from www.mobileburn.com:
>>"As a company, the QWERTY keyboard we're moving away from in general."
Zellweger then went on to say that the future of QWERTY on
smartphones will likely revolve from newer haptic technologies that are
being worked into software based, on-screen keyboards. He also feels
that hardware-based keyboards, while still somewhat in demand, would not
allow HTC to move forward the designs of its smartphones.
"We feel that putting too much effort into that [QWERTY] would take away from our devices."
Friday, April 20, 2012
Stifel Nicolaus removed Equinix from its Select List,
from http://wallstcheatsheet.com:
>>Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX): Stifel Nicolaus removed Equinix from its Select List, citing valuation. However, the firm maintains a Buy rating on the stock.
>>Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX): Stifel Nicolaus removed Equinix from its Select List, citing valuation. However, the firm maintains a Buy rating on the stock.
Samsung Outsold Apple In Smartphones In Q1, Analyst Says
from Forbes:
>>Next Tuesday, Apple will report results for the March quarter. The Street is expecting the company to sell in the vicinity of 32-33 million iPhones for the quarter. That’s a lot of smartphones. But it might not be anywhere close enough to make the company the calendar Q1 smartphone champion.
ACI Research analyst Edward Zabitsky asserts in a research note that Samsung in the quarter sold over 40 million smartphones, grabbing the title of global smartphone unit king.
>>Next Tuesday, Apple will report results for the March quarter. The Street is expecting the company to sell in the vicinity of 32-33 million iPhones for the quarter. That’s a lot of smartphones. But it might not be anywhere close enough to make the company the calendar Q1 smartphone champion.
ACI Research analyst Edward Zabitsky asserts in a research note that Samsung in the quarter sold over 40 million smartphones, grabbing the title of global smartphone unit king.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Touch Technology
from chicagotonight.wttw.com:
>>Imagine a game of Angry Birds in which you could actually feel the tension of a slingshot before propelling a squawking fowl into a group of thieving pigs.
That’s exactly the kind of ‘feeling’ researchers hope to add to touchscreen devices one day.
>>Imagine a game of Angry Birds in which you could actually feel the tension of a slingshot before propelling a squawking fowl into a group of thieving pigs.
That’s exactly the kind of ‘feeling’ researchers hope to add to touchscreen devices one day.
Equinix Price Target Increased to $180.00 by Analysts at Citigroup
from http://zolmax.com:
>>Equities research analysts at Citigroup (NYSE: C) boosted their price target on shares of Equinix from $154.00 to $180.00 in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday. The firm currently has a “buy” rating on the stock.
>>Equities research analysts at Citigroup (NYSE: C) boosted their price target on shares of Equinix from $154.00 to $180.00 in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday. The firm currently has a “buy” rating on the stock.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
InMobi Selects Carpathia Hosting as Strategic Worldwide Managed Hosting Partner
InMobi's secure, scalable environment currently includes hundreds of
servers, hosting over 1.5 Gbps of network traffic and is spread among
Equinix data centers in San Jose and London, with the proposed addition
of Hong Kong in the near future. By leveraging Carpathia to deliver
managed infrastructure and network as a service, InMobi was able to
expand into new geographic markets and avoid significant capital
expenditures, while maintaining the highest level of support for its
critical infrastructure.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/inmobi-selects-carpathia-hosting-as-strategic-worldwide-managed-hosting-partner-2012-04-17
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/inmobi-selects-carpathia-hosting-as-strategic-worldwide-managed-hosting-partner-2012-04-17
HiWave announces stereo Bluetooth wireless speaker design; delivers 2 x13W burst audio and over 30 hours playback
HiWave
Technologies,
the provider of electronic and transducer solutions for audio
and haptic touch, has announced a stereo Bluetooth wireless speaker
reference design that provides 2 x13W burst power and runs for 30 hours
(around 45 albums) from its small, 2200mAh Li-ion battery. Speakers
based on the design enable users to stream audio from Bluetooth enabled
phones, tablets and laptops.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hiwave-announces-stereo-bluetooth-wireless-speaker-design-delivers-2-x13w-burst-audio-and-over-30-hours-playback-2012-04-16
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hiwave-announces-stereo-bluetooth-wireless-speaker-design-delivers-2-x13w-burst-audio-and-over-30-hours-playback-2012-04-16
A closer look at Equinix’s ecosystems
Read the whole post at Telecom Ramblings:
>>Equinix finished 2011 with 4,317 customers, excluding smaller clients inherited through the Virtu acquisition in East Netherlands. While looking at customer count may not be necessarily indicative of revenues, the exercise of analyzing this metric may be interesting to see local strengths, as building ecosystems (or communities of interests, as TeleCity calls them) is one of the best ways to ensure the success of a data center, especially if you have magnet customers among them.
>>Equinix finished 2011 with 4,317 customers, excluding smaller clients inherited through the Virtu acquisition in East Netherlands. While looking at customer count may not be necessarily indicative of revenues, the exercise of analyzing this metric may be interesting to see local strengths, as building ecosystems (or communities of interests, as TeleCity calls them) is one of the best ways to ensure the success of a data center, especially if you have magnet customers among them.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Nokia And RIM: A Tale Of Two Pasts
Read the whole article at Seeking Alpha:
>>Nokia (NOK) and RIM (RIMM) share a similar fate, a kind of backward evolution which is turning them into entities less suited to survive in today's smartphone market: both companies seem to represent the past of something (consumer and enterprise handsets, respectively), rather than players with a viable future, and several analysts have already started writing their obituaries.
Both companies changed the handsets market, at one stage, through their contribution to the development of GSM and the introduction of the first "smartphones" (Nokia), and by marrying email with mobility (RIM). Customers, however, have turned their back to their most recent offerings, and both companies are struggling, with new CEOs, to reinvent themselves into something different.
A quick look at both companies' great pasts.
>>Nokia (NOK) and RIM (RIMM) share a similar fate, a kind of backward evolution which is turning them into entities less suited to survive in today's smartphone market: both companies seem to represent the past of something (consumer and enterprise handsets, respectively), rather than players with a viable future, and several analysts have already started writing their obituaries.
Both companies changed the handsets market, at one stage, through their contribution to the development of GSM and the introduction of the first "smartphones" (Nokia), and by marrying email with mobility (RIM). Customers, however, have turned their back to their most recent offerings, and both companies are struggling, with new CEOs, to reinvent themselves into something different.
A quick look at both companies' great pasts.
Samsung says to unveil new Galaxy S smartphone on May 3
from Yahoo:
>>Samsung Electronics Co (KSC:005930) said on Monday it would unveil the third-generation of its flagship smartphone Galaxy S on May 3 in London, banking on a heavy marketing campaign heading into the summer Olympics in the city.
Samsung became the world's top smartphone maker last year on the back of strong sales of Galaxy lineups and the latest edition comes after it released Galaxy S II in late April last year.
The South Korean firm sold over 40 million Galaxy smartphones since the model was released in June 2010.
>>Samsung Electronics Co (KSC:005930) said on Monday it would unveil the third-generation of its flagship smartphone Galaxy S on May 3 in London, banking on a heavy marketing campaign heading into the summer Olympics in the city.
Samsung became the world's top smartphone maker last year on the back of strong sales of Galaxy lineups and the latest edition comes after it released Galaxy S II in late April last year.
The South Korean firm sold over 40 million Galaxy smartphones since the model was released in June 2010.
OpenMarket co-locates Sydney data centre to meet customer demand
from www.techworld.com.au:
>>OpenMarket Australia country manager, Jonathan Morgan, told Computerworld Australia
the company also chose the location due to close proximity to its
Sydney head office. The company began its Australian operations in March
2010 when OpenMarket acquired the holdings of MX Telecom. It currently
has five staff and two offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
“The
facility is primarily for Australian companies who wish to have local
processing but it might also be used by Asian customers who have the
same requirements,” he said. “Over time, it will be used to replicate
the gateways we have in the US, Europe and Singapore so it will become
one of our six global data centres.”
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Chicago Board Options Exchange plots move to Secaucus
from www.nj.com:
>>Hence the move to Secaucus. Doing so will shave execution times down to as low as 100 to 300 microseconds, said Gerald O’Connell, chief information officer at CBOE. A millisecond is a thousandth of a second, while a microsecond is a millionth of a second.
The exchange’s main electronic trading platform will be moved into a facility known as NY4, an otherwise anonymous warehouse that sits alongside Secaucus Road. The size of several football fields, the two-story building is a modern marvel of electrical systems, fiber optics and air-conditioning to keep countless computer cabinets running day and night, O’Connell said. And it is all mostly unmanned.
Already, CBOE houses two of its electronic exchanges at NY4 – its secondary options market C2 came online there when it was launched in 2010, and it moved an associated stock exchange there from Chicago last year. In addition to its flagship options platform, the exchange also will move the matching engines for its futures exchange and single-stock futures exchange to Secaucus. Meanwhile, it completed its purchase of the National Stock Exchange in Jersey City in January. Operations, however, still will be monitored from Chicago, where its backup facilities will remain.
>>Hence the move to Secaucus. Doing so will shave execution times down to as low as 100 to 300 microseconds, said Gerald O’Connell, chief information officer at CBOE. A millisecond is a thousandth of a second, while a microsecond is a millionth of a second.
The exchange’s main electronic trading platform will be moved into a facility known as NY4, an otherwise anonymous warehouse that sits alongside Secaucus Road. The size of several football fields, the two-story building is a modern marvel of electrical systems, fiber optics and air-conditioning to keep countless computer cabinets running day and night, O’Connell said. And it is all mostly unmanned.
Already, CBOE houses two of its electronic exchanges at NY4 – its secondary options market C2 came online there when it was launched in 2010, and it moved an associated stock exchange there from Chicago last year. In addition to its flagship options platform, the exchange also will move the matching engines for its futures exchange and single-stock futures exchange to Secaucus. Meanwhile, it completed its purchase of the National Stock Exchange in Jersey City in January. Operations, however, still will be monitored from Chicago, where its backup facilities will remain.
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