By 2016, just four years from now, one billion consumers will have smartphones, according to Forrester Research. In the U.S. alone, consumers will own 257 million smartphones and 126 million tablets.
via One Billion Smartphones by 2016: Here Comes the Mobile Arms Race | Business | TIME.com.
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Roger Martin, the dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is also a board member of BlackBerry maker RIM. And in an interview with the Globe and Mail’s Gordon Pitts, he’s anything but sheepish about the …
Samsung’s never been one to hold back on new phones and tablets, but even so, the newly-announced Galaxy Tab 2 is a puzzler.
In terms of tech specs, the tablet is nearly identical to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, which …
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Although “iTV” seems like an ideal name for Apple’s rumored television, the company may have to pick something else due to trademark troubles.
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It’s nearly time to bid farewell to Sony’s PlayStation Portable, the little handheld that couldn’t-quite in terms of outpacing Nintendo’s DS, a portable that outpaced every other as well as nearly every games console (it’s …
You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. That’s not because it doesn’t work; it actually works perfectly, which is the problem.
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A few …
