Andy Patrizio

Smartphone sales are booming, but the newest entries seem to be attracting the most sales, while established players like Nokia have lost market share even though the number of devices it’s sold has improved slightly. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, Android devices were the big gainer in a report by Canalys that also detailed gains […]

Research in Motion may have been first in the smartphone business but it’s playing catch-up to Apple when it comes to app stores for those phones. Apple jumped out to a huge lead with the App Store and RIM is chasing after it. With the new 2.0 version of App World, the app store for […]

Consumers who bought an iPhone 4 have been in various stages of revolt amid the ongoing troubles with the device’s antenna. The problem, specifically, sees the iPhone lose signal strength when held a certain way, a condition lovelessly dubbed the “death grip.” Defending his product, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the iPhone’s antenna issues […]

Amazon was first to market with an e-book reader, but it is facing strong competition from the more versatile Apple iPad. So Amazon is countering that with a new Kindle that is brighter, faster and supports Wi-Fi. With the new Wi-Fi, the Kindle is even cheaper, giving it a real financial incentive against the iPad. […]

Apple finally has gotten the iPhone 4 off the front pages, but now it has another iPhone issue to address: complaints that when its new phone operating system iOS 4 is killing the performance of the iPhone 3G. The 3G came out in 2008, an eternity in the smartphone world, notes Enterprise Mobile Today. Should […]

Just what does Research In Motion have up its sleeve? The company is already known to be developing a new BlackBerry, the Bold 9800. And rumors have now begun to spill out that it is holding an event next week that could very well involve a product launch. Whatever RIM is planning, analysts say that […]

Apple has given its desktop Macintosh line the annual speed boost, integrating the latest components as well as a few additions of its own into the iMac and Mac Pro lines. This brings the Mac lineup up to speed with the latest PCs and provides customers with peppier new machines. HardwareCentral also has the details […]

Dell and all the other premiere hardware and software vendors in the industry know that the sweet spot in terms of generating new, organic sales growth is the underserved and fast-growing small and midsized business segment. As eSecurity Planet reports, Dell thinks it has a some new security services and hardware that will bridge the […]

Intel is making a major research push into fiber optics technology, detailing a project it’s calling Silicon Photonics Link, which it says could deliver data-transmission speeds of up to 1 Tbps. The problem, CTO Justin Rattner explained, is that copper technology suffers from physical speed limitations that cap how far data can travel, and see […]

Apple continues to retain a loyal customer base in the smartphone sector, with 77 percent of iPhone owners telling the Yankee Group in a recent survey that they plan to buy another device from Apple when it comes time to replace their handset. While that survey was conducted before the flare-up over the spotty service […]

Apple has kept a tight grip on the iPhone since its release, repeatedly defending its rules regarding the apps users can run and the ban on modifications as necessary controls to preserve the user experience. But, it now seems, users who wish to skirt Apple’s rules are welcome to do so under the law. That’s […]

ServerWatch reports that the European Commission is on the prowl for another American computer firm, and this time it’s got the biggest fish of them all on the line, IBM. It’s after IBM for, of all things, alleged anticompetitive behavior in the mainframe market. The same mainframe market everyone keeps saying is dead? Perhaps it’s […]