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Android – The mobile botnet

          Malware has long been known to plague Android but things appear to be getting worse. Single pieces of malware that cause problems on devices are...

Yahoo! – A place in the pantheon?

          Yahoo! currently lacks the assets but has the users to be a viable ecosystem. Yahoo has completed its first full quarter with Marissa A Mayer...

RFM 2013 Top 5 – Part 1 – Mobile Integration

          Prediction 1: Integration of applications on mobile devices starts to affect user purchase decisions. When one looks at where the differentiators are in mobile devices,...

Samsung Software– Move to fix

          What more evidence does one need of the weaknesses of Android than its lead vendor moving to fix them. This is what Samsung’s Premium suite...

Nokia Here – Move to where?

          Nokia held an event yesterday to launch enhancements to its mapping offering but it was not clear to me how Nokia itself would benefit in...

Office on iOS – Christmas turkey.

          It is well known that Turkey’s don’t vote for Christmas so why on earth would Microsoft want to make Office available on iOS anytime soon?...

Windows RT – Confusion abound

          Windows 8 launches tomorrow, doubtless to much fanfare, but will the users be interested? No one has any confidence in the ability of this new...

Google – Engineering disease

          Many have derided Google for its mishap in releasing its Q3 results early but it seems to me that real mistake has been the $12.5bn...

Android – Critical weakness

          Without a shadow of doubt, Android dominates the unit volume statistics but in order to have real long-term value to Google and those who make...

Ecosystems II – The wrong tree

          Eric Schmidt (Chairman Google) made an appearance at the AllThingsD conference and completely dissed Microsoft as a potential competitor in the coming ecosystem war. His...