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 »
AOL Ponies Up For Appssavvy's $7.1 Million Round As Social Ads Make Friends
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One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more »
BBC iPlayer App's iPhone Update Adds 500K New Users In A Week
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The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as i… Read more »
Epicurious, Random House Partner To Sell Digital Cookbooks
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Condé Nast cooking site Epicurious is selling Random House digital cookbooks that users can import into their “digital recipe boxes.” Howev… Read more »
BuzzFeed Releases Kindle Fire-Optimized App
Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire. Read more »
Product Strategists Should See NFC As Much More Than Contactless Payments
A year ago, Forrester stated that 2011 would–finally–be the year that Near Field Communications (NFC) began to matter. We predicted that d… 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 »
Game On Or Game Over? Zynga Opens Above IPO Price But Then Drops
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The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having… Read more »
Why RIM Needed To Fire Its Co-CEOs Months, If Not Years Ago
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The two Waterloo Wallys running Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) have presided over the incredible destruction of shareholder wealth in 2011… Read more »
Wyse's Cloud-Free Mobile App Transfers Files Directly From PCs To Phones
We’ve been talking about cloud computing for what seems like forever, but the talk definitely heated up in 2011 with the launch of Apple’s i… 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 »
Take A Seat, Andy: Report Says Microsoft's Lees 'Benched' For WP7 Efforts
So who exactly is running the show when it comes to Microsoft’s mobile efforts? A few more details emerged Wednesday about the reassignment… Read more »
Flipboard's Phone Flips Beating iPad 2:1
Flipboard’s iPhone application has clocked up a million downloads in the week since it went live, the company tells paidContent. 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 »
For The iCloud Disaffected, Microsoft Offers iPhone Users Skydrive Storage
When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched its iCloud service earlier this year, it automatically gave users of its own devices 5GB of free cloud-base… Read more »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
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Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Facebook Readying Mobile Ad Push For 2012, Right Around The Expected IPO
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Facebook’s Carolyn Everson was tight-lipped several months ago at paidContent Advertising when the subject of mobile advertising was discuss… 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 »
Crayola Moves From Magic Markers To E-Books
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Seeing “digital devices as another canvas for kids to share their originality and creative ideas,” Crayola is partnering with interactive st… Read more »
Microsoft And Nokia Pay Perform For A Mobile Soccer App
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Illustrating how rival platforms are keen to attract quality apps from iOS to their stores, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are… Read more »
Axel Springer Becomes Industry's Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
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The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west. 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 »
Microsoft's Windows Phone Head Lees Taking On New Role Ahead Of Huge Year
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is shaking up the leadership of its Windows Phone unit heading into a huge year for its revamped mobile strategy. And… Read more »
Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more »
Sunday's Last Call For HP's TouchPad Makes WebOS Hiatus Official
Sunday was probably the last chance to grab a WebOS tablet for quite some time, and whatever limited supply HP (NYSE: HPQ) made available of… 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 »
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 »
Charity For The Holidays: HP To Contribute WebOS To Open-Source Community
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HP (NYSE: HPQ) has finally figured out what to do with WebOS, and it’s unlikely to result in anything that will change the mobile landscape.… Read more »
New York Times Expands Into Freemium Apps With 'Election 2012'
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As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone ne… Read more »
Zite Joins Flipboard, Google On The iPhone In Crowded Week For News Apps
Fate probably wouldn’t have had it any other week: at the end of a week in which both Flipboard and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unveiled updated tak… Read more »
Updated: Google Launches Currents, Its New Mobile Reading App
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Add Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to the growing list of companies like Flipboard, Pulse and Scribd’s Float with news aggregation apps. Google quickly… 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 »
MSLO And J.C. Penney Bake Up A Strategic Deal That Actually Makes Sense
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Some “strategic” investments and partnerships leave you scratching your head looking for the rationale — and questioning the viability of a… Read more »
Stop Freaking Out About Amazon's Price Check App
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This Saturday, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is running a promotion that is making a lot of people very mad: Use the company’s Price Check mobile app… Read more »
As Facebook Rolls Out Timeline, Netflix Inches Closer To U.S. Sharing Deal
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Two more advances for Facebook in its ongoing quest to make its service ever more sticky and useful for its 800 million-plus base of subscri… Read more »
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? RIM Shamed Again By Trademark Defeat
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At a certain point, it’s not funny: it’s stunning. Assuming it manages to keep a lid on its incompetence for the next three weeks, Research… Read more »
Evernote's New Hello And Food Apps Take Organizer To New Competitive Ground
Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of… Read more »
