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
It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Apple’s Passbook app has a new fan in Samsung. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung introduced its new Wallet app. The preliminary details show that the Wallet app imitates Passbook in several respects. Apple’s Passbook app allows users to handle mobile payments
At the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei introduced the world’s fastest smartphone. Most Americans have never heard of Huawei. Huawei is no small fry; it is a large Chinese company. Its principal business is networking and telecommunications equipment. It has overtaken Ericsson to become the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world.
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
Goldman Sachs, according to Reuters, says AIG has replaced Apple as the favorite pick of hedge funds. Apple’s arch enemy Google is now also favored over Apple by hedge funds. Apple has not been abandoned by hedge funds; it is now in third place. According to Goldman’s data, hedge fund’s top holdings were reported to
Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a fireside chat, tried to convince the world that Apple is still the center of innovation in the technology world. Cook said that about one quarter of Apple employees were working on new products. There were no specifics but presumably new products include iTV. While Cook was
The first carrier to introduce the BlackBerry Z10 in the U.S. is not Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile. It is a carrier that you have probably never heard of. Solavei, a relatively new phone carrier, is introducing Z10 for a price of $999. You can buy it on their website with a promise
Both the New York Times and theWall Street Journal are reporting that Apple is working on a watch-like device. iWatch has been in the rumor mill for a long time, but now the rumor has gained more credibility being spread by these august outlets. Pebble, a smart watch that shows emails or text messages easily
There is a lot more to Tuesday’s introduction of a new version of iPad with 128GB memory by Apple. The uninitiated simply dismissed the introduction of 128GB as nothing more than the evolutionary process of Apple adding more memory. Such commentators are myopic and are looking only at the consumer market
Apple this morning announced a new 128 GB fourth generation iPad. The new 128 GB version is priced at $929 for WiFi plus cellular and $799 for only Wi-Fi model. “With more than 120 million iPads sold, it’s clear that customers around the world love their iPads, and everyday they