By 2015: 349.1 million tablets and 1.95 billion mobile phones shipped worldwide.

That’s the new analysis from Gartner; if you consider the “dawn of the tablet age” to be January 2010 (when iPad’s first generation hit), that’s fairly substantial growth. (There were tablets as far back as 1997 by some arguments, although… Continue Reading

Could a $25 Firefox OS phone be a true game-changer in terms of linking up the developing world?

The Mobile World Congress is going on right now in Barcelona and Firefox OS (Mozilla) believes it’s “unleashing the future of mobile.” Here’s the big corporate money-shot in the press release: “Firefox OS is off to an amazing start. We launched… Continue Reading

Blackberry seems to be going the way of Kodak, other epic business fails

Blackberry is abandoning efforts to sell itself, and the CEO is stepping down. As noted in the embedded video with that piece, Blackberry had half the U.S. smartphone market just five years ago; now it has roughly one percent. You can call this… Continue Reading