On its opening day, RIM sold only 50,000 Playbook out of which 25,000 in pre-order and 20,000 in stores. The figures do not come even close to Apple’s performance of selling 300,000 devices on the opening day, but do far better than Android tablets, like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Motorola’s Xoom. “While the launch of ...

Any way you slice it, Yahoo is seeing a strong decline in its search revenues in the second quarter, following the same path of decreasing revenues since 2008. Back then, Yahoo’s net search revenues were around $544 million and starting with the fourth quarter of 2008, the figures went as down as low as $393 ...

Opus Interactive, provider of managed hosting, dedicated virtual and standard servers, and data storage, is deploying the new HP Converged Infrastructure technology to improve data center efficiency and facilitate delivery of technology services to customers.  This is another example of a large scale implementation of a converged system, a trend on the uptick for many ...

Last week the Android Police revealed a vulnerability affecting Android users running Skype Mobile for Android. Roughly 10 million users faced a personal data leak, such as ‘account balances, names, dates of birth, location information, phone numbers, email addresses, bios and so on.’ Skype acted accordingly and today managed to release an update to fix ...

On the 28th of April FalconStor Software is expected to announce its financial results for the first quarter of 2011. The company will hold a conference call at 4:30 PM EDT to discuss the results. On the previous earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2010 that ended on December the 31st 2010, the company’s ...

Apple’s found itself standing before court officials quite a bit lately, dealing with antitrust suits, and more recently, personal file access.  The iPad maker asked a federal judge to dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit claiming the company limited choice by linking iPod music downloading to its iTunes music store, Bloomberg reports.  The reason for blocking ...

This morning mobile entertainment firm Buongiorno announced the acquisition of Dada.net for €28.5 million (about $40.8 million), giving the former the opportunity to reinforce its global leadership as a provider of mobile-connected life solutions.  The deal should increase its market share in the B2C segment in several areas, particularly geographic regions including North America. In ...

Localytics, the mobile app analytics provider has raised another round of funding, worth $2.5 million this time, from Launchpad Venture Group, New York Angels and Hub Angels, completing the $3 million series. Some of the most prominent customers of Localytics are News Corp., Skype, Bluefly and Turner Broadcasting, all using the mobile analytics platform for ...

Smartphones and mobile devices are all the rage as far as consumer buying activity goes, but not all manufacturers are seeing profits as a result of the booming industry.  LG’s latest earnings call did not meet the analysts’ expectations for panels for smartphones and tablet computers in particular. The company reported today a net loss ...

The high times of brick-and-mortar stores have passed. With the increasing popularity of mobile devices and growing availability of smartphones, more and more people would prefer mobile shopping for its convenience and time-saving characteristics. Yet, retailers are totally unprepared to respond to this growing trend, and research points in the same direction. The matter of ...