12 posts and columns on adoption

Got Broadband? Not Sure? There's a Map for That.

in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT

It took two years and $350 million, but America now has a detailed map showing where all its broadband Internet connections are and where they are not.

Analyst: Cheaper iPhone Would Be a Bonanza for Apple

in Mobile on February 16, 2011 at 2:47 pm PT

For Apple, a smaller, cheaper iPhone may be more than a means of entering the market for lower-end phones currently dominated by Android and Symbian–it could be the final step in the company’s global smartphone dominance. That’s the theory put forth today by Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi, who sees an iPhone Nano or Mini as an inevitability, one that would dramatically expand Apple’s addressable market.

New for Xbox Kinect: Bombastic Ballmer’s $2 Billion Blowout

in News on December 13, 2010 at 9:30 am PT

Kinect, Microsoft’s new controllerless controller for the Xbox 360 is shaping up to be a monster hit, one that should give the gaming platform momentum enough to carry it forward for some time to come. In fact, Caris & Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal says he expects Kinect to generate about $2 billion in gross revenue for Microsoft.

Forecast: IPad Will Generate Two Percent of North American Net Traffic by End of 2011

in News on December 9, 2010 at 4:14 am PT

How’s this for a prediction? By the end of 2011, the iPad will generate more than two percent of all North American Web traffic.

And if Palm’s Project JumpStart Doesn’t Work Out, There’s Always “Project Defibrillator”

in Mobile on February 26, 2010 at 8:05 am PT

Will lousy brand awareness be Palm’s Waterloo? With weaker than expected launches of the Pre and Pixi at new carrier partner Verizon, it’s beginning to look like it. Certainly, Palm’s leadership appears to believe that insufficient carrier support is largely to blame for its current woes.

Apple’s Tablet: MacBook Airbus?

in Mobile on January 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

If the bandwidth-guzzling iPhone is truly the “Hummer of cellphones,” as the New York Times dubbed it last year, you might figure that Apple’s coming tablet will swill data like an Airbus. That might be true eventually, but initially, analysts say, the tablet is not likely to put much strain on the mobile broadband infrastructure of whatever carrier it ends up with, whether Verizon or AT&T.
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Walt’s Digg Dialogg with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski

in Mossblog on December 2, 2009 at 11:27 am PT

Walt recently sat down to interview FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, and asked him the top questions submitted via Digg.com. Check out the entire interview right here.

Smartphone Price Cuts Ruining Long-Term Price Potential?

in News on November 23, 2009 at 7:32 am PT

As we head into the holidays, smartphone prices are dropping to points that belie their advanced feature sets. While this is great news for consumers, it may well be problematic for smartphone manufacturers.
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BlackBerry Storm and Stress

in News on December 23, 2008 at 8:35 am PT

Apple’s iPhone hasn’t supplanted Research In Motion’s BlackBerry as the gold standard of mobile business tools, but give it another year or so and it just might. According to new research from ChangeWave, the iPhone has steadily increased its market share, growing from just 11 percent in June to 23 percent. Meanwhile, the BlackBerry lost a point of market share, falling to 41 percent in the same period.

Apple: Kaufman Bros. Starts Coverage With Buy Rating

in News on November 25, 2008 at 10:03 am PT

Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu believes that Apple’s market share is still small enough relative to the overall PC and cellphone markets that there’s room for significant growth in both the Mac and iPhone businesses. He expects the company to earn $5.05 a share in FY 2009 on revenues of $35.5 billion.