Mobile-watchers debate the merits of a sale to Google, Microsoft, or Samsung. Or does RIM need a buyout at all?

The past few months have not been kind to Research In Motion. On August 5, Eric Jackson of Ironfire Capital predicted that the company would need a buyout by early 2013. Since that time, the company’s [...]

The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 imbues cellphones with grey cells, great sound and good looks.
IT USED to be tough to find a Windows mobile phone worth recommending. At the best of times, they were a little behind the competition. And at the worst of times, they were clunky and difficult to use.
But that has all [...]

According to the latest report from mobile phone market research firm Gartner, analyst Ken Dulaney believes that the open source Android OS will be the second most used smartphone OS by 2012, surpassing Apple, Microsoft, and RIM mobile operating systems.
Android currently controls under 3 percent of the market but Dulaney says that number should [...]