Making BBM available elsewhere is a very risky move. The launch of the BlackBerry Q5, upgrades and extensions to BBM make it very clear how BlackBerry intends to regain its former glory. The Q5 is an interesting looking device sporting two bright colours and a 3.5” touch screen as well as a full QWERTY keyboard....
Gaming will put Google out front in the Digital Life race. Google is holding its annual developer event this week from Wednesday May 15th to Friday May 17th. The focus will be on the developers and tools rather than new hardware, updates and features for the Android and Chrome OSs. However there are a few...
ARM is looking less and less threatening to Intel. Thanks to the blunder that is Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM), ARM has made no real impact in the PC space and the outlook for it to do so is fading fast. On top of this, Intel is far from standing still and the more...
Nokia’s new platform does everything right except address the horrors of low end Android. Nokia has launched a big update to the Asha platform and the release of a new handset the Asha 501. The new platform runs on software proprietary to Nokia and uses Java for applications development. To date, Java has been awful...
Home is a bad sign for the longer-term outlook. The final verdict on Facebook Home was brutally handed down yesterday with AT&T slashing the price of the HTC First from $99 to $0.99. With that one slash of the knife, AT&T has confirmed what everyone had already gathered; the Facebook phone is proving very unpopular....
Google is a bad choice. Apple would be a better fit. Marissa Mayer seems to want to get out of the company’s agreement with Microsoft and go instead with Google. It is not a big surprise that the relationship with Microsoft is not going well as the deal was frankly a messy alternative to acquisition....
The latest EU ruling weakens the case for using SEPs for protection. The strength of standard essential patents (SEP) has taken another hit as the EU has found that Motorola has been abusing its position as a SEP holder. SEPs are patents that have been used to implement a technology standard such as 3G or...
The floundering challenge of ARM reduces pressure for Intel to do anything radical. Intel has announced the appointment of Brian Krzanich as CEO of Intel following the retirement of Paul Otellini. Mr Krzanich has been COO since January 2012 and is a 30 year veteran of Intel having started in 1982 as an engineer in...
The only winners are the lawyers. Yet another round of tit for tat was launched this week with the date of yet another trial being set for November 12th 2013. The purpose of this trial is to argue the value of the award that was set at the 2012 trial where Apple was awarded $1.049bn...
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
Google – Out front
Google is extending its lead except in games. Google regaled its fans with a three hour keynote that revealed updates and upgrades that push it further into the lead in the provision of Digital Life. First the numbers: 48bn applications have been installed and 900m devices have been activated. This is a huge number...