“Ford Motor Co. is deploying iPhones for corporate use to employees worldwide, scoring a win for Apple Inc. as it seeks to lure more corporate customers,” Craig Trudell and Keith Naughton report for Bloomberg. “The second largest U.S. automaker will replace BlackBerry Ltd.’s smartphones with iPhones for about 3,300 workers by the end of this…
Apple recently “announced a partnership with IBM to extend its reach into the enterprise mobility market through IBM’s MobileFirst for iOS solutions,” Price Point writes for Seeking Alpha. “I think that the enterprise partnership between the two tech titans will have significant impacts on many areas of the market. While the partnership would be a…
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“BlackBerry Ltd would consider exiting its handset business if it remains unprofitable, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday, as the technology company looks to expand its corporate reach with investments, acquisitions and partnerships.,” Alastair Sharp and Nicola Leske report for Reuters. “‘If I cannot make money on handsets, I will not be in the…
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Van Baker, Gartner research vice president, has examined some of the issues beleaguered BlackBerry will face in the enterprise market in the report, “BlackBerry’s BB10 Creates Mobile Adoption Decisions for the Enterprise.” Below is his commentary in today’s analyst blog post: Although BB10 presents a modernized new platform based on touch technology, market conditions will…
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“A stunt by BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) designed to make fun of Apple has backfired on the ailing company, say commentators,” James Manning reports for The Sydney Morning Herald. “RIM today owned up to being responsible for an extended protest outside Apple’s Sydney CBD store last week after online sleuths traced the source…
“Outside Washington, the world is moving at warp speed away from the BlackBerry. At its maker, profits are declining and executives are leaving, and the BlackBerry has even conceded its perch as the top smartphone in its native Canada,” Cecilia Kang reports for The Washington Post. “Inside the Beltway, time stands still,” Kang reports. “A…
“Since November of 2009, I’ve been exclusively an Android smartphone user,” Jason Perlow writes for ZDNet. “In that time I’ve gone from the original Motorola Droid to the Droid Bionic, and now the Galaxy Nexus. I’ve seen the Android OS improve considerably and continue to be impressed by the innovations that each successive version brings…
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