The NFC Dance: One Step Closer With PayPal; One Step Further With Square
We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers… Read more »
A Spanish Android Tablet Maker You’ve Never Heard Of Beats Apple In Court
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been going tooth and nail after big Android device makers, especially Samsung, accusing them in courts worldwide of l… Read more »
HTC Led Q3 U.S. Smartphone Sales, Nokia To Wait Until 2012 To Challenge It
Figures out from Canalys tracking smartphone shipments worldwide in Q3 have once again demonstrated that the flood of Android handsets on th… Read more »
Why Tech Companies Want Engineers To Ignore Patents When Designing Products
photo: Tom Krazit
It’s been hard to go anywhere in Silicon Valley during 2011 and not have patents come up over the course of a friendly discussion about the… Read more »
Apple Extends iPhone 4S To 15 More Countries, Including Legal Hotspot Korea
Yesterday, figures out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech underscored how Apple’s share of smartphone sales in several key countries had actuall… Read more »
Squawk! Angry Birds/Fruit Ninja ‘Rip-Off’ Reaches Number-One In App Store
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game release… Read more »
What Mobile Consolidation? Canonical Wants Ubuntu On Smartphones, Tablets
At least one company thinks the world hungers for another mobile operating system. Canonical, the company that builds and maintains Ubuntu L… Read more »
Gamestop Tries Its Hand At Android Tablets With Gaming Devices For Holidays
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Android partners have been mighty quiet about their plans for second-generation devices leading up to the holiday season, but a newcomer is… Read more »
Kantar: Android Was The Only OS Whose Sales Grew In All Markets It Surveys
We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs — and the popularity of some specific… Read more »
Why Android Needs To Pick Up The Update Pace, And Why The Time Is Right
There should be no doubt at this point: the world of Android is a turbulent, noisy, and at-times inscrutable tangle of interests. But the ba… Read more »
Samsung: Record Mobile Profits On Sales Growth Of 300 Percent
photo: Amanda Natividad
Earnings out today from Samsung show the Korean handset maker posted record sales and profits for its telecoms division, driven primarily by… Read more »
Updated: Samsung Rules Smartphone Shipments; Nokia Still Tops Overall In Q3
photo: Samsung
Samsung’s competitive threat to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the smartphone space — being played out not only among consumer… Read more »
Updated: Smartphone Growth Helps Motorola Earnings, Xoom Shipments Plummet
Smartphone shipments were up during Motorola’s third quarter but already anemic tablet shipments fell off a cliff as the Xoom appears destin… Read more »
Infographic: Nokia’s Ad Peformance Holding Up, On Symbian At Least
While Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is busy courting developers with free Lumia devices to promote its new mobile OS of choice, Microsoft’s Windows Phon… Read more »
Nokia Spreads The Lumia Love: 85k Free Devices To Developers, Bloggers
photo: Tom Krazit
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has pushed hard to get its first two Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows-based phones out before the holiday season. The indust… Read more »
Publishers See Apple Newsstand Sales Surge, But Ad Sales Slow To Follow
Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher… Read more »
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 »
The Morning Lowdown 10-24-11
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» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent)
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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 »
Steve Jobs To Biographer: ‘I’m Going To Destroy Android’
photo: Getty Images / Justin Sullivan
Steve Jobs swore to “destroy Android” in his anger over what he saw as outright copying of Apple’s ideas in Android phones unveiled early in… Read more »
More On Android 4.0: Faster Updates, Zap Unwanted Apps, Tablet-Ready
Google’s latest version of Android should make its way to existing handsets faster than the rollout of other milestone releases, according t… Read more »
Samsung: We Designed Galaxy Nexus Around Apple’s Patents
Samsung designed the new Galaxy Nexus with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) very much in mind, but not in the same way that has seen it dragged into court… Read more »
Google’s Android 4.0 Development Plan: Make Android Prettier
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) took the wrapping off its Ice Cream Sandwich Tuesday night, unveiled the latest edition of Android on Samsung’s Galaxy N… Read more »
Motorola Launches Two New Android Devices, The Droid Razr and Motoactv
Motorola (NYSE: MMI) took the wraps off two new interesting Android devices Tuesday during an event in New York, unveiling the Droid Razr an… Read more »
Needed Or Not, Lookout To Release iPhone Security App
Mobile security has been a topic of discussion when it comes to Android phones, but less so when talking about iOS devices, which use a diff… Read more »
Motorola Xoom Discounted Again In The Tablet Race To The Bottom
photo: Motorola
There were such high hopes for the Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Xoom when it was first unveiled at the beginning of this year: meticulously crafted,… Read more »
What Needs To Happen For Tablets To Replace Laptops?
I’ve owned an iPad since you could own an iPad. I upgraded from iPad 1 to iPad 2 because the thinner form factor, faster response and Smart… Read more »
RIM’s Compensation: $100 In Free Apps For The Siri-ously Curious And Gamers
During the three-day outage last week that affected data services for millions of BlackBerry users, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) executives were focused… Read more »
Updated: Samsung Seeks Injunctions On iPhone 4S, Adds Japan, Australia
More artillery build-up in the battle between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung. Just days after Apple released its newest handset, the iPhone… Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s Move To All-Smartphones Cannot Come Soon Enough
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the JV between the consumer electronics company Sony and mobile equipment giant Ericsson, may be the… Read more »
Samsung Avoids Galaxy Tab Injunction In U.S., But Said To Infringe On iPad
Thursday was probably not the best day that Samsung’s legal team has ever encountered. Fresh off a decision in Australia to ban sales of the… Read more »
Google’s Page: Still Crazy After All These Years
photo: Getty Images / Chris Hondros
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Larry Page began the company’s Q3 earnings call by offering an overview of new products like its social network Goog… Read more »
Microsoft Signs Kindle Fire Manufacturer To Patent-Licensing Deal
photo: Amazon
The company behind Amazon’s Kindle Fire became the latest licensee of Microsoft’s mobile patents Thursday, when Quanta signed a deal that co… Read more »
Nokia Q3 Earnings To Be Announced October 20: Crunch Time Continues
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced today that it will be reporting its third-quarter earnings a week from today, October 20. Will we see more of th… Read more »
Apple Gains Patent Ground On Samsung As Sides Square Up On U.S. Soil
photo: Samsung
Samsung’s legal setback in Australia — where the courts have now issued a formal, if temporary, injunction on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet af… Read more »
Crikey! Australian Court Deals Samsung’s Tablet Yet Another Setback
photo: Samsung
Samsung continues to encounter legal setbacks around the world, with the latest coming Down Under in its battle against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL).… Read more »
NPD: Already, More Than One In Five Smartphones Sold Is 4G-Ready
Some interesting stats out today from the NPD Group underscore just how fast-moving the evolution is in devices today. Although fast mobile… Read more »
NPD: Already, More Than One In Five Smartphones Sold Is 4G-Ready
Some interesting stats out today from the NPD Group underscore just how fast-moving the evolution is in devices today. Although fast mobile… Read more »
Telefonica’s O2 Tries Its Hand At Skype-Like VoIP Calls With O2 Connect
photo: O2 Germany
T-Mobile has Bobsled in the U.S., and now O2 in the UK is jumping into the Internet-calling waters with a new service called O2 Connect. Read more »
Why Has The iPhone 4S’ Standby Time Dropped?
Here’s a puzzle: where, or how, did the iPhone 4S drop 100 hours’ standby time? According to official figures on Apple’s site for the phone,… Read more »
