Fahad HMar 29, 20124 min readNo, Google Doesn’t Make Four Times More Off The iPhone Vs. Androidsparked headlines that the iPhone is more a cash cow for Google than its own mobile platform. But that’s making a lot of assumptions that...
Fahad HMar 29, 20123 min readIt’s A “Post PC” World: Smartphones, Tablets Outpace Traditional PC GrowthIT consulting firm IDC has just released its latest hardware forecast. According to the firm, 2011 saw “shipments” of nearly 1 billion...
Fahad HMar 23, 20123 min readMobile Apps vs. the Mobile Web: “It Doesn’t Matter to Consumers”released a new report this morning that wades into the mobile “apps vs. web” debate. It’s positioned as a metaphor or surrogate for a...
Fahad HMar 19, 20123 min readGoogle, Dell Prepare Tablet Counterattack As Apple Announces Three-Million iPad WeekendiPad launch day: Where are all the sell-outs? On a conference call this morning about Apple’s just-announced stock dividend, Apple CEO...
Fahad HMar 13, 20123 min readDo Consumers Really Prefer The Mobile Web To Apps?blog post that looked at apps and mobile web usage in the retail segment. The post carried the headline, “Retailer Mobile Websites Beat...
Fahad HMar 8, 20125 min readHow Apple Made Twitter The Poster Child Of Android’s Tablet FailureSeemingly taking no chances, Apple didn’t just announce cool features in the new iPad. It also took at dig at Android tablets, to show...
Fahad HMar 6, 20126 min readAndroid Market Becomes “Google Play,” Reflects Google’s Multiplatform Content AimsGoogle Play! Today, Google announced that it is changing the name of its Android Market to Google Play, a move it hopes better reflects...
Fahad HFeb 27, 20123 min readGoogle’s Smartphone Dominance, Tablet Weakness And Surprising Mobile Ad NumbersMobile World Congress is happening in Barcelona, Spain this week. I’d probably be attending but for SMX West starting tomorrow in San...
Fahad HFeb 20, 20123 min readWill Google Latitude Succeed As A Loyalty Platform?Latitude has millions of users, what the company doesn’t generally talk about is how many of those people are actively engaged with the...
Fahad HFeb 9, 20122 min readNew “Google Store” Not Beginning Of Larger Retail Pushopened a pop-up “store within a store” to sell Chromebooks in London. There were suggestions that if all went well Google might pursue a...
Fahad HFeb 4, 20123 min readGoogle Wallet Gets Its Second US Carrier — AT&Tsaid in December that it was blocking Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus handset, because of “security concerns,” conspiracy theories...
Fahad HJan 19, 20123 min readWill “Apps For Timeline” Make Facebook The Next Major Apps Ecosystem?Last night Facebook formally launched the previously announced “Apps for Timeline.” If you’re Zynga CEO Mark Pincus (or one of a handful...
Fahad HJan 12, 20122 min readSchmidt On CES: “There’s Always Android Products That We Don’t Know About”CES is to spot new Android products out in the wilderness. Not to close them down, since Android’s free for anyone to use. Just to help...
Fahad HJan 10, 20122 min readSprint To Get Galaxy Nexus, Will Allow Google Walletannounced that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was coming to its network — with Google Wallet: Galaxy Nexus will also be Sprint’s second...
Fahad HJan 10, 20122 min readWho’s Surgin’, Who’s Saggin’: iPhone Or Android?Some numbers released yesterday by NPD Group suggested that the iPhone was regaining some of the market share it had recently lost to...
Fahad HJan 9, 20121 min readNook Teams With NY Times To Battle Amazon’s Kindleannounced a device promotion with the New York Times to battle its rival: [C]ustomers who purchase a one-year NOOK subscription to The...
Fahad HJan 5, 20124 min readWill The New Google TV Partners Be Enough To Help The Platform?Consumer Electronics Show hits Las Vegas next week, and Google has announced that LG will be joining its Google TV line-up, while...
Fahad HJan 5, 20122 min readReport: Google’s 7-Inch Tablet To Be Cheaper Than Kindle Firediscussion this morning about a DigiTimes report that Google’s forthcoming “highest quality” tablet is a 7-incher. Accordingly, the...
Fahad HJan 2, 20124 min readGoogle’s Coming Tablet: A Response To Kindle Fire, Not The iPadThe Kindle Fire is a deeply flawed tablet — yet it has disrupted the nascent tablet market and especially other iPad challengers. Indeed,...
Fahad HJan 2, 201210 min readFor Consumers, Android Is More “Clopen” Than OpenAndroid “Open” For Whom? Google has made much of Android being “open” for use by anyone and thus potentially better than the “closed”...
