Symbian Now Officially No Longer Under The Wing Of Nokia, 2,300 Jobs Go
Another loose end being tied up by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today. The company announced that Accenture has now fully taken over Symbian, the opera… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Kindle Fire is hot according to social media
In the months leading up to the press conference earlier this week, speculation about the prospects for Amazon’s new tablet reached a crescendo. Would the new tablet be a worthy competitor? Dr. Phil Hendrix of immr and R. Paul Singh of SocialNuggets weigh in. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-30-11
» Facebook Pushes Back Against ‘Super-Cookie’ Charges (paidContent)
» Is Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Really Shaking In Its Sho… Read more at paidContent »
Samsung Offers Apple A Secret Compromise, Sign Of A Truce Ahead?
Samsung — which has had to delay the launch of its much-anticipated Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia because of its ongoing patent dispute with… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Amazon Wants To Buy WebOS; That Could Mean Kindle Phones, PCs Too
HP’s WebOS is up in the air and we now have a new player that apparently wants to catch it: Amazon, the upstart etailer that come to dominat… Read more at paidContent »
Does the world need another mobile OS?
The race in mobile has defaulted to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems, but that hasn’t stopped Samsung from thinking about open-sourcing Bada, or Microsoft from pushing ahead with Windows Phone 7 and a partnership with Nokia. But do we need another mobile OS? Read more »
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus boasts Honeycomb, dual-core CPU
Samsung officially announced the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, saying the 7-inch Android tablet will initially launch in Austria and Indonesia, but later expand to the U.S. and other regions. Some of the hardware upgrades appeal, but a key issue remains: selling tablets with lengthy contracts. Read more »
Video look at AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II
AT&T will make the Samsung Galaxy S II available Sunday, October 2 for $199 after contract, but there’s no need to wait until then to see it. I’ve used a review unit of this Google Android smartphone for several days and have a brief video overview. Read more »
Is Apple Really Shaking In Its Shoes About Samsung’s Android Galaxy Tab?
In the ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), neither side has been willing to flinch. But in the courtroom in Sydney,… Read more at paidContent »
More Detail (Or Guesswork) On Microsoft’s Patent Payout: $444 Million/Year
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the device makers that have entered into patent licensing agreements with it over the Android platform have so fa… Read more at paidContent »
3/4 of iOS and Android apps don’t connect to a backend
Mobile backend provider Kinvey found 73 percent of iOS and Android apps are basically static and don’t connect to a backend. IOS apps fare better with 35 percent of apps connecting to cloud backends while 18 percent of Android apps connect to these services. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-29-11
» The Key To The Kindle Fire: It’s Not Taking On Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Directly (paidContent)
» Murdoch’s ‘Daily’ Has 12… Read more at paidContent »
Mobile app usage: active all day, spikes in prime time
Just like TV, mobile usage is highest during prime time, peaking at 9 p.m., according to Flurry. But just as important is the fact that mobile app use is relatively higher throughout the day than both Internet and TV, only eclipsed by TV in prime time. Read more »
Hotel Tonight looks beyond biz travelers to vacations
The iPhone and Android app that helps you find day-of deals on hotels is expanding from a small number of major cities to last-minute vacation destinations. Hotel Tonight, currently in 23 major markets, is announcing 14 new, smaller markets where it will offer curated day-of deals. Read more »
Twitvid raises $6.5M to boost video on Twitter
Twitvid has raised a Series B of $6.5 million and plans to use the money to hire more people and build out its infrastructure. The company has managed to stick around while others gave up. But can it compete with a likely video play from Twitter? Read more »
Samsung shows lack of confidence in Google
Samsung on Wednesday became the latest and most high-profile Android licensee to agree to pay royalties to Redmond. But the deal may not be so much “extortion” — as Google quickly labeled it — as Samsung’s lack of trust and confidence in Google. Read more »
Hipmunk comes to Android with a surprisingly slick app
Hipmunk, the San Francisco-based travel search startup, has finally brought its travel search application to the Android operating system. Hipmunk for Android, which for now only facilitates flight searches, is impressive because it retains all the slickness of the company’s web and iOS offerings. Read more »
DOJ Puts Google/Motorola On Hold With Request For More Info
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will renew some old acquaintances at the U.S. Department of Justice before its Motorola (NYSE: MMI) deal is allowed to p… Read more at paidContent »
The Key To The Kindle Fire: It’s Not Taking On Apple Directly
To this point, the companies that have tried to challenge Apple’s dominance of the tablet market have failed in head-to-head comparisons whe… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Microsoft Lands Big Android Licensee In Samsung, Google Cries Foul
We may not know how much revenue Google (NSDQ: GOOG) makes from Android, but we can say that at least one other company — a competitor — i… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Has Fanboys But This Is Crazy: 41 Percent Of Users To Buy iPhone 5?
Has iPhone hype gone into the stratosphere or is this just a ploy to get a company’s name into the press? A new survey claims to have found… Read more at paidContent »
iPhone 5 could lure more than half of BlackBerry owners
Apple could win significant market share from competitors with an iPhone 5, according to a new report. A new smartphone survey found that 52 percent of BlackBerry customers–along with more than a quarter Android device owners–plan to switch to iPhone. Read more »
Tizen: Can Intel And Samsung’s New OS Project Fly Where MeeGo Did Not?
Yesterday, we wrote that Intel was reportedly looking to take its MeeGo OS project into a new stage of collaboration post-Nokia’s move to Wi… Read more at paidContent »
Major Android Vendors Line Up Behind Isis Mobile Payments Venture
Major names in the mobile industry continue to line up behind mobile-payments strategies, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may be perturbed to see a… Read more at paidContent »
The 3 don’ts of high-engagement apps
At the Tuesday afternoon Mobilize panel on how to keep people coming back to your mobile app, panelists from a variety of services like Hipmunk, Formspring, ngmoco and Yahoo agreed that there were three things you should avoid doing if you want to create high-engagement apps. Read more »
Don’t Count MeeGo Out Yet: Report Says Samsung, Others To Join Intel
Update: Our story on the new venture led by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) and Samsung, Tizen, is here. Original post from Tuesday follows below.
On th… Read more at paidContent »
VMware wants hypervisor hooked into Android kernel
At Mobilize, VMware CTO Steve Herrod laid out a mobile plan that reeks of success on par with what VMware has achieved in server virtualization. The trick to accomplishing that might be VMware’s quest to make its hypervisor technology a part of the core Android kernel. Read more »
Google Picks Inrix For Mapping Realtime Data
Location, location, location: it’s the time-honored mantra of real-estate agents and retailers, but could just as well be applied to Google… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 09-27-11
» Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet A ‘Stopgap’ Design, Publishers Line Up (paidContent)
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Gains Dream… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Dips On The Back Of JPMorgan’s Back And Forth On iPad Production
Here’s one of those instances that makes you wonder about where investment analysts get their information, and what their agendas might be b… Read more at paidContent »
Nokia Ships Its Lone MeeGo Sailor, The N9
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be hard at work right now trying to ensure that its first Windows Phone devices are beautiful and perfect when the go… Read more at paidContent »
Why Mobile Payments Might Still Be A Few Years Away In A Few Years
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment a… Read more at paidContent »
More than 1/3 of U.S. Android phones run on 4G
A new study by analytics firm Localytics found that 36.6 percent of U.S. Android devices in the third quarter offer 4G. That could set up an interesting comparison with the next iPhone if it doesn’t support 4G, though it may not affect iPhone sales. Read more »
Reports: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet A ‘Stopgap’ Design, Publishers Line Up
Amazon’s long-awaited Android tablet appears to be just two days away from making its first public appearance, and a few details trickled ou… Read more at paidContent »
T-Mobile’s Android Party Continues With New Samsung, HTC 4G Devices
T-Mobile took the wraps off two new Android smartphones Monday designed for its fastest mobile network, promising download speeds akin to th… Read more at paidContent »
Nielsen: U.S. Smartphone Shoppers Choosing Android As iPhone 5 Looms
There were few surprises in the latest report from Nielsen on the mobile device market: Android continues to do well in the U.S. at the expe… Read more at paidContent »
iPads the gateway drug for college data usage
Data is in demand on college campuses, and it’s putting a strain on shared school networks. The iPad is partly to blame, according to University of Missouri-Columbia IT director Terry Robb, but it’s mostly acting as a gateway drug for the real culprit: online video. Read more »
Pulse Goes Native On Windows Phone In Reader Landgrab (Plus Interview)
Flipboard may have raised $60 million and counting, and Zite may have just been bought by CNN, but another popular reading app, Pulse, sees… Read more at paidContent »
T-Mobile intros first 42 Mbps smartphones and hotspot
T-Mobile announced its first two smartphones capable of fully utilizing the operator’s 42 Mbps mobile broadband network. The carrier’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S II and the HTC Amaze 4G were introduced along with a new 42 Mbps MiFi, the T-Mobile Sonic 4G Mobile Hotspot. Read more »
For smartphones it’s about the apps, stupid
The only constant in the hot tablet and smartphone market remains change. The top 50 Android apps take up to 65 percent of users’ time but eleven of the top 50 swapped out in the past three months, Neilsen’s Jonathan Carson told Mobilize 2011 attendees. Read more »
