Interesting numbers being reported by Comscore. In my favorite area Smartphones, Apple and Google take a bite out of RIM (the Blakcberry). All players lost share except Apple. More impressive is the performance of Google. I expect Google to continue to take more share of the smartphone market. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older, as well as the most popular forms of content and activity accessed via mobile device. The report found Motorola to be the top handset manufacturer with 23.5 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 41.6 percent

The comic business is estimated to be a $1 billion business annually but it's one of the few media forms that hasn't yet fully transitioned to the digital world. That may change with the coming influx of Apple iPads and sexy new eReaders, as I report in this week's New Media Minute. The business of digital comics is also one TV networks are already starting to leverage, including Starz, which created a motion comic for its popular new original TV series Spartacus. For more details, check out this week's New Media Minute below.  

News was broke by the Wall Street Journal yesterday that Juniper is announcing will begin selling new wireless products for mobile carriers, responding to bigger rival Cisco Systems recent acquisition of Starent - of which I was critical. According to Reuters news, Juniper said on Monday its new software includes Juniper Traffic Direct which, used together with its MX 3D routers, can help mobile carriers reduce network congestion and infrastructure costs. Another software product, Juniper Media Flow, will be targeted specifically at helping wireless carriers deliver applications like video and music, the company said, adding that they will be available from the second quarter. Kim Perdikou, executive vice president and general manage

Simon Crosby CTO of Citrix Interview on Cloud and VMWare. Simon Crosby talked with me recently about the cloud and his views on VMWare. Specifically I asked him his views on VMWare. Simon knows what he's talking about and is not afraid to speak his mind. Here is the entire conversation. You can download the MP3 or listen via the embedded player below. Enjoy the conversation. I know that I did. Select notes from my conversation with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby Talk about Citrix as compared to VMWare Most people think of virtualization as hypervisor based virtualization. From Citrix’s perspective this is only one aspect of Citrix’s view of virtualization. Citrix is an application delivery company and having a set of tools of which f

The big mobile news today is that Mobclix has entered an exclusive deal with Nielsen to help with their analytics.  What does that mean?  The story has been long on extensive product details, which were most succinctly described by Colin Gibbs over at GigaOM: Mobclix has struck a deal to integrate Nielsen’s ad targeting data into its mobile ad exchange, the two announced today, the latest effort to deliver highly targeted mobile ads. The pact allows Mobclix to resell Nielsen’s PRIZM and ConneXions products, which slot consumers into more than 150 segments based on lifestyle and usage patterns. Marketers will be able to target pitches based on a user’s age and gender as well as location, spending power and tech savviness

Each year at CES, queues for taxis, coffee, and lunch always seem to take a month, particularly during the first two days of the show. Pretend it’s still CES…it’s been a long month.  As Editor Rizzn says, you don’t read us for quick snippets, you read us for analysis.  Maybe even insight, at least occasionally. When we left off four weeks ago, I’d just broken the news that magicJack was stirring up the telecom market once again, with the announcement of their forthcoming femtocell, which I (and now most others) call the “femtojack”.  After Dan’s team published their release on the femtojack, I was inundated with a ton of technical and regulatory questions.  I’m not going to attempt to answer them here

Leo Laporte mentioned that anyone can test HTML5 video at http://youtube.com/html5 . I gave it a try and even though it didn't load any quicker, it played better. Right now it's in tests or beta mode so i couldn't go fullscreen. Still though it did work better than usual in the Chrome browser for Linux. Usually I disagree with Apple but i think this time i might owe them an apology. Technically you can view videos on youtube.com via the above link. I guess i should applaud them for being tech forward and waiting for something that hasn't hit the mainstream yet. What confused me was the relationship Apple has with Adobe. Honestly, the commercial content standard comes from Adobe and works its best on Apple products. Do you work on pho

SAP, the world's largest business software company, said Léo Apotheker has been replaced as CEO. The SAP Executive Board, in agreement with the SAP Supervisory Board, has appointed two Co-CEOs: Bill McDermott, head of field organization and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development, both already members of the SAP Executive Board. Dennis Howlett, on ZDNet, writes that Mr Apotheker's departure wasn't unexpected. But it was surprising that the company acted so soon. The choice of new leaders should not be surprising but hardly imaginative. In effect, SAP has chosen ‘last men standing’ rather than taking what some of us thought might be a bold move by appointing an outsider. SAP is headquartered in Germany

There is some exclusive rumor going around according to PPC Geeks Blog. PPCGeeks is reporting that the a Windows Phone 7 is coming - I call it the wPhone. Note: according to PPCGeeks all the information may not be entirely official, although it's definitely rumor worthy. It is not uncommon for vendors now to leak key news prior to big "noisy" events to get pre-buzz build up. Apple and Google do this all the time. I am a long time fan of Microoft from my old school days so I hope they can pull this off. However, many are questioning Microsoft. They don't reach out to us or anyone in techonlogy from my standpoint and have a very big negative brand image in technology. From my seat Microsoft is a joke. Will someone change my mi

The recent growth of the Iphone, Android (smartphones in general), and now the IPad has put enormous pressure on carriers and bandwidth - the networks.  As the world has come to experience, the mobile web is amazing.  Whether checking Facebook, email, or contacting business and family members, it's a great utility. Here's the problem: the networks are melting under extreme pressure.  Let me explain - the networks that are running this "New Robust Mobile Network" were engineered for cellular phone calls only.  All of these smartphones are running both voice and data now.  5-8 years ago they only were built for voice.  Data requires more frequency.  Some say that a data connection (using iPhone, email etc) is the equivalent to makin