Google Has Rebooted Its UK Engineering Centre
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) developers responsible for much of the company’s AdSense, Maps, Local, Chrome, Android and speech products now have a ne… Read more »
Financial Times Launches Dedicated Android App
With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android a… Read more »
Report: Verizon To Ask Galaxy Nexus Customers For $299
There’s little doubt that Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus, based on the newest version of Android, is the best Android smartphone yet produced. But i… Read more »
The End Of The Streak: Dells Stops Selling Android Tablet In U.S.
Another chapter in the ongoing consolidation of the tablet market — specifically in the area of those many Android vendors that have failed… Read more »
Update 2: The Next Chapter For Apple vs. Android: HTC At The ITC Next Week
Update: After this story was posted, the ITC announced it would delay the date of the hearing by eight days, to December 14, to give it more… Read more »
Apple Loses Bid For Preliminary Injunction On Samsung's Galaxy Tab In U.S.
photo: Samsung
After months of forcing Samsung to scramble in courtrooms around the world, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was denied an injunction against sales of the… Read more »
Why Both You And Carrier IQ Are Pawns In The Fight For Mobile Data
photo: Corbis
There is no question that we love our mobile devices. There’s also no question that we are paranoid about how much of ourselves we pour into… Read more »
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire-Only App
Add the Wall Street Journal to the list of publishers releasing apps exclusively for the Kindle Fire. Read more »
Comscore: U.S. Mobile Market Still Two-Horse Race Between Android And Apple
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Comscore’s latest mobile numbers are out, and they continue to paint a familiar picture: Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are gaining at the e… Read more »
Android Store Opens In Oz, But It Won't Have The Galaxy Tab 10.1 Just Yet
One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answ… Read more »
Carrier IQ Responds More To Privacy Allegations, But Many Questions Remain
As more detail unfolds of companies swearing off any involvement with Carrier IQ (and some admitting using it for diagnostics) amid allegati… Read more »
HTC, Sprint Acknowledge Using Carrier IQ Software But Deny Snooping
Sprint (NYSE: S), HTC, and Carrier IQ–the companies at the heart of a growing tempest over privacy rights on smartphones–have broken their… Read more »
New Android App Lets Users Buy E-Books From Independent Bookstores
photo: American Booksellers Association
As more independent bookstores partner with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to sell e-books, the American Booksellers Association is releasing a free ap… Read more »
More Carrier IQ: Nokia, Google, Verizon Say No Dice, Sprint, AT&T Say Yes
Several days into the Carrier IQ story — which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool — an… Read more »
Hearst's Carey: We Will Have One Million Paying Digital Subscribers In 2012
On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, ano… Read more »
Carrier IQ Raising Questions About What Carriers See You Do On Your Phone
photo: Corbis
A piece of software that sits on a wide variety of Android phones is drawing increased scrutiny after a security researcher concluded that t… Read more »
Yes, HP May Finally Have Some News On WebOS — In The Next Two Weeks
After a disastrous wireless turn from HP (NYSE: HPQ) that culminated last week with HP taking a charge of $1.66 billion to wind down its web… Read more »
Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab The All-Clear But Is It Too Late?
photo: Samsung
A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimous… Read more »
Apple Asks German Court To Rule On Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N Redesign
photo: CyberPort
Clever naming strategies aside, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) isn’t buying Samsung’s argument that a revamped version of its Galaxy Tab can skate free… Read more »
Google Takes Its Maps App Indoors With Airport, Retail Store Floor Plans
Google’s new version of its Maps For Android app should be able to help you make that mad dash across Atlanta’s sprawling Hartsfield-Jackson… Read more »
Has Microsoft Missed The Boat With A Tablet OS? Forrester Says Yes
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Android device makers, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and (catastrophically) HP (NYSE: HPQ) have made little dent so far in the tablet market, currently d… Read more »
Skyhook Teams With Norton On Tracking Service For Android Devices
Skyhook Wireless, the location-services company that has been embroiled in lawsuits with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) over patent infringement and re… Read more »
HTC Hunkers Down Until 2012 When New 'Flagship' Products Launch
From one angle, HTC’s recent woes are simple: the products just don’t seem attractive as they used to be. Next year promises to be an import… Read more »
One More Step In The Google/Motorola Merger: EU Approval Sought
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-M… Read more »
One More Step In The Google/Motorola Merger: EU Approval Sought
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-M… Read more »
Black Friday Roundup: Strong Start, But Will Sales Hold?
photo: Corbis / Heide Benser
Despite warnings from groups like the OECD that Europe and the U.S. are heading into recession, the flurry of online and mobile activity tha… Read more »
Russia's Yandex Searches For Mobile Growth, Buys SPB Software
Taking a page from its search counterparts in the East and West like Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Russia’s Yandex has scooped… Read more »
Crunch Time For Apple's Rivals: iPhone Sales In UK Grew Again In October
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) acolytes will probably be saying “told you so” when they hear of this: sales of the iPhone, which had been in decline in… Read more »
IPCom Threatens Injunction On HTC In Germany, But HTC Brushes It Off
The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement… Read more »
White Friday For Samsung: A Lifeline In Aussie Galaxy Tablet Injunction?
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Could there be a little glimmer of light at the end of the tablet injunction tunnel for Samsung in Australia? With Christmas now exactly one… Read more »
How Will Facebook's Buffy Phone Look? There's An App For That
Facebook has not approached anything resembling a confirmation of the reports that it is developing its own phone with HTC, code-named “Buff… Read more »
Software Fix Coming Soon For Volume Bug On Samsung's Galaxy Nexus
Samsung and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have acknowledged an annoying bug in the brand-new Galaxy Nexus that would cause the volume to fluctuate unc… Read more »
To Buy Or Not To Buy: Nokia Struggles To Manage Lumia 800 Sales Message
So much hope has been pinned on Nokia’s comeback strategy — in which it has pivoted in the space of less than a year to develop a new line… Read more »
EyeSight Gets Its Hands On $4.2 Million For Gesture Control Technology
If the Kinect and the Wii popularized the idea of gestures controlling machines, the rise of startups working in the area will take the tech… Read more »
Mobile Ad Figures Show Android Has Secured Its OS Lead, Apple A Device Lead
Monthly figures out from Millennial Media once again show that Android is the most dominant OS on its mobile ad network — the mobile platfo… Read more »
The Latest Chinese Export: Tencent's QQ Mobile Browser, Via GetJar
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products i… Read more »
The Mythical Facebook Phone Surfaces, Still A Long Way From Best Buy
photo: Corbis / Brooks Kraft
Facebook really is working on its own mobile phone, according to a report from AllThingsD, after years of speculation about such a project.… Read more »
McAfee: Android Biggest Malware Target Today, Yet Symbian Still Tops It
With 550,000 activations per day, and 200 million activations to-date, Android is fast shaping up to be the world’s biggest OS, but that gro… Read more »
Update: No Flash Yet On Android Ice Cream Sandwich, But Does It Matter?
photo: Adobe
Today we either saw the first effects of Adobe’s decision to stop developing Flash for mobile, or another example of why it has not gotten v… Read more »
Nomura: Amazon's Kindle Fire 'Devastating' For Other Tablet Makers
photo: Amazon
The Kindle Fire, retailing for only $199, could be the Android tablet that sells in volumes and provides real competition against the iPad f… Read more »
