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Motorola CEO Calmly Prepares for the iPhone Storm

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 2, 2010 at 12:02 pm PT

Arguably no company gained as much from Verizon’s lack of an iPhone than Motorola. But with a Verizon iPhone appearing imminent, it’s also true that it is one of the companies most at risk.

Superphone Vs. Smartphone

Nitrozac and Snaggy in News on January 6, 2010 at 1:49 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

RIM Product Line More FrankenBerry Than CrackBerry

John Paczkowski in News on June 26, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

With the Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS in stores and the myTouch 3G, T-Mobile’s second Google Android phone, headed to market, is Research in Motion’s product lineup beginning to look a bit dated? Which leads to another question: Has RIM’s success made it too complacent? GC Research analyst Tero Kuittinen believes it has.

Verizon Apologizes to Obama: Sorry We Snooped on Your Account

Peter Kafka in Media on November 21, 2008 at 4:02 am PT

This may make it easier for Barack Obama to kick his well-publicized BlackBerry addiction: News that Verizon employees have been snooping through his phone records. The phone company says the handset in question is a “simple flip-phone,” and not a Berry, and that it has been inactive for several months. But the startling public admission should be enough to convince Obama, if he needed any more prompting, that he’s going to have to give up his prized gadget.