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Mobile payment service Square has taken a stand against NFC touch technology in favor of its own card swipe and location-based services. But transatlantic rival iZettle says that it will remain agnostic as it tries to corner the European market. Read More »

Less than a year after it launched its photo-sharing app, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told attendees at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference that new users are signing up at a rate of 78 per minute, and 26 photos are being uploaded to the service every second. Read More »

 
 

Flipboard was created out of a desire to reinvent media consumption for a digital and tablet age, but that doesn’t mean it can’t help existing publications repair their damaged business models, editorial director Josh Quittner told attendees at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference in San Francisco on Monday. Read More »

The COO of mobile payment startup Square, Keith Rabois, thinks that the mobile payment technology Near Field Communications (NFC) has no value proposition for consumers and merchants, he said at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference on Monday. Read More »

Sprint's Stephen Bye at Mobilize 2011 avoiding my questions about the iPhone.

As the third place carrier in the U.S., Sprint — trailing AT&T and Verizon — can’t really compete on scale. Instead it’s got to embrace new technology, it’s so-called “dumb pipe” status (as Stacey Higginbotham described it), and partnerships, explained Sprint CTO Stephen Bye at GigaOM’s… Read More »

T-Mobile is still waiting for a phone call from Apple, which means that the iPhone 5 definitely won’t be available on the carrier’s network when it’s expected to launch in October. However, T-Mobile is making good business with Android phones, including the new Galaxy S II. Read More »

Voice is in the process of transitioning from providing the bulk of phone companies’ profits to becoming just another part of a data service that can be provided by web players, explained execs from voice-focused startups at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference in San Francisco on Monday. Read More »

Pandora jailbroke an iPhone to get an early start on development for Apple’s iOS platform, the company’s CTO Tom Conrad revealed at Mobilize 2011 on Monday. These days, Conrad is equally excited about HTML5 and the impact it will have on connected devices. Read More »

Mobilize 2011 live coverage

Our annual mobile internet event, Mobilize, is happening Monday, September 26, and Tuesday, September 27. Watch the livestream here to find out what industry leaders think about the state of the app economy, HTML5, mobile payments, networks and more. The livestream starts at 8:25 Monday. Read More »

Nicholas Negroponte and Weili Dai of One Laptop Per Child take the stage for the Mobilize 2010 Keynote to discuss One Laptop Per Child, the future of the tablet, and what connectivity is doing to bring about change for children in developing nations. Read More »

Announcing the Mobilize Launchpad Finalists!

Can I get a drumroll please? Or maybe just the trill of a thousand ringtones to celebrate the selection of our Mobilize 2010 Launchpad finalists? GigaOM helps cut through the hype to present 10 companies we think have interesting products and ideas in the mobile space. Read More »

Mobilize: The Mobile Startups LaunchPad

To cap off a great Mobilize 09 event, we’ve gathered 10 of the coolest new startups in the mobile space. They each get a few minutes to present, and then a thorough vetting from our judges: Eric Zimits, managing director of Granite Ventures; Quinn Li,… Read More »

More Must Reads

The concept of attention is fascinating, Bernardo Huberman, senior HP fellow and director of HP Labs’ Social Computing Laboratory, said at Mobilize 09 today. To that effect, Huberman mentioned a couple of Labs products that he’s been working on that came out of research on… Read More »

INQ plans to release an Android-based phone by next year, company CEO Frank Meehan revealed, joining a small — yet growing — group of handset makers building phones on top of the Google mobile OS platform, including Motorola and HTC. Meehan told Om that… Read More »

When asked for takeaways about mobile design, five user experience experts had this to say on a panel at Mobilize 09: Prashant Agarwal, Managing Director, Fjord New York, Fjord: While understanding of mobile interaction has improved dramatically, display sizes are not keeping up. The big visual design… Read More »

It’s a less glamorous topic than the flashy unveiling of Motorola’s first Android phone, the Cliq, but the reality behind what makes devices like the Cliq possible is the high-speed network that connects it. Rick Keith, senior director of Strategy for Broadband Access Solutions at… Read More »

Following Motorola Co-CEO Sanjay Jha’s presentation at Mobilize of the new Moto phone Cliq and Android-powered OS MotoBlur, Jha paused amidst a papparazzi-like onslaught of attention for his new phone for a lively on-stage discussion about the big picture with Google VP Engineering Andy Rubin… Read More »

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