Bob Borchers thinks the mobile industry is ripe for opportunity and that it’s going through a transformation in terms of technologies. You may know Borchers as Apple’s sedate host for its online tours of the iPhone, but his career goes far beyond video demos of… Read More »
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As we enter the era of the app store, Apple is clearly the dominant player on the field. The company’s iTunes-based mobile application business generates an estimated $2.4 billion hundreds of millions of dollars a year. (According to AdMob, $200 million a month, though… Read More »
Ask Phil Asmundson what his duties are at Deloitte & Touche and be ready for an earful. As the vice chairman and national managing partner of Technology, Media & Entertainment and Telecommunications (TMT), Asmundson helps set the overall TMT strategy for the firm, advises clients… Read More »
The Android community got some big news this week, with Motorola announcing it will present its Android “portfolio” at our own Mobilize 09 conference on Sept. 10 in San Francisco. In the meantime, a new TV streaming app with advanced video playback features hit… Read More »
Twitter plans to launch a location-based feature that reveals the latitude and longitude from which an individual is tweeting, co-founder Biz Stone revealed in a blog post today, signaling that the micromessaging site wants to hop onto the hot location-based services trend (a topic… Read More »
With less than a month to go, we’re busy putting the final touches on Mobilize 09, our mobile Internet conference that will be held in San Francisco on Sept. 10. One feature of the event, the Startup LaunchPad, will see 10 mobile-focused startups get… Read More »
Funny how time flies — it’s already coming up on the first-year anniversary of our Mobilize conference. After a sell-out event last year, we are going to be hosting Mobilize 09 on Sept. 10 here in San Francisco. The event, which has attracted some of the Read More »
Google is looking to make future versions of its Android operating system more social, said Andy Rubin, one of its creators and Google’s vice president of engineering (platforms), at an event in San Francisco earlier this morning. The event was held with T-Mobile USA to… Read More »