Why Apple, Google and Samsung want Blackberry to succeed (and other thoughts...
21 February 2013 – My favorite event of the year starts this coming Monday, February 25th and runs for 4 full days: The Mobile World Congress (MWC) which is run by the ever brilliant GSMA...
View ArticlePorque Apple, Google y Samsung apuestan al éxito de BlackBerry (ideas previas...
Publicado desde el Mobile World Congress 2013 en Barcelona, España. 21 De febrero de 2013 – Uno de mis eventos favoritos del año tendrá lugar entre el 25 y 28 de febrero: El Mobile World Congress...
View ArticleLive from the Mobile World Congress: Samsung announces technology to assist...
26 February 2013 – Samsung’s mission? Easy. It wants to be the Android vendor that corporate enterprises can trust. At the Mobile World Congress yesterday Samsung announced it was further...
View ArticleThe Apple – Samsung psychological gamesmanship
Full disclosure: I am long both Apple and Samsung 15 March 2013 – With an Apple-like buzz from the media and consumers themselves, Samsung unveiled its new flagship smartphone yesterday, the...
View ArticlePutting the Apple conundrum in perspective
23 April 2013 - In the last quarter of 2012, half of all phones sold on earth were smartphones. Of the rest, a quarter were sold to people with very low incomes, who can only afford $10-$20 for a...
View ArticleSamsung launches its first developers conference, and faces a daunting task
By: Eric De Grasse, Chief Technology Officer 28 October 2013 – Samsung. Probably the world’s biggest device maker. On Friday the company said its net profit jumped 26% in the most recent quarter...
View ArticleIDC report shows competition amongst smartphone global players pushes launch...
4 December 2013 – A recent IDC report shows competition amongst smartphone global players has pushed the launch of greater numbers of low-priced smartphones … except in North America. Smartphone...
View ArticleApple vs. Samsung! The free cash flow “Clash of the Titans”!
10 December 2013 – Over the weekend I started prepping for the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the “Mother of All Mobile Events”, held in Barcelona, Spain, where EAM Capital now has an office. Paris...
View ArticleA brilliant 2013 for science and technology. Ok, maybe not smartphones.
If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again. ~ Groucho Marx 29 December 2013 — During 2013 it seemed scientific discoveries were being made every day that...
View ArticleSamsung paid Microsoft $1 Billion last year for Android royalty … and such...
4 October 2014 - In a glimpse of the financial stakes in the smartphone-patent wars, Microsoft said yesterday that Samsung Electronics paid the software giant more than $1 billion for an annual fee...
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