During the RIM’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings call, CEO Thorsten Heins has mentioned that there are “over one million” PlayBook customers in the market, over 500,000 were shipped in the last quarter alone according to today’s earnings release. Heins says over 70 percent upgraded within 30 days and pointing out that the upgrade represents...
The Blackberry maker CEO Thorsten Heins said during the company’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings call that it’ll look at ways to broaden its partnerships as it moves into BlackBerry 10, which means licensing the platform to other companies. Heins is still reviewing how the things will work out, saying “whether we build the hardware ourselves or whether...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will open up its own online store, where it will market and sell tablet devices directly to consumers. What makes the report is interesting is that the search giant won’t actually manufacture any of the offered tablets and devices itself, rather than asking the partners, namely Samsung and Asus to do so. The tablets will...
RIM has announced its revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 was $4.2 billion, down 19% from $5.2 billion in the previous quarter and down 25% from $5.6 billion in the same quarter of fiscal 2011. The revenue breakdown for the quarter was approximately 68% for hardware, 27% for service and 5% for software and other revenue. During the quarter, RIM shipped approximately 11.1 million BlackBerry smartphones and over 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. The Company’s GAAP net loss for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 was $125...
With ETSI is still have to take the decision later this week over the nano-SIM standard – the future of SIM – Nokia seems threatening the ETSI that it will not license “essential” patents if Apple’s nano-SIM is selected. We earlier reported that battle between Apple and its rival smartphone maker has broken out over the next generation nano-SIM standard – the future of SIM card – where Apple is seeking to lead its way with the approval from European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Nokia said that, Apple’s...
The search giant mostly known for bringing new things everytime – this time seems to be working on CAPTCHAs – Yes I mentioned CAPTCHA – Google instead of offering blurry words or regular jumbled words, the ReCAPTCHA boxes are started showing users a real image along with jumbled word. The image contains a legible but perhaps difficult to scan (via OCR) address...
Google has unveiled an alternate to online paywalls customer surveys program – the Google Consumer Surveys allowing publishers to use market research questions as a way of earning some extra revenue. The site will earn $0.05 per response once the survey is in place, users will be prompted to answer a question before accessing content. Google says this amount to...
Aiming to make the most of the fast-growing volume of digital data, the Obama Administration announced a “Big Data Research and Development Initiative.” By improving our ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data, the initiative promises to help solve some the Nation’s most pressing challenges. To launch the...
Raising the money in whatever possible manner is what’s in the mind of T-Mobile these days in order to continue as an independent entity. Bloomberg is reporting that the company is intending to sell a large number of cell towers, among whom many are of worth $3 billion, as soon as possible, in addition to massive job cuts. T-Mobile told AllThingsD that it was evaluating a “tower sale as part of its self-funding strategy,” but didn’t confirm any details. “They lost a lot of time last year and that creates urgency...
