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- Is the Love Affair with the iPhone Over?
- Compete submits: For the past two years, consumers and the media alike have ‘ooh’ed and ‘ahh’ed over the iPhone. And rightfully so. The sleek design, unique interface and ease of use were characteristics not frequently seen in the US cell phone market before 2007, and drew significant traffic to...
- External links 2009-04-09
- How iPhone Use Differs from Other Smartphones
- Compete submits: Almost everywhere I turn, I see an iPhone: at work, on the soccer field, on the street. My boyfriend and Mom both have them. Clearly these devices appeal to a lot of people, and we’ve heard the iPhone described as “more than just a phone” by owners....
- External links 2009-03-31
- Does Palm's Pre Have a Chance Against the iPhone?
- Compete submits: The Smartphone market is an increasingly crowded place. After Apple’s AAPL success with the iPhone from 2007 onward, more companies, from GPS manufacturer Garmin GRMN to PC manufacturers like Acer and Asustek, are throwing their hats in the ring. In January at the Consumer Electronics...
- External links 2009-03-24
- Exploring Blackberry App World
- Compete submits: The application store rush is definitely on. Since the success of the iPhone’s App Store, Nokia NOK, the Google Android Market, and the Microsoft Skymarket have all followed suit. Even PC manufacturer Acer has said they are looking into the viability of an application store...
- External links 2009-03-19
- Did Apple Steal the Palm Pre?s Thunder?
- Compete submits: I must admit, I am quite taken with the Palm Pre. The hype, predictably, has been enormous. And the handset itself is very well put together. Online reviews rave about it. After playing with my friend’s new Pre, I have to agree with them: it is one...
- External links 2009-07-01
- Zune HD: Still Not an iPod Killer
- Compete submits: Hopes were high when Microsoft MSFT introduced the Zune in 2006. As the first MP3 player to feature WiFi and an FM radio, the Zune stood out by allowing owners to share music wirelessly with other Zune users. The concept never took off, and Zune adoption...
- External links 2009-10-16
- Motorola Rival: Surprise Summer Hit
- Compete submits: Anyone who has received a Facebook “friend request” from a parent should chuckle at a recent ad from Verizon Wireless VZ. As part of its back-to-school campaign, Verizon Wireless features a mom and dad annoying their children by Tweeting and Facebooking on their mobile phones. ...
- External links 2009-09-09
- Will the iPhone Be Taken by Storm?
- Compete submits: On Friday, the much-anticipated Blackberry Storm went on sale. Like many other recent Smartphone releases, the touchscreen, media player, and web-browsing features led to comparisons with the iPhone 3G. Sales figures were not available at the time of this post, but we did get a sense...
- External links 2008-11-26
- Can Zune Compete With iPod?
- Compete submits: MP3 players will be on consumers’ shopping lists this holiday season, but can anyone compete with Apple’s family of iPods? There are many MP3 players on the market, but if any device could be a viable alternative to the iPod, the Zune seems to be a...
- External links 2008-10-16
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- Six Apart, Technorati, and Compete all Challenge Google
- First, bloggers ended mainstream media's monopoly over content. Now, innovative ad networks are moving to loosen Google's domination of the blogger-ad market. But, as every blogger knows, monetizing your blog is a challenge. Last month, Six Apart announced a new set of advertising tools for bloggers...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Do Google Docs and Spreadsheets Pose a Threat to Office?
- Compete submits: Two weeks ago, Google Labs announced new gadgets integrating Google Docs & Spreadsheets with GMail, just in time for the 2nd anniversary of the web-based productivity tools. The move may leverage GMail’s growing user base and facilitate growth at Docs & Spreadsheets as it inches closer to...
- External links 2008-11-13
- I scream, you scream, we all scream for iGoogle social!
- We launched iGoogle in 2005 as a way for people to quickly and easily personalize their Google experience with all the information on the web that was most useful to them. Now tens of millions of people choose to use their iGoogle homepage to check email, track the news, watch...
- News items 2009-08-12
- Atlassian JIRA 4.0 Released: OpenSocial Comes To Enterprise
- JIRA, a product from Atlassian, began its life as a simple alternate bug-tracker, and has since evolved into a popular and robust product and issue management tool. JIRA 4.0, to be released tomorrow, has made several enhancements and additions including an improved dashboard, JIRA Query Language JQL for enhanced search...
- News items 2009-10-05
- What you need to know about Windows 7
- What if a new version of Windows didn't try to dazzle you? What if, instead, it tried to disappear except when you needed it? Such an operating system would dispense with glitzy effects in favor of low-key, useful new features. Rather than pelting you with alerts, warnings, and requests, it...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Black Friday Anti-Deals: What Not To Buy [Prof. Dealzmodo]
- Black Friday may when prices are low, but if you've carefully read the list of deals, you can tell it's also a BS marketing gimmick. Here's how not to get fooled (plus, what gadgets to avoid at any price): In other words, many of these "deals" really aren't deals at...
- News items 2009-11-24
- Target Stronger in Apparel, Wal-Mart in Electronics
- Compete submits: As economic woes seep out of the financial sector and gas prices shake consumer confidence, American shoppers are learning how to be bargain hunters. However, for Wal-Mart WMT and Target TGT, two of America’s most popular discount retailers, September sales fell short of expectations in a Back-to-School...
- External links 2008-10-09
- An Interview With eSolar's Bill Gross
- Bill Gross might just be the quintessential inventor / entrepreneur. Born in the late 1950s, Gross began inventing gadgets in high school, and had founded a company by college. After graduating he started making software; among his various innovations, Gross could be called responsible for the advertising concept that has...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- HTC CEO On Android, Verizon, Microsoft
- TAOYUAN, TAIWAN -- For more than six months, HTC enjoyed the privilege of being the only cellphone maker to have a handset running on Google's mobile platform, Android. Several manufacturers, including Samsung, Motorola ( MOT - news - people ) and LG have since crowded in. Motorola, which announced a...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Is the Desktop PC Slowly Dying?
- TAIPEI (Reuters) - The age of the desktop PC appears to be over as its more portable cousin, the laptop, surges ahead with consumers clamoring for light-weight computers in funky designs for use at home, in cafes and on the train to work. Not a single desktop model figured on...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Traditional Media Brands Rise to the Task as a Celebrity Dies
- As my colleague Cathy Taylor wrote earlier today, the death of the singer/dancer Michael Jackson was a major media event that illustrates how much our industry has evolved in recent years. But the pop star's death also proved to be an unprecedented challenge for the big search engines and social...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
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