Roustabouts, weatherpeople and Air Force pilots
As if to underscore Apple (AAPL) CFO Peter Oppenheimer's claim that "nearly all" Fortune 500 companies "approve and support" iPhones on their networks, three major purchase orders came to light this week:
Halliburton announced that over the next year the oil services company will be "transitioning" from Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry platform to "smartphone technology via the iPhone." A spokesperson told AppleInsider that about 4,500 Halliburton employees currently carry BlackBerries.
NOAA, the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, is also dumping its BlackBerries, according The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, and replacing them with iPhones and iPads. The agency's 2011 budget was $5.6 billion.
The U.S. Air Force may buy as many as 18,000 iPads to lighten the load of flight crews, according to a Bloomberg report. The purchase order would be one of the military's biggest -- if not the biggest -- order of computer tablets to date.
Squeezed by Apple and Samsung, it had a bad quarter and expects the next to be worse
There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous.
The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone -- the HTC Dream -- in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google (GOOG) to build the Nexus One, the flagship of the Android line. Last November, it edged past Samsung, Apple (AAPL) MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 6, 2012 6:42 AM ET
Between them, Samsung and Apple are sucking up 91% of the winnings
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Asymco's Horace Dediu on Friday updated his quarterly review of mobile phone profits, and the news for everybody but Apple (AAPL) just gets worse.
As the iPhone's share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown from 3% in second quarter of 2010 to 8.7% last quarter, Apple's share of the profits has swelled from MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 3, 2012 8:20 AM ET
The troubled phone maker's new CEO has had a very bad introduction. Here's why he may not be right for RIM right now.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- If only they hadn't released that video.
The good news, the part that investors had been clamoring for, came first. Mike Lazaridis, who co-founded Research-in-Motion (RIMM) in 1984, and Jim Balsillie, who joined the company in 1992, were stepping down as co-CEOs and co-chairmen of MORE
Jan 24, 2012 10:23 AM ET
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Research in Motion's new CEO, Thorsten Heins
* Research in Motion (RIMM) co-CEO Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down after two decades of running the company together. Taking their place: Thorsten Heins, who joined RIM in 2007 and had been serving was one of two chief operating officers, overseeing software, hardware MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jan 23, 2012 2:45 AM ET
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* Some analysts have previewed the software update for Research in Motion's PlayBook and aren't impressed. Worse, they believe the update will do little to turn the floundering tablet's sales around. (The New York Times)
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar
* Like Netflix (NFLX), Hulu is upping the ante by offering original content MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jan 17, 2012 4:15 AM ET
Interest in the Galaxy Nexus is high, but the iPhone still leads in customer satisfaction
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The next few months should be very good for Apple (AAPL) and Samsung -- and not so good for HTC and Research in Motion (RIMM) -- according to the results of a survey of 4,000 North American early adopters posted Monday by ChangeWave Research.
More than half of the respondents who plan to buy MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 9, 2012 7:07 AM ET
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* Now that the AT&T (T) and T-Mobile merger is dunzo, the next step for T-Mobile, which is losing subscribers, remains unclear. "There's no Plan B," said a spokesman for Deutsche Telekom, the German telecommunications company that owns T-Mobile. "We're back at the starting point." (The New York Times)
* Oracle MORE
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* According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple (AAPL) is plunging ahead with plans for a TV that may incorporate voice and gesture-based technology, a form of AirPlay that would let iPhones and iPads act as remote controls, DVR storage, and iCloud. (The Wall Street Journal)
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* The real story behind former Windows Mobile head Andy Lees' removal from his role. According to The Verge, Lees' lofty, public estimates for Windows Phone 7's success -- and the hard reality that it hasn't made much of a dent in the market -- created a rift. (The MORE
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