New $60 Aakash Promises To Kick-Start Indian Tablet Market
Move over, Kindle Fire – the world has a new cheapest tablet computer. India’s government has announced a new Android-powered tablet called… Read more »
Jumptap Figures Suggest Tablet Penetration Is Higher Outside The U.S.
Using stats from a mobile advertising network do not give the most complete picture of the mobile market, but they do highlight some interes… Read more »
How Will Apple’s iPhone 4S Stand Up To Competition? Depends On The Market
photo: Getty Images / Feng Li
Quite a few commentators expressed a sense of deflation when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced its newest device yesterday, the iPhone 4S… Read more »
That Was Quick: Samsung Files For iPhone 4S Injunctions In Europe
Less than 24 hours have passed since the iPhone 4S was introduced by Apple, and Samsung is taking no chances. The company has already announ… Read more »
Yet More Reports Of DST, Alibaba And Silver Lake Swarming Over Yahoo
photo: Getty Images / Chris Hondros
Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technolo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-04-11
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» Price-Fixing Case Against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Major Book Publishers Mushrooms (paidContent)
» Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT… Read more »
Apple Goes For A Shutout In Australia, Says No To Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Deal
If it sounded like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might just agree to some kind of deal with Samsung in Australia — which would have let Samsung launch… Read more »
‘Daily Mail’ Jumps The Gun On Knox Verdict With Embarrassing Results
photo: Credit: Malcom Coles
The internet makes it possible to broadcast breaking news at a pace unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. Unfortunately, that includes the… Read more »
Tablet Boom Coming To India, For As Little As $35?
And you thought the $199 Kindle Fire was cheap? The Indian government last week promised a rumoured $35 tablet is due to be unveiled this we… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Demonstrates How Clinging To Android Is Not A Silver Bullet
photo: Flickr / J. Rosenfeld
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the joint venture combining the wireless expertise of Sweden’s Ericsson with the branding and media… Read more »
The Rising iPhone Tide Will Lift Some Carrier Boats More Than Others
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Only one day left to iPhone news nirvana, and a lot of leaks are coming through about who will get to sell the device — and what, exactly,… Read more »
Angry Birds Aside, Think Globally, Act Locally When It Comes To Mobile Apps
photo: Barnes & Noble
There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world — and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto s… Read more »
Chinese Internet Stocks Bashed By DoJ Accounting Inquiry
Some of China’s biggest online firms are taking a battering on Wall Street, following a report the U.S. Department of Justice is investigati… Read more »
Intel Looks For Revenue From Location Services, Buys Telmap
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has made no secret of its interest to be a more central player in the mobile space and now it’s showing us the money, too… Read more »
Is Apple Really Shaking In Its Shoes About Samsung’s Android Galaxy Tab?
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In the ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), neither side has been willing to flinch. But in the courtroom in Sydney,… Read more »
Halo Networks Gets £1.6 Million First Round To Offload Mobile Data To WiFi
The high cost of mobile data — not just for consumers but for mobile operators facing huge traffic on their networks with the rise of smart… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-29-11
photo: Amazon
» The Key To The Kindle Fire: It’s Not Taking On Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Directly (paidContent)
» Murdoch’s ‘Daily’ Has 12… Read more »
Chapter Four In The Linux OS Saga: Nokia Making Meltemi For Low-End Mobiles
With Intel (NSDQ: INTC) now focused on Tizen, a new Linux effort with Samsung and the Limo Foundation; and no concrete signs of further hand… Read more »
Slovakia’s Paid Content System Funded For European Expansion
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The shared paid content platform now underpinning many Slovakian online publishers could roll out elsewhere in Europe after its operator got… Read more »
Nokia To Chop 1,300 People From Its Navteq Mapping/Commerce Division
No one ever said turnarounds were easy, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) — currently the world’s largest handset maker — is one big ship. Today the c… Read more »
Amazon’s Lukewarm Fire: No Kindle Tablets Outside U.S.
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has revealed its price-busting Kindle Fire tablet for $199 alongside a new touchscreen Kindle Touch. But that news will… Read more »
Apple Has Fanboys But This Is Crazy: 41 Percent Of Users To Buy iPhone 5?
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Has iPhone hype gone into the stratosphere or is this just a ploy to get a company’s name into the press? A new survey claims to have found… Read more »
Google India Ropes In A Bollywood Superstar To Promote Google+
Google India head Rajan Anandan yesterday announced in a press conference that it has joined hands with the Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Kha… Read more »
Australia Next For BBC’s Paid iPlayer, U.S. At Some Point
The UK’s leading TV catch-up brand is having a weird global launch. After debuting on iPad only in 11 European countries this July for €6.… Read more »
Google Picks Inrix For Mapping Realtime Data
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Location, location, location: it’s the time-honored mantra of real-estate agents and retailers, but could just as well be applied to Google… Read more »
Apple Dips On The Back Of JPMorgan’s Back And Forth On iPad Production
Here’s one of those instances that makes you wonder about where investment analysts get their information, and what their agendas might be b… Read more »
China’s ‘Facebook’ RenRen Buys China’s ‘YouTube’ 56.com
A fusion of social and video in China… Renren, the social network which listed on Wall Street this spring, is acquiring the user-uploaded… Read more »
Nokia Ships Its Lone MeeGo Sailor, The N9
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be hard at work right now trying to ensure that its first Windows Phone devices are beautiful and perfect when the go… Read more »
Netflix Gains DreamWorks Animation But Faces Stiffer Competition In Brazil
I don’t know many video subscribers — TV or or streaming — who make decisions based on whether or not their package includes Shrek 2. But… Read more »
Samsung: Second Tablet Injunction? Asks 2.4 Percent Chip Royalty From Apple
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New developments today in the fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung over design and patent infringements in the company’s smartphones… Read more »
Mobile Interactive Group Buys Digital Jigsaw, Seeks More Cross-Platform Biz
Some more consolidation in the digital marketing space, with one of the UK’s bigger mobile specialists, Mobile Interactive Group, showing th… Read more »
Tencent Weibo Launches English Version, Goes Bilingual Faster than Sina
While surfing around Tencent Weibo today, we realized something unique about the Chinese microblogging site – it has launched an option to… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-26-11: Apple iPad Orders; Apple Event; Samsung; Verizon
photo: Tom Krazit
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» As ever, Apple is dominating mobile conversations. But it’s not all good new… Read more »
Dennis Publishing Recasts Magazine Editorial In 20 “One Shot Content” Apps
Dennis Publishing, publishers of 70 print and online titles including Maxim, Men’s Fitness and the adult comic Viz, has not been shy to dip… Read more »
Google To Be Mobile Operator In Europe, Starting In Spain? Doesn’t Seem So
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has worked its way into the center of the mobile industry with its Android OS, many mobile services and potentially even… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-23-11: Google Spain; Apple Stock, Apple In China; ZTE; HP
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google has started to quietly distribute its own SIM cards with Nexus S devi… Read more »
Spotify’s Levick: Facebook Integration Will Help Drive Ad Strategy
Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being… Read more »
Telefonica Seeks Social Media Mojo With Twitter And Layar Integration
Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), the multinational operator with mobile networks spanning across Europe and Latin America, is now fully focused on sq… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-22-11: HP; HTC; Color; Google/Oracle
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Embarrassing reports on HP’s board following the news that the company may b… Read more »
Tablet Shipments Exceeding Forecasts; Still Apple’s Game To Lose
photo: Getty Images / Mario Tama
It’s debatable whether and when tablets will become as mainstream as mobile phones or PCs, but in their own right, their sales trajectory ap… Read more »
