RIM Confirms Down Q3, But Management Assures Us Everything Will Be Fine
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) continued to struggle during its third fiscal quarter after taking a huge charge earlier in the quarter rela… Read more »
LightSquared Defends Itself Against Report That Claims GPS Interference
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The U.S. government dealt a blow Wednesday to LightSquared’s hopes of building a national LTE network, concluding that the proposed network… Read more »
Wyse's Cloud-Free Mobile App Transfers Files Directly From PCs To Phones
We’ve been talking about cloud computing for what seems like forever, but the talk definitely heated up in 2011 with the launch of Apple’s i… Read more »
Samsung Australia: Thanks, Apple, For The Galaxy Tab Publicity
Would anyone in Australia have noticed the Samsung Galaxy Tab had it not been the target of a heated lawsuit from Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) Samsun… Read more »
Nielsen: Android And Apple Dominate The App Space But Mobile Browser Rules
Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Niels… Read more »
Stars Align For Thursday's U.S. Launch Of Galaxy Nexus On Verizon
It has been almost two months since Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Samsung executives gleefully revealed the Galaxy Nexus, the best Android smartph… Read more »
Take A Seat, Andy: Report Says Microsoft's Lees 'Benched' For WP7 Efforts
So who exactly is running the show when it comes to Microsoft’s mobile efforts? A few more details emerged Wednesday about the reassignment… Read more »
Flipboard's Phone Flips Beating iPad 2:1
Flipboard’s iPhone application has clocked up a million downloads in the week since it went live, the company tells paidContent. Read more »
Nokia's First Windows Phone For The U.S., The Lumia 710 With T-Mobile
Confirming earlier reports, T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to sell a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows Phone in the U.S. — a key market for… Read more »
Google Hoping To Improve Mobile Recommendations With Alfred And Majel
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is making a few moves to shore up an area that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has aggressively attacked this year: voice-driven mobi… Read more »
Samsung Electronics Reorg: Apple's Friends On One Side; Foes On The Other?
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It looks like Samsung Electronics, the flagship and biggest division of the Samsung Group conglomerate, is restructuring its organisation. W… Read more »
For The iCloud Disaffected, Microsoft Offers iPhone Users Skydrive Storage
When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched its iCloud service earlier this year, it automatically gave users of its own devices 5GB of free cloud-base… Read more »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
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Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Facebook Readying Mobile Ad Push For 2012, Right Around The Expected IPO
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Facebook’s Carolyn Everson was tight-lipped several months ago at paidContent Advertising when the subject of mobile advertising was discuss… Read more »
Developers Still Prefer iOS Despite Android's Huge Marketshare Gains
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The disconnect between Android’s huge marketshare and its second-tier status among many mobile developers has been clear for some time, but… Read more »
Report: Apple Courting Israeli Flash-Memory Company, Anobit
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might be looking to add some interesting flash-memory technology to its arsenal, if a report out of Israel is accurate. A… Read more »
Carrier IQ Attempts To Set The Record Straight On Mobile Data Collection
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Carrier IQ has released the most detailed assessment of what its controversial software can and can’t do on your mobile phone, weeks after i… Read more »
Apple's iAd 'Compromise': Only $400,000 Buy-In And Madison Ave-Style Wooing
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has had a clean run at the mobile market in the last few years with only a few bumps — now it looks like it might be try… Read more »
Another AOL Reorg: Dial-Up, Mobile And Web Services Report Directly To CFO
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On the back of its latest executive appointments — a new head of sales, and a new head of HR — AOL (NYSE: AOL) is pressing on with more re… Read more »
Microsoft And Nokia Pay Perform For A Mobile Soccer App
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Illustrating how rival platforms are keen to attract quality apps from iOS to their stores, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are… Read more »
Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com
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Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more »
Pontiflex/Harris Survey: Incentive And Video Ads Turn Off Mobile Users
Mobile ads today make up less than one percent of all money spent on media advertising, and a poll just out from Harris Interactive, commiss… Read more »
Microsoft's Windows Phone Head Lees Taking On New Role Ahead Of Huge Year
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is shaking up the leadership of its Windows Phone unit heading into a huge year for its revamped mobile strategy. And… Read more »
Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more »
Time Spent On Mobile Way Ahead Of Ad Dollars Spent On Mobile
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People spent 30 percent more time on their mobile devices over the last year than they did the year before, and also spent more time on mobi… Read more »
Sunday's Last Call For HP's TouchPad Makes WebOS Hiatus Official
Sunday was probably the last chance to grab a WebOS tablet for quite some time, and whatever limited supply HP (NYSE: HPQ) made available of… Read more »
AT&T, Deutsche Telekom Ask For More Time To Evaluate T-Mobile Deal
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AT&T’s attempt to remake the U.S. wireless landscape with its huge $39 billion deal for T-Mobile may have finally reached the breaking point… Read more »
Nielsen: Google's Own Apps Play Second Fiddle To Facebook In Popularity
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Nielsen is getting ready later this week to release is quarterly State of the Media report, which this time around will focus on mobile medi… Read more »
BBC Now Allowing Mobile iPlayer To Stream On Mobile Networks
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The BBC is permitting use of its iPlayer mobile apps over 3G mobile networks, ahead of its big 2012 Olympic Games mobile push. Read more »
Apple's Leagues Ahead In App Downloads: 18 Billion To Android's 10 Billion
A timely news announcement from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) one week after Google’s own Android apps milestone: Apple says that 500,000 apps have now… Read more »
Biting At Nokia's Heels, Samsung's Device Sales In 2011 Pass 300 Million
Samsung may be still be trying to crack the tablet market, but in mobile devices it is continuing to pick up steam: it sold 300 million devi… Read more »
Report: Feds Withdraw Lawsuit Against AT&T Over T-Mobile
The Justice Department today asked a federal judge to postpone or withdraw its petition to stop AT&T (NYSE: T) from acquiring T-Mobile. It c… Read more »
Charity For The Holidays: HP To Contribute WebOS To Open-Source Community
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HP (NYSE: HPQ) has finally figured out what to do with WebOS, and it’s unlikely to result in anything that will change the mobile landscape.… Read more »
New York Times Expands Into Freemium Apps With 'Election 2012'
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As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone ne… Read more »
Zite Joins Flipboard, Google On The iPhone In Crowded Week For News Apps
Fate probably wouldn’t have had it any other week: at the end of a week in which both Flipboard and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unveiled updated tak… Read more »
Nokia Ships Its Second, Cheaper Windows Phone Handset, The Lumia 710
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone d… Read more »
Updated: In Samsung v. Apple, Are Injunctions A Viable Nuclear Option?
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Two more advances in the ongoing, international fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android tablet maker Samsung over alleged patent violat… Read more »
Here's How Android Has Destroyed Symbian In China
Everyone knows that Nokia’s Symbian always had little take-up in the U.S.. But, once upon a time, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) could count on a large u… Read more »
Updated: Google Launches Currents, Its New Mobile Reading App
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Add Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to the growing list of companies like Flipboard, Pulse and Scribd’s Float with news aggregation apps. Google quickly… Read more »
Updated: YouMail App Yanked From Android Market After T-Mobile Complains
Update: YouMail’s app is back in the Android Market after some more communication between the voicemail company and T-Mobile. That revealed… Read more »
