David Needle

It’s become something of a tradition now for market researcher iSuppli, which specializes in supply-chain issues, to do a “teardown” of a new device and give the baseline cost. A “teardown” is simply disassembling a device to its components and pricing them all out, so you know the bill of goods compared to what the […]

Year-end traditions are usually come in one of two forms: looking back, and looking forward. In the looking forward section, it’s either attempts to predict the future or the analyst offering their unsolicited opinion on what should happen. The latter is what ABI Research has done. It’s made a list of suggestions for firms in […]

Earlier this week Google unveiled the sleek new Nexus One, what it called the first of a new generation of ‘superphone.’ But as you’ll read in EnterpriseMobileToday, Google can tout more than snappy new features. Price isn’t everything, but for consumers who opt for unlimited data and voice plans, the Apple iPhone and Motorola Droid […]

With layoffs still occurring at a higher-than-average pace, it might be assumed that most employees would be putting in extra effort to help them shine at the office, and better help them keep their jobs. But a new study found that the opposite is true, particularly for most IT workers. And the culprit may be […]

Wi-Fi Direct promises to make it easier for consumers to share Wi-Fi-enabled devices like printers and cameras with their computers and each other, and though the final spec is still forthcoming, CES is demonstrating that the vendors are listening. The Wi-Fi Alliance has gathered more ammunition in support of the coming Wi-Fi Direct […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance has gathered more ammunition in support of the coming Wi-Fi Direct specification set for availability around the middle of this year. An array of vendors will be demonstrating solutions based on the Wi-Fi Direct at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, including Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM), which promises […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If you rushed out to buy a new Droid phone from Motorola based on reviews and the heavy marketing campaign, congratulations, your phone’s been obsoleted by Google. That’s an exaggeration, but today’s release of Google’s Nexus One, what the company describes as a new generation of “superphone,” has clearly moved the […]

So it wasn’t the best kept secret. Google may have telegraphed its intention to enter the smartphone market, but what, exactly, the device would look like was not widely known. Enterprise Mobile Today has the details on the arrival of Google’s Nexus One. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google’s smartphone cat is finally out of the […]

Thanks in large part to eBook readers, digital cameras and camcorders, personal media players, personal navigation devices and gaming devices, mobile device shipments will reach 58 millon in 2014, reports EnterpriseMobileToday. The wide deployment of broadband is going to kick start shipments of a new class of consumer electronics devices over the next five years, […]

As Datamation reports, voice search on mobile devices is growing in popularity and as we look back at 2009, one vendor, Vlingo has detailed the top ten most popular voice-powered Web searches by mobile users. What are the most popular mobile Web searches via voice? Vlingo’s top ten list for 2009 has a few surprises. […]

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a class-action lawsuit seeking to hold Apple responsible for possible hearing loss caused by using its popular iPod music player. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a 2008 district court ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show that use of the iPod poses an […]

With lots of evidence that it will be making life a little more interesting for its Android partners by releasing its own smartphone, Google once again suggests it may be a power for disruption as rumors fly that it’s ready to release its own netbook based around ChromeOS. Will Google risk alienating potential […]