This Google office has a real fireman’s pole, slide, cattle walkway, and more (gallery)

May 8, 2013 12:14 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Nap rooms are so 2000s. Massage rooms are a dime a dozen. And the in-office gym has been around since at least the 90s. So if you want to up the ante, attract the best talent, and have the most brag-worthy office in the world, you need more.

In death, BlackBerry gives life to startups in southern Ontario

April 30, 2013 8:29 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Best known, perhaps, for being the headquarters of BlackBerry, Waterloo is a small suburb of Toronto with a population of 98,000 in which 500 startups were born in 2012.

Global apps report: Google has 51% of downloads, Apple has 74% of revenues

April 9, 2013 9:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

We downloaded 13.4 billion apps in the first three months of 2013, spending $2.2 billion U.S. on apps and in-app purchases.

Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81% … and Windows Phone up a massive 52%

April 1, 2013 2:22 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The mobile operating system market share numbers are in for Kantar Worldpanel's last quarter, and the numbers are shocking.

Uber expands ‘uberverse’ with new Android, Blackberry, Windows apps

March 25, 2013 11:02 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Uber's new app releases will help expand its user base and continue disrupting the taxi industry around the world.

Apple will take 65% of the global $25 billion app economy in 2013, analyst says

March 12, 2013 8:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The global app economy will reach $25 billion this year, according to new data from ABI Research. Thirty-five percent of that, or $8.8 billion, will be tablet apps, and 65 percent -- 16.4 billion -- will be smartphone apps.

5,000 developers say HTML5 is real, it’s now, and yeah, it’s also the future

February 26, 2013 6:01 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Only 15 percent of developers would go native-only when building an app for multiple platforms.

Mall of America ditches BlackBerry for the Nokia Lumia 920

February 21, 2013 10:49 AM Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton

Spelling more bad news for BlackBerry, The Mall of America has picked Nokia's Lumia 920 as its phone of choice.

Xamarin debuts iOS and Android app development inside Visual Studio for C# programmers

February 20, 2013 6:04 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad ... and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development environment, Visual Studio.

RIM’s old CEO is so impressed with BB10 that he dumped all of his 26.8M shares in the company

February 14, 2013 10:27 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Balsillie's 26.8 million shares of common stock amounted to a 5.1 percent stake in the company. At one point -- literally in the days right after the first iPhone launched -- that much stock was worth around $6 billion. But, oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Ouch: Samsung beats out Apple in customer loyalty for the first time … and so does Amazon

February 5, 2013 4:02 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

"It's not terrible to be number two," Passikof said. "But in both cases I think consumers are looking for higher degrees of innovation. It was only after Samsung and other companies came out with smaller tablets that Apple brought out the iPad mini. It was only in reaction."

The DeanBeat: Does it make sense for game developers to publish on the doomed BlackBerry?

February 1, 2013 8:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

BlackBerry is in a long decline, but does it make sense to make games for its smartphones?

How not to do PR, 101: BlackBerry exec absolutely refuses to acknowledge iPhone’s existence

January 30, 2013 2:51 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The British are such beautiful bastards.

BlackBerry’s web store finally gets music, TV shows & movies

January 30, 2013 7:40 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

In addition to today's BlackBerry World event, BlackBerry users are finally getting a chance to buy digital media like those that swear their allegiance to other mobile devices.

BlackBerry 10 kicks off with Z10, Q10 smartphones

January 30, 2013 7:07 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Editor's Pick Research in Motion renamed itself as just BlackBerry, introduced the first BlackBerry 10 phones, and trotted out singer Alicia Keys as its new "global creative director." It was a big press event for the struggling mobile phone maker.

Android captured almost 70% global smartphone market share in 2012, Apple just under 20%

January 28, 2013 2:52 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Apple may be winning the smartphone battle stateside, but Android is winning the global smartphone war being fought all over the world.