NPD: Apple iPhone 3G is #1 smartphone in U.S.; AT&T big beneficiary

A $6 million judgment against Cisco Systems (NSDQ:CSCO) in which a jury found that the networking vendor violated its reseller agreement and deal registration program with a small solution provider has other VARs wondering how this might impact their relationships with Cisco and other vendors. Now Cisco is ready to talk about the case, in which it was successfully sued by a former solution provider,...

The jury in the cross-lawsuits trial between Cisco (NSDQ:CSCO) and a former Cisco solution provider has awarded the VAR damages of more than $6 million. The jury found that Cisco violated its reseller agreement and deal registration agreement with the solution provider, Infra-Comm, by cutting it out of a registered deal in favor of another VAR, which significantly harmed Infra-Comm's...

Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) is dominating the headlines this week with its new MacBook line and first sub-$1,000 MacBook, but Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) insists that PC notebooks still give consumers far more bang for their buck. In an apparent bid to stifle the buzz around the new MacBooks, Microsoft has published a chart with the headline "After the Mac Refresh ... PCs are STILL a better value"....

Mobile platforms have exceeded laptops and other consumer devices as the primary form of communication devices and Internet access. Market for high end PDAs remain untapped and  new entrants with proper business models can take advantage of this opportunity. Google definitely has an opportunity to become a major player with G1 and its ecosystem.

Apple’s iPhone has set a new standard in smartphones and mobile entertainment devices.  The mobile industry will spend the next few years digesting the new paradigm Apple and others have helped usher in.  The clear winner will be mobile consumers who will benefit from improved mobile devices and a better user experience.

You Can Touch This Touch screen devices have become all the rage. They're pretty, offer a wide screen and pack enough high-speed connectivity to download content in a flash. Research In Motion (RIM) Ltd. this week joined the touch-screen party with the BlackBerry Storm. But the Storm is in elite company, with the recently announced Google Android-based T-Mobile G1 and the touch-screen...

Thirty percent of U.S. consumers who purchased the Apple iPhone 3G ditched their previous wireless carrier to go with AT&T, the iPhone's exclusive stateside carrier, according to a new report from the NPD Group. In the report, NPD Group, a wireless market research firm, said carrier defectors made the leap from June through August 2008. The iPhone 3G was released in mid-July.

The penetration of the new iPhone is truly a fabulous marketing achievement.  The scale of impact could have been exponentially more had it also had the ties to the dominant corporate email platform of Exchange and Notes with the push capability of RIM. This reminds me of the impact of the Palm on business before it became a smartphone where business people carried a phone and a Palm. ...

Actually both Apple and ATT win in this game, with Apple exceeding the 10 million phone mark already.