The Importance of Continuing to Innovate

Research-in-Motion (RIM) announced it’s 4th quarter results today.  As expected, results were again down — 19% over the previous quarter, and 25% over the same quarter last year.  RIM has been in the news over the last year because of negative reasons like falling revenues and service outages.  Not good. Let’s face it, no mobile [...]

Texting and Email

Lately, there have been several articles written about the fact that while texting volumes are through the roof — revenues from texting will decrease over time.  Why?  Because there are so many other ways in which to communicate these days.  With Facebook and Apple creating messaging systems as a starting point, consumers and businesses will [...]

The Demise of webOS

In more news about the Tablet and Mobile device marketplace (there was lots of it this week), HP announced yesterday that they are killing their webOS device business.  webOS is the operating system for the new HP Touch Tablet that was just launched in July. In fact, HP is planning to exit the PC business [...]

Tablets, iPhones and Droids — Oh My!

If you didn’t see the article in this Monday’s Wall Street Journal on Microsoft, you should go Google it now.  The article, entitled “Microsoft Faces the Post-PC World,” explains how Microsoft is facing the “biggest challenge to it’s Windows franchise so far: a world where mobile phones and tablets are handling more of the computing [...]