Apple has won perhaps the most prominent victory in its multiyear battle over mobile patents: it has convinced a U.S. District Court judge to slap an injunction on sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets in the U.S. pending further review of the patent claims between […] Read more »
The lightweight mobile or web application is the computing product of our time: users demand access to key resources while on the move. But the intense pressure on mobile developers requires solid tools to get the job done, and that’s what OneOps hopes to deploy. Read more »
An outspoken Chicago judge has dismissed Apple’s patent claims against Motorola “with prejudice.” Apple can appeal, but the decision is a blow to its hopes of arguing that Motorola infringed on patents held by Apple for key smartphone technologies with its embrace of Google’s Android software. Read more »
Everybody likes a good technology debate: Mac vs. PC, Android vs. iOS, Larry Ellison vs. the world. On Thursday panelists at GigaOM Structure turned their attention to the world of databases: SQL or NoSQL? Read more »
It’s clear the cloud has arrived: but what impact will it continue to make on tech companies that help businesses across the world continue to reap the benefits of this historic shift? Today and tomorrow at Structure 2012, we’ll host a discussion about these vital issues, Read more »
Apple didn’t disappoint during its annual conference for software developers on Monday, unveiling a meaty new update to iOS, new MacBooks including a brand-new category of MacBook Pro, and a few new tidbits about Mac OS X Mountain Lion at the 2012 Worldwide Developer’s Conference. Here’s […] Read more »
Google isn’t doing itself any favors if it was trying to deflect attention away from a potential change in Apple’s mobile mapping strategy. Ahead of reports that Apple will dump Google Maps on the iPhone next week, the company introduced some minor upgrades and dodged questions. Read more »
You don’t make the decision to wind down a 130-year-old business without a little bit of angst, said Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson, reflecting on his company’s decision to end a joint partnership with Sony last year in a GigaOM interview Tuesday. Read more »
Google’s Susan Wojcicki defended the search giant Thursday against the newest claims from the content industry that it has amassed a fortune partly on the back of pirated content, made the previous night by “superagent” Ari Emanuel at the D: All Things Digital conference. “I think […] Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission is taking a close look at the use of “standards essential” patents in the smartphone patent wars, Chairman Jon Liebowitz said Thursday, implying that the use of those patents in a quest seeking an injunction is troubling to the agency. Read more »
It took Spotify seemingly forever to launch in the U.S. after making its debut in Europe, and while the licensing discussions were complicated, Apple played a role in holding up Spotify’s U.S. entrance, according to company backer Sean Parker. Read more »
It’s the question that has dogged Facebook and likely contributed to its IPO fiasco: does Facebook have a mobile problem? New data shows that it does: but then so does every Internet company trying to figure out how to make money in the mobile landgrab. Read more »
There are very few analysts who make the tech industry stop and listen. Mary Meeker is one of those analysts, and on Wednesday she delivered one of her trademark presentations touching on the global economy, the mobile opportunity, and Facebook’s unprecedented IPO. Read more »
It’s an impossible act to follow. No, not the gospel choir and high-school marching band that preceded Apple CEO Tim Cook’s appearance at D: All Things Digital. Rather, it’s the legend of Steve Jobs that Cook will be forced to confront in nearly every public appearance […] Read more »
It can be a scary world out there for modern media companies, but it’s actually very simple, according to Conde Nast president Bob Sauerberg. “If content is going to remain king, we have got to innovate,” Sauerberg said Wednesday at paidContent 2012, urging attendees to spend […] Read more at paidContent »
Google may be rethinking its Nexus Android strategy in a big way and addressing two major concerns about the evolution of the software: its proposed deal with Motorola and the slow pace of software updates for Android phones. Read more »
The first part of Oracle and Google’s epic intellectual property battle ended in deadlock on Monday after jurors couldn’t decide whether Google improperly used code from Sun Microsystems’ Java in Google’s Android mobile operating system. According to several reporters tweeting live from San Francisco, jurors found […] Read more »
One of the biggest trials in the recent history of the tech industry is in full swing, as Oracle and Google debate whether or not Google improperly used technology from Oracle’s Java when developing Android. Here’s what happened during Week 2. Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives surprised the tech industry Thursday by voting on, and passing, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) after having originally scheduled a vote for Friday. The bill was amended several times prior to the final vote. Read more »
Is Apple Tim Cook finally weary of the stress and financial toll of maintaining mobile patent suits in courtrooms around the world? In perhaps his strongest public comments yet on the mobile patent disputes, Cook made his distate for litigation clear. Read more »
Apple is still on a roll. The company reported quarterly earnings Tuesday that surpassed Wall Street expectations thanks to stronger-than-expected iPhone sales and a huge increase in iPad sales. It sold 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads. Read more »
The mobile patent wars continue to drag on, with Motorola scoring a point Tuesday with a preliminary decision against Apple at the International Trade Commission. Apple was judged to have violated one of four Motorola patents with the iPhone, and if a six-judge panel agrees with […] Read more »
One of the biggest trials in the recent history of the tech industry is in full swing, as Oracle and Google argue whether or not Google improperly used technology from Oracle’s Java when developing Android. Here’s what has happened during the first week of the trial. Read more »
Microsoft has chosen the brand names under which it will sell Windows 8, the company’s most important product launch in a generation. It has smartly cut down on the number of versions but it has chosen to give its first ARM-friendly operating system a weird name. Read more »
On Monday, Google will get a chance to defend Android–the leading mobile operating system in the world, the linchpin of its mobile strategy and a lightning rod for criticism–in open court against those who charge Google has stolen its way into smartphones. A primer: Read more »
One year into the second coming of Larry Page, a lot has changed but one thing hasn’t: Google is still making boatloads of money off its core search product and still having to face questions about whether it is prepared for its world to change. Read more »
Google says it has fixed one of the biggest problems with its Currents mobile news reader app–glacial content syncing–while also rolling out to international publishers with a new update released Wednesday. That should improve its competitive position against apps like Flipboard and Zite. Read more »
Facebook’s stunning $1 billion acquisition of Instagram appears to be the largest deal ever for a company built entirely around a single mobile app experience, either proving that the mobile app business has truly arrived or that there’s a new bubble in town. Read more »
Facebook’s social-media prowess has allowed it to move into a stored Silicon Valley office building as it awaits the riches that will accompany a huge IPO around the corner. But Facebook wants more: it wants to be seen as a leader among mobile software developers. Read more »
Twitter hopes to make it safe to tweet about the iPad again. The company has filed a lawsuit against five companies that build tools for helping really annoying people spam Twitter users with shady offers and dangerous links. Read more »
Almost a year after Zite’s news reader app for the iPad drew the ire of several publishers — not to mention a few angry letters — the company is making friends with its former antagonists. Zite has now signed deals with eight publishers to create sections […] Read more »
What is it going to take for mobile payments to finally register in the mind of the consumer? Maybe it’s time to think about mobile shopping rather than mobile payments, panelists argued Tuesday at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Read more »
All this talk about how much money Google may or may not have made off of Android misses the point. Google’s decision to enter the mobile operating system battle wasn’t primarily about money — it was about ensuring competition in the next great personal computer market. Read more »
Groupon was forced to restate earnings results for its first quarter as a public company after discovering “material weakness” in its accounting controls, it said late Friday, forcing us to wonder if they used a Groupon for accounting services. Read more »
The year of denial is over at Research in Motion. In a frank and overdue conversation with investors Thursday, new CEO Thorsten Heins finally admitted that the situation was dire and that “substantial change” is needed. Does he have enough time to effect that change? Read more »
Research in Motion hasn’t had good news to report in an awfully long time, and that streak continued during its most recent quarter. RIM missed analyst targets for revenue, earnings per share, and BlackBerry shipments as it scrambles to stay relevant. Read more »
Mobile advertising’s best days are likely still off in the future, but that hasn’t stopped investors from snapping up shares of mobile ad firm Millennial Media on its first day as a public company, nearly doubling the company’s value in a few hours. Read more »
Nine days after monologist Mike Daisey was exposed as a fabulist, a man who manufactured personal stories about Apple’s supply chain in China in hopes of selling a message and theater tickets, he finally apologized for his actions. He once again left out a key detail. Read more »
The first folks who will get a chance to see if Research in Motion will be able to arrest its steep decline in the smartphone market will be software developers who attend its BlackBerry Jam conference in May. But what are they getting? Read more »
We’re walking around with sensors in our pockets: those of us carrying smartphones, anyway. As said at Structure:Data, there are huge opportunities for companies to improve existing services and create new ones with the huge amount of data provided by mobile computers. Read more »
