Samsung’s new venture with Best Buy will not hurt Apple. Samsung is teaming up with Best Buy to open Samsung ‘Experience’ boutiques within the big box electronics retailer’s stores. Samsung’s Experience boutiques will be about 460 square feet in Best Buy’s main stores and will be staffed by Samsung’s own employees. There should be 500
It does not yet seem to be well understood, but Facebook has just launched a bazooka against Google, Apple, Microsoft, and BlackBerry. Present-day phones are built around apps. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, asked the right question, “Should the phones be designed around people and not apps?” His answer was apparently that people are more important
Apple is ready to introduce an old design by Steve Jobs as the next iPhone, perhaps called iPhone 5S, according to the San Francisco Examiner, reporting on comments Apple government liaison Michael Foulkes made to San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. Foulkes reportedly told Gascon that the next two generations of iPhones
As if Apple needed more trouble, here comes a double whammy. First, Apple CEO Tim Cook had to apologize to the Chinese consumers. Second, Apple got a downgrade from a big Wall Street supporter. A popular new segment on China Central Television highlighted how Apple discriminated against Chinese consumers with its warranties and
This morning BlackBerry released much anticipated earnings. After reviewing the earnings report, my conclusion is that it does not reveal much for a long-term investor since the company is in transition. The headline numbers were better than expected with one million BlackBerry Z10 phones sold. Here are the reasons why celebration for BlackBerry is
BlackBerry is scheduled to report earnings on Thursday, March 28. The consensus is a loss of $0.32 vs. a profit of $0.80 a year ago. The revenue consensus number is $2.84 billion. The consensus is for BlackBerry to lose money in every quarter in FY14. The earnings will be meaningless
BlackBerry’s new device, the Z10, has now been introduced in a number of markets including the United States. It appears to have had a strong launch in places like Canada, theUnitedKingdom and India. In contrast, the launch in the U.S. by AT&T has been listless. The reason the BlackBerry launch has gone better in Canada, United Kingdom and
As BlackBerry attempts to stage a comeback with BB 10, one aspect of its sales pitch is that BlackBerry is famous for its security characteristics. Now BlackBerry is losing its security aura. The timing could not be worse for BlackBerry of a security warning coming from Canada. Canada.com reports that the government department in charge of cyber security
The Boot to Gecko project (B2G) being developed by the Mozilla Foundation is now ready to challenge Apple and Google’s dominance of mobile devices. Mozilla Foundation is a not-for-profit entity that is the producer of the popular Firefox browser. Mozilla Foundation also has a tax-paying subsidiary called Mozilla Corporation. B2G Firefox OS B2G is
In a major strategic move, Samsung has announced an end-to-end security solution for mobile devices for the enterprise. The solution is appropriately named KNOX. KNOX appears to be the Fort Knox of mobile security in an enterprise. The best way to understand KNOX is to break it down into two components. Platform Security