Peek, a New York mobile start-up, has begun selling TwitterPeek, a new device for posting and reading Twitter updates.
TwitterPeek became available on Amazon and Peek’s Web site Tuesday. Its $100 price includes a full keyboard, always-on tweet delivery and nationwide Internet coverage, plus six months of service.
The medical waistband is the latest front in the battle among smart-phone makers for the business customer.
Pagers have long reigned in hospitals, where they are prized for their dependability. But with doctors treating more patients and hospitals facing pressure to be more efficient, companies like Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. see an opportunity to peddle their devices.
Fancy new smart phones and laptops may generate more buzz, but the desktop PC remains the workhorse of the office. Bosses who outfit staffers with mobile devices, however, may be able to wring more work out of them, according to a new Forrester study.
Between documenting expenses and processing credit cards from just about anywhere in the U.S., smartphone applications have changed the way many small businesses operate. Now, more firms are turning to these apps to enhance the way customers interact with their products and services–and even boost their bottom lines.
TomTom’s new iPhone app is similar in many ways to the company’s personal navigation devices, but the software’s lack of multitasking ability and smaller screen size are a few ways in which it’s different, says Tom Murray, its vice president of marketing development.
Very interesting tidbit today from Macworld U.K., which found a China Unicom Web page with information on the Apple iPhone. Macworld notes that the information, which is in Chinese, is apparently part of a list of smartphones that could theoretically be supported by the 3G network China Unicom is building. The Macworld story notes that the page appears only on the Web site for the company’s Shanghai branch, and did not say specifically that the iPhone would be offered by China Unicom.
New laptops that boot up in 30 seconds? Too slow for me. Five seconds? Better, but what I want is a machine that’s ready in about a second, just like my smartphone.
Worldwide mobile phone sales grew only five percent in the third quarter–a disappointing performance in the sector, and the lowest since 2002. Only Apple and Samsung stood out from the pack. It makes perfect sense that large screen TV sales would slump heading into a recession, but mobile phones? Maybe consumers are bored. Sales are expected to jump slightly during the holiday season.
Faint praise seems the order of the day when dipping into depressed stock prices. Needham & Co.’s Charlie Wolf this morning upgraded shares of Research in Motion (RIMM) from “Underperform” to “Hold,” writing that the fall in price from $105 in July to $60 and change today fairly reflects potential for slowing of sales of BlackBerrys to consumers in the quarter ending next month.
There is a shortage of iPhones in Apple’s (AAPL) stores in the United States. And there is a surplus of frenzied speculation about what this means. Many wonder whether Apple is closing out of its existing stock in order to clear the way for new models, possibly with the ability to connect to faster 3G networks.
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