Nokia Appoints U.S. Expert Jerri DeVard As Its New CMO, EVP
A clear sign of the direction that new CEO Stephen Elop is trying to take Nokia (NYSE: NOK) under his helm: the company has appointed Americ… Read more »
Broadcasters Line Up New Mobile Apps For TV Brands
BBC Worldwide is swelling its mobile app portfolio, after finding some success with earlier launches. It already publishes several, paid iPh… Read more »
JiWire Buys NearbyNow To Enhance Location-Based Advertising Services
photo: Corbis / Heide Benser
Some consolidation in the mobile advertising space, and another deal that points to the increasing value of getting real-time information ta… Read more »
Bad Robot? Android Is Limiting Publishers’ Payment Prospects
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Publishers are increasingly confident about the prospects for tablet editions in the post-print area. But, when it comes to actually monetis… Read more »
HTC Shores Up In Legal Fights With 30K-Patent Deal
In one swift move, HTC may have just diffused what could have become yet another legal bomb: the handset maker yesterday entered into a long… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.23.2010
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Mobile Content Bits: GetJar/Facebook; App Competitions; LexisNexis
photo: GetJar
– Getjar/Facebook: Another milestone for the apps world. GetJar says that the Facebook app has now been downloaded 100 million times from t… Read more »
Acer: Five New Tablets, And An App Store
Acer has had mixed success so far breaking into the big time of mobile handsets. But as one of the world’s biggest PC makers, its forays int… Read more »
How News Corp.’s Daily Can Succeed Without Paper
photo: Tigerspike
Nic Newman’s Tigerspike, a digital design agency, has developed seven iPad apps for News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), including The Times’ Eureka and… Read more »
More On The Subsidised iPad: France, More Operators Added To Mix
photo: Apple
Following yesterday’s news that T-Mobile and Orange plan to sell the iPad at a reduced rate in the UK when bundled with data plans, some mor… Read more »
Flirtomatic Raises Another $1 Million, Adds New Investor
Handmade Mobile Entertainment, the UK company that operates the Flirtomatic mobile and online flirting site, has raised an additional $1 mil… Read more »
Qype Raises €6.5 Million, Helping Vodafone Buy In To Local Reviews
European user-written local reviews service Qype, which had already raised €8 ($10.92/£6.84) million in 2008, says it’s now taking a €6… Read more »
Update: Apple Buying Nuance? Wozniak Says He Got It Wrong
Update: Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), says he was wrong when he suggested that Apple bought speech recognition compan… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.22.2010
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With AirPlay, Apple TV Finally Takes Flight
Poor Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV was starting to get overshadowed in recent months with all the attention being paid to the likes of Google (NSDQ:… Read more »
Blyk Pairs With Aircel For Ads In India, Returns To Free Rewards
photo: Blyk
Blyk, the mobile ad company that started as a “free” MVNO for 16-24 year-olds, may have found its original business model hard to execute in… Read more »
Industry Moves: Huawei; Appssavvy; ChaCha; MocoSpace
– Huawei: The Chinese maker of mobile phones and wireless network equipment has hired John Roese as its new SVP and general manager for Hua… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Nokia’s N8 Fault; iOS 4.2; PlayStation Phone?
– Nokia’s N8: It was supposed to be the flagship device that changed the game for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), but the N8 has run into a glitch. “A v… Read more »
Streaming-Only Netflix Debuts In The U.S.; Less Content But Cheaper, Faster
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Take that, Hulu. Less than a week after the video portal dropped its price for Hulu Plus to $7.99, a dollar below the basic Netflix (NSDQ: N… Read more »
Apple And The ‘Soft Sim’: Not On The iPhone, But Maybe On the iPad?
Will she or won’t she? Last week, mobile operators in Europe were reportedly up in arms over Apple’s plans to integrate a “soft Sim” into it… Read more »
Stack ‘Em High: T-Mobile, Orange To Sell iPad For $320 In UK
photo: Apple
Today, Everything Everywhere, the JV between T-Mobile and Orange in the UK, confirmed that it will be selling the Apple iPad for more “affor… Read more »
NBC Sports Wraps Most Popular Web Feature In An App
You might think video would be the most popular attraction at NBC (NYSE: GE) Sports online. Not so. Last month, 21 million of the roughly 29… Read more »
Aspiro Sells Remaining Mobile Entertainment Assets To Exsol
Aspiro, the hosted and white-label mobile TV and music provider, today announced that it has sold its remaining mobile entertainment busines… Read more »
All’s Fair In Mobile And War: Cox Launches Wireless Service
Nearly a year after it started to promote its “Unbelievably Fair” mobile service, cable operator Cox has finally launched the product itself… Read more »
NBC, Fox, 10 Others Ante Up In Mobile TV, First Content To Come In 2011
photo: Open Mobile Video Coalition
Mobile TV has had a mixed reception in the U.S. – with the assets of one recent high profile failure, Qualcomm’s Flo TV, the subject of spec… Read more »
Fashism Raises $1 Million To Grow Social Shopping Business
photo: Fashism
Fashism, the online and mobile service that lets users post pictures of themselves to get feedback from other users, has raised $1 million i… Read more »
Just When You Thought The Mobisode Was Dead…
It’s been a long time since News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). dared create original programming expressly for mobile viewing in the U.S., but it’s back… Read more »
Expedia Goes Mobile, Buys Travel App Mobiata
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It’s a surprise that every online travel property isn’t already swimming in mobile functionality, given the obvious connection between the t… Read more »
Apple Tests Operators’ Patience With ‘Soft Sim’ Plans
Mobile operators have conceded a lot to Apple in the last few years – most of it, not by choice – in the name of carrying its attractive, da… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.18.2010
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Mobile Content Bits: Disney/Gowalla; GetJar/Yahoo; Twitter
– Disney/Gowalla: Disney (NYSE: DIS) Parks is teaming up with location service Gowalla to add a free “check-in” feature to hundreds of site… Read more »
Android Catches Up To Apple In Advertising, Says Millennial
photo: Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Everyone has predicted that Android will overtake Apple’s iOS as the biggest smartphone platform. Millennial Media has produced some figures… Read more »
Report: Qualcomm In Talks To Sell MediaFLO Spectrum To AT&T
photo: Tricia Duryee
When Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) decided in October to cancel FLO TV, its mobile TV effort, after struggles with devices and low subscribers, some… Read more »
Google TV Ads Picks Up Verizon FiOS, But Big Cable Operators Remain Elusive
Verizon FiOS has signed on as *Google* TV Ads’ latest partner. While this is certainly good news for the three-year-old service, which Googl… Read more »
The Economist Hits iPad, Targeting A Million Paying Digital Readers
The Economist has got around to releasing an iPad (and iPhone) edition (expected Friday). Built by TigerSpike, which also built The Times’ E… Read more »
Todd Anderman To Leave Hachette For Mobile Ad Firm Jumptap
Todd Anderman, the digital content head of U.S. publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media, has been named the new chief media and revenue officer… Read more »
FT Gives Its Staff A $480 Bonus To Buy An iPad; CEO’s Memo
The Financial Times says it will give a £300 or $480 rebate to its 1,800 staff against the purchase of an iPad or other tablet.
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Nokia Ovi Store: Three Million Downloads Per Day
photo: Nokia
Nokia may not have captured the mobile zeitgeist in the same way that Android or Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) devices have, but don’t leave it down fo… Read more »
Ron Garriques Out As Dell Rethinks Mobile Business
Dell may have grabbed a few headlines the other week when it announced it was ditching its BlackBerries in favor of Windows Phone 7 handsets… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.17.2010
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