Don Reisinger

Enhanced Mobile Graphics Mobile gaming is becoming a huge market opportunity for developers. And that’s largely due to enhanced mobile graphics technologies from companies like Nvidia. At CES, several devices will likely be on display showing how far mobile graphics have come over the last several months. An Ode to Android Android will be everywhere […]

Apple Maps is a problem for the iPhone maker. The application, which showed up in iOS 6 and was designed to replace Google Maps, was expected to give users the kind of reliability and innovative experience that customers have come to expect from Apple products. Instead, applications hit the market with a wide array of […]

Apple had a hugely successful 2012. The company watched its iPhone and iPad sales soar, and its Macs gained more ground on Windows PCs than they had in previous years. Meanwhile, Apple’s revenue and profits soared, its stock price hit an all-time high, and it became the world’s most valuable company. As if that wasn’t […]

Figuring Out Maps The Apple Maps app continues to be a major thorn in Apple’s side. The application wasn’t ready when it launched with iOS 6, and now with Google Maps hitting 10 million downloads in just a week of availability in the App Store, Apple’s failure with this application is looking even worse. Next […]

Microsoft had a tough year. The software giant launched two major operating systems—Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8—and was constantly battling with Google over applications and services on the Web. However, those efforts proved fruitless as these products have yet to show that they are going to produce new large scale growth in their respective […]

Google announced on Dec. 19 that it has signed a deal with Arris to sell off its Motorola Home set-top box business in a deal valued at $2.3 billion. The deal includes a little over $2 billion in cash, as well as $300 million in Arris stock, giving Google about 15 percent ownership in that […]

Research In Motion It’s hard to find a single silver lining in Research In Motion’s 2012. The company watched its market share dwindle and losses pile up. In the meantime, RIM had to delay the release of BlackBerry 10, the operating system that will supposedly save its ailing business, until January 2013. It was bad […]

Instagram is in some hot water over changes the company recently announced to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Although the photo-sharing company, which was acquired by Facebook for approximately $1 billion, says that its users own their own images, the terms left it open for the service to sell photos. As one might […]

Despite getting kicked out of iOS, Google Maps is still wildly popular on the mobile platform. After one week in the App Store, Google Maps has already hit 10 million downloads, making it the most popular free program available in that marketplace. This news comes as Google and Apple intensify their battle for mobile market […]

Microsoft’s Surface tablet is now available to Best Buy customers. The move is viewed by analysts and Microsoft as an important one. As with other tablets, the more places the Surface is available, the better. Best Buy, the top surviving brick-and-mortar electronics retailer in the United States, is an important part of pushing more sales […]

iPhone 5 Demand in China Apple launched the iPhone 5 in China and already there are reports of things not going so well for the company. In fact, many stores at the end of the day still had some stock available. That could be due to Apple only offering the iPhone 5 on China Unicom […]

After being ousted from iOS 6 earlier this year, Google Maps has made a comeback on the platform. However, Apple hasn’t thrown in the towel and brought Google’s mobile mapping application back as a standard application on the iPhone. Instead, iOS users looking for something a bit better will find it in Apple’s App Store, […]