Adobe’s Thomas Nielsen Named RealNetworks CEO
RealNetworks has chosen Thomas Nielsen as its new president and CEO, succeeding interim CEO Mike Lunsford. He starts next week and is intend… Read more »
Leap, MetroPCS See Different Results From Chasing Smartphone Opportunities
Tough times continue for wireless carriers at the lower end of the spectrum as they struggle to move into the smartphone era. Things got a l… Read more »
Apple Misses October Deadline For U.S. Launch Of iTunes Match
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Apple’s iTunes Match service appears to have gotten lost amid the Halloween candy. Despite promises that it would launch its Internet-based… Read more »
Google Encouraging Mobile Web Sites With GoMo Project
Even as it has plunged into mobile app development with Android, Google’s first love has always been the Web. That’s because Web sites can b… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Major Newspapers’ Total Digital Editions Rise 63 Percent
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Digital editions of the top 25 newspapers rose 63 percent to 2,169,843 for the six months ending in September, according to Audit Bureau of… Read more »
Apple Extends iPhone 4S To 15 More Countries, Including Legal Hotspot Korea
Yesterday, figures out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech underscored how Apple’s share of smartphone sales in several key countries had actuall… Read more »
More Apps, You Say? Appcelerator Raises $15 Million For Development Service
The growth of mobile apps — there are well over one million on the market already — shows no sign of slowing down, and Appcelerator, which… Read more »
Hey, T-Mobile USA: Here’s A Tip From China Mobile On How To Sell The iPhone
photo: Getty Images / Feng Li
T-Mobile is the last major carrier in the U.S. not to have the iPhone — a consequence of the device’s radio chipsets being different from t… Read more »
Education App Publisher Mindshapes Raises $5 Million, Inks Content Deals
It has become something of a meme that young kids take to smartphones and tablets like fish to water. Today sees a development that could fo… Read more »
Urban Airship Snaps Up SimpleGeo, Adding Location To Mobile Dev Services
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Two startups hoping to be at the center of a shift in development priorities to mobile are joining forces. Urban Airship, which provides not… Read more »
New Ad Service From Flurry Targets Indifferent Mobile App Users
App users can be a fickle bunch, downloading new mobile apps on a whim only to let them sit dormant for months. In that vein, Flurry is offe… Read more »
What Mobile Consolidation? Canonical Wants Ubuntu On Smartphones, Tablets
At least one company thinks the world hungers for another mobile operating system. Canonical, the company that builds and maintains Ubuntu L… Read more »
Gamestop Tries Its Hand At Android Tablets With Gaming Devices For Holidays
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Android partners have been mighty quiet about their plans for second-generation devices leading up to the holiday season, but a newcomer is… Read more »
Motorola Cutting 800 Jobs As Smartphone Group Still Seeing Red
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Around 800 workers at Motorola (NYSE: MMI) won’t ever get to experience life as a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) employee, unless they join the search… 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 »
The Morning Lowdown 10-31-11
» YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) Launches Massive Programming Push (paidContent)
» Google TV 2.0 Rolls Out But No New Hardware… Read more »
More Flip Flopping From HP? Todd Bradley Says WebOS Closure Is Just A Rumor
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HP (NYSE: HPQ) may have resolved one major item on its agenda when it announced last week it would hold on to its PC division; but now it se… Read more »
Why Android Needs To Pick Up The Update Pace, And Why The Time Is Right
There should be no doubt at this point: the world of Android is a turbulent, noisy, and at-times inscrutable tangle of interests. But the ba… Read more »
Report: Yahoo, Google Set To Muscle Into Crowded Tablet News Reader Space
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How do you know when a phenomenon like tablet news-reader applications has staying power? When the big guys jump in; and according to a repo… Read more »
HP To Hold On To PC Division But Sources Say It Will Finally Kill WebOS
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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is to keep its PC division rather than selling it off, the company has announced, reversing a plan first aired b… Read more »
Europe Marches Its Airwaves Toward 4G By 2013
European countries must ensure they have auctioned their analogue TV spectrum for use by higher-speed mobile networks by January 1, 2013, ac… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-28-11
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» Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller (paidContent)
» Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spin… Read more »
Samsung: Record Mobile Profits On Sales Growth Of 300 Percent
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Earnings out today from Samsung show the Korean handset maker posted record sales and profits for its telecoms division, driven primarily by… 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 »
Updated: Smartphone Growth Helps Motorola Earnings, Xoom Shipments Plummet
Smartphone shipments were up during Motorola’s third quarter but already anemic tablet shipments fell off a cliff as the Xoom appears destin… Read more »
Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spins Out Its AdHaven Platform
More VC money getting invested into one more independent mobile ad network: 4INFO has raised $14 million in funding in a round led by Paul A… 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 »
Partnership With Gilt City Shows Google’s New Focus On High-End Shoppers
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is collaborating with discount luxury network Gilt City as it looks to expand its Google Offers deals service. The partn… 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 »
As Cable TV News Wars Heat Up, Bloomberg Builds ‘Live TV’ Placement On iPad
Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is l… Read more »
Sony Buys Ericsson Out Of JV To Make ‘Four-Screen Strategy’ With Mobile
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has confirmed it is buying Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) out of their Sony Ericsson mobile handset-making joint venture for €1.05… Read more »
Wikimedia Doubles Down On Mobile With Wikipedia Zero, Carrier Appeals
After years of employing an ad-hoc community-driven approach to mobile, one of the world’s biggest Web sites is going mobile in a much more… Read more »
RIM Delays Playbook 2.0 Software As Angry BlackBerry Owners File Suit
RIM’s rough year hasn’t gotten any better this week. The company was forced to delay the implementation of the feature for which it is known… Read more »
Sprint Beats Earnings Estimates, But Investors Raise Eyebrow At iPhone Cost
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Earnings day hasn’t been a pleasant experience for Sprint (NYSE: S) in recent years. The company beat earnings estimates for its third quart… 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 »
Nokia Has A Brimful Of Hope For Emerging ‘Smart’ Phone Markets
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) unveiled four new Symbian S40 handsets designed to appeal to upwardly-mobile youngsters in emerging-markets with smartphon… Read more »
Nokia Sees ‘New Dawn’ With ‘The First Real Windows Phone’
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop opened Nokia World in London with an apparent slap in the face to other Windows Phone makers like HTC, as… 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 »
Survey: U.S. Tablet News Junkies Prefer Web To Apps, Few Have Paid
Tablet owners read a lot of news, in part because the early-adopter crowd that has embraced tablets are the type of people who like to be in… Read more »
HP WebOS Evangelist Richard Kerris Leaving The Company
Richard Kerris, as big an advocate for HP’s WebOS as existed on the planet, has decided to leave the company, according to a report. His dec… Read more »
