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The best-case scenario for BlackBerry right now? Build a niche as a ‘cult’ product

 

 

OK, so I admit that I’ve been picking on RIM (RIMM) a lot lately. And in my defense, the company over the past few years has made it pretty easy for me since it’s made a litany of crucial mistakes that have left it in its current dire situation. But the Read the Rest of the story [...]

HP CEO: Say goodbye to ‘open’ Android

While speaking at HP’s global partner summit in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman discussed her company’s strategy moving forward, further emphasizing the potential of the now open-source webOS platform. Whitman is already on record saying that webOS offers big benefits compared to iOS (which is closed) and Android Read the Rest of the story [...]

HP Veer 4G, Pre 3 and TouchPad celebrate a melancholy birthday

Just one year ago, HP officially introduced the TouchPad, Pre 3 and Veer to its lineup. Much has happened in the 365 days since that time, which marked the end of the Palm brand, the discontinuation of the company’s webOS hardware development and the decision to open source the crown jewel, Read the Rest of the story [...]

Register for “Porting webOS to BlackBerry WebWorks” Amsterdam Hackathon & Win Big! (Feb 6th)

BlackBerry DevCon Europe in Amsterdam starts on February 7th but ddluk let us know that there is a great hackathon before the event. They are organizing a Hackathon the day before DevCon Europe on “Porting HP webOS applications to BlackBerry WebWorks platform” now that HP has open sourced Enyo. Read the Rest of the story [...]

webOS Now Opensource, Developers to Focus on Other Platforms??

We all know that Research In Motion is trying to expand it’s customer base by bringing the Android Player to the PlayBook. Which for me, is something exciting. It can only be a win/win for developers and end users if applications, games, and utilities are available on all platforms. Yesterday, Read the Rest of the story [...]

Nielsen: Android expands smartphone OS lead in Q3, Apple still top vendor

 

Google’s lead among smartphone platforms grew wider in the United States last quarter as Research In Motion and Microsoft each lost share to Android. Just-released data from Nielsen for the third quarter shows that Google’s share of the smartphone market in the U.S. grew to 43%, up from 39% in the Read the Rest of the story [...]

Best Buy offering $150 32GB TouchPad with HP notebook purchase

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. Best Buy announced on Monday that customers who purchase an HP or Compaq laptop, desktop or all-in-one computer can opt to purchase an HP TouchPad tablet for an additional $149. The deal, which gives a small breath of life to a tablet that Read the Rest of the story [...]

RIM urged by Jaguar Financial Corporation to sell itself or patents to anyone willing to buy

 

While the month of August brought about a lot of changes in the mobile space, now that we’re well rolling into September — it doesn’t seem as though that news is slowing down any. In fact, it seems as though things are just heating up more then ever. Samsung and Apple are having Read the Rest of the story [...]

And then there were four

When Hewlett-Packard announced in April of 2010 that it planned to acquire Palm for $1.2 billion, I sent the following email to a friend on the software team at Palm: “Congrats on the stay of execution, buddy. I give it 18 months.” Of course I was jabbing him and later went Read the Rest of the story [...]

Nielsen: Apple top U.S. smartphone vendor, Android top OS in Q2

Android continued on its warpath this past quarter, once again showing gains as it retained its position as top smartphone platform in the United States. Nielsen on Thursday issued its second-quarter smartphone market share data for the U.S., and Android finds itself atop the list again with 39% of the market. Read the Rest of the story [...]