More of the same
Mark Bridge writes:
Another week, another couple of product announcements from Samsung. There appears to be no stopping them, despite a recent drop in the company’s share price.
This time it’s a couple of tablets – one of which runs both Android and Windows 8 – and a 20 megapixel camera that’s got a 4G-enabled Android device built in.
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From Christmas SMS to customer service
Mark Bridge writes:
We started last week with a 20th birthday party for the SMS text message, which was first used as an alternative Christmas card by Neil Papworth in 1992. Since then, mobile data has been transformed from the familiar dit-dit-dit dah-dah dit-dit-dit of Nokia phones to non-stop internet connectivity on smart devices.
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HP says Autonomy deal was spiced up
Mark Bridge writes:
It’s time to ‘ketchup’ with last week’s biggest mobile industry news stories - and where better to start than with HP’s claims of ‘saucy’ behaviour? It’s launched an investigation into last year’s acquisition of UK company Autonomy, claiming the software company had ‘spiced up’ its valuation. Condiment-based puns aside, it’s a serious matter that could see key players from the deal charged with cooking the books.
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Mark Bridge writes:
It's a hard life being an early adopter. Last week in London I walked past a bus shelter that displayed a sequence of posters. Next to the changing display panel was a blue NFC logo.
“For advertiser links and travel information touch your NFC enabled phone above”
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Mark Bridge writes:
We’ve had a few sets of quarterly results in the past week. Let me summarise as best I can.
Qualcomm: doing very well, thank you.
Microsoft: pretty decent, although no-one’s talking much about phones.
Intel: not as good as before, although better than expected.
Nokia: sorry, we’ve lost a billion Euro. Well, we did warn you...
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