This week has been a real eye opener for the big players in tech, with a distinct change from being very much independent to a ‘if you can’t beat them, join them mentality. First Nokia partnered up with Microsoft and now it seems RIM have done the same thing with Google. RIM, who are the parent company behind the Blackberry Playbook is said to be developing their...
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RIM entered the tablet market with the sole aim of hitting it big, their Blackberry Playbook will go head to head with the Apple iPad and Motorola Xoom in March. They are obviously pretty confident that their tablet will be popular revealing that 1 million units will be shipped in the first month alone. The one million unit estimate trumps the Motorola Xoom which is...
A few weeks ago we talked about the mobile phone market and how Apple’s market share was slipping according to second quarter figures. Happily for Apple the third quarter figures seem to be a lot rosier as they have now passed RIM (Research in motion) and is making in-roads on catching market leaders Nokia. Research Company Strategic Analytics published a report on Thursday...
As soon as Apple launched its iPad a few months back, Steve Jobs lit a very slow burning fuse on what would inevitably become the tablet PC wars. Perhaps other manufacturers looked at the touch screen tablet and believed that consumers would not react to something that offered very few functions over and above the average smartphone but in a slightly larger package and...
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