Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more »
Nokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read more »
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition – UK digital revenues made up for print r… Read more »
Apple Promises A Crack Down On Those Who Manipulate App Store Rankings
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It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Ap… Read more »
RIM: App World Is Now At 60,000 Apps; 13 Percent Of Publishers Earn $100k+
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Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, dela… Read more »
Apple Hit With Playlist Patent, Suit Filed By Former Judge’s Firm
A Texas shell company, Smart Audio Technologies, has filed a suit claiming Apple’s iPod Nano and other devices violate its patent for random… Read more »
Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile
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When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in… Read more »
NPD: Apple Takes Top Three Slots For Smartphone Best-Sellers In U.S.
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Android held on to its title as the most-popular smartphone platform in the U.S. in the last quarter, but when it comes to sales of specific… Read more »
Canalys: Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Overtake PC/Tablet Market
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Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011,… Read more »
Apple Clarifies: We Don’t Own The Content You Put Into iBooks Author
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When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works c… Read more »
Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Ge… Read more »
Survey: Kindle Fire Owners Happy With Their Purchase But Not iPad-Happy
Do Kindle Fire owners still like their devices now that they’ve had a few months to kick the tires? A new survey indicates that for the most… Read more »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
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Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more »
Living In A Smartphone World: Apple Number-Three Among ALL Mobile Players
It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position… Read more »
Samsung Takes The Apple Route For Its Next Big Launch, the Galaxy S III
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung… Read more »
Report: China Telecom Will Finally Get The iPhone 4S In February
Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China… Read more »
Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission
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The ongoing, back-and-forth legal fight that is the Apple/Samsung patent dispute today took on a new dimension in one of its key battlegroun… Read more »
Apple Picks Dixons Group CEO Browett As New Retail SVP
Napoleon once described the UK as a “nation of shopkeepers”, so it is somewhat fitting that this is where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gone to fin… Read more »
RIM In Trouble In Europe? Not In The UK, It Claims
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RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) is taking a beating at the moment from handset makers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung, which have eaten into a smartpho… Read more »
Farewell, Yahoo Apps, We Hardly Knew Ye: Deals, News Plus Eight Others Gone
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Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure,… Read more »
Your iPhone Has To Be Made In China, And Apple Can’t Absolve Your Guilt
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“For a quarter of a century, Washington and Wall Street have wanted China to become an integral part of the world economy. Their wish has be… Read more »
Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service — on… Read more »
Nokia Tottering At The Top Of Mobile Rankings; Apple Leading Smartphones
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With most of the major handset makers having reported earnings for the quarter that ended in December, analyst houses are laying out their r… Read more »
Distimo: When It’s Time For A Mobile App Sale, Choose Your Price Wisely
In an insanely crowded mobile apps marketplace, pricing is one of the ways to stand out from the competition: for better or worse. Distimo s… Read more »
Tablets: Apple’s Lead Narrows Among Widening Field Of Android Makers
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With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A re… Read more »
AT&T: The iPhone Was Good, But Not Good Enough To Hold Off A Q4 Loss
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A set of quarterly results today from AT&T (NYSE: T) that underscored some of the aftershocks the carrier is feeling in the wake of its fail… Read more »
Rhapsody Goes To Europe As New Music Services Compete, News Corp’s Fails
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Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from o… Read more »
Nokia Q4: Scrambling For A Grip, But Still Falling; 1M+ Lumia Phones Sold
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Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The ha… Read more »
Motorola Adds iPhone 4S, iCloud, To List Of Products It Says Hit Patents
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The smartphone patent wars may never end. Motorola (NYSE: MMI) fired a round Wednesday with a new lawsuit against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), declar… Read more »
iBooks 2 Is ‘A Huge Missed Opportunity’, Publisher’s Developer Says
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Apple’s new big play for the education textbook market is a big letdown, according to a developer for one of the leading interactive kids’ e… Read more »
Why Apple Just Pulled Off The Company’s First True Post-PC Quarter
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We should no longer be confused about the notion of the “post-PC era:” Apple’s shocking iOS device sales numbers for its first fiscal quarte… Read more »
2012 Mobile Ad Spend Revised Up To $2.6 Billion, Google Fueling The Machine
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A big endorsement today for mobile advertising from eMarketer: their analysts today said they were revising up their forecasts for U.S. mobi… Read more »
Update 2: Privacy Alert: O2 Fixes Hole That Shared Users’ Phone Numbers
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Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile… Read more »
Future’s Newsstand Transformation: 75,000 New Subscribers
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UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a month of debuting 65 of its titles on iTunes’ Newsstand… Read more »
Kantar: Apple Back On Top As Bestselling Smartphone In The U.S.
Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is b… Read more »
Nokia Clears The Decks Of Its Burning Platform Ahead Of Results Tomorrow
photo: Tom Krazit
One day before Nokia is due to announce its next set of quarterly results, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has made three announcements: a milestone reach… Read more »
As Internet Explorer Wanes, MSN Tries iPad Route For Its Content
MSN UK wants to be a self-contained content brand, and it’s not afraid to use Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rivals’ devices to do it. Read more »
Chart: Apple iPhone Sales Through The Years
In its best iPhone sales quarter to date, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) sold a staggering 37 million iPhones in the quarter ending December 2011. Here,… Read more »
Updated: Still Apple’s World: 37 Million iPhones, 15 Million iPads
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One quarter after Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) mildly surprised everyone with a rare earnings miss, it’s clear Tuesday that the company’s amazing run… Read more »
Yahoo: Revenues Slightly Down, Investors Await Words Of Wisdom From New CEO
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In its first earnings announcement since recently appointing Scott Thompson as its new CEO and the seeing off founder Jerry Yang, Yahoo (NSD… Read more »
