Telegraph Puts Mobile App In Subscription Bundle
The Telegraph and Sky News may each operate subscription iPad outlets – but, with latest revisions to their mobile offerings, the two news p… Read more »
28-Year-Old Chris Hughes Buys 98-Year-Old 'New Republic'
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Chris Hughes, the 28-year-old Facebook co-founder and the founder of social action site Jumo, is moving from social networking to media with… Read more »
Cosmopolitan Hits 100,000 Digital Paid Subscribers
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Cosmopolitan (U.S. edition) is the first Hearst magazine to hit 100,000 paid digital subscribers, the company announced today. Read more »
Spam Lawsuits Weigh On Twilio, Group Texting Apps
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Group messaging apps continue to be both a hot communications tool and a legal minefield. Like other developers who decided to build first a… Read more »
Google Aims To Convince Mobile Game Makers On In-App Payments
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will this week try to convince mobile game developers to adopt its improved in-app payments features, as it vies with Ap… Read more »
AT&T Clears Up When 'Unlimited' Plans Hit The Brakes
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AT&T (NYSE: T) has clarified exactly who will be affected by its decision to throttle data speeds for smartphone users still on old “unlimit… Read more »
Facebook Buys Some Time But Hasn't Solved Mobile
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Last November after our paidContent Entertainment conference in Los Angeles, I got to talking with a gentleman in the advertising business w… Read more »
Facebook Pushes Advertisers To Get Creative And Social With Ads
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Facebook showed off a new suite of premium ads Wednesday that it thinks will allow advertisers to interact more directly with their customer… Read more »
EC Says Telco Standards Could Make €110 Billion New Digital Content Market
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The European Commission reckons it could unlock €110 ($147.99/£93.27) billion a year in new digital business by harmonising rules for the… Read more »
Vodafone Lashes Out As European Parliament Votes To Cut Data Roam Charges
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For the last few years European regulators have been pushing mobile companies to slash the roaming charges they slap on customers who cross… Read more »
How Evi Spent A Weekend In App Store Limbo
The mobile world got another reminder over the weekend that the whims of Apple Read more »
Justin Bieber Sued By App Maker ‘Joustin Beaver’
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What’s with Biebs and these lawsuits? Last year, a deranged woman took him to court, claiming she was his baby-moma. Now, the teenage celeb… Read more »
Nokia Unveils New Windows Phone, But Keeps Symbian Afloat
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One year after it dramatically altered the course of its history by signing a landmark deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to use Windows Phone… Read more »
$850 For Everyone? What Happens Next In The AT&T Throttling Case
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An out-of-work truck driver from California made headlines on Friday when he turned the tables on AT&T (NYSE: T), and stuck it to the phone… Read more »
Motorola Prepares To Hail New Google Overlords
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is still waiting for the Chinese government to approve its purchase of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility, but it Read more »
Want To See 2012′s Mobile Future? Look At 2011.
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What will 2012 bring to our mobile world where tablets are trying to take the place of PCs and we’re carrying small computers in our pockets… Read more »
Google On Defensive Yet Again In Snafu Over Ad-Tracking In Safari Browsers
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to find itself in compromising positions in 2012: the latest comes after an investigation by The Wall Street J… Read more »
What, No Fist Bump?
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Call me a sucker for cool networking tools, but I love Bump and wrote about the Mountain View, Calif.-based back in August 2010. The company’s audacious goal – to bridge the physical and digital world – made a lot of sense to me. Investors, too, liked the company and have pumped in over $20 million into the company. Read more »
CBS And Turner Flip The Pay Switch For March Madness Mobile Streaming
Streaming March Madness tournament games next month won’t be as free and easy as it was last year, with broadcast partners CBS (NYSE: CBS) a… Read more »
Google Deems Mobile Web Ads Ready For Prime AdSense Real Estate
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) thinks that mobile Web advertising has gotten to the point where it should be part of AdSense, the company’s lucrative e… Read more »
More Stores In China Being Told To Remove iPads In Apple Trademark Dispute
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is no stranger to legal disputes around the globe over its mobile products, but it’s running into a problem that has noth… Read more »
Google: Android Won’t Share Personal Info With Apps Unless You Let It
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In response to the uproar over how mobile iOS applications have had access to address-book data without having to inform the user, Google (N… Read more »
Updated: Time For Apple To Fix How iOS Handles Contact Data
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A week after mobile social network Path found itself in the tech industry spotlight for uploading iOS contacts without explicit permission,… Read more »
MTV’s Music Meter App Out Of Beta For Both iOS And Android
Believe it or not, MTV actually does still care about music: its Music Meter mobile application has shed the beta tag with its 2.0 release,… Read more »
Apple Said To Cut iAd Pricing Once Again
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has once again cut prices on its iAd system for rich in-app advertising on iOS applications, according to a report, as ad… Read more »
Apple CEO Cook: The iPhone Now Casts The Halo Over The iPad
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It’s kind of amazing to consider how passé the iPod, the gadget that defined a decade of music, has become at Apple: the iPhone is the now… Read more »
Early March Seen As Launching Point For iPad 3, Likely With LTE
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Two years after Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) established the market for modern tablet computers, it’s working on a flurry of new ideas for the iPad, a… Read more »
Foxconn, Apple’s iPhone Supplier, To Undergo Random Audits By Labor Group
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One month after Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) joined the Fair Labor Association amid the release of its supplier report and a new wave of discomfort ov… Read more »
Samsung Launching First Android 4.0 Tablet But At Old-School Prices
The Android 4.0 tablets are finally starting to arrive, and Samsung is ready to reveal its 7-inch Galaxy Tab with the latest and greatest ve… Read more »
Charts: Platform Wars, App Stores And Ecosystems
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Smartphone sales have overtaken PC, iPhone app spend is rising and Android is beset by fragmentation problems, this visual stat compendium b… Read more »
Apple Sues Motorola In San Diego To Stop German Patent Case
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Where will this all end? Both Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are sitting on billions in cash and seem intent on blowing a good p… Read more »
Microsoft: Only We Get To Use Desktop Mode In Apps For Windows 8 On ARM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has cleared up some of the confusion regarding its plans for Windows 8 computers that will use ARM processors, the fi… Read more »
What’s On Your Strategic Roadmap For Mobile In 2012?
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Is 2012 “the year of mobile?” No sir. Mobile is simply too disruptive to have just one year. After all, who remembers the year of the TV or… Read more »
Google-Motorola Deal Could Be Approved Early Next Week
Google’s bid for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) is likely to get a thumbs up from the U.S. Department of Justice, but still could face opposition from… Read more »
Report: Apple’s iPad 3 Set To Arrive In Early March
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It’s been almost a year since former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2, and according to a new report, the company pla… Read more »
How Accenture Used A Mobile App To Get On The BBC
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When the consulting firm’s logo appeared routinely in Six Nations rugby broadcast graphics this weekend, James Cridland was amongst the view… Read more »
Path Apologizes For Address-Book Data Snafu, Promises To Delete Data
Path, a company hoping to build a kinder, gentler social network based on sharing within a limited number of people, has apologized for a co… Read more »
Keep It Fair: Apple, Google Address Concerns Over Mobile Patent Licensing
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All is indeed fair in love and war, but not everything is fair in patent licensing. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are working o… Read more »
Jersey Shore, Dora, iCarly To Amazon Prime Instant In Viacom Deal
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding its Prime Instant Video library in a deal with Viacom (NYSE: VIA), bringing the total number of streaming v… Read more »
Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more »
