Month: August 2011
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Woz on Jobs: Apple is Set Up
“You’ve got to remember. He was surrounded by great, great people at Apple … and those people are still there,” [..] “I don’t think the core Apple culture will change because of (Jobs’) leaving, not for a long time. Apple is set up. It just needs to stay financially responsible.” There’s a good reason people…
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Michael Geist on RIM’s Woes and The Canadian Telecom Policy
This is an excellent piece from one of Canada’s premier columnist on technology law issues and law professor at the University of Ottawa. this particular article takes up the argument that the Canadian Government should step in to assist RIM in order to avoid another “Nortel” disaster. We have already spoken up about this aid…
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Blackberry Market Share Continues to Nose Dive; Android, iOS Keeps Soaring
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS, for example, saw it’s market share drop precipitously from 28 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to 11 percent in the second quarter of 2011. The resulting hit on the Blackberry Market share is remarkable but not very surprising considering the year they have had. I curious to see…
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iOS Devices May Be Cheaper To Support Than Blackberry and Android
BlackBerry users cost[..] North American carriers in aggregate $46 million more a year to support than iPhone users, and Android users cost[..] $97 million more a year. I would like to see the actual report before making any real conclusions but these number are startling via Another reason to go iPhone: It’s cheaper to support…
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Smartphone Messenger Apps Compared
A very interesting comparison on various new messenger apps for smartphone: Facebook Messenger, Google+ Huddle and Apple iOS iMessage. The only other important one missing from the list is BlackBerry’s BBM. GigaOm.
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Basic Instructions on how to care for your smartphone
It’s quite sad how true this really is. Via Android and Me.
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Apple Store Opening 3km from RIM Waterloo Headquarters
Seriously, The new store is literally down the street from the RIM Campus where Mike and Jim have been trying to get QNX to fit into a BlackBerry or PlayBook device that actually works. What would be great is if the line-ups from the hopefully soon to be announced iPhone 5 manage to reach all…