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Microsoft – The price is right.

          Free upgrade is excellent news for the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft’s ambition to become an ecosystem company have crystalised further as upgrades to Windows 10 from...

Xiaomi – Circumnavigation.

          Xiaomi must have exclusive services to succeed. Xiaomi is following in the footsteps of its rivals in building an ecosystem via purchasing small shareholdings but...

BlackBerry – Roller-coaster.

          There is no reason why Samsung would want BlackBerry. BlackBerry has had a wild couple of days as rumours surfaced that Samsung was willing to...

Samsung Tizen – Ducks and Chickens.

          Duck in danger becomes chicken and egg. Samsung has at last launched a handset based on Tizen’s software. The device is called the Z1, has...

Lenovo – Cash Call

          Lenovo offers far more value than Xiaomi. Following the acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google, it looks very much as if Lenovo has realised that...

Google – The missing Lollipop

          Android Lollipop is still nowhere to be found. Despite being launched over 7 months ago, with availability for the last 4 months, Lollipop devices are...

CES Day 3 – Huawei – Eggs and Bacon

          Huawei now has the eggs but can it bring home the bacon? One of the most interesting developments at CES was the emergence of understanding...

Samsung Q4 14A – Breathing Space

          Some relief as handsets did not worsen materially. Samsung reported Q4 14A preliminary results that beat expectations but were not enough to lead me to...

HTC Q4 14A – Skin of teeth

          Costs in line with sales allow HTC to survive HTC reported its first YoY growth in 4 years but the figures show that it is...

CES 2015 – Day 1 – Samsung spotlight

          Samsung Smart Home will live or die in software. Samsung headlined day 1 at CES but its press conference was pretty subdued with a distinct...