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iOS hits 73% of enterprise market share in Q4 2014 report

It never hurts to have decent market share in the enterprise space. And that’s what Apple appears to be doing. iOS gained another 4 percentage points, growing to 73 percent of global device activations in Q4 2014. Android device activations, meanwhile, dropped the same amount to 25 percent of total activations last quarter. The latest […]

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iPhone accounting for almost 90% of smartphone industry profits in fourth quarter report

If nothing else, the iPhone industry is profitable for Apple. The latest numbers from Strategy Analytics reveal that Apple continued to dominate in global smartphone profit during the fourth quarter of 2014, capturing a record-high 88.7 percent share of profit during the three-month period ending December. Apple earned quarterly operating profit of US$18.8 billion on […]

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BlackBerry stifles sale of Typo keyboard case

Originally announced last December, Ryan Seacrest’s Typo keyboard case for iPhone 5/5S hit a snag in January right before its planned launch as CES when BlackBerry decided the Typo’s keyboard infringed on its own keyboard designs. Typo was finally forced to halt sales of the keyboard case when an injunction took effect on Tuesday that bans it […]

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Blackberry suing Typo Products over keyboard design

In the litigious world of  tech companies who scramble daily to protect their patents and intellectual property, you can expect anything claiming to be new and innovative to be hit by a roomful of lawyers saying it isn’t true. Such is the case with the Typo Keyboard case which was getting ready to launch at […]

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BlackBerry releases BBM client for Android, iOS, then recalls software due to “rogue version” concerns

Not that BlackBerry’s officially dead in the water (yet), but this isn’t a great sign. Per Mac|Life, BlackBerry announced Saturday that it had suspended the rollout of the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) app for iPhone and Android over concerns that a rogue version of the Android app would cause issues with the service. Originally scheduled for […]