Apple’s iPad Still King of the Mountain
Ever since Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) released the first generation of iPad in 2010, tablets have become an increasingly more popular choice for consumers shopping for a mobile computing device. A recent...
View ArticleNetflix Vs. Apple: Who Rules Online Video?
It’s no secret that consumers are increasingly moving from traditional sources of entertainment content towards Internet-based content delivery. Two of the biggest beneficiaries of this growing trend...
View ArticleApple Nips at Rivals’ Heels in India
Is Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) poised to knock one of its mobile rivals down a rung in India’s growing smartphone market? Though the smartphone market in India is still dominated by Samsung (SSNLF.PK), with a...
View ArticleDid iPhone Sales Just Slip in These Huge Markets?
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) appears to have lost some market share in Western Europe as the overall demand for smartphones in this market has declined. According to the latest IDC statistics, the iPhone maker...
View ArticleBlackBerry’s Quarterly Loss Sends Investors Running
Since BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) announced in November that its new platform — BB10 — was finally, truly going to be released in January, shares of the smartphone maker have gained 78 percent. It is...
View ArticleWill 2013 Be the Year of the iPad?
According to the respected market research firm Gartner, tablet sales in the second half of 2013 will increase 67.9 percent from the same period last year. Gartner is also predicting that Apple...
View ArticleSmartphone Stats: Apple Rules OEM, Android Dominates Platform
Market research company comScore has released the latest smartphone market share statistics that reveal little has changed since the last three-month period ended in February. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and...
View ArticleWill This Japanese Carrier Finally Embrace the iPhone?
Despite being Japan’s biggest wireless carrier with over 60 million subscribers, NTT DoCoMo has yet to offer Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone. Instead, DoCoMo has adopted the unusual strategy of focusing...
View ArticleApple’s MacBook Air Is a Heavyweight in This Market
When it comes to the thin-and-light laptop market, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) MacBook Air knows how to throw its weight around. According to the latest statistics from market research firm NPD Group via...
View ArticleSamsung’s New Hybrid Tablet Takes Aim at Apple’s iPad
Does Samsung’s (SSNLF.PK) new ATIV Q hybrid tablet pose a threat to Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) tablet market dominance? Ever since Apple unveiled its first iPad in 2010, the Cupertino-based company has...
View ArticleApple’s iOS Still Dominates This Important Metric
Despite Android’s majority share of the mobile operating system market, Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS operating platform continues to dominate in terms of total mobile ad impressions. According to the...
View ArticleWill Nokia’s New Purchase Finance a Comeback?
Nokia’s (NYSE:NOK) decision to buy out Siemens’s (NYSE:SI) share of their network equipment joint venture comes at turbulent time in the company’s history. While the 1.7-billion-euro, or $2.21 billion,...
View ArticleApple’s MacBook Air May Soon Get Even Thinner
News of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) patent for a combination SD card/USB port has recently come to the attention of the Cupertino-based company’s rivals and their reaction has not been a happy one. According...
View ArticleThe Wonderfully Confusing World of Mobile Internet Usage Statistics
Are Samsung’s (SSNLF.PK) Android-powered devices beating Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS in global Internet web usage statistics? As it turns out, it depends whose statistics you’re looking at. Save Time...
View Article7 Car Makers That Run the U.S. Light Vehicle Sales Game
United States light vehicle sales are on the rise, and recent reports show that this is especially good news for the U.S. automakers, as they lead a significant amount of the sales effort, surpassing...
View ArticleNo Respite for the Surface in an iPad World
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Surface tablets seem destined to die an early death. After being on the market for less than a year, analysts and pundits are already declaring Microsoft’s foray into the...
View ArticleLagging Rivals’ Sales, Ford Gets a Goldman Demotion
Goldman Sachs has removed Ford (NYSE:F) from its so-called ‘conviction buy list,’ and replaced the company with General Motors (NYSE:GM). The report found that Ford had underperformed its peers,...
View ArticleWhy Is Russia Abandoning the iPhone?
The three biggest Russian wireless carriers have all recently stopped selling Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone. Last week, a Hi-Tech Mail report via PhoneArena noted that VimpelCom’s (NYSE:VIP) Beeline...
View ArticleIs India Apple’s Next Big Market Challenge?
How can Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) sell more smartphones to India’s burgeoning middle class? The world’s second-most populous country is projected to be the third-largest smartphone market by 2017 according...
View ArticleiScreens: Is Apple Poised to Go Bigger?
As more technology companies rise in the ranks, industry leaders are feeling the pressure to perform. Now understanding that their once loyal consumers have many options for the size and make of their...
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