There was always going to be a time when their is no Steve Jobs at the head of Apple, it was not a matter of if, just when. The trick for the company was to decide when and how to handle this transition and how best to manage Wall St through the process.
Wall St is [...]

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Unlike Linkedin which has been able to successfully charge for a premium service, Facebook does not realize any revenue beyond advertising on their various pages. This means that they are entirely beholden to the fate of the online advertising industry and it’s fate is not that rosy at the moment. I had always been suspicious [...]

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Over Christmas there was some intense negotiations between the various record companies and Apple over the removal of Digital Rights Management and Variable Pricing for music. The primary issue was that Apple wanted to get music distribution onto the iPhone because they felt that impulse buying on the iPhone was an important component to growth. [...]

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Yesterday Samsung launched their Application Marketplace, http://applications.samsungmobile.com/. Unlike Google, Apple and Blackberry, both Windows Mobile and Symbian’s application strategy is all over the map:
If you’re looking to start an application outlet, you need to be at the reins of the platform; if you don’t, you’re further segmenting an already messy market. With Samsung launching their [...]

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Over at Gigaom, they are predicting a wide spread slow down of Wireless Data Services WDS:
Last week, UBS Research in a research note pointed out that AT&T had 1.25 million 3G laptop subscribers as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2008. Net card additions had fallen 121,000 from the 186,000 additions in the [...]

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Uploaded on flickr by benjibot
On Saturday the 24th January 1984, the Apple Macintosh turned 25. You view Steve Jobs demonstrate the MacIntosh for the first time in front of 3000 people at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts.

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Analyst firm Canalys has released the results of it’s Consumer Mobility Analysis Report and it is very good news for Apple, good news for RIM and Microsoft and bad news for Nokia:
The success of Apple and RIM, as well as fifth-placed HTC with its Windows Mobile devices, has eaten into Nokia’s share of [...]

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Uploaded flickr by gholzer
Windows Mobile was originally launched as Pocket PC in April 2000. It was born in an age when Microsoft was busy trying to tie everything to the Windows Desktop and cast a long shadow over every part of the IT industry. It was not long after that that the Windows wheels fell [...]

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[Uploaded on July 10, 2008 by SashaNZ]
IPhone 3G Mania struck New Zealand at 12am (NZ Time) this morning as red beanie (touke) wearing yanks desend on Auckland’s Vodaphone  shop on Queen St.Both ifixit.com and Engadget.com flew to New Zealand to get their mitts on lamburgers and Apple’s iPhone.

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[Uploaded on August 31, 2007 by nobihaya]
The Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spilled the beans over progress made on getting Flash working on the iphone yesterday:
MACMILLAN: And then just to follow-up was on the Apple iPhone 3G — any update on Flash support within that device? Thanks.

NARAYEN: With respect to the iPhone, we are working on [...]

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