Peter Kafka in Media on April 23 at 11:24 am PT
The Internet is supposed to give advertisers pinpoint accuracy. But they’re still throwing away half their money.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 28, 2011 at 10:03 am PT
Is Nokia’s Lumia a serious contender or “worryingly uncompetitive?”
John Paczkowski in News on July 22, 2011 at 9:23 am PT
Does Nokia still have a shot at regaining its competitive edge?
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 20, 2011 at 2:07 pm PT
Remember a few weeks back when Bernstein & Co.’s Pierre Ferragu said things couldn’t get any worse for Research In Motion? He’s changed his mind.
John Paczkowski in News on April 14, 2011 at 4:10 am PT
The transition from Symbian to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is one of the more challenging parts of Nokia’s new mobile alliance with Microsoft. Implementing a new strategy like this takes time, something that’s in short supply in the fast moving mobile market. And with Nokia complicating its roll-out with joint product roadmaps and shared responsibilities, some observers are beginning to wonder if the company will suffer more smartphone market share losses before it enjoys any gains.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 4, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
After all, Europeans pay more for data, but also have better infrastructure. If the carriers had higher profit margins, the analyst firm argues, maybe the U.S. would have better quality too.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 23, 2011 at 4:50 am PT
Scheduled to go live sometime this spring, Apple’s 505,000-square-foot North Carolina data center is, according to COO Tim Cook, intended to support iTunes and MobileMe. But we don’t yet know in what capacity, and Cook’s remark, which is at once unambiguous and utterly cryptic, leaves plenty of room for speculation. And theories about the potential capabilities of this new facility abound.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 28, 2011 at 11:22 am PT
Apple doesn’t have a smaller iPhone in its product pipeline, but it may well have a cheaper one. Certainly that seems to be COO Tim Cook’s implication in an interview with Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi making the rounds today.
John Paczkowski 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.
John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2011 at 6:45 am PT
Good news for long-suffering Sprint Nextel investors: Customer retention has finally improved to the point where the carrier is able to report actual gains in postpaid subscribers, rather than losses.
