Google map’s return to iOS heralds the irrelevance of Apple maps. It will have been with gritted teeth that Apple allowed Google Maps to return to iOS. Not only has Google brought the world’s best map application back to iOS, but it has also released an SDK (Software Development Kit) that will allow the makers...
Microsoft has a commanding position in the market for PC software but it cannot really afford to antagonise its partners. By making its own hardware, Microsoft risks doing exactly that but the slow take off of Windows 8 appears to be forcing its hand. I have long held the view that the main reason for...
What more evidence does one need of the weaknesses of Android than its lead vendor moving to fix them. This is what Samsung’s Premium suite part II aims to do. I have long been of the opinion that the weakness of Android lies in its usability which I think ranks far behind that of iOS....
The crazy dash to own patents to protect ones business has meant that the prices paid for patents these days have reached crazy levels. One only has to look at Google’s $12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility and the Rockstar consortium’s $4.5bn purchase of the Nortel assets from bankruptcy for evidence of this. This has led...
Apple’s legal strategy became clearer on Friday as it moved to include the Samsung Galaxy SIII and the Samsung Galaxy Note II in its legal crusade to stop Samsung from making money from its innovations. This takes the form of a new complaint that will be heard in March 2014. Once again this exposes the...
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...
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.
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...