via New Line Cinema Apple iPads will be more common in businesses than BlackBerries within two years. via Eric Savitz Soweit Peter Sondergaard aus der Chefetage der Gartner-Marktforschung mit einer, meiner Meinung nach, konservativen Prognose. Nicht umsonst wirft Microsoft alle Reserven auf Tablets und lässt Google hektisch zur Gegenveranstaltung trommeln – durch Zufall am gleichen Tag. Nun.weiterlesen

In fiscal year 2009, Apple sold 20 million iPhones. In 2010 it sold almost double, 40 million. In 2011, it sold 72 million — 80 percent more than the previous year. Fiscal 2012’s numbers aren’t in yet, because the year will end after the current quarter. But if we guess that the drop in iPhoneweiterlesen

Philip Elmer-Dewitt trifft den Nagel für die begrenzte Aussagekraft der Umfrage auf den Kopf: The 4,413 consumers polled in ChangeWave Research’s March survey are not exactly a representative cross-section of the buying public. They’re primarily American (87%) and almost all early-adopter types. But as ChangeWave members they do tend to indicate which way the technologicalweiterlesen

„Over the next year, we [Halliburton] will begin expanding the use of our mobile technology by transitioning from the BlackBerry (RIM) platform that we currently use to smartphone technology via the iPhone,“ the Houston, Texas-based firm told employees in an internal newsletter this month. via AppleInsider Der BlackBerry-Abstieg ist, genau wie die Testläufe von iPhones undweiterlesen

Im April 2011 trumpfte Andy Lark, Dell’s weltweiter Marketing Chef, mit dieser Aussage auf: „Apple is great if you’ve got a lot of money and live on an island. It’s not so great if you have to exist in a diverse, open, connected enterprise; simple things become quite complex,“ said Lark, according to CIO. via Theweiterlesen

Die Eckpunkte des Themas ‚Carrier IQ‚ dürften bekannt sein. Hier ein Abriss des zeitlichen Verlaufs. via Carrier IQ Den Stein ins rollen brachte Trevor Eckhart mit seiner ursprünglichen Software-Analyse, die XDA-Developers.com mit „The Rootkit Of All Evil“ und „More on Carrier IQ“ Mitte November aufgriff: Carrier IQ sells rootkit software included on many US handsets soldweiterlesen

Computer giant Dell has replaced more than 15,000 or half of its corporate BlackBerry fleet as part of a company-wide efficiency drive. BlackBerrys have been given the boot in favour of Dell’s own line of smartphones that run on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. via The Australian Dell kündigte seinen Umschwung in puncto Mitarbeiterausrüstungweiterlesen

DirektFlash As an Adobe source code licensee, we will continue to work on and release our own implementations. RIM remains committed to delivering an uncompromised Web browsing experience to our customers, including native support for Adobe Flash Player on our BlackBerry PlayBook tablet (similar to a desktop PC browser), as well as HTML5 support onweiterlesen