Samsung Launching First Android 4.0 Tablet But At Old-School Prices
The Android 4.0 tablets are finally starting to arrive, and Samsung is ready to reveal its 7-inch Galaxy Tab with the latest and greatest ve… Read more at paidContent »
Charts: Platform Wars, App Stores And Ecosystems
Smartphone sales have overtaken PC, iPhone app spend is rising and Android is beset by fragmentation problems, this visual stat compendium b… Read more at paidContent »
Ringtones reborn: Just call them notifications now
Remember Crazy Frog? The bike-riding amphibian and his irritating, ubiquitous song symbolized the premium ringtone market a few years ago, before fading into obscurity. The frog has disappeared, but one startup thinks it has found a way to evolve the idea for the modern mobile user. Read more »
Google-Motorola Deal Could Be Approved Early Next Week
Google’s bid for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) is likely to get a thumbs up from the U.S. Department of Justice, but still could face opposition from… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Apple’s iPad 3 Set To Arrive In Early March
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It’s been almost a year since former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2, and according to a new report, the company pla… Read more at paidContent »
How Accenture Used A Mobile App To Get On The BBC
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When the consulting firm’s logo appeared routinely in Six Nations rugby broadcast graphics this weekend, James Cridland was amongst the view… Read more at paidContent »
Path Apologizes For Address-Book Data Snafu, Promises To Delete Data
Path, a company hoping to build a kinder, gentler social network based on sharing within a limited number of people, has apologized for a co… Read more at paidContent »
Keep It Fair: Apple, Google Address Concerns Over Mobile Patent Licensing
All is indeed fair in love and war, but not everything is fair in patent licensing. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are working o… Read more at paidContent »
Jersey Shore, Dora, iCarly To Amazon Prime Instant In Viacom Deal
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding its Prime Instant Video library in a deal with Viacom (NYSE: VIA), bringing the total number of streaming v… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more at paidContent »
Nokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read more at paidContent »
By The Numbers: NBC’s Super Bowl Streams
It’s not the record average of 111 million viewers who watched the game on television, but NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) says it notched a digital miles… Read more at paidContent »
Chrome, Meet Android: Google Releases Beta Version Of Chrome For Mobile OS
For years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) watchers have wondered why the company has used a unique browser on its Android software while maintaining a… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Promises A Crack Down On Those Who Manipulate App Store Rankings
It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Ap… Read more at paidContent »
RIM: App World Is Now At 60,000 Apps; 13 Percent Of Publishers Earn $100k+
Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, dela… Read more at paidContent »
IDC: Apple sold most smartphones in Q4, but Samsung wins 2011
Both Apple and Samsung have sold a historic amount of smartphones in the past year, and coming up with a tally of who sold more is harder than you’d think. But The NPD Group says they’ve done all the number crunching and have a winner. Read more »
ITC Said To Favor Barnes & Noble In Patent Dispute With Microsoft
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For the most part, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has found the mobile industry willing to bow to its patent-licensing strategy. Barnes & Noble (NYS… Read more at paidContent »
CoreMobile wants to cram a lot of apps on one screen
Combine the gargantuan information flows from the web and apps available to us everywhere with the small screen and processing power of a smartphone and you get a pretty evident bottleneck. Startup CoreMobile hopes to solve this with its enterprise software. Read more »
Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile
When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in… Read more at paidContent »
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Facebook’s IPO filing: ideas and implications
This report outlines the myriad issues at play in Facebook’s move, from examining how CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to rewire the world to understanding the company’s infrastructure dependency. But from every angle, it’s clear the effects will ripple throughout the startup and tech communities. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more at paidContent »
Social TV And The Super Bowl: When Will Marketers Start Really Spending?
In case you missed it, Super Bowl XLVI is forecast to be a watershed year for the second-screen concept, the quest to extend the television-… Read more at paidContent »
Was Google’s Disastrous January A Passing Storm Or Sign Of Things To Come?
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It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hop… Read more at paidContent »
Canalys: Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Overtake PC/Tablet Market
Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011,… Read more at paidContent »
U.S. Government Developing Android Phones, Promises Quick Software Updates
The U.S. government likes to do things its own way. Along those lines, it has decided to embrace Android as a smartphone platform for soldie… Read more at paidContent »
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing mass… Read more at paidContent »
Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Ge… Read more at paidContent »
Google Scanning Apps In Android Market For Malware To Improve Security
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has a dilemma when it comes to the Android Market: its permissive no-review-necessary policy means that anyone can write… Read more at paidContent »
Leak: Microsoft Planning NFC Support, Skype Integration In Windows Phone 8
Microsoft’s plan for Windows Phone 8–which appears to be moving in step with its overall Windows 8 launch strategy–has been leaked, and th… Read more at paidContent »
Survey: Kindle Fire Owners Happy With Their Purchase But Not iPad-Happy
Do Kindle Fire owners still like their devices now that they’ve had a few months to kick the tires? A new survey indicates that for the most… Read more at paidContent »
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CES 2012: a recap and analysis
This year’s CES was the biggest in the show’s 44-year history. It boasted 15 miles of exhibit hall aisles, 3,100 booths and 153,000 attendees. It is easy to be jaded by the endlessly repetitive products, but the thousands of innovations point toward a future of connectivity. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Flaregames And Tusjuegos Take Funds To Build And Sell Games
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Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more at paidContent »
Last-minute ticketing app WillCall opens doors to the public
WillCall is now available for download, with a few acts already lined up. The coolest part of WillCall — besides enabling poor planners and procrastinators of the world — is its attempt to capture the inherently social nature of concert-going within the app. Read more »
Living In A Smartphone World: Apple Number-Three Among ALL Mobile Players
It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position… Read more at paidContent »
2.7 Billion Daily Likes And Other Key Numbers From Facebook’s S-1
Facebook’s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of peopl… Read more at paidContent »
