In The Mobile Music Landgrab, Rdio Signs On With Verizon
As big guns like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reportedly gear up to launch their own music streaming services, the smaller sta… Read more »
NPD: iPhone 4 Is Currently The Best-Sellng Device In The U.S.
NPD has released its quarterly results for mobile phones sales in the U.S. among consumers: smartphones are now outselling feature phones, a… Read more »
Can Sony Cut It As A Tablet Brand With Its Two New Android Devices?
Consumer electronics giant Sony (NYSE: SNE) has finally, formally confirmed what people have long been expecting the company to do for month… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 04-22-11: Google Lawsuits; Twitter Mobile; Apple Privacy
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: progress on the Google/Oracle lawsuit while Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gets a setback in a Linux-r… Read more »
Eye For An i: Samsung Sues Over iPhone, iPad Patents, Fight Goes Intl
photo: Tricia Duryee
You could see this one coming from a mile away: Samsung has struck back against Apple’s patent lawsuit against it with a few of its own. The… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 04-21-11: Nielsen Privacy Stats; Amazon/Samsung Tablet; Veer
photo: Corbis / Stanley Eales
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: as news of Apple’s tracking data emerges, Nielsen reveals some privacy stats; details t… Read more »
Apple’s Throwing The Book At Samsung In New Lawsuit
photo: Tricia Duryee
In the past few years, patent lawsuits between competitors in the smartphone market have exploded. Apple’s new lawsuit against Samsung, made… Read more »
Update: Patent Plot Thickens: Apple Sues Samsung; ITC Pushes For Nokia, HTC
photo: Tom Krazit
Two developments in Apple’s various patent fights over mobile products: The company got a knock back at the U.S. International Trade Commiss… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-18-11: Adobe; Square; Amazon Tablet; iPhone 5
photo: Adobe
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile: Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) opens its Flash kimono; Square gets a leg up from Apple; (NSDQ: AAPL) some… Read more »
Smartphone Parts Shortage Caused By Japanese Quake
photo: Corbis / Andy Rain
Smartphone sales could drop by as much as 5 percent this year because the Japanese earthquake in March seriously affected supplies of key pa… Read more »
Google Buys PushLife For $25 Million: A Piece In Its Mobile Music Strategy?
We still don’t have the official, bigger picture of what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) intends to do in its music strategy, and whether it will have w… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-07-11: HTC/Nokia; Facebook phone; Televisa/Iusacell
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: HTC passes Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in market cap; the “Facebook phone” launches in the UK; an… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-01-11: NFC Europe; Apple Tweaks; BMW VC Fund
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Two more NFC initiatives in Europe — one in the UK and one in Spain; two reports on so… Read more »
RIM Signs On With Intellectual Ventures For Its Patent Portfolio
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RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has followed fellow handset makers HTC and Samsung into the arms of Intellectual Property Ventures, signing a deal with the… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-25-11: Honeycomb; In-App Billing; iPad 2; MobileMe
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reigns in Honeycomb from smartphone makers, and starts to test in-a… Read more »
CTIA Wire: T-Mobile; Nokia; CTIA Survey; Powerwave
» T-Mobile announced its expansion of 4G products, including the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) G2x smartphone. It’s also rolling out the Sa… Read more »
Slideshow: The Latest And Greatest Phones And Tablets
photo: Tricia Duryee
The wireless industry is gathering in Orlando for CTIA 2011, a showcase of some of the latest and greatest tablets and phones as well as fur… Read more »
A Slideshow For CTIA 2011: Phones, Tablets and Dancing Robots
photo: Tricia Duryee
The wireless industry is gathering in Orlando for CTIA 2011, a showcase of some of the latest and greatest tablets and phones as well as fur… Read more »
Are Mobile Device Makers Finally Ready To Swear Off Carrier Subsidies?
photo: Samsung
We’re beginning to see hints that mobile-device makers may be prepared to start weaning themselves off carriers handouts and pricing their p… Read more »
Samsung Plans Two New Galaxy Tabs at iPad-Like Prices
photo: Tom Krazit
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab devices are another sign that competitors to Apple’s iPad have learned from Motorola’s mistakes in rolling out… Read more »
Samsung Hopes For Android Magic In Its Galaxy Player Device
The world of MP3 music players has been almost entirely dominated by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), which effectively created the market when it launch… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown: Google NFC; Sidekick; iPad Jailbreak; Neomobile, Moko Buys
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) picks up the pace with NFC; T-Mobile’s Sidekick; jailbreak for the… Read more »
One Setback For NFC: Apple May Not Put It In The Next iPhone
We’ve seen some significant advances made in the mobile money game in the last several months, but some news today underscored how this is s… Read more »
Nielsen: Apple, RIM Are Beating Android OEMs In The U.S. Smartphone Race
photo: RIM
Google’s Android OS is leading the pack for smartphone market share in the U.S., but when it comes to the largest smartphone manufacturer, R… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown: Motorola, T-Mobile, Apple, Google, AT&T, China
photo: Tricia Duryee
Our list of mobile news to start your day. Today’s topics: Motorola (NYSE: MMI), T-Mobile’s Sidekick, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Hacking, AT&T (NYSE… Read more »
Record Customer Losses And Low ARPU: T-Mobile USA Needs Something Sticky
photo: T-Mobile USA
In January, when T-Mobile’s top executives appeared before investors in New York, they laid out a strategy to add $3 billion more to the U.S… Read more »
Infographic: Mobile Browsers Compared Worldwide (Or What Nokia’s Giving Up)
photo: Corbis / Andy Rain
All talk these days is about Google/Android and Apple/iOS, but here’s a nifty infographic that underscores just how fragmented the picture r… Read more »
Android Was The Big Winner At Mobile World Congress
Android dominated the buzz for this year’s event. According to some number-crunching from Webtrends, which analysis how much media outlets (… Read more »
MWC: Android Rocked The House; Absent Apple Still In Attendance
Android dominated the buzz for this year’s event. According to some number-crunching from Webtrends, which analysis how much media outlets (… Read more »
@ MWC: WAC Finally Goes Commercial; Looks Like Another Win For Android
One year after making its debut at Mobile World Congress, the Mobile Applications Community — the group formed to encourage operator-led ap… Read more »
Time Inc. Rolls Out ‘All Access’ Sub For Digital, Print – But Not iPad
photo: Sports Illustrated
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) unveiled its new “All Access” digital subscription model for Sports Illustrated: one monthly or annual price for prin… Read more »
Who Would Benefit Most From A Tie-Up With Nokia? Microsoft
If you could cut anticipation with a knife, you would need the most high-end, sharpest Global in the block to go at Nokia at the moment: no… Read more »
Smartphone Usage Up 60 Percent; Android Makes Biggest Gains
photo: In Veritas Lux
Smartphone usage has grown by an astounding 60 percent in the last year in the U.S., but the latest figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) show… Read more »
Going Non-Native: Appia, Funded By Eric Schmidt, And More From GetJar
This week, news about non-native app stores was a bit like a proverbial bus: you wait for ages, and then two announcements come along at onc… Read more »
Tablets: Apple Loses 20 Percent Market Share To Android In Just One Quarter
Someone at Samsung must have been a little red-faced today, when the mobile giant got called on how it reported its figures for the Galaxy T… Read more »
Android Gets Even Bigger And Tops The Charts For Smartphone OS
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may still be shipping more devices than any other mobile phone maker, but worldwide, it’s now losing in the smartphone pla… Read more »
Handset Rankings: Nokia Leads, And Android’s Not A Panacea For Competitors
photo: Corbis / Andy Rain
No less than three analysts houses have posted their global handset rankings for the last quarter, and, despite losing overall market share… Read more »
Microsoft Puts Mobile On Mute In Earnings
Sales of the Kinect have swiped away all expectations, and Office is still going strong, but mobile was conspicuously absent in Microsoft’s… Read more »
Mobile Device Bits: Oracle, Nokia Patents; Lenovo; Notebooks Still Strong
– Oracle v. Google: Android device makers LG (SEO: 066570), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Samsung could be feeling some legal heat soon. They ha… Read more »
Nokia Stumbled, But Mobile Music Services Are Still Gaining Ground
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have shuttered its unlimited music service in all but six of the 33 markets where it was operational, with low subscri… Read more »
