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Google’s Android smartphone operating system had a 43 percent share in the US smartphone market for the period ending October while Apple’s iOS seems stuck at 28 percent. According to a report released by research outfit Nielsen, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS seems to be struggling with a 17 percent market share while Microsoft’s Windows [...]

Google inc. will no longer sell or support its Gmail app for rival RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones beginning November 22, but users may continue to use the app if they already have it downloaded, the search giant said in a blog posting on Thursday. Those who have the app will be able to continue to use [...]

Nokia has revealed the smartphones that it hopes will lead to the company’s resurrection as the world’s leading mobile vendor. last February, under the leadership of a new CEO who hailed from Microsoft, Nokia gave up its losing strategy of creating its own mobile operating system to compete with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android and [...]

RIM’S carrier relationship marketing manager for the Caribbean and Latin America, Angela Friar, talks to LIME’s head of marketing (Barbados), Gail Niles, about the new smartphones. The highest rate of penetration for BlackBerry Messenger users is in the Caribbean and Latin America, according to RIM’s carrier relationship marketing manager for the region, Angela Friar. Friar [...]

As you may recall Nokia, the world’s biggest phone maker, announced in February it was abandoning Symbian, after failing to adequately update the smartphone software and after seeing its market share decline. In Symbian’s place, the company said it would embrace Microsoft’s fledgling Windows Phone 7 software. It was a bet-the-company decision and one that [...]

If you read this column on a regular basis, you may think that Google is the only game in mobile search. The fact is, SEOs optimize for traffic, and Google is the mobile search market leader, so it is often the focus of our mobile optimization efforts. But it’s not the only game in town. [...]

19 Oct 2011 by Arthur Goldstuck | Filed in Mobile Nokia have embarked on the road to restoring the brand

At the time mobile phones were introduced to consumers, there was one name that was dominant across regions – Nokia. recently though, with players like Apple and Samsung bringing in new technology, users have shifted their allegiance to other manufacturers, causing Nokia to lose some of its market share. However, the luxury division of Nokia [...]

Research In Motion might end up having a very bad week. Reports from around the world indicate the company

Waterloo, Canada-based RIM has a giant problem. It is called Android. It also faces another giant obstacle to retaining market share – itself. The BlackBerry OS is outdated and unglamorous. BlackBerry is hemorrhaging in the consumer market and its enterprise base is starting to get whittled away by the iPhone and more sophisticated mobile device [...]