Tech Notebook: Android vs. iPhone: Is Google the smartphone leader? Is Apple?San Jose Mercury News - Frank Michael Russell, Mike Swift - 5 Mar, 2011Is Google the smartphone leader? Is Apple? How about BlackBerry maker Research In Motion? According to a report this week from industry researcher Nielsen, they all are! Nielsen tallied the number of US consumers ... |
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BlackBerry Maker RIM To Build Cheaper Phones (RIMM, MRVL)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 5 Mar, 2011BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, a major Marvell customer, is shifting significant resources to "entry-level smartphones" according to one of its major suppliers. Chip maker Marvell had a tough time in the quarter that ended January 29, ... |
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Should BBM break free of the BlackBerry?Financial Post - 5 Mar, 2011Rumour has it that Canada's smartphone maker is planning to bring its signature BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) platform to the open smartphone market. In a widely replicated story posted to the Boy Genius Report blog Thursday morning, “multiple trusted ... |
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5 Smartphone Rules to Live ByHuffington Post (blog) - 5 Mar, 2011The smartphone has become a ubiquitous status symbol of and tool for businesspeople doing business. In offices, on the streets and in airports, what self-respecting businessperson doesn't have their smartphone, whether an Android, Blackberry, Windows, ... |
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Marvell's Weak Report Highlights BlackBerry's WoesWall Street Journal - Benjamin Pimentel - 5 Mar, 2011SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Marvell Technology Group Ltd.'s (MRVL) disappointing earnings report not only sent its own shares tumbling Friday, it also turned the spotlight on the BlackBerry's struggle to compete with the iPhone and Android-based devices ... |
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Marvell miss highlights BlackBerry woesMarketWatch - Benjamin Pimentel - 5 Mar, 2011SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) â€" Marvell Technology Group Ltd.'s disappointing earnings report not only sent its own shares tumbling on Friday, but also illustrated the degree of difficulty for the BlackBerry in competing ... |
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Android is No. 1 OS, but Apple, RIM rule devicesCNET (blog) - Lance Whitney - 5 Mar, 2011Google, Apple, and RIM are all vying for the top spot among the smartphones. But which one is dominant depends on whether you look at operating systems or devices, according to new data from Nielsen. Among mobile operating systems, ... |
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Android top mobile OS; geezers prefer iPhonesAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog) - George Mathis - Mar 4, 2011Most everyone has a smartphone these days. My vintage Google G1 phone battery lasts about as long as a newsroom doughnut, but it's hanging in there. With all the iPhone/Verizon hype, you'd expect Apple to be dominating the mobile OS market. ... |
More US consumers buying Android phones than iPhones, BlackBerrysCNN - Amy Gahran - Mar 4, 2011Currently Android has 29% of the US smartphone market; while the iPhone and BlackBerry hold 27% each. Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media ... |
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Android smartphones top iPhones, BlackBerries for first timeComputerworld - Matt Hamblen - Mar 4, 2011Computerworld - Android smartphones beat out iPhone and BlackBerry devices for the first time in the US in the latest Nielsen survey conducted just prior to Verizon Wireless sales of the iPhone. Android devices made by several ... |
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RIM ties with Apple for US smartphone market shareInquirer - Lawrence Latif - Mar 4, 2011REPORTS of Apple's runaway success in the smartphone market have been greatly exaggerated, according to figures published by the industry watching firm Nielsen. In its quarterly report of US smartphone share for the quarter ending ... |
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Android Edges RIM, Apple as Most Popular Smartphone OSPCWorld - Ian Paul - Mar 4, 2011Google's Android is the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States -- but just barely, according to new numbers from the Nielsen Company. The metrics firm found that Android has captured 29 ... |
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Android vs Blackberry vs iPhone battle intensifiesSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) - Mar 4, 2011Android phones appear to be pulling ahead of Blackberries and iPhones in the smart phone race, according to the latest report by Nielsen. In looking at the consumer market of smart phone operating systems, it found that 29 percent are using Android ... |
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BlackBerry Messenger due for iOS, AndroidTechtree.com - Samir Makwana - Mar 4, 2011BlackBerry Messenger has brought massive popularity to the platform apart from its encrypted email services. Boy Genius Report has learned from multiple sources that Research in Motion plans to release a cross-platform version of BlackBerry Messenger ... |
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Apple, Google, RIM neck-and-neck in smart phone marketEconomic Times - Mar 3, 2011NEW YORK: Apple, Google, Research In Motion (RIM) are neck and neck in the cut-throat smart phone market in the US , according to a Nielsen survey Thursday. While Apple and Google have their own individual operating systems to run their respective ... |
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Bits: Android Pulls Ahead in Smartphone RaceNew York Times (blog) - Nick Bilton - Mar 3, 2011The smartphone race is still raging, but who is winning might look different depending which question you ask. Is Google's Android platform beating Apple's iOS? Yes, and no. A new report released Thursday by Nielsen, a market research ... |
Nielsen: Consumers Prefer AndroidPC Magazine - Mark Hachman - Mar 3, 2011What's the most popular mobile OS out there? Android, by a nose, Nielsen reported in a report Thursday. In a study of 14701 Americans, The Nielsen Company reported that 29 percent of those postpaid mobile subscribers surveyed owned an ... |
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Apple, Google, RIM in smartphone dead heatRegister - Mar 3, 2011Although Android-based smartphones now have a larger US market share that do handsets from Apple or RIM, the three-way battle remains a tight one. "When it comes to consumer marketshare by operating system, Android (29%) appears to be pulling ahead of ... |
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Report: Blackberry Messenger Due for Android, iOSPC Magazine - Mark Hachman - Mar 3, 2011Research in Motion is planning on porting its Blackberry Messenger Service to both the Android OS and eventually the Apple iOS platform as well, a report claimed Thursday. Citing multiple sources within RIM, Boy Genius Report claimed ... |
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Report: BlackBerry Messenger coming to iOS and Androidmsnbc.com - Rosa Golijan - Mar 3, 2011Amazing news for folks with BlackBerry-obsessed friends: Research In Motion, the company behind those addicting devices, might be bringing its popular BlackBerry Messenger app over to Apple iOS and Android devices. ... |
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Rumor: RIM's BlackBerry Messenger coming to Android, iOSCNET (blog) - Scott Webster - Mar 3, 2011Research In Motion is said to be prepping cross-platform versions of its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application for release later this year. According to multiple sources close to Boy Genius Report (BGR), an Android version "is ... |
If BlackBerry Messenger Goes to Android, What Remains of BlackBerry?PCWorld - Jared Newman - Mar 3, 2011BlackBerry enthusiasts like to cite RIM's BlackBerry Messenger as a big reason to stick with the smartphone platform, but this perk may not be exclusive forever. According to Boy Genius Report's sources, Research in Motion ... |
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BlackBerry Messenger App May Be Coming To Apple, Android DevicesHuffington Post - Catharine Smith - Mar 3, 2011Research In Motion (RIM) plans to develop its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) app for Google's Android platform and perhaps even for Apple's iOS devices, according "multiple trusted sources" who dished to Boy Genius Report. At the Mobile World Congress last ... |
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BlackBerry facing dark days; pulls out Messenger on Android, iOS wildcardZDNet (blog) - Zack Whittaker - Mar 3, 2011BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion is struggling. Now that the iPad 2 has effectively killed the PlayBook before it was even released, RIM is throwing its wildcard options on the table. ... |
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RIMM May Bring BBM Software To iPhone, Android: BoyGeniusBarron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - Mar 3, 2011Jonathan Geller with Boy Genius Report this morning writes that Research in Motion (RIMM) will provide the BlackBerry Messenger, or “BBM,” as it's known, a popular instant-message style communications program widely used on its ... |
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BlackBerry Messenger May Find Its Way to Android and iPhoneTIME - Doug Aamoth - Mar 3, 2011BlackBerry's instant messaging serviceâ€"fittingly called BlackBerry Messengerâ€"may someday be available as a standalone application for iPhones and Android handsets, according to BGR.com. In its current form, ... |
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India poised to ban BlackBerrys: Skype, Google could be nextZDNet (blog) - Zack Whittaker - Mar 2, 2011BlackBerry maker Research in Motion could be banned from India along with Skype and Google, for failing to provide encryption keys to India's intelligence services. Zack Whittaker is a British student at ... |
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Give Away Apps With Your BlackBerryRollingStone.com (blog) - Scott Steinberg - Mar 1, 2011BlackBerry smartphone users will soon be able to gift apps as birthday presents, everyday pick-me-ups and high-tech ways to show your love (or your lack of things to do at work). Manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) recently announced plans to add ... |
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Android and iPhone battle it out in the smartphone marketPersonal Finance Bulletin (press release) - Philip Nix - 5 Mar, 2011Consumer report company Nielsen have just released the results of their annual survey of the most popular mobile operating systems on smartphones. It is important to note that just because someone has a particular os on their smartphone it is not ... |
RIM Finally Sees The Light. Unfortunately, It's An Onrushing Train â€" Or Is It?TechCrunch - 5 Mar, 2011Strange things are afoot in my hometown of Waterloo, Canada, which doubles as Research In Motion's headquarters. ShopSavvy says that someone there has been running their Android app â€" on BlackBerry devices. Separately, Bloomberg has reported that RIM's ... |
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