Apple goes after BlackBerry's enterprise base

Release Date 12 Jul, 2011 in Economic Times

Apple goes after BlackBerry's enterprise base Economic Times - 12 Jul, 2011 TORONTO: As BlackBerry maker Research In Motion ( RIM . co-CEOs face jittery investors Tuesday at the annual meeting amid the company's declining market share, Apple has stepped up efforts to steal BlackBerry's corporate client base. ...
Apple targets a distracted RIM, steps in to lure users to iPhone Toronto Star - Mike Cassese - 12 Jul, 2011 If BlackBerry is losing share in the once sacrosanct public service market, analysts say corporations may be emboldened to follow. With Research In Motion Ltd. focused on challenges including a potentially fractious meeting with shareholders Tuesday, ...
Why do people choose Android smartphones? ZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - 12 Jul, 2011 Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, ...
RIM annual meeting likely to exacerbate investor ire Reuters Canada - Alastair Sharp - 12 Jul, 2011 TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion investors desperate for news about how the BlackBerry maker will reverse its sagging fortunes will likely leave Tuesday's annual meeting with their frustrations even more inflamed. ...
Android is winning the worldwide OS race Inquirer - Dave Neal - 12 Jul, 2011 THE ANDROID operating system is the most used mobile operating system (OS) in six out of eight key countries, according to data released by Kantar Worldpanel Comtech and seen by the Guardian newspaper. Android is doing particularly well in ...
Score Media sees RIM PlayBook opening doors for developers National Post (registration) - Matt Hartley - 12 Jul, 2011 In the parlance of the sports world, Research In Motion Ltd. may have appeared to fumble the ball with the launch of its BlackBerry PlayBook, but in the long run, it may be the case that the BlackBerry maker has provided a crucial assist to developers ...
RIM PlayBook is 'mobile computing' News24 - Duncan Alfreds - ‎Jul 11, 2011‎ The PlayBook represents Research in Motion's venture into mobile computing that presents an internet, as opposed to mobile internet experience, the BlackBerry maker has said. The BlackBerry PlayBook represents true mobile computing, according to the ...
More market share blues for BlackBerry National Business Review - ‎Jul 10, 2011‎ Mobiles based on Google's Android software, which first took the number one spot in November last year, continue to widen their lead. By Comscore's count, RIM lost one million US subscribers in the three months ending May, even as the total smart phone ...
Android the top smartphone OS in 8 countries Life of Android (blog) - Robert Leedham - 12 Jul, 2011 Android is outselling all other smartphone platforms in countries across Europe, Asia and North America according to statistics from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Google-endorsed handsets have been selling like wildfire in the UK, US, France, Spain, ...
	Smartphones halfway to UK domination Telecoms News - 12 Jul, 2011 A recent study has estimated that by this time next year, at least 50 per cent of all UK mobile handsets will soon be smartphones. With smartphones highly anticipated to make up the majority for at least half of all mobile phone consumers over the next ...
	Android whips competition in Europe Smart Gorillas - Heather McLean - 12 Jul, 2011 The latest marketshare figures for smartphone operating systems show that Android is the top platform in Europe. According to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, in the latest 12 week sales to 12 June 2011 Android is now the top OS in six ...
	Refrigeration application now available on all smart phones and androids Supermarket Online - 12 Jul, 2011 After being the first to introduce a refrigeration app for the iPhone, called Toolbocks, GEA Bock offers this helpful tool for experts now also for Blackberry Smartphones and phones with the operating system Android. Apps, as the small programs for ...
As Android bites lumps out of European smartphone market, will Apple get the pip? TelecomTV - 12 Jul, 2011 Interesting stuff this. Too early to tell if its a straw in the wind or something much more meaningful but, over the course of the past twelve months, Apple's share of smartphone sales in the UK has fallen from 30.6 per cent to 18.3 per cent as ...
	Android leads, Apple iOS (without iPhone 5) and BlackBerry tied says survey PopHerald.com - Joan Lee - 12 Jul, 2011 Pewinternet.org said 35% of United States adults are now smartphone owners, according to survey conducted last May. The survey also found that 83% of US adults have a cellular phone, and 42% of them own a smartphone, or a phone that can connect to ...
Mobile users with cheapie phones will switch to Android Credit Writedowns - 12 Jul, 2011 In the past, if your teenager or 80-year old mother wanted a phone, she would buy whatever phone the mobile operator had on offer for $0 with a contract or the lowest price phone on a pay-as-you-go plan. These phones are commodities. ...
	Google's Android outshining rival operating systems TopNews New Zealand - Neelesh Raghuwanshi - 12 Jul, 2011 Google's Android operating system is outshining its rivals in the smartphone market across Western Europe and the United States. According to new figures released by Kantar Worldpanel Comtech, Android's market share reached 38 per cent in the quarter ...
Apple Pwns All Other Smartphone Manufacturers In USA �" 2 Phones Are Better ... Gadgetsteria - 12 Jul, 2011 We all know Apple is encroaching on everyone's territory in so many different ways. With the exception of the �" no contest �" mp3 player market, Apple has always had to work a little bit harder to gain any tread in world domination. ...
iPhone, Android Freelance Developer Demand Continues To Rise, Blackberry Show ... pluGGd.in - Chaitanya Khanapure - 12 Jul, 2011 App development is a lucrative sector to enter for developers. The app store module has made sure that apps become popular with users as well as profitable for developers to keep churning out ...
Three years ago, the iPhone launched in Australia iTech Report - 12 Jul, 2011 And what a long way the smartphone arena has come here since. Yesterday marked the third anniversary of Apple's the sale of the first iPhone available in Australia, with the Cupertino-based company launching the device a year after Americans first got ...
	Will the iPhone's Dominance Continue? Rapid News Network - 12 Jul, 2011 When you take the time to reflect on it, the dominance of smartphones within the mobile industry over the past two years is mind blowing. Akin to the takeover of digital music players in the early 2000's and the emergence of the home PC in the 1990's ...
	Android market share touches 38% Planet Insane - Nina Varghese - 12 Jul, 2011 New data shows that the Android market share touched 38 per cent in the three months ended May 2011, as numbers of Android �"based smartphone users keeps increasing. Android market share, according to the research grew by 15 per cent when compared to ...
	Report Indicates Changes in BlackBerry PlayBook Sales Target Planet Insane - 12 Jul, 2011 The second quarter sales target for the BlackBerry playbook was reduced by Research In Motion to around one-third of its initial projection. The revision was based on a report which referred to some Taiwanese suppliers. However RIM did not release any ...
BlackBerry still hugely popular in UK, market figures show Techworld.com - John E Dunn - 12 Jul, 2011 RIM's BlackBerry might be on a sustained losing streak against Android and the iPhone around the world but it is still packing in new users in the UK, research company Kantar Worldpanel ComTech ...
iPhone Global Sales Tumble As Carriers Launch New Android Devices ChannelNews - David Richards - 12 Jul, 2011 Apple, whose iPhone was taken on by carriers because it drove people into their stores as opposed to delivering profits, has seen a massive plunge in demand for their Smartphone as new Android devices are ...
Google Android gains ground Warc - 12 Jul, 2011 LONDON: Google Android is now the leading smartphone operating system by new sales in eight major markets worldwide, a list including Japan, the UK and US. Kantar Worldpanel, the insights provider, reported that Android contributed 45.2% of UK ...
Apple pitches iPhones to businesses Bizjournals.com - 12 Jul, 2011 Apple Inc. is stepping up its efforts to lure business customers away from longtime leader Research in Motion Ltd. , the maker of the Blackberry. The company has a back cover ad on the latest issue of The Economist, touting iPhone business apps ...
	Apple's iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry & HTC Android an' Droid Top US Smartphones ... Wireless and Mobile News - 12 Jul, 2011 Apple was the top maker of smartphones owned in the United States from March through May, 2011, with 26.6% of the market reported ComScore. RIM's BlackBerry had 24.7% of the market, while HTC's Android and Droid smartphones equaled 11.8%. ...
	Early iPhone 5 vs. Nexus 4G Insight Product Reviews - Alan Ng - 12 Jul, 2011 If you are currently mulling on the huge decision as to which smartphone you will buy next, there are two phones which you would be silly not to consider. One is obviously the inevitable iPhone 5 device, but the other is an elusive device which is ...
BlackBerry Now Publicly Sucks, But It's Got a Place in My Heart Death and Taxes - Colleen Stufflebeem - 12 Jul, 2011 There are three objects that I am wholeheartedly attached to. Two of them are with me at all times, are sitting next to my computer as I type this and can be found with the third object always inexplicably ...
	Why I switched from Android to the iPhone IntoMobile - Marin Perez - 12 Jul, 2011 Android fans, I have some bad news: I finally crossed over to the dark side this weekend and got an iPhone 4 to be my main device. My two-year upgrade came up with Verizon from the original Motorola Droid and I decided that it was finally time to pull ...