RIMM must hold onto hardware if BlackBerry 10 is to have a chance of being a viable ecosystem. The big event is next Wednesday (30th Jan 2013), but already the essence of what will be announced has been leaked. The bottom line is that BlackBerry’s new OS 10 is a vast improvement on the old...
Ultra HD looks great on the stands and in the shops but the dimensions of the living room are likely to mean that it will fail. It is the all the rage and I have to admit that when I saw it for real, I was impressed. However, what I failed to notice was that...
New best friends Baidu and Orange look to be going on a land grab in emerging markets starting with the Middle East and North Africa. The benefits of this partnership as I see it are subscribers for Orange and internet traffic for Baidu. The co-operation revolves around a mobile optimised browser called El Browzer...
Facebook’s new graph search function is so unambitious that no one is going to get the wrong end of the stick. Instead of a leap into the unknown, Facebook’s new search product does little more than optimise the asset that the company already has. Facebook Graph Search is a new function that allows users to...
Whatever Facebook announces today, the chances are that most commentators will get the wrong end of the stick. I do not believe for a second that Facebook wants to be like Apple. Instead I think this is about directing and keeping internet traffic for the benefit of its ability to sell targeted advertising. Facebook is...
Apple is starting to lose some of its gloss as the youthful trendsetters seem to have moved onto Samsung and, believe it or not, the Microsoft Surface. When you have had the coolest, most popular products for a good while, there is only one place to go. Furthermore, when everyone has the cool product (definition...
At a fairly dull CES, Dell has come up with one of the most interesting products. It is not very innovative nor is it sexy but it is cheap. In this market, a low price is a critical factor in terms of making a proposition to the cash strapped consumer. I am referring to the...
I have been very damning on the outlook for Japanese Consumer Electronics, but have I been slightly too hasty? Japanese Consumer Electronics looks to be in a downward spiral to inevitable doom but 4K televisions may offer a temporary respite. At the CES show this week, 4K televisions are the belles-of-the-ball and it is the...
Hewlett Packard will end up with even more egg on its face this year as I believe that it will lose the war of words with the former management of Autonomy. . The acquisition of Autonomy has been nothing short of a total disaster for the hapless Hewlett-Packard. Billed as the great white hope to...
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 Nexus 4 – Horror story
Anyone who is trying to make money from selling Android devices will be looking at the Google Nexus 4 by LGE with horror. This new Android device has supreme specifications but is being offered at 70% of the price of similarly specified rivals. The device has a 4.7 inch screen, 2GB RAM, 1.5Ghz quad core...