Analyzing Kindle Fire Sales Estimates
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Stephen Colbert added “truthiness” to the lexicon, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is surely the master of “mathiness”–fuzzy numbers-ish public sta… Read more »
Jumptap Figures Suggest Tablet Penetration Is Higher Outside The U.S.
Using stats from a mobile advertising network do not give the most complete picture of the mobile market, but they do highlight some interes… Read more »
Apple Goes For A Shutout In Australia, Says No To Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Deal
If it sounded like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might just agree to some kind of deal with Samsung in Australia — which would have let Samsung launch… Read more »
U.S. Mobile Ad Spend To Pass $1 Billion For The First Time
Mobile advertising is still a small and young business when you compare it to how much money goes into digital — let alone offline — adver… Read more »
Even iPad 1 Will Beat Android Tablets Until Prices Fall To Kindle Levels
New research underscores how Android tablet makers are struggling to replicate their smartphone success – but suggests Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) c… Read more »
Updated: Comparing E-Readers: Kindles Vs. Nooks Vs. Sony Vs. Kobo
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When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the first Kindle four years ago, the e-reader market barely existed and e-books were almost a novelty. S… Read more »
Tablet Boom Coming To India, For As Little As $35?
And you thought the $199 Kindle Fire was cheap? The Indian government last week promised a rumoured $35 tablet is due to be unveiled this we… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Demonstrates How Clinging To Android Is Not A Silver Bullet
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the joint venture combining the wireless expertise of Sweden’s Ericsson with the branding and media… Read more »
Yahoo May Finally Launch Digital Newsreader Livestand As Soon As This Week
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has been no stranger to the apps rush that has swept through the mobile world, and now there are signs that it is looking… Read more »
Comparing E-Readers: Kindles Vs. Nooks Vs. Sony Vs. Kobo
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When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the first Kindle four years ago, the e-reader market barely existed and e-books were almost a novelty. S… Read more »
Netflix’s Red Pill, Lovefilm’s Blue: DVDs Dowsing Amazon’s Fire?
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In the movie The Matrix, the main character Neo is offered a choice between a blue pill (“the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believ… Read more »
Samsung Offers Apple A Secret Compromise, Sign Of A Truce Ahead?
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Samsung — which has had to delay the launch of its much-anticipated Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia because of its ongoing patent dispute with… Read more »
Report: Amazon Wants To Buy WebOS; That Could Mean Kindle Phones, PCs Too
HP’s WebOS is up in the air and we now have a new player that apparently wants to catch it: Amazon, the upstart etailer that come to dominat… Read more »
Game Over For RIM’s PlayBook? No Way, Says RIM
Even without the added pressure of a very inexpensive Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the tablet market is bound to see some mo… Read more »
Is Apple Really Shaking In Its Shoes About Samsung’s Android Galaxy Tab?
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In the ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), neither side has been willing to flinch. But in the courtroom in Sydney,… Read more »
Halo Networks Gets £1.6 Million First Round To Offload Mobile Data To WiFi
The high cost of mobile data — not just for consumers but for mobile operators facing huge traffic on their networks with the rise of smart… Read more »
Amazon And Apple Have Mirror Opposite Tablet Content Strategies
Amazon’s announcement of their media tablet the Kindle Fire was long anticipated. I won’t add to the countless virtual column inches discus… Read more »
DOJ Puts Google/Motorola On Hold With Request For More Info
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will renew some old acquaintances at the U.S. Department of Justice before its Motorola (NYSE: MMI) deal is allowed to p… Read more »
The Key To The Kindle Fire: It’s Not Taking On Apple Directly
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To this point, the companies that have tried to challenge Apple’s dominance of the tablet market have failed in head-to-head comparisons whe… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Sell Millions, But It Won’t Threaten Apple’s iPad
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Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) revealed its new Kindle lineup, including a touchscreen E Ink eReader and Amazon’s first color touchscreen tablet,… Read more »
Amazon’s Lukewarm Fire: No Kindle Tablets Outside U.S.
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has revealed its price-busting Kindle Fire tablet for $199 alongside a new touchscreen Kindle Touch. But that news will… Read more »
Updated: Microsoft Lands Big Android Licensee In Samsung, Google Cries Foul
We may not know how much revenue Google (NSDQ: GOOG) makes from Android, but we can say that at least one other company — a competitor — i… Read more »
Updated: Amazon Stock Watch: B&N Plummets, Apple Unmoved On Kindle Launch
A knock for Nook? Barnes & Noble’s share price fell 10 percent as Jeff Bezos announced not just a Kindle tablet but a revision to Amazon’s c… Read more »
Apple Has Fanboys But This Is Crazy: 41 Percent Of Users To Buy iPhone 5?
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Has iPhone hype gone into the stratosphere or is this just a ploy to get a company’s name into the press? A new survey claims to have found… Read more »
Tizen: Can Intel And Samsung’s New OS Project Fly Where MeeGo Did Not?
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Yesterday, we wrote that Intel was reportedly looking to take its MeeGo OS project into a new stage of collaboration post-Nokia’s move to Wi… Read more »
The Great Web Hope: HTML5 On Mobile Still A Work In Progress
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It seems so simple, so obvious: mobile developers of the world, unite behind the web and finally achieve platform independence! It turns out… Read more »
Can Publishers Capitalize On Kindle Tablet To Boost’ Digital Downloads?
Publishers are once again rubbing their hands together over the new possibility of another, non-Apple-owned avenue for selling digital versi… Read more »
Don’t Count MeeGo Out Yet: Report Says Samsung, Others To Join Intel
Update: Our story on the new venture led by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) and Samsung, Tizen, is here. Original post from Tuesday follows below.
On th… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Will Be The First True Media Tablet
Tomorrow Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) holds a major launch event and will likely unveil its first tablet, according to TechCrunch named the Kindle Fi… Read more »
Apple Dips On The Back Of JPMorgan’s Back And Forth On iPad Production
Here’s one of those instances that makes you wonder about where investment analysts get their information, and what their agendas might be b… Read more »
Reports: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet A ‘Stopgap’ Design, Publishers Line Up
Amazon’s long-awaited Android tablet appears to be just two days away from making its first public appearance, and a few details trickled ou… Read more »
Facebook’s iPad App Developer Quits As App Remains In Limbo
One of the more puzzling aspects of Facebook’s mobile strategy in 2011 has been the lack of a Facebook iPad app. Turns out that the company… Read more »
Amazon Adds Fox To Subscription Streaming Lineup But Still No Mobile
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) continues to build out its Amazon Prime Instant Video service, this time with more than 2,000 movies and TV episodes fro… Read more »
Pew: Mobile Is Only A “Secondary” Channel For Local News; Apps Very Niche
Pew, in its latest, ongoing research into news consumption and news creation, took a pit stop in the world of mobile today, and found that w… Read more »
Samsung: Second Tablet Injunction? Asks 2.4 Percent Chip Royalty From Apple
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New developments today in the fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung over design and patent infringements in the company’s smartphones… Read more »
Dennis Publishing Recasts Magazine Editorial In 20 “One Shot Content” Apps
Dennis Publishing, publishers of 70 print and online titles including Maxim, Men’s Fitness and the adult comic Viz, has not been shy to dip… Read more »
@ F8: Facebook’s Mobile Strategy Running In Place
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It’s not that Facebook’s F8 conference lacked for news: the company overhauled a key aspect of the Facebook experience in changing the profi… Read more »
Update: HP Makes It Official: Apotheker Out, Meg Whitman To Take CEO Spot
HP (NYSE: HPQ) capped off a surreal month during which it put its PC group on ice and shelved its tablet hardware group by firing CEO Leo Ap… Read more »
Documentary Streamer SnagFilms Adds Drama, Wider Mobile Distribution
Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 mil… Read more »
Comparing The New Aggregators: Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More
From Flipboard and Aol Editions, to Ongo and News.me, the rise of tablets and apps is changing how we gather and consume content. A couple… Read more »
