Samsung is the latest competitor to step up, sword in hand, to try and slay the mighty Apple. The battlefield is mobile phones and the division lines are as fierce as ever, with the two companies known to be bitter rivals. According to the recent reports of most analysts, Samsung has won the latest battle. [...]
Whether you have an iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or even a Windorws powered phone, there is a good chance you have downloaded and installed the Spotify app. Spotify is the revolutionary software that enables users to access virtually any song at any time through their computers or smartphones. While the sheer music sharing capabilities of the [...]
As you may have heard, AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA has hit a roadblock – a roadblock that may not be penetrable. After weeks of speculation regarding the antitrust issues posed by the deal, the Department of Justice announced its opposition and its intention to battle the merger in court. Legal experts predict [...]
Phone Wars Heat Up As Holiday Season Approaches For over a year now, Apple has been engaged in an all-out legal war with its Android competitors. According to Apple, most Android phones have taken numerous features stolen from the iPhone, an act that amounts to patent infringement and should be cause for these competitors to [...]
Shopping on Your Smartphone This Holiday Season Over the past century and a half, major technological advancements have spurred the rise of consumerism and repeatedly changed the nature of shopping. In the late 1800s, the rise of streetcar lines led to the birth of the department store, which allowed retailers to create a new culture [...]
In the smartphone world there are a myriad number of indicators that tell us which mobile provider or manufacturer is superior. We can look at the data for phones shipped, devices sold, market share, earnings, and profits. We can compare size, revenues, and cultural power in our bid to find the most successful company in [...]
Samsung Passes Apple as Top Smartphone Seller Quarterly figures released this week have revealed some interesting – although not altogether surprising – news: according to Samsung and to market analysts, the phone company shipped more smartphones than Apple this past quarter. Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones during this time, which equates with 23.8 percent of [...]
Smartphones have become so prevalent in our society that we don’t even question getting them anymore. We obsess over whether to get an iPhone or an Android, sure. We spend sleepless nights wondering whether we should upgrade to the hot new product or keep the fully functioning one we already have. We buy unlimited data [...]
With the introduction of the Siri iPhone app earlier this month, smartphone technology took a seemingly small step that will be remembered as a giant leap for humankind. For the first time ever, at least practically, consumers have access to speech-recognizing personal assistant software that can process a seemingly endless series of commands, questions, and [...]
1984 was the year Apple released the Macintosh and changed personal computing forever. They capitalized on the device’s inaugural year by creating a Hollywood-grade television advertisement inspired by George Orwell’s masterpiece “1984”, in which a woman wearing an Apple logo being chased by the novel’s Thought Police hurls an Olympian hammer into the projection of [...]