HP Permanently Cuts Price Of TouchPad By $100
HP (NYSE: HPQ) has made permanent the price cut on its TouchPad tablet after a special weekend promotion expired on Monday, with an updated… Read more »
Kids’ Book App Publisher iStoryTime Raises $2 Million
The Smurfs, Transformers and Kung Fu Panda have some more funding coming to them: iStoryTime, which develops kids’ picture books for mobile… Read more »
Amazon Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App
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Another day, and another app publisher moves to the web to get around Apple’s in-app purchasing rules. This one is a biggie: Amazon today of… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-10-11: Amazon/Apple; Moto; Walmart; Nuance; AT&T/T-Mo
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple/Amazon: One solution to the change in charging terms that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has m… Read more »
Tribune’s Reported Android Tablet Plan A Head-Scratcher
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It’s not clear why a publishing company like Tribune would think it has a chance to build an iPad competitor when companies that live and br… Read more »
Big Blow To Samsung: Apple Wins European Injunction Against Galaxy Tab
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has scored a major victory in its patent war against Samsung, winning a preliminary injunction in a German court that wil… Read more »
Tablet Makers Have A Better Shot Against iPad In Europe, Says Forrester
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has all but cornered the market for tablets in the U.S., say researchers at Forrester, who predict that its iPad will tak… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-9-11: Apple/HTC/Lodsys; ZTE; Twitter/Square; Mobile Ads
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) patent cases: The ITC is launching its investigation of Apple’s pa… Read more »
HP Takes $100 Off The Price Of The TouchPad, Is That Enough?
One of the problems with the launch of various Android tablets earlier this year–and there were many–was that the devices had no real way… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-4-2011: Skype/Android, Chrome OS Hacks, Verizon Leaks
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Here’s a look at some of the top stories in mobile today: Read more »
Time Inc. To Add Tablet Editions For All Mags; Strikes B&N Deal
A few weeks after extending its “all access” subscription plans to Time magazine, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is working on creating tablet editio… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-2-11: Microsoft/Nokia, Skype iPad, Android Security
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Here’s a look at some of the top stories in mobile today: Read more »
Weak Profits Could Make Keeping Up With The Androids Hard For Motorola
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Research in Motion’s Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis should send Motorola (NYSE: MMI) CEO Sanjay Jha a bottle of scotch: there’s a new whip… Read more »
Can More Flexible Approach To App Sizes Help Boost Android Tablet Momentum?
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) released a few more details Wednesday on how Android developers can start using a new method for making sure their appli… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-26-2011: HTC-Apple, Smartphones, iPhone 5
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile this morning: HTC-Apple: The two patent adversaries are supposedly considering settlement talks… Read more »
Mozilla Plans Chrome OS Rival Aimed At Phones, Tablets
It’s far from clear whether Chrome OS has caught on with consumers or businesses, but Mozilla announced plans Monday to develop a Web-based… Read more »
VA To Allow iPhones, iPads For Work Use: RIM’s Playbook AWOL
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) may be tight with the U.S. federal government when it comes to the official use of mobile devices, but at le… Read more »
The New Catalog? Online Shopping On Tablets Growing
As more and more tablets find their way into the hands of consumers, the payoff from tablet-oriented shopping experiences could become very… Read more »
Facebook’s iPad App Revealed In New iPhone App Version
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Facebook may be closer to launching its new iPad app after code for the app was spotted in the latest release of its iPhone application. And… Read more »
RIM Adds Web Video-Editing Expertise With Purchase Of Jaycut
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) has picked up a small video-editing company based on Sweden called Jaycut to add to the video-editing prowes… Read more »
Vodafone: Bumper Data Growth In Europe On Slowing Service Revenue Overall
The rise of smartphones has meant a big boost in data use and data revenues, but in many cases that is still not offsetting declines for mob… Read more »
Apple’s Tablet Dominance Unquestioned, But Android Starts To Make Move
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Unless you’ve been asleep for the past year, you already know that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is dominating the tablet market. But new research from… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-20-11: Lenovo; T-Mobile; Smartphones; Sprint; Apple Lion
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Lenovo: Two new Android tablets and one based on Windows 7 are hitting the market thi… Read more »
Apple’s Mobile Milestone: iPad Revenue Now Exceeds The Mac
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It became clear Tuesday why Apple CEO Steve Jobs likes to promote the notion of the “post-PC era:” it is already well underway at Apple (NSD… Read more »
Apple’s Runaway Train: 9.25 Million iPads, 20 Million iPhones Sold In Q3
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One of these days Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may see a slowdown in its business, but it most emphatically did not happen over the last three months.… Read more »
Promised Kindle App For HP TouchPad Finally Arrives
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You can now add Kindle to the relatively short list of apps available for the HP (NYSE: HPQ) TouchPad, the company announced on the HP Palm… Read more »
Time Magazine Adopts ‘All Access’ Subscriptions Across Print And Digital
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Time magazine is rolling out an “all access” subscription plan that gives current print subscribers complete use of the title’s content acro… Read more »
Scribd Aims For Niche Between Instapaper And Pulse With Reader App Float
Document sharing site Scribd is expanding its mobile publishing efforts with the introduction of Float, a free, Instapaper-like iPhone app t… Read more »
Harry Potter iPad App Hits It Big Despite Hefty Price
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Would you pay $12.99 for a Harry Potter book app? Probably, if you’re one of the people who helped shatter records for the midnight screenin… Read more »
Amazon’s Tablet Price Strategy: Go Low(-er Than The iPad)
Here’s one way Amazon’s new tablet can compete against the iPad: Price. Nobody claims the iPad is cheap. And the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-14-11
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» Swedish freemium music service Spotify is finally live in the U.S. Invite-only access and subscriptions started this morning. (… Read more »
The Latest iPad-Only Magazine
Here’s a good example of putting your money where your mouth is: TabTimes, a new magazine about tablet news and put out by tech vets that ca… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-13-11: iPhone 5; Lodsys; RIM; Android Tablets/Newspapers
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– iPhone 5: Another analyst’s view on what to expect with the next iPhone; this time, i… Read more »
Interview: New WebOS Leader DeWitt On TouchPad, Microsoft, Licensing Deals
Any time the leader of one of the five organizations hoping to define the future of mobile computing steps aside, there will be the immediat… Read more »
HP’s Rubinstein Stepping Aside For Product Role; DeWitt Now Leads WebOS
Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm (NYSE: HPQ) who led the organization through the launch of WebOS and the company’s subsequent sale to… Read more »
Report: iOS Users Downloading More Apps, Spending More
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Mobile developers, take note: iOS users are probably going to download 61 percent more apps this year and they are willing to spend more mon… Read more »
Guardian Extends Its Digital Effort To E-Readers With Kindle App
This looks like an example of “Digital First” in action: today, the Guardian announced that it has launched a Kindle app, its first for the… Read more »
The ePresse Digital Kiosk: First Lessons
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On June 30th, the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of hard work for a very small team (the ePresse consortium… Read more »
Latest Android Stats: More Using Version From 2009 Than Using Tablets
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has updated the dashboard that tracks all the different installed versions of Android out in the wild, and two things ar… Read more »
Apple Said To Work Up ‘Professional’ Version Of The iPad
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As an industry struggles to match Apple’s iPad success in the growing but hot tablet market, could Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) already have plans to… Read more »
