News Stories Tagged ‘Blackberry’

Starbucks Launches Smartphone Payment System

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On Wednesday, January 19, Starbucks launched their new mobile system for payment. The system is now available to Blackberry and Apple iOS customers in the U.S. This payment option can be used in conjunction with a Starbucks Card Mobile App. The application is downloadable from the Apple Store. It can also be downloaded from the [...]

Sprint Raises Data Plan Pricing By $10

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A $10 charge per month is being added to Sprint Nextel’s new Smartphone as of the end of January. Sprint is the third-biggest carrier in the US. The charge is called a Premium Data add-on. Many believe that this add-on charge was inevitable considering that Sprint is the US’s cheapest carrier for unlimited plans. The [...]

Vizio Is Planning To Enter Smartphone Market

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In 2010 more than 18 million tablet devices were sold, and that figure is set to triple in the coming year. Now Vizio is getting in on the act. The Irvin, California-based Vizio is expected to launch their new tablet on 4 January, 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Vizio is [...]

Android Looses Momentum

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The Google Android has had a rocket-rise to success, putting in months of strong growth. However the growth hasn’t been able to push Apple’s iOS smartphone out of first place. Ad impressions for November put the two phones neck and neck. On Tuesday the MediaMix report released by Millenial Media revealed the November statistics for the two [...]

Research in Motion to launch iPad competitor in new year

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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is branching into the new and potentially lucrative tablet market, shrugging off recent bad news that Dell and other corporate customers may be switching their smartphone preferences. RIM will be taking on the dominance of Apple’s iPad when its Playbook device is launched and goes on sale early in [...]

Dell favours own phone over BlackBerry for 25,000 employees

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The makers of the Blackberry are suffering from a decision by Dell to switch its handsets for 25,000 employees over to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile OS platform. The move by Dell to shift about a quarter of its workforce over to its new Venue Pro phone will cut its mobile communications costs by 25%, [...]

Google's Android powers on to become second smartphone favourite

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Google’s smartphone operating system, Android, has moved into second place behind Nokia’s Symbian as the most popular cellphone platform, according to the latest findings from research firm Gartner. The findings were noted in the context of a buoyant market: Gartner stated that there has been a virtual doubling of smartphone sales in the third quarter [...]

Google Quietly Challenges Apple In Apps Market

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Google has quietly become a serious contender in the apps market after it announced that it had  passed the 100,000 mark in the number of active apps it has for cellphones operating on its Android platform. It has taken more than two years for Google to come this far but the number has doubled in [...]

Google's Android Phones Eating Away At The Competition

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Google’s Android phones are increasingly the smartphone of choice instead of Apple’s iPhone, a report by Nielsen Co states. The study found that 27% of consumers who purchased in smartphone in the first six months of 2010 chose an Android, while 23% opted for the iPhone. “While the iPhone has been the headline grabber over [...]

Number Of Apps Downloads Continues To Grow

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The cellphone apps market continues to boom, with Americans eager to download an increasing range of them, according to a survey by The Nielsen Company’s Apps Playbook. iPhone users have the most apps on average, followed by Android owners, with BlackBerry owners in third place. The survey found that the average number of apps that [...]