HP buys Palm, acquires key smartphone technology

HP has announced that it will purchase Palm for about $1.2B in cash, which is about a 30% premium on the company’s market value when it was announced. For Palm, it simply means “survival”, but for HP, that could mean having a shot at controlling its own fate in a very competitive market. In some [...]

ARM CEO Dismisses Apple Takeover Talks

News was going around yesterday that Apple could be considering an acquisition of ARM, who are the folks behind the popular ARM processors used in many devices. Now the CEO of ARM, Warren East, has come out to pour cold water on such a move, stating that with ARM’s market capitalization of more than £3bn [...]

Bing market share increases

Interesting – US search market figures for last month by Nielsen points towards the ascension of Microsoft’s Bing with Google’s market share figures dropping. With Bing being the default search engine for Net Explorer and Motorola’s range of Android-powered handsets, Microsoft must be doing something right to keep ‘em coming back for more. Proportionately speaking, [...]

Google Chrome Ad campaign is Working: Market Share is Up

Google has been pushing its Chrome web browser very hard to the world: we have seen ads all by the place (USA, Asia and Europe) and all these efforts are getting some traction: Since April 2009, Chrome’s market share has gone from 1.79% to 5.61%. Arguably, growing from 1.79% is not as difficult as growing from 20% or 60% but [...]

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Visits The FCC

Will the XPERIA X10 boost Sony Ericsson’s market share amidst stiff competition from Motorola, HTC and Nokia etc? We’re fairly certain that Sony Ericsson is hoping that it will do so. The XPERIA X10 has gotten its blessing from the FCC, so there shouldn’t be too much red tape left in order to get that [...]

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Get it free. Subscribe HERE!   America’s favorite geek newsletter. * * * Read it here, or in your browser. Why Android Could Fail The gold standard for market success in the cell phone handset market is, of course, the Apple iPhone. In today’s market, only three things count: sort appeal, simplicity and applications. In [...]

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