Far-East Round-Up: Social, Mobile Gaming Are Soaring
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China is hot. Mobile connections there just overtook those in the U.S. for the first time. Here is a glut of deals news today illustrating t… Read more »
Hearst's Carey: We Will Have One Million Paying Digital Subscribers In 2012
On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, ano… Read more »
AT&T, Deutsche Telekom Down To Brainstorming: How About A Joint Venture?
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Could AT&T (NYSE: T) want T-Mobile’s spectrum and network assets so badly as to contemplate arranging a joint venture between it and T-Mobil… Read more »
Carrier IQ Raising Questions About What Carriers See You Do On Your Phone
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A piece of software that sits on a wide variety of Android phones is drawing increased scrutiny after a security researcher concluded that t… Read more »
Yes, HP May Finally Have Some News On WebOS — In The Next Two Weeks
After a disastrous wireless turn from HP (NYSE: HPQ) that culminated last week with HP taking a charge of $1.66 billion to wind down its web… Read more »
FCC Disses AT&T, But Lets It Drop Its T-Mobile Merger Application
Call this one a not-so-sweet release for AT&T (NYSE: T). The Federal Communications Commission has said has let AT&T drop its FCC applicatio… Read more »
About.com Rolls Out Lifestyle Content On Flipboard
As the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.-owned About Group continues its turnaround efforts in the face of weak display and cost-per-click ad s… Read more »
Apple Asks German Court To Rule On Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N Redesign
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Clever naming strategies aside, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) isn’t buying Samsung’s argument that a revamped version of its Galaxy Tab can skate free… Read more »
Google Takes Its Maps App Indoors With Airport, Retail Store Floor Plans
Google’s new version of its Maps For Android app should be able to help you make that mad dash across Atlanta’s sprawling Hartsfield-Jackson… Read more »
After Download Frenzy, Apple Cuts Cord To iTether 's iPhone Tethering App
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An iPhone application called iTether that would let iPhone users run their Mac or PC over the phone’s data connection without paying their c… Read more »
AT&T's Leap Of Faith: Could Leap Wireless Help It Win T-Mobile?
Facing long odds to get its acquisition of T-Mobile approved by the government, AT&T (NYSE: T) is preparing to offload a significant amount… Read more »
Shazam Is Buying Back Its Own Core Patents To Go Multi-Media
in a move illustrating the growing role of technology patents, mobile music service Shazam is buying back some of its intellectual property… Read more »
Has Microsoft Missed The Boat With A Tablet OS? Forrester Says Yes
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Android device makers, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and (catastrophically) HP (NYSE: HPQ) have made little dent so far in the tablet market, currently d… Read more »
Twitter Buys Mobile Security Firm Whisper Systems: Enterprise Push Coming?
Another step in Twitter’s mobile acquisition trail: the microblogging and messaging service has acquired Whisper Systems, a enterprise mobil… Read more »
HTC Hunkers Down Until 2012 When New 'Flagship' Products Launch
From one angle, HTC’s recent woes are simple: the products just don’t seem attractive as they used to be. Next year promises to be an import… Read more »
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 »
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 »
AT&T Scrambling For Cover As T-Mobile Deal Wilts Under Government Scrutiny
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Nobody likes uncertainty heading into two of the most important months of the mobile calendar: the December holiday shopping season and the… Read more »
IPCom Threatens Injunction On HTC In Germany, But HTC Brushes It Off
The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement… Read more »
White Friday For Samsung: A Lifeline In Aussie Galaxy Tablet Injunction?
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Could there be a little glimmer of light at the end of the tablet injunction tunnel for Samsung in Australia? With Christmas now exactly one… Read more »
How Will Facebook's Buffy Phone Look? There's An App For That
Facebook has not approached anything resembling a confirmation of the reports that it is developing its own phone with HTC, code-named “Buff… Read more »
iOS Download Stats For China Show The Importance Of App Localization
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New statistics showing the popularity of various free and paid iOS apps in China show the great importance of localization. And now that Chi… Read more »
Power To The People: ISPs, Media, Users Face Off In EU Legal Triple-Whammy
Consumers in Europe may be feeling the smarting bite of the economic winter settling in around us, but when it comes to internet and mobile… Read more »
With Android-based iQQ, Does Tencent Finally Have A Mobile Strategy?
Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s social media giant, has been really good at building Android apps of late, but it has always lacked a coherent m… 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 »
Thanksgiving Turkey: AT&T, T-Mobile Pull Merger Application From The FCC
Today, on a public holiday in the U.S., AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) issued a statement saying they would be withdrawing t… Read more »
Nokia Delists From Frankfurt Stock Exchange As Trading In Its Stock Shrinks
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has been working through a massive cost-cutting downsizing program, laying off thousands of employees, closing plants, and… Read more »
Apple Approves, Then Rejects, iOS App That Allowed Games Via Subscription
In its usual quiet fashion, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has removed an iOS application designed to let users subscribe to games through in-app purcha… Read more »
Software Fix Coming Soon For Volume Bug On Samsung's Galaxy Nexus
Samsung and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have acknowledged an annoying bug in the brand-new Galaxy Nexus that would cause the volume to fluctuate unc… Read more »
Update: HTC's S3 Graphics Buy In Question As HTC Revises Down Forecasts
Call this one the converse of “all’s well that ends well”: HTC is now reconsidering its purchase of S3 Graphics after the latter company los… 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 »
One Reason Why Apple's App Payments In Yuan Are So Important
photo: Getty Images / Feng Li
It’s no secret that the mobile market in China is big business: the country’s own officials reported last month that China is now approachin… 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 »
FCC Will Not Bless AT&T/T-Mobile, Asks For Hearing On Merger
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission does not like what it sees in the proposed mega-merger between AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile. It ha… Read more »
How To Succeed (Sort Of) In Tablets Without Really Trying? Ask HP
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What do you have to be willing to do in order to gain traction in an Apple-dominated tablet market? Give your product away at a huge loss. T… 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 »
With The Kindle Yet To Hit China, ZTE And China Unicom Grow E-Book Venture
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has a substantial operation in China, but it has yet to take its Kindle e-reader into that market. That has left the doo… Read more »
