May, 2013

• 18 May

  How BlackBerry is fixing its once ‘broken’ brand

  

  ORLANDO, Fla. — When Frank Boulben joined BlackBerry a year ago as its chief marketing officer, he found a company whose reputation with the public was in shambles. To make matters worse, its marketing strategy was in complete disarray. Each country or region had their own version of a BlackBerry campaign, complete with different agencies …

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• 17 May

  BlackBerry regains some lost market share in Canada

  

  BlackBerry has managed to regain some lost market share in its home country of Canada. In a research note to investors on Thursday, Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt reported that while BlackBerry’s market share was just 6 percent in Canada in the fourth quarter of 2012, it jumped to 13.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013. The analyst believes …

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• 17 May

  Glasses with Google Glass: Prescription versions appear at Google I/O

  

  SAN FRANCISCO–Google Glass currently comes in five colors and has a pop-in sunglass visor, but no version of the Explorer Edition comes with prescription lenses. For glasses-wearers like me, that means getting contacts or jamming them over my frames. Next year, that may change. Google Glass testing prescription prototypes (pictures) +1 more See all photos You had to look closely …

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• 17 May

  Samsung announces Galaxy S4

  

  Starting Friday, Samsung will sell the second version of its NFC stickers, called TecTiles 2. Related stories NFC TecTiles: An introduction Can Samsung make NFC tech happen? Not with TecTiles Samsung: TecTiles a warmup for mobile payments The main difference between these tags and the first iteration, which launched almost a year ago? Unlike the originals, the second TecTiles generation …

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• 17 May

  Making sense of Google’s high Galaxy S4 price tag

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S4 Google Edition explained 3:42 On Tuesday, when Google’s Vice President of Android Product Management Hugo Barra told a crowd of nearly 6,000 attendees that the online giant would be releasing its own variant of the critically-acclaimed Samsung Galaxy S4, many broke out in applause. Not only would the top-tier device sport all the same …

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• 17 May

  Android 4.3 rumoured for 10 June launch

  

  Android 4.3, the next update to Google’s world-conquering mobile software, will come out on 10 June, according to Android and Me’s Taylor Wimberly. Wimberly went hands-on with the heavily tipped but so far unannounced white version of the Nexus 4, and whichever unnamed Google-related bod had the snowy blower revealed that 4.3 will start rolling out next month. That’s all …

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• 17 May

  iOS 7: What it needs, and what it won’t be getting (video)

  

  Now playing: Watch this: iOS 7: The features it needs 3:38 The next major update of Apple’s iOS software is almost upon us! But which features does Apple’s grid-based operating system desperately need to add, and which ones will Tim Cook and pals probably ignore completely? That’s what we’re asking in this video, so hit play on the clip above …

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• 17 May

  Samsung: Galaxy S4 sales to hit 10 million next week

  

  Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is on pace to easily surpass its predecessor’s sales record, Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun said Thursday in an interview. Speaking to the Korea Times, the co-CEO said that Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will sell through 10 million units next week, making it the fastest-selling smartphone in the company’s history. Shin told the Korea Times that the Galaxy …

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• 17 May

  Galaxy S4 to hit 10 million sales next week, Samsung says

  

  Samsung is poised to have flogged a whopping 10 million Samsung Galaxy S4 smart phones, according to a report that also claims the S4 is selling much faster than last year’s Galaxy S3. Company boss JK Shin said that Samsung’s newest smart phone will hit the 10 million milestone next week, Korea Times reports, with the company head honcho quoted …

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• 17 May

  Sprint grabs U.S. Cellular spectrum, customers for $480m

  

  Sprint’s network will soon receive a much-needed boost in some Midwestern cities like Chicago and St. Louis, Missouri. The wireless carrier announced on Friday that it finished inking a deal with regional service provider U.S. Cellular, which is based in the Midwest. As part of the $480 million agreement, Sprint will gain a total of 30MHz of PCS spectrum, which …

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