Apple Says App Downloads Have Passed The 15 BILLION Mark
HP (NYSE: HPQ) may be pushing the theory that “size doesn’t matter”. But if it so happens that it does, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is killing the co… Read more »
Motorola Cuts Price Of Xoom To Match iPad. Too Bad It’s Not February
File this one in the “too little, too late” category: Motorola (NYSE: MMI) has finally decided to drop the price of its Wi-Fi only Xoom Andr… Read more »
Update To Bing iPad App Lets Users ‘Lasso’ Search Terms
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may be the default Web search experience on the iPad, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is willing to concede… Read more »
Update: Amazon The Consolidator Gobbles Up The Book Depository
Amazon looks like it might be trying to beef up its long tail cred with some direct in-house expertise, rather than simply relying on its th… Read more »
HP Puts The TouchPad Front And Center At Best Buy On Launch Day
photo: Tom Krazit
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) learned at least one thing from the other companies who have tried to challenge the iPad with their own tablets… Read more »
AT&T Bridges The Gap From The BlackBerry To The Playbook
Research in Motion’s Playbook customers with BlackBerrys on AT&T’s network can finally get access to the best of the BlackBerry now that the… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-1-11: TouchPad; China Mobile TV; Papaya Mobile; Path
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– TouchPad: Dethroning Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as the king of the tablet market is not HP’s… Read more »
Reviews Are In For HP’s TouchPad: Nice, But It’s No iPad
HP’s TouchPad tablet has been put through the paces by a small army of the digerati, and the results are not spectacular. Almost to a review… Read more »
Updated: RIM Employee Pleads For Change; RIM Releases Defensive Response
photo: Flickr
Earlier this year when discussing the challenges faced by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and CEO Steve Ballmer, I stole a quote from a speech given… Read more »
Nielsen: Smartphones Outselling Featurephones, iPhone Leading The Charge
Looks like we have again reached a tipping point of sorts in the mobile market in the U.S. The analysts at Nielsen report that in May, smart… Read more »
A Tale Of Two HPs? Total Control Of WebOS And Licensing Both On The Table
HP (NYSE: HPQ) is presenting two very different mobile strategies to the world leading up to the launch of its first WebOS tablet, and it’s… Read more »
More Love Lost Between Apple And Samsung: Now At The ITC
If Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung eventually intend to reach some kind of settlement over patent and trademark disputes, as Apple did with N… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-29-11
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» Not so square anymore: Dorsey’s payment startup gets $100 million, valued at $1 billion (paidContent)
» Animoto rai… Read more »
Analyst: Apps To Bring In $14 Billion Of Revenue Next Year
Another vote in favor of apps as the main way for anyone to hope to make money out of mobile content: the analysts at Canalys project that m… Read more »
HP To Have Home-Grown Facebook App For TouchPad Launch
When it launches later this week HP’s Touchpad tablet will feature one application that has yet to make it to the iPad, although it appears… Read more »
Graph: Android’s 500k Activations/Day, On Course For 1 Million By November
Another milestone reached today for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in its march on the mobile world: it is now activating 500,000 Android devices per d… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-28-11
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» Don’t Stop Playing Grand Theft Auto, Kids-The Supreme Court’s Got Your Back (paidContent)
» New Study Shows E-Reade… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-28-11: Apple/Samsung; Microsoft/Android; Skype; TouchPad
photo: Tom Krazit
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Samsung/Apple: Looks like the two companies’ legal disputes over trademarks, patents an… Read more »
New Study Shows E-Reader Ownership Surging Ahead Of Tablets
photo: Corbis
A new Pew report shows that the number of U.S. adults who own a dedicated e-reader (like a Kindle or Nook) has doubled since November 2010,… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-27-11: iPhone Forecasts; Nortel; TouchPad; HTC; RIM; NSN
A look at some of the top stories in mobile today:
– Apple: Morgan Stanley is lowering its estimates for the iPhone in Q3, but that’s beca… Read more »
In Contrast To The U.S. iPhone Tops Survey For Most-Wanted Device In Europe
Looks like price sometimes is not always the main consideration when people are buying products — or at least when people are thinking of b… Read more »
TouchPad-Only Magazine ‘Pivot’ To Debut With Tablet, Produced By HP Itself
HP (NYSE: HPQ) must be tiring of all the news about Apple’s strength in the tablet market, and trying to get its own name out in front: to c… Read more »
Apple May Lose Its Amazon Appstore Suit. What’s The Takeaway?
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Apple’s not impressed, as it has been battling it out in multiple courts to claim… Read more »
Viacom And Time Warner Take A Break From Legal Battle Over TV On iPads
photo: TWC
iPads and other tablets that enable television watching are looking to be one of the legal flash points between content owners and distribut… Read more »
The Latest Amazon Tablet Leak: It’s Coming This Autumn
Lest you thought that those rumors about an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet might be drying up, here is another: it will be launched sometime in… Read more »
Some Mileage Yet In MeeGo? Intel Adds MeeGo Tablet Apps To Its App Store
photo: MeeGo News
Yesterday’s news that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has finally launched a handset built on MeeGo was one vote in favor of the OS, and here’s another: I… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown: 6-21-11: PlayBook Email; Samsung/Apple; Seesmic/RIM; HTC
photo: RIM
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– PlayBook: Wondering why the PlayBook tablet lacks native email support for BlackBerr… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-20-11
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Buying DVR Software Maker SageTV (paidContent)
» Display’s New Kingpin: Facebook’s No. 1 (AdAge… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-20-11: Huawei Tablet; Photovine; Adobe Flash; Spain LTE
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Read more »
History Shows That Google’s Android Tablets Can’t Be Dismissed Just Yet
photo: Samsung
What’s to be done about the lack of interest in Android tablets? It’s a massive problem for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and its Android partners, bu… Read more »
Facebook Likes The iPad: New Tablet App Set To Arrive
photo: Tom Krazit
At long last, Facebook appears set to release an iPad application, according to reports, after more than a year of serving iPad users with a… Read more »
Apple Turns The Screws In Its Samsung Complaint
photo: Samsung
Today, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung are due in court to see whether the judge will permit Samsung to view unreleased Apple products as par… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-17-11: RIM/O2; iTunes Match; The Problem With Tablets
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Read more »
Backslapping As Waterloo Burns: Tough Times Ahead For RIM’s Co-CEOs
photo: RIM
It must be comforting for the Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) employees who won’t lose their jobs this summer to know that their co-CEOs wor… Read more »
RIM In Deep Trouble As Layoffs, Sales Slowdown Loom
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) warned us in April that its first-quarter revenue and earnings would be lighter than it had originally thoug… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-16-11: Sony Tablets, Yahoo App Search And Sprint
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
–Sony: Sony (NYSE: SNE) has yet to give specific details on when and where we will firs… Read more »
When Size Does Matter: Mobile Browsing A Mixed Bag Of Experiences
photo: Samsung
Given Google’s love for the Web and the relative lack of Android tablet applications as opposed to iPad applications, you’d think Android We… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-15-11: Acer; Facebook Photo App; Garmin; LightSquared
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Acer cuts its tablet forecast; Facebook apparently lining up a new photo app; some consol… Read more »
HP Considering Digital Music Service Of Its Own?
HP (NYSE: HPQ) has been late to just about every party thrown by the mobile world over the last several years, but is it considering jumping… Read more »
HP Sets TouchPad Launch Date, Pricing: July 1st and $499
HP (NYSE: HPQ) is ready to join the tablet party. After playing very coy regarding the launch date and pricing for its WebOS tablet, the Tou… Read more »
