Game On: HD Streaming Site FilmOn Debuts NCAA Basketball, Football Channels
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, an… Read more »
Why Running A Mobile OS By Committee Can Be Very Hard
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Attempting to build consensus among Android vendors is a tricky undertaking in late 2011. As a result, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and its partners… Read more »
News Corp. To Give Sunday Times The Free Treatment For Christmas This Year
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Last year, News International made The Times and The Sun newspapers free on Christmas and used the opportunity to promote their respective i… Read more »
Why Are Free Games More Popular On iPhones Than On Android Devices?
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Some research out from Xyologic today on app store download trends in 2011 indicates that while games have remained a popular category acros… Read more »
Forget The Mobile Reference Designs, Intel, And Ship A Product
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Much has been made of Microsoft’s failure to shift its dominant presence in the PC market to the mobile market, but at least the company has… Read more »
HTC Says Android Patent Fix Is Ready To Go, Google Hopes For 'Patent Peace'
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HTC says it has already figured out how to ship Android phones in the U.S. that don’t run afoul of a patent held by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the… Read more »
Distimo: Apple's App Store Still Beats Android On Revenues; Freemium Rules
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but whe… Read more »
Android: 700,000 Activations Per Day, WiFi Not Included?
Late on Tuesday Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile and Android head honcho for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), gave the world the latest figures on how much And… Read more »
Both Sides Claim Victory In Microsoft-Motorola Patent Dispute At ITC
The aftermath of a modern patent ruling looks more and more like the spin room following a presidential debate, a place where everyone belie… Read more »
Three Makes A Trend: Bugs Cropping Up In Galaxy Nexus
Maybe now it makes a little more sense why the Galaxy Nexus took so much longer to arrive in the U.S. then originally anticipated: a spate o… Read more »
Millennial Media Says Kindle Fire Impressions Growing 19 Percent Each Day
We still don’t have any exact figures from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) for how many Kindle Fire tablets it has sold, but the latest figures out from… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: A Crazy Year In Mobile, By The Numbers
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This is the first in a series of posts over the next week that will look at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors th… Read more »
Updated: BT Sues Google Over Android, Other Services
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is no stranger to patent lawsuits these days, but the latest development could be the first to see a carrier go after th… Read more »
Samsung Australia: Thanks, Apple, For The Galaxy Tab Publicity
Would anyone in Australia have noticed the Samsung Galaxy Tab had it not been the target of a heated lawsuit from Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) Samsun… Read more »
Nielsen: Android And Apple Dominate The App Space But Mobile Browser Rules
Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Niels… Read more »
Stars Align For Thursday's U.S. Launch Of Galaxy Nexus On Verizon
It has been almost two months since Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Samsung executives gleefully revealed the Galaxy Nexus, the best Android smartph… Read more »
Google Hoping To Improve Mobile Recommendations With Alfred And Majel
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is making a few moves to shore up an area that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has aggressively attacked this year: voice-driven mobi… Read more »
Samsung Electronics Reorg: Apple's Friends On One Side; Foes On The Other?
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It looks like Samsung Electronics, the flagship and biggest division of the Samsung Group conglomerate, is restructuring its organisation. W… Read more »
Developers Still Prefer iOS Despite Android's Huge Marketshare Gains
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The disconnect between Android’s huge marketshare and its second-tier status among many mobile developers has been clear for some time, but… Read more »
Carrier IQ Attempts To Set The Record Straight On Mobile Data Collection
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Carrier IQ has released the most detailed assessment of what its controversial software can and can’t do on your mobile phone, weeks after i… Read more »
Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com
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Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more »
Pontiflex/Harris Survey: Incentive And Video Ads Turn Off Mobile Users
Mobile ads today make up less than one percent of all money spent on media advertising, and a poll just out from Harris Interactive, commiss… Read more »
Nielsen: Google's Own Apps Play Second Fiddle To Facebook In Popularity
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Nielsen is getting ready later this week to release is quarterly State of the Media report, which this time around will focus on mobile medi… Read more »
Apple's Leagues Ahead In App Downloads: 18 Billion To Android's 10 Billion
A timely news announcement from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) one week after Google’s own Android apps milestone: Apple says that 500,000 apps have now… Read more »
Biting At Nokia's Heels, Samsung's Device Sales In 2011 Pass 300 Million
Samsung may be still be trying to crack the tablet market, but in mobile devices it is continuing to pick up steam: it sold 300 million devi… Read more »
Games Take Largest Share Of Android's First 10 Billion Downloads
Android games have notched up more than 2.5 billion downloads since the launch of Google’s Android Market store, taking a 25.6 percent share… Read more »
Nokia Ships Its Second, Cheaper Windows Phone Handset, The Lumia 710
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone d… Read more »
Updated: In Samsung v. Apple, Are Injunctions A Viable Nuclear Option?
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Two more advances in the ongoing, international fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android tablet maker Samsung over alleged patent violat… Read more »
Here's How Android Has Destroyed Symbian In China
Everyone knows that Nokia’s Symbian always had little take-up in the U.S.. But, once upon a time, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) could count on a large u… Read more »
Updated: YouMail App Yanked From Android Market After T-Mobile Complains
Update: YouMail’s app is back in the Android Market after some more communication between the voicemail company and T-Mobile. That revealed… Read more »
Update: Amazon Eyeing Up Mobile Carrier Billing With New Bango Deal?
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has been jumping with two feet into the mobile world — launching an app storefront, an enhanced selection of cloud-base… Read more »
Android's China Problem – Schmidt Struggles To Keep Apps In His Market
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As our recent coverage of China’s proliferating app store segment has shown, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is not in full control of its own operating… Read more »
Makers Of The SwiftKey Android App Land $2.5 Million In Funding
A mobile wave of touchscreen devices has changed the way we interact with computers, but we still do an awful lot of traditional typing on t… Read more »
Schmidt Reckons Most TVs Will Have Google TV By Mid-2012
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What with self-driving cars and such, Eric Schmidt is not averse to some blue-sky thinking. But one new prediction may be a moonshot too far… Read more »
HTC Highlights How Fickle The Mobile Market Can Be: That Spells Opportunity
Looking at HTC over the last week or two, it’s almost hard to believe that it is the top-ranking smartphone maker that the analysts claim it… Read more »
Android Users Have Now Downloaded 10 Billion Apps
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Android app downloads have passed the 10 billion mark, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said Tuesday in an announcement that shows just how far the opera… Read more »
7digital Music Adds Microsoft To Its App List, Still Awaits Apple Approval
Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sa… Read more »
Motorola, Verizon Try 3G Tablets Again With New Xyboard Android Devices
Tablets haven’t been as much of a boon for wireless carriers as smartphones, with many buyers opting for Wi-Fi only options. Motorola (NYSE:… Read more »
Updated: Galaxy Nexus 'Pure Google' Except For Part Verizon Doesn't Like
For years, Google’s pitch for the Nexus class of Android phones has been that they offer the “pure Google” experience, a version of its soft… Read more »
In Russia, DST's Mail.ru And Yandex Ramp Up Mobile Presence
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Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ub… Read more »
