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Yahoo! Q1 – Darker horse

          Difficult results in display advertising mask the potential. Yahoo! reported disappointing results as display advertising continued to decline despite the remedial actions put in place...

Mobile Gaming – Return to roots

          App based gaming remains the future of this critical segment. Say what you like about games but nearly one third of all time spent on...

Flexible Displays – The Lion’s Den

          Flexible screens are Samsung’s patch, not Apple’s    Apple Patent applications and job filings are an admission of what I have long suspected. Flexible and...

iPhone – Screen Test

          Apple needs to skip the iPhone 5S and go straight to the 6.  To date, the iPhone has managed to hold its position by beating...

Google and WhatsApp – Admission of weakness

            Google’s interest in WhatsApp is a sign of weakness.   WhatsApp has denied that it is in talks with Google with respect to being...

Facebook – The right move

          Home is the right strategy for Facebook to extend its reach. Facebook Home is a software skin that takes over the home screen of an...

Facebook – Once bitten, twice shy

          Tonight’s announcement risks being a big anti-climax. The last time Facebook made a “big announcement” the result was the spectacularly unambitious Facebook Graph Search. What...

Samsung vs. Google – Game of Thrones

          Samsung and Google will end up in a struggle for the user. So far Samsung and Google have been on good terms given the symbiotic...

Windows on ARM – Blue Phoenix

(RFM will return on Wednesday April 3rd)           Windows RT in its current form looks doomed.  When Samsung pulls its RT products, everyone will and I...

Ecosystems – Here comes George Orwell

          Digital Life has an increasingly Orwellian future. The big ecosystem creators are slowly but inexorably nudging users towards their ecosystems. It is very subtle, it...