Two Tracks For Digital Music: Aspiro White Label Deal; 7digital Tablet App
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Builds Up Kindle Fire Content With Disney-ABC Deal
In last week’s earnings call, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) said it will continue to push hard into streaming video. Now, in a new licensing deal with… Read more at paidContent »
More Flip Flopping From HP? Todd Bradley Says WebOS Closure Is Just A Rumor
HP (NYSE: HPQ) may have resolved one major item on its agenda when it announced last week it would hold on to its PC division; but now it se… Read more at paidContent »
This is why Apple needs China
China Telecom, the No. 3 player in the Chinese mobile market, has managed to add 9 million subscribers in the third quarter and 26.4 million so far this year. No wonder mobile players such as Apple (AAPL) are so eager to get into the market. Read more »
Report: Yahoo, Google Set To Muscle Into Crowded Tablet News Reader Space
How do you know when a phenomenon like tablet news-reader applications has staying power? When the big guys jump in; and according to a repo… Read more at paidContent »
HP To Hold On To PC Division But Sources Say It Will Finally Kill WebOS
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is to keep its PC division rather than selling it off, the company has announced, reversing a plan first aired b… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 10-26-11
» The Challenges That Lie Ahead For Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) (paidContent)
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Kids with smartphones: What’s the right age?
The majority of parents in a recent survey find that age 16 is about the right time for kids to have a smartphone. Standard cell phones are OK at a younger age; that makes sense as households dump landlines and kids are talking more to friends. Read more »
Getting to multi-gigabit wireless. Yes gigabit!
Sure, Sprint will deliver LTE-Advanced in 2013, a standard that can offer gigabit speeds on fixed networks, but Samsung is talking about ways we can get multi-gigabit wireless networks. These are wireless networks that are faster than today’s wired ones. Read more »
Amazon Expects ‘Record Quarter’ For Device Sales, Continues Push Into Video
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) definitely didn’t break out Kindle Fire pre-order numbers in the investor call following today’s earnings report, but CF… Read more at paidContent »
Platform Wars: Internet Video Vs. TV
There’s battle lines being drawn. Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong. Young people speaking their minds, Getting so much resistance from be… Read more at paidContent »
Survey: U.S. Tablet News Junkies Prefer Web To Apps, Few Have Paid
Tablet owners read a lot of news, in part because the early-adopter crowd that has embraced tablets are the type of people who like to be in… Read more at paidContent »
‘App gap’ emerges highlighting savvy mobile children
You’ve heard of the digital divide, but how about the app gap? A new study found there is a growing rift between the children from wealthier families who spend more time involved in mobile apps designed for children and lower income children who watch more TV. Read more »
Here’s How Social Reading Might Actually Work
Many community-based reading apps rely on the readers to get the conversation started. That’s great if your Facebook friends are sparkling l… Read more at paidContent »
Metro Hails Newsstand For Strong Downloads, High Engagement
UK free commuter newspaper Metro’s new iPad Newsstand edition has proved almost as popular within two weeks of launch as its predecessor had… Read more at paidContent »
Good news and bad news for tablets and media
A new report on tablet usage found that more than half of those surveyed use their devices to read the news, and they are reading more than they used to — but many of the sources they are using are non-traditional, and few are willing to pay. Read more »
Thanks to iPad, tablets outsell netbooks nearly 2 to 1
Tablets are doing well compared to at least one device they seem perfectly poised to replace. According to a new study by ABI Research, led by the iPad, tablet devices are now outselling netbooks by a ratio of almost two to one. Read more »
More tablets means video hogs even more bandwidth
Time for mobile operators to hit the panic button — mobile video use is increasing across their networks and users are choosing to watch higher resolution clips when they sit down for a video-watching session. New data from Bytemobile sheds some light on how video swamps networks. Read more »
Does Apple CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android?
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We now know when new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook is going to have his first “What would Steve do?” moment. Early accounts of a greatly a… Read more at paidContent »
Android this week: Nexus Prime launches; tablet sales data; Android 4.0 arrives
Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus was finally introduced, but two hardware components have enthusiasts disappointed. Along with the new phone is Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s new platform to unify smartphones and tablets; the latter of which may not be selling as well as some think. Read more »
New Feature From Zite Wonders How Many People Share Tablets
There’s little doubt that tablets are changing the concept of personal computing, but we’re still learning quite a bit about exactly how tha… Read more at paidContent »
Guardian Counts 145,880 Free iPad Downloads, But Will Readers Pay For It?
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The Guardian’s debut iPad edition has been downloaded 145,880 times in the week since launch, making it more popular than the publisher’s iP… Read more at paidContent »
1 in 4 tablets from last quarter run on Android? Hmmm…..
More than one in four tablets last quarter ran on the Google Android platform says Strategy Analytics, dropping Apple’s iPad market share to two-thirds of all tablets. But the data is based on shipped tablets, not sold, and includes Android 2.x devices, plus an e-reader. Read more »
ARM Chip Offers Cheaper Smartphones With Longer Battery Life
The Cambridge chip design company ARM has unveiled a chip design that it say uses could mean cheaper smartphones with battery lives five tim… Read more at paidContent »
AT&T: 100 Million Wireless Users But Q3 Growth Slowed Without New iPhone
AT&T (NYSE: T) continues to benefit from smartphone adoption, crossing the 100-million subscriber mark during the third quarter. Although li… Read more at paidContent »
NYTCo’s Robinson: Paywall Hasn’t Dented Pageviews — Much
The weak economy and the About Group’s declines have eaten away at revenue gains that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) won with last year’… Read more at paidContent »
