Nokia’s CEO has announced that the company plans to get back into smartphones in 2016. News about the company’s plan was revealed in April, but at the time the company denied those reports. Nokia will rejoin the phone market once its agreement with Microsoft allows it, Reuters reported. “We will look for suitable partners,” said … continue reading
Android may appear in one of BlackBerry’s next devices. Reuters reported that sources close to the subject say BlackBerry is considering Android as part of its software and device-management strategy. BlackBerry has been struggling to keep up with Apple and Android in the smartphone market. According to Reuters, the company once dominated the space, but … continue reading
Nokia made headlines last week with reports that the company was planning a mobile comeback in 2016. According to Re/code, sources said that Nokia was quietly planning to rejoin the phone market after its contracts with Microsoft ended, but—in a statement provided by the company—itshot down any plans to reemerge in the mobile market. Nokia … continue reading
Android offers more active users, exciting features and platform opportunities today than ever before, but app developers have never been more lost. Within the existing smartphone and tablet market, the OS landscape is fragmented between every Android version from Gingerbread to Lollipop, which currently holds little more than 3% of the pie. Now Google is … continue reading
Samsung may or may not be in talks to buy BlackBerry. According to a Reuters report, Samsung recently approached BlackBerry with a buyout offer of as much as US$7.5 billion. The report stated that executives met last week to discuss the proposed deal. BlackBerry announced a security partnership with Samsung this past November, but for … continue reading
We go through technology cycles, and often things that are incredibly popular evaporate over time. Eight-track tape players gave way to cassettes, which gave way to iPods, which gave way to iPhones and iPads. You might recall products like the Motorola Razr that folks lusted for, but that entire class of phone is largely gone … continue reading
Today’s CIOs are at a crossroads. Bombarded by user requests for sophisticated mobile-friendly business apps, they have a choice to make: be a roadblock and force users to find their own workarounds, or provide a thruway that leads to innovation and enables agility. CIOs who assume an active role in leading their organization down the … continue reading
Blackberry defends square Passport smartphone; LLVM updates Windows support; Python tops introductory CS languages … continue reading
Smart glasses, voice recognition and virtual keyboards will allow wearables to be on par with laptops and smartphones … continue reading
What are the factors that will play into the success (or failure) of these products? … continue reading
Developers are targetting tablets more than smartphones … continue reading
Nobody can match the breadth of tool partners that Microsoft offers through Visual Studio; Java is back, in a big way … continue reading
