets cryptographic seal of approval from U.S. government
Today, Research In Motion announced that the cryptographic kernel of its BlackBerry 6 mobile operating system has earned the FIPS 140-2 security certification. FIPS, or Federal Information …
Forrester Research CEO: Mark Zuckerberg’s skills as a CEO are overrated
George Colony, founder and CEO of Forrester Research, keeps a blog that “contains ideas, observations, and analyses to help drive the success of other CEOs.” …
Sprint BlackBerry Style 9670 hands on
As you can clearly see, no, we didn’t snag the royal purple BlackBerry Style, but Sprint and RIM were nice enough to hook us up …
Sprint makes BlackBerry Style 9670 official, October 31st release for $99
Sprint and BlackBerry have finally gone and made the BlackBerry Style 9670 official as of this morning. In case you’re forgetting the specifications on the …
BlackBerry Curve 9330 hits Verizon's website, in fuchsia
Back on the 14th of September, Verizon Wireless announced that the BlackBerry Curve 9330 would be available for purchase in the “coming weeks.” After almost …
Verizon Wireless will have 'interactive launch' of BlackBerry 6 on October 14
Hey, what do we have here? One of our Verizon sources was kind enough to send us this piece of intel regarding Verizon Wireless and …
AT&T to offer BlackBerry Curve 3G, Pearl 3G before holidays
Today, AT&T announced that they will begin selling the BlackBerry Curve 3G and BlackBerry Pearl 3G in time for the holiday buying season. The Curve …
RIM not announcing BlackBerry tablet at DevCon today?
Well, here is what we have confirmed: the keynote today, delivered by Mike Lazaridis, will focus on the next generation tablet OS platform. It won’t …
Latest cell phone study: New Yorkers talk less than almost everyone else
According to recent survey, New Yorkers literally don’t have time to talk on their cell phones. In terms of rank, New York is #15 in …
Research concludes that tiered data plans are a win for consumers
FierceWireless has a great article in which Roger Entner from The Nielsen Company breaks down smartphone data usage obtained from 60,000 cellphone bills. Apart from …
Verizon and Sprint handled 16 billion more MB of data than AT&T in 2009
AT&T might be the first carrier you think of when you picture the largest mover of wireless data in the US, but according to a …
Surprise, surprise; PC sales expected to drop in 2009
Just in case the current economic climate didn’t tip you off, Gartner has issued new predictions for PC sales in 2009 and things don’t look …
