Industry Moves: Motorola Taps Former Analyst To Head Mobile Strategy
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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has appointed former financial analyst John Bucher to lead the strategy of its mobile devices and home business units,… Read more »
First Look & Gallery: The Sun Launches £4.99-A-Month iPad Edition
News Corp.’s UK daily tabloid has followed The Times to Apple’s tablet, with an app edition that, at £4.99 a month, is half as much as its… Read more »
Sprint Says It Won’t Limit Data Use By Smartphone Customers
AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA have both promised to limit the Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 06.14.2010
» First apps started disappearing, now developers are reporting incorrect download counts on Android Market. [InfoWorld]
»&… Read more »
Starbucks’ WiFi Goes Free; Yahoo Content Partnership Opens Paid Sites
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Six months after McDonald’s attempted to woo Starbucks’ customers with the promise of free WiFi at its local franchises, the coffee bar chai… Read more »
Have Developers Given Up On Nokia’s Ovi Store?
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has always touted the millions of phones it has in consumer hands — 68 million alone for smartphones –as one of the main… Read more »
Pandora Debuts Its Own Ad Platform For The iPad App
Although Apple’s iAd service is coming July 1, Pandora couldn’t wait and has created its own advertising platform to attract big name market… Read more »
AT&T Shoots Messenger; Blames Goatse For Exposing Security Breach
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Goatse Security, the group that hacked into AT&T’s iPad subscriber data, may have thought it was doing a “public service” by revealing a sec… Read more »
iPad Media Apps: Can Do Better
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Joining paidContent 2010 Mobile: Rob Glaser, Dennis Crowley, Bryan Perez
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Executives from Verizon Wireless, Twitter, ESPN (NYSE: DIS), and Altimeter Group are already on board for a robust discussion at paidContent… Read more »
Online, Mobile Video Scores In World Cup
It will be a while before we get the full stats for online and mobile viewing during the FIFA World Cup 2010 but we already know some of the… Read more »
FTC Probe Into Apple’s Mobile Ad Practices Now Official
What a strange world we live in, where the dominant players in an industry can literally flip-flop overnight with the underdogs.
First, th… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 06.11.2010
» Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) says Flash will be on over half of all smartphones by the end of 2012. [Engadget]
» Google (NSDQ… Read more »
Verizon Wireless To Bring VoIP To Non-Smartphones Using Skype
Skype was once a threat to the wireless industry with carriers worried that free voice calls would eat into the size of the calling buckets… Read more »
Both HTC And Motorola Could Sell More Phones If They Could Build More
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Component shortages for such things as chipsets and displays are hampering the ability for both Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and HTC to build enough… Read more »
Join Twitter, ESPN, Verizon, Altimeter Group At paidContent 2010 Mobile
We’ve already posted the agenda for paidContent 2010 Mobile, coming up July 20 in New York City. As mobile phones morph into portable comput… Read more »
Scribd: Publishers Are Wasting Time, Money, Effort In Creating iPad Apps
Although magazines like Wired are reporting strong results for their early iPad efforts, for most publishers, this is still an experiment to… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 06.10.2010
» Android SMS bug is causing messages to be sent to random recipients. [Geek.com]
» Palm (NSDQ: PALM) clears one laws… Read more »
Are Carriers Still Relevant? Yes And No
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A short, yet vibrant debate, kicked off this morning at a breakfast event in Seattle when a Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) employee stood up and ask… Read more »
The iPhone Effect: O2 Ends Unlimited Data, As Three Joins The Party
O2 UK is preparing to carry iPhone 4 – by ending unlimited data plans.
The telco’s network has been pounded by data-hungry iPhone users ove… Read more »
Akamai Acquires Mobile Content Platform Velocitude
Content delivery manager Akamai Technologies is pushing further into mobile with its purchase of Velocitude, a company that uses the cloud t… Read more »
The Anti-Web Movement Is Gathering Pace
It’s created billions in sales, gave media companies their first taste of the internet, encouraged self-expression where there was oppressio… Read more »
Media Research Consolidation: iSuppli Agrees To Buy Screen Digest
Proving the idea that technologies and media are essentially the same thing, tech market researcher iSuppli has agreed to acquire media rese… Read more »
Interview: Part 2: Dow Jones’ Les Hinton & Robert Thomson On WSJ Digital
The Wall Street Journal was a poster child for premium subscriptions long before Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) bought out the Bancr… Read more »
First Look: Spotify’s On TV, But It Still Needs Partner Deals
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Spotify has been offering pay-TV operators a set top box version of the music service for some time now. But so far it only has the deal ink… Read more »
E-mail Addresses Of Early iPad Buyers Exposed By AT&T
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This is not the way Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) wanted to cap off its big week: Gawker reports that the e-mail addresses of thousands of early iPad b… Read more »
Glu’s Former CEO Greg Ballard Lands At Transpera
After raising $9 million in venture capital last week and refocusing the company on mobile video ads, Transpera has added two high-level exe… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 06.09.2010
» Without the iPhone, Verizon turns to plan B, deepening relationships with its allies. [WSJ]
» Skobbler launches fre… Read more »
Sprint EVO 4G Sales Not As Strong As Previously Reported
Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel has re-stated the sales of HTC’s EVO 4G phone from over the weekend, which were accidentally over-inflated due to a… Read more »
Mobile Ad Wars: Apple’s New iPhone Policies May Single Out Google’s AdMob
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has apparently banned mobile ad networks, such as Google’s AdMob, from collecting information like a person’s location to… Read more »
The Top Five Reasons Why iPhone Has Become Apple’s Most Prized Business
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) normally talks about a range of products during its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, but not this… Read more »
Quick Hits: iPhone Edition 06.08.2010
» Why the iPhone will kill the Flip… and why it won’t.
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is offering everything you want in a ph… Read more »
Fox, NBC and ION Outline Mobile DTV Joint Venture’s Leadership
photo: Corbis / Kevin Dodge
The joint venture formed this spring by networks Fox, NBC (NYSE: GE) and ION Media and nine independent station groups to bring mobile digit… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 06.08.2010
» Updated apps are disappearing from the Android Market. [ReadWriteWeb]
» Why the Apple-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) mobile ad… Read more »
Thrillist Launches iPhone App Across 14 Local Markets
Although e-mail will always be Thrillist’s first love, the e-newsletter company is bringing its city-specific eating, drinking and shopping… Read more »
The iPhone 4 As Seen In Photos
Here’s an overview of the new iPhone 4′s new capabilities as announced today at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.
C… Read more »
iPhone 4 UK: On Usual Suspects, No Prices Yet, O2 Upgrades
The first Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) phone not to have an exclusive UK carrier from launch, iPhone 4 will launch there, at the same time as the U.S.… Read more »
Corrected: @ CM Summit: AdMob’s Hamoui: Nothing New About iAd’s Rich Media
Correction: In the original, I misheard AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui’s responses to an audience question. The story and headline have been updated… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 06.07.2010
» Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G sales break records, outselling the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and Samsung Instinct on their first three days. [… Read more »
Apple Avoids iPhone-Like Trademark Battle Thanks To Cisco, FaceTime Deals
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Updated: Apple’s decision to rename its iPhone operating system “iOS” once again has it using a trademark owned by Cisco Systems (NSDQ: CSCO… Read more »
