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?
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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 »
RIM, Apple, Microsoft All Taking A Swipe At NFC Mobile Payment Technology
As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just… Read more »
Microsoft Appears Closer To Making Formal Yahoo Bid
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After weeks of rumors about Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) considering another bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Dealbook is reporting that the software g… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-23-11
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» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens to Cut 17,000 Jobs (WSJ; Press release)
» James Murdoch quits the boards of Sun and Times… 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 »
Windows Phone Marketplace Is Riding High On Free Content
Last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) revealed on the anniversary of the Windows Phone Marketplace that the app storefront now has some 40,000 a… 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 »
Apple Expands 'App Store' Lawsuit Against Amazon
The hype surrounding the Kindle Fire appears to have caught Apple’s attention. The iPad maker cited Amazon’s gadget and added a new claim in… Read more »
Nokia Drops More Hints Of An Upcoming Windows 8 Tablet
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Considering all the issues and upheavals that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has had in its core business of mobile phones — what with the declining mar… Read more »
The Story Behind ShopCity And Its Antitrust Complaint Against Google
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An “upstart competitor” is claiming Google (NSDQ: GOOG) punted it to the farthest reaches of its search results and is now fighting to level… Read more »
Gartner: Android Now Over 50 Percent Of Smartphone Sales, The Rest Decline
Android may have some shortcomings, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made enormous advances with manufacturers in terms of getting its OS on thei… Read more »
Reviewers May Find Faults, But Developers Say Kindle Fire Is Big Big Big
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The Kindle Fire tablet may not be all reviewers’ cup of tea, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) seems to have gotten one thing just right: it’s picked… Read more »
Kindle Fire, First Reviews: Hot Gadget Or Just Another Lukewarm Tablet?
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A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets. Read more »
How Come 'Modern Warfare 3' Is The Most Hated Game On The Web?
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has attracted near-universal critical acclaim. It is a slick, well-constructed and generously proportioned in… Read more »
Industry Moves: Microsoft's Mobile Leaver, iProspect, Adaptly
Some of the latest entrances and exit in hiring in the UK digital media business… Read more »
Google To 'Support' Android OEMs Facing Lawsuits As LG Makes A Deal With IV
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Some heartening news for Android device makers today from the mouth of Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will continue to… Read more »
AOL, Microsoft And Yahoo Are Officially Ad Sales Allies
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The portal trio alliance between AOL (NYSE: AOL), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) that was being explored in September is now… Read more »
Google's Schmidt: Android Will Remain Free, And So Will Motorola
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Ever wondered whether Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has plans to tack more revenue-generating services on to Android? If it does, one of them doesn’t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
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» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more »
Microsoft: Talking To Huawei For Android Patent License; Inks Openwave Deal
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be adding one more OEM to its list of Android licensees, and this one is a biggie: Huawei, the ambitious Chines… Read more »
Apple Vs. Microsoft Vs. Google Vs. Dropbox: A Cloud-Computing Guide
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“Where did the computer go?” was the slogan Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) used in 2004 when it launched the first of its current range of iMac desktop… Read more »
Nielsen: Android Grew Its Smartphone Marketshare; iPhone Stayed Flat
Some stats out today from Nielsen for Q3 show that Android is continuing on its growth trajectory in the U.S. but in the last quarter Apple’… 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 »
Nuisance Lawsuits Dog Tech Mergers
Just minutes after Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) announced today’s acquisition of ad firm interclick came the news that a law firm was investigating w… 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 »
Nokia Patent Manager MOSAID Acquired By Sterling Partners For $590 Million
A little twist in the fate of MOSAID, the company that in September agreed to take over the management of 2,000 Nokia (NYSE: NOK) patents fo… Read more »
Updated: Samsung Rules Smartphone Shipments; Nokia Still Tops Overall In Q3
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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 »
HP’s Whitman: We’re Going To Make Windows 8 Tablets
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HP’s decision to keep its PC group after announcing plans a month ago to get a divorce has no impact on the fate of WebOS, but new CEO Meg W… Read more »
Nokia Already Looking Ahead To Windows Phone ‘Apollo’ In 2012
The promises of collaboration between Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) on mobile devices were fulfilled only in their most basic… 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
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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 »
Nokia And Microsoft’s ‘Special Partnership’ Just Another Windows Phone
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It was supposed to be a unique partnership: two giants of the tech world coming together to jump-start their mobile strategies and develop p… Read more »
Leak: Nokia Prepping N9-Like Windows Phone Device, Lumia 800, For Wednesday
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There’s little doubt at this point that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) intends to introduce its first Windows Phone devices Wednesday at Nokia World, but… Read more »
Platform Wars: Internet Video Vs. TV
There’s battle lines being drawn. Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong. Young people speaking their minds, Getting so much resistance from be… Read more »
Is Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5 Arriving Next Year?
Rockstar has officially announced Grand Theft Auto V. The latest title in the multimillion-selling crime adventure series has no official re… Read more »
