Source: RBC/ChangeWave
Palm Pre owners love their smartphones, but not as much as owners of Apple's new 3GS iPhone love theirs.
In a survey of 200 3GS users conducted Aug. 4-11 by RBC Capital and ChangeWave Research, 99% pronounced themselves satisfied, of which 82% were "very satisfied."
In a matching survey of 40 Pre owners, 87% said they were satisfied and 45% "very satisfied."
Nonetheless, writes RBC's Mike Abramsky in a report to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 14, 2009 10:13 AM ET
Alibaba.com expands staff, launches ad campaign in a bid to sell wares to American small businesses.
You might not be in the market for mass quantities of biodegradable flower pots or fly masks for horses, but chances are there's someone out there who is. Both are for sale--along with hydraulic briquette presses and canned sweet corn in bulk--on Alibaba.com.
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Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Aug 14, 2009 8:00 AM ET
"We just met with Apple executives at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, CA, including Peter Oppenheimer, Greg Joswiak, and Eddy Cue."
Thus begins a note to clients sent Thursday by Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes. The note ends with Reitzes raising his Apple price target to $208 from $188 -- one of the sparks that sent Apple (AAPL) shares up 1.88% to close at $168.42 for the day.
In between, Reitzes rattles MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 13, 2009 2:32 PM ET
Source: Gartner August 2009
Sales of Nokia's (NOK) Symbian smartphones are drifting. Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is gaining on RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry. Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile is still sinking. And the launch of the Palm (PALM) Pre barely made a ripple in the gobal smartphone market.
Those were the headlines from the smartphone portion of Gartner's 2009 Q2 mobile phone report, which saw smartphone sales grow 27% even as overall mobile phone MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 13, 2009 9:32 AM ET
Squabbles over the rates and rights online radio should pay highlights a fundamental problem: the music industry is broken.
Musician Nathanson is frustrated with the recording industry. Photo: Chapman Baehler
The music industry has become that annoying dysfunctional family you don't want to hang out with. Think Everybody Loves Raymond, but not funny.The latest episode: infighting among online radio stations, artists and labels over royalty rates and who should pay what MORE
Kim Thai, contributor - Aug 13, 2009 8:00 AM ET
How hand-held computers – also known as cell phones – are changing the world.
By Professor Iqbal Z. Quadir, director of the MIT Legatum Center and founder of Grameenphone
Quadir: Cell phones will relieve poverty. Photo courtesy of MIT Legatum Center.
Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, an extraordinary event for all of us to celebrate. Forty years later, there is another extraordinary phenomenon to MORE
Aug 13, 2009 7:30 AM ET
The PC maker widely rumored to be pursuing a phone for Chinese market. Is that a smart call?
Will Dell go mobile in China? Photo courtesy of Dell.
Will Dell (DELL) be able to get a smartphone off the ground in China?
The mobile world is abuzz once again over rumors that the No. 2 PC maker has plans to do just that. According to a Techcrunch report and an article on MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Aug 12, 2009 11:25 AM ET
It's been a busy week for long second looks at Apple (AAPL).
Some, like Jason Calcanis' narcissistic The Case Against Apple, were prompted by the controversies swirling around its iPhone marketing strategies and App Store approval procedures.
Others, like Peter Burrows' Why Apple Is More Valuable than Google (GOOG) in Businessweek, by a long-term shift in market capitalizations that has pushed America's No. 4 computer maker (market cap $148 billion) ahead of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 12, 2009 11:22 AM ET
Mobile devices and new wireless networks will change the way we get well.
By Richard P. Nespola, chairman and CEO, TMNG Global
Nespola thinks mobile is the cure. Photo courtesy of TMNG Global.
Inside her living room, a mother captures her autistic child's latest behavior on video using her mobile device and sends it to a team of behavior specialists for assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
A radiologist e-mails fresh X-rays of an injured All-American tight end MORE
Aug 12, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Douglas L. Gilstrap, newly named head of strategy for Ericsson (ERIC) doesn't start his new gig until Oct 1, but it is pretty clear the U.S.-born Gilstrap aims to push the Swedish telecom equipment maker to do more deals like the $5 billion, seven-year contract it recently inked with Overland Park, Kan.-based Sprint (S).
Gilstrap, a veteran of network operators such as Britain's Cable & Wireless, told Brainstorm Tech he thinks MORE
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