The hardy chaps who spun out of Nokia to breathe new life into Meego launched their Sailfish OS yesterday at the Slush start-up event. The company also announced that ST Ericsson would be supporting the OS on its NovaThor platform. This is not as surprising as it sounds like this is a resurrection of the...
Hewlett Packard is painting itself as the honest victim of fraud, when it comes to the acquisition of Autonomy, but an honest fool is still not fit to run a big company. Just 14 months ago, HPQ announced that it would spend almost all of its available cash to acquire Autonomy for £6.3bn ($10bn). Yesterday...
Radio Free Mobile presents input from a guest author. Cyrus Mewawalla from CM Research on the Chinese Social Media Sector. China’s social media: Great potential but there are political risks CM Research has teamed up with Trusted Sources, an emerging markets macro-economic research house, to provide you an informed view of the future of China’s social media sector. We have...
Windows 8 and the Surface RT have been out for a few weeks now and the early indications are that lift-off has been pretty sluggish. The reviews have been moderately positive with the real negatives not being the way in which touch and keyboard / mouse have been put together, but in the functionality limitations...
Nokia held an event yesterday to launch enhancements to its mapping offering but it was not clear to me how Nokia itself would benefit in the short term. Here represents an enhancement to the maps application by putting much of the functionality in the cloud while at the same time still enabling mapping and directions...
They say that I should not be surprised by the exit of Steve Sinofsky’s departure from Microsoft but I am as I was expecting the other Steve to leave. With Sinofsky’s exit, goes any real chance of Ballmer leaving Microsoft any time soon and also the prospect of a near term catalyst to drive the...
One of the skirmishes is over. Apple and HTC have signed a 10 year license deal dismissing all outstanding patent litigation. As usual no details whatsoever have been released leaving everyone in the realm of speculation and conjecture. The first conclusion that one can draw is that someone blinked. Typically what happens in these cases...
The arrival of the iPad Mini threatens to disrupt the mid to low end of the tablet market but its price premium is likely to ensure that its impact on tablets below $250 is minimal. The tablet market is essentially very similar to the smartphone market in that there is action at the two ends...
It is well known that Turkey’s don’t vote for Christmas so why on earth would Microsoft want to make Office available on iOS anytime soon? The notion that Microsoft will make Office available on iOS and Android has surfaced yet again (The Verge) and really stems from the leak (Early October 2012) from Microsoft’s Czech...
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Black Friday – All online.
The headlines are hiding the realities of a pretty good weekend of retail sales in the US. Purchasing online using PCs, tablets and smartphones saw very strong growth and as evidenced by the scrums in the shops, the US consumer has spent 12.8% more than he did last year. The latest figures show that over...