Posts Tagged ‘Samsung’

Consumers can’t get enough of smartphones and tablets, and that’s driving IT vendors and solution providers to adopt mobile device management. What many consumers don’t know is their devices are heavily subsidized by carriers, who are growing tired of paying for hardware. Will BYOD continue if subsidies are curtailed?

Intel’s success in the mobility market may never come to pass. Can it really compete against the flexible nature of the ARM platform?

For years, Intel has focused much of its competitive energies at keeping AMD at bay. Now, it may be facing a new threat in Samsung, which is bulking up its processor design resources in what some believe is a prelude to developing processors. Samsung taking on Intel could have serious implications for the channel – mostly positive.

Samsung has a new managed print services reseller program fueled by vendor partner solutions – and aimed to compete with Xerox, Oki Data and Lexmark – to convert a still-not-convinced channel that MPS is a money maker.

Apple’s iPad will remain the dominant tablet for the next five years, but a flood of low-cost tablets and the rise of ultralight notebooks will transform the market dynamics again. The shift has the potential of rendering conventional tablets obsolete as quickly as tablets dispatched netbooks.

Throngs of Apple loyalists will queue outside retail stores across the U.S. today in hopes of getting their hands on one of the new iPads. While the latest release solidifies Apple’s leadership in tablets, it’s actually a turning point in the next era of computing.

Apple’s new iPad is more than a regular product release; it’s a strategy intended to sop up market demand for all tablets, creating a barrier to entry for other would-be competitors, namely Samsung and Microsoft.

Apple CEO Tim Cook uttered the phrase “post-PC world” more than a dozen times in the first five minutes of a presentation introducing a slew of new products, including the iPad 3. Is this truly the end of the PC era, and will the world be ruled by mobile, personalized devices?

For the first time, smartphone sales surpassed shipments of client PCs – including tablets – to become the world’s most prolific computing platform. Over the next three years, more than 1 trillion smartphones will enter service, compelling businesses to adopt mobile device management.

Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, is replacing its co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis today. The task of turning around the vendor falls to Thorsten Heins, who is faced with sliding market share and customer satisfaction ratings. Could RIM become the first casualty of the mobility era?