TAG: Smartphone market

Buy a phone, install an OS of your choice. When?

19 Nov, 2012, 5:30 pm IST Rossi Fernandes Mobile phones 21 Comments

As a consumer, how would it be if you were given the option to buy a phone and choose what operating system you wanted to use on it? How different would it be than the way it is with computers and notebooks? More

Most companies won't be early adopters of Windows 8

22 Oct, 2012, 2:24 pm IST Windows

There was once a time when the launch of a new Windows operating system was a huge deal for the technology departments in many businesses. More

Gesture support added for Windows 8 touch-mouse

22 Oct, 2012, 1:11 pm IST Shunal Doke Software 1 Comments

Microsoft has added new gestures for touch-based mice to operate. Some of these gestures include multi-touch ones, like gestures to flick, slide and zoom. More

Early look at Windows 8 baffles consumers

20 Oct, 2012, 9:25 am IST Software 2 Comments

The release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is a week away, and consumers are in for a shock. Windows, used in one form or another for ... More

PC industry cool on Windows 8 say analysts

18 Oct, 2012, 10:24 am IST Software

While Microsoft is touting next week's launch of Windows 8 as the savior of the computer industry, PC makers and analysts... More

BlackBerry maker plants seeds for comeback attempt

26 Sep, 2012, 10:53 am IST Smartphones

Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins is promising to restore the BlackBerry phone's stature as a trailblazing device... More

Samsung's crisis culture - a driver and a drawback

03 Sep, 2012, 10:32 am IST Smartphones

In his 1997 book, Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee wrote that a successful company needs a "heightened sense of crisis"... More

Nokia and BlackBerry still rule the cellphone market

30 Jul, 2012, 3:56 pm IST Aneez Shaikh Smartphones 6 Comments

The Wall Street and the global share markets may have a different story to tell, but Nokia and BlackBerry still rule the cellphone market. If the Mobility... More