A new study may prove worrisome to RIM. It revealed that the iPhone has now captured 30% of the market share for smartphones, a mere 10% less than RIM’s leading 40%. Palm, which was once the industry leader, has seen its market share slip to just 6%. What does this mean if you are in more »

Nokia has announced that its second-quarter earnings plummeted by 66%. The company blames the recession for the drop, saying demand for its products has diminished due to the economic turmoil. Their net profit was $535 million down from roughly €1.4 billion this time last year. Nokia shares fell 11% as a result of the news.

The company shipped 103 mobile devices this quarter, down 15% from a year ago and prices on their handsets fell to US $88 from US $104 last year. Their North American distribution fell 30%. Facing strong rivals in Apple and RIM, the company says it is trying to transform itself

The past month has seen a lot of Internet browser upgrades. Just about every major browser has been updated recently, each getting faster, supporting newer standards and adding features that might now seem standard. Given that, each browser underwent an upgrade, it wouldn’t have been surprising to see the numbers for the market share to more »

Mozilla is growing, and it seems that in addition to the recent world record, which was set for the software downloads in a 24 hour time period, they have also risen to 19.03% of the market share. Mozilla saw an increase from 18.41% up to 19.03% from the end of May to the end of more »

Recent numbers are showing that Palm has raised its smartphone market share, topping out at 13.4% for Q1, which is up from 7.9% during the last quarter. While Palm has seen a nice increase from the previous quarter, sadly they are still down 23% from the same time period from one-year ago. As anyone who more »

Apparently, it’s sink or swim time for Samsung’s laptop group. Sukyong Hong, Samsung’s senior manager of overseas sales and marketing said that the company would quit the laptop market within three years unless it can triple sales. Hong says that the company needs to ship 11 million laptops in 2011 in order for its notebook more »

The Zune has some reason to celebrate, and while they are still far from Apple and the iPod, they have just reached the respectable 2 million sold mark. This new level comes just about one year from when Microsoft announced they sold the first million Zune’s, and with the increased sales some increased market share more »

In most places across the world, at any given time of day, you can walk up to any random person and be sure that he/she owns a Nokia. Then when you ask that person why he/she owns a Nokia, you’ll be given an anecdote about its user-friendly interface, nice styling, satisfactory performance, etc. And it more »