Windows Phone 7 Preview: Microsoft Has A Fighting Chance
photo: Tricia Duryee
Rather than keeping it under wraps until officially unveiling it to the public (and filing charges against anyone who gets their hands on an… Read more »
Nokia Siemens Snaps Up Motorola Network Assets For $1.2 Billion
photo: Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens Networks has agreed to purchase most of Motorola’s telecom infrastructure unit this morning for $1.2 billion in ca… Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s Restructuring Is Nearly Complete
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said in the second-quarter earnings release today that its latest smartphones are seeing some momentu… Read more »
The Shrinking Digital Media IPO
photo: Corbis
After a span of 12 weeks at the start of the year in which seven digital media companies filed to go public, the IPO market for digital medi… Read more »
Consumer Reports Still Not Recommending The iPhone 4
Consumer Reports is not satisfied with Apple’s apology today, which includes providing a free case to any iPhone 4 owners who want one. In a… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 07.16.2010
» Apple’s real Achilles heel. (Hint: It’s not the antenna issue.) [HBR]
» 4G data is likely to be capped in the futur… Read more »
That Thunk You Heard Was The iPhone Falling Off Its Pedestal
Here’s today’s lesson: The iPhone isn’t perfect, nor are Apple’s hard-working engineers.
So if you’ve been tormenting yourself over whether… Read more »
Apple Speaks Up Over Snowballing iPhone 4 Concerns: Free Cases, No Recall
Apple can no longer stay quiet about claims that a faulty antenna structure is leading to more dropped calls and connection issues on the iP… Read more »
Gannett CEO Dubow: iPad App Will Remain Free, Ad Supported Through Q3
With advertiser interest in Gannett’s USA Today iPad app still running high, CEO Craig Dubow said that the app will remain free and ad suppo… Read more »
paidContent Mobile: BBC.com’s Miranda Cresswell On Profiting From Auntie
The BBC has clocked a million global downloads for its ad-funded iPad news app – even though it’s currently forbidden from releasing it in i… Read more »
Virgin To Launch ‘iPad-Only’ Magazine
By Josh Halliday: Virgin is expanding its global empire into the world of consumer magazines Read more »
Weekend Video: Squeeze Use iPad As Keyboard On Live TV
The rock band Squeeze used the iPad app Pianist for a keyboard solo during a live performance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (skip to 2:25)… Read more »
paidContent Mobile: Execs From Zagat, MTVN, AKQA, Lima Sky, Handmark Added
A flurry of additions as we count down to paidContent Mobile: Leveraging The Smartphone Boom next Tuesday in New York:
– A whole new panel… Read more »
paidContent Mobile: HTC’s Plan For Smartphone Domination
For most of HTC’s existence, it was a little-known cellphone manufacturer making more Windows Mobile phones than anyone else in the world. N… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 07.15.2010
» HP’s Android tablet has been delayed. [DigitalDaily]
» Samsung Vibrant (a.k.a. Samsung Galaxy S) is on sale now. [M… Read more »
Flurry Attempts To Drive More App Downloads With Recommendation Engine
The mobile world needs more equivalents to Amazon’s recommendation engine that suggest products based on ones you’ve already purchased. Anal… Read more »
Millennial Media: Majority Of Developers Still Focused On Single Devices
Despite the growing popularity of Google’s Android system among consumers, its attempt to erase Apple’s dominance with developers will have… Read more »
Vodafone Gives Away Its $30 Million Wayfinder As Open Source
photo: Engadget
Two years after it bought Wayfinder for 230 million Swedish crowns (now $31 million) to power its location services, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is… Read more »
Hearst Magazines Outlines Major App Rollout For Second Half Of 2010
Five days after releasing its iPad app version of Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazine says iTunes users have downloaded more than 10,000 copi… Read more »
Shopkick Raises $15 Million For Its Location-Based Shopping App
photo: Flickr / Urban Combing (Ultrastar175g)
Shopkick, which is behind a highly-anticipated mobile app that will send offers to shoppers when they are near a store, has raised $15 milli… Read more »
Foursquare Founders’ Payout From Latest Round: $4.6 Million
photo: Corbis / David Brabyn
About that $20 million Foursquare raised last month … $4.6 million of the total went to co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai,… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 07.14.2010
» Facebook is building its own mobile platform. [Mobile Entertainment]
» Jumptap launches its new $4 million ad effor… Read more »
Flirtomatic Attracts $9 Million
Online flirting service Flirtomatic has raised $9 million in a third round of funding, which it will use to redo its mobile apps and continu… Read more »
Microsoft Courts Mobile Developers With Cash
photo: Corbis
Here’s one way to boost the number of apps in your app store: Offer developers money to build them. That’s what Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is do… Read more »
Motorola’s Handset Division May Be On Its Own Faster Than Thought
photo: Tricia Duryee
Motorola’s plan to split into two may happen faster than expected if Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens successfully bids for Motorola’s equipment ar… Read more »
NPD: iTunes Users Have A ‘Strong Interest’ In Paid Subscription Services
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But how much are they willing to pay to access music from iTunes via the cloud? A survey by marketing researcher NPD Group estimates that a… Read more »
Next Week At paidContent Mobile In NYC: Madison Avenue Meets Mobile
This might be the year mobile advertising hits an inflection point. With that promise being made ad nauseam for the past few years, it’s har… Read more »
Consumer Reports: The Onus Should Be On Apple To Supply The Duct Tape
Consumer Reports has come out with another harsh criticism of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for the second day in a row, saying it should be their resp… Read more »
Where Would We Be Today If It Weren’t For The App Store?
photo: Vision Mobile
The app stores on the iPhone and Android are still full of holes: marketing an app among thousands is difficult, and for Android in particul… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 07.13.2010
photo: Nokia
» Sprint (NYSE: S) is considering the adoption of LTE in addition to the company Read more »
New Bebo CEO: We’ll Staff Up, Innovate, Then Maybe Sell
Bebo is getting ready to announce its first new activity since being off-loaded by AOL in the next few weeks, says Adam Levin, the managing… Read more »
Meredith Buys Remaining Stake In Mobile Marketer The Hyperfactory
Meredith (NYSE: MDP) has acquired the outstanding shares in mobile agency The Hyperfactory. Terms were not disclosed. Read more »
Mobile Ad Network InMobi Raises $8 Million To Face Apple, Google
InMobi, the mobile advertising network that started in India three years ago and has expanded globally, has raised $8 million in a second ro… Read more »
Univision, ESPN: 25 Million-Plus Hours Of World Cup Games Watched Online
The World Cup is over — and the final digital numbers are in from ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Univision, both of which made big plays for online a… Read more »
Consumer Reports’ Findings Conflict With Apple’s Statement On iPhone 4
Consumer Reports has confirmed in its own tests that there is a problem with the iPhone 4′s reception and thus does not recommend the device… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 07.12.2010
photo: Flckr
» AT&T (NYSE: T) CTO John Donovan says the company “will move heaven and Earth” to improve its network. [MobileBeat]
» … Read more »
Microsoft Says Its Tablets Are Coming
photo: Corbis
It hasn’t been the best year for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in the tablet market, by any measure … There’s been the cancellation of the compan… Read more »
Google’s ‘App Inventor’ Makes Developers Out Of Anyone
Industry observers are estimating that Google’s Android Market will blow by 100,000 applications by the end of the month. That will be much… Read more »
Skype And Fring Fight Over Interconnectivity
photo: Corbis
Fring is no longer providing support for Skype, a week after the mobile app expanded its features to include two-way video calling for the i… Read more »
Mobile DTV Rollout Continues
photo: Open Mobile Video Coalition
While the business model for mobile DTV is still being figured out, local stations are moving forward and gradually launching mobile DTV bro… Read more »
