Archive for the ‘Digital Lifestyle’ Category
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Apple success in the consumer market, with Macs winning market share positioned as high-end stylish computers and iPhones revolutionizing mobile phones, might extend to enterprises too. BusinessWeek reports in detail about this trend in The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit.
Mac's move to Intel CPUs is paying back. Apart for ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
TechCrunch reports a rumor that AT&T will sell 3G iPhones with 8GB at $199 in US. That would mean a $200 discount from expected $399 price.
AT&T must be doing some numbers and verifying that ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) for iPhone is significantly higher than the average. This would be ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
In a previous post, back in January, Google already advised that the traffic to Google from iPhones surpassed any other smartphone, even if iPhone accounts for only 2% of the worldwide smartphones. Nokia’s Symbian 63%, Windows Mobile 11% and RIM 10%.
M:Metrics confirms those findings based on a report of iPhone user ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
One out of two new Pay-TV users in Spain sign up with Telefonica's IPTV service, Imagenio. Orange IPTV Service is the second one attracting new users with a 21% share in 2007. The table below is based on data from Spanish business newspaper, Expansion.
If we classify by technology, the table ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
In 2006 Imaginarium and Telefonica Moviles launched the MO1, a mobile handset designed for 6 year-old children. It sold at 59 Euros, with a prepaid account. Its features include: two blue buttons for direct call to Mom or Dad, white-list for allowed SMS destinations set-up by parents, hands-free and an emergency locator.
What ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
No doubt email is an extremely useful tool for communication. It has replaced fax and snail mail in enterprises and it is widely used ...and abused. Email has made organizations flatter. Any employee can reach anyone in the organization, including the top , with a simple email. Adding people to distribution ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Apple is reinforcing its iconic iPhone (even more) to grab the business segment, now owned by Blackberry. Apple announced support for Microsoft Exchange, putting iPhone in a position to swap the professional Blackberry handsets with the stylish iPhone for email access.
Even more important was the announcement of the iPhone SDK. ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Each season Mobile Operators in Japan present their new handsets, often developed in exclusive by Japanese vendors as Hitachi, Sanyo, Panasonic or Kyocera.
See these articles with details on the latest models announced by KDDI and Softbank: KDDI spring'08 phones and Softbank 2008 Spring Collection.
It is interesting how Japanese operators manage the ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Nokia acquires TrollTech, a Linux company, for $153 million. In return Nokia gets Qt, a Linux-based software platform that is behind KDE, Google Earth, Opera or Skype. TrollTech also owns Qtopia, a platform for embedded Linux-base software platform for mobiles.
The move clearly shows that Nokia reacts to Android, even if they ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
2008 Apple's keynote has introduced great products: MacBook Air, iTunes Movie Rentals, AppleTV Take 2, new applications for iPhone and iTouch, and Time Capsule.
Keynote highlights in nine minutes from YouTube:
If you only have 60 seconds to view the 90 minutes keynote, click here.
For the full keynote go to events.apple.com
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