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 »
Reports: HP Wants To Trade Leo For Meg In CEO Shakeup
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In a development that has to make you wonder where HP’s board of directors was this summer, the group is reportedly considering whether or n… Read more »
Engadget Goes Old Media (Sort Of) With Distro Magazine…For Tablets Only
There may still be a good number of magazines that are turning away from the magazine format to focus more on their website distribution. Bu… Read more »
Tablet Shipments Exceeding Forecasts; Still Apple’s Game To Lose
photo: Getty Images / Mario Tama
It’s debatable whether and when tablets will become as mainstream as mobile phones or PCs, but in their own right, their sales trajectory ap… Read more »
Confusion Reigns Over Microsoft’s Plans For Windows 8 PC And Mobile Apps
With probably a year to go before Windows 8 arrives, it’s not a huge surprise that there would be a little confusion over exactly how Window… Read more »
Why RIM Won’t Kill The PlayBook And Nokia Is Its New Biggest Danger
You’ll recall that I didn’t think that much of Research In Motion’s (Rim) PlayBook – its 7in, Flash-enabled tablet – when I reviewed it in J… Read more »
Report: Over 500 HP Employees Losing Jobs As WebOS Group Winds Down
One consequence of HP’s decision to wind down tablet production has arrived: over 500 HP (NYSE: HPQ) employees have been let go as the compa… Read more »
Samsung’s Counterattack Against Apple: Australia And An iPhone 5 Assault
Another day, and another legal action gets filed in the growing, two-way dispute between Samsung and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The Korean device m… Read more »
Has Microsoft Finally Carved A Path To The Post-PC Era With Windows 8?
It’s been a rough couple of years for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) as it watches an industry that once thought of Windows as oxygen embrace new, s… Read more »
Look Out, Flipboard And Zite: Google Said To Be Working On News Reader App
Demand for slick news aggregation services on mobile devices has not escaped Google’s attention. According to reports, the company is planni… Read more »
Gannett’s Dubow Taking Medical Leave Again
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Chairman and CEO Craig Dubow is once again taking medical leave, the company said in a short, late afternoon press relea… Read more »
RIM: Only 200,000 PlayBooks Shipped, Misses Device Forecast By 1.3 Million
photo: RIM
A pretty troubling set of numbers out for RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) today. The Canada-based handset maker says that it has only shipped 200,000 PlayB… Read more »
The Game Of Brinkmanship Continues: Apple Countersues Samsung In The UK
The legal cases between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung are now developing on a daily basis — and as we predicted yesterday, it looks like w… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-14-11: Google/Motorola; Apple/China; Intel; Walmart
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google agreed to pay 33 percent more — $3 billion — than it originally off… Read more »
Subscribe To Philly Newspaper Apps, Get A Tablet
photo: Phillytablet.com
Starting today, the Philadelphia Media Network–which owns The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com–is offering a discounted tablet to the f… Read more »
Tablets, E-Reader Growth Offset By Weak No-iPhone Quarter At Best Buy
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Growth in sales of mobile devices wasn’t enough to offset declines in television and gaming at Best Buy, whose second-quarter results indica… Read more »
Update: Samsung Takes Its Apple Fight To France, Apple Goes Big In China
No signs of this fight cooling off soon. Fresh from a ruling in Germany that denied Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) a Europe-wide injunction on Samsung’s… Read more »
Gamestop Planning Android-Based Tablet With Controller For Mobile Gaming
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We’re not so sure that people want to buy tablets from newspapers, but would they consider buying a tablet from video game retailer? Gamesto… Read more »
Scribd Reader App Float Adds 100 Pubs; Subscriber Plans, Ads Coming
Float, the social reader iPhone app from document sharing site Scribd’s has added content from another 100 publishers to the 150 launch part… Read more »
Android Tablets, Take Two: All Eyes On PC Vendors, Retail Partners, Amazon
photo: Tom Krazit
The first six months of the Android tablet era have been largely forgettable, as Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) continues to sell millions of iPads each… Read more »
UK’s Waterstones To Wade Into The E-Reader Market With Kindle Killer?
photo: Flickr / Jukka Zitting
Waterstones — the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut — is taking a tip from its U.S. co… Read more »
Apple’s Injunction Bid On 10-Inch Samsung Galaxy Tab Upheld In Germany
photo: Samsung
Samsung has remained very confident in the face of legal actions by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) around the world, alleging infringements of its iPhon… Read more »
Acer, Viewsonic Join The Ranks Of Microsoft Mobile Patent Licensees
You’ve got two choices when confronted by the mobile protection racket: you can fight or you can pay. Acer and Viewsonic chose the latter th… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-8-11: Apple/Samsung Japan; Microsoft Tablet; Mobile Stats
photo: AP Images
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) meets with Samsung in court in Japan and requests an injunction on Sm… Read more »
Taptu Working With Publishers On Content Discovery With New Funding
Taptu is building a version of its tablet newsreader product that third-party publishers can use to promote their own content, and has locke… Read more »
Will Docomo’s New LTE Service Fan The Flames In The Apple vs. Samsung Fire?
We may be approaching the point where it’s fair to ask the following question: Where haven’t Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung sued each other… Read more »
Why Amazon’s Tablet Will Challenge Apple In A Way That Google Cannot
The rumours are unstoppable: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is going to unveil a tablet in the next few weeks, and if the hands-on description of an in… Read more »
HP Splits WebOS Hardware, Software As It Scrambles For Workable WebOS Plan
photo: Palm
HP (NYSE: HPQ) continues to think out loud as it tries to figure out what it wants to do with the WebOS business unit it paid $1.2 billion f… Read more »
Big News For Dell: Its Devices Will Be Used By Baidu In Mobile Assault
Baidu’s determination to get a piece of the action in China’s fast-growing mobile market has yielded plans for an app store and mobile platf… Read more »
Bitbop Pulls A Hulu, Goes Abroad With Ad-Free Mobile Video Offer In Germany
Bitbop, the mobile video service once owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and then sold in a whirr of a divestment strategy, looks like it is fi… Read more »
Apple’s Samsung Tablet Blockade Extends To New 7.7 Model. Backfire Ahead?
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is showing absolutely no signs in letting up in its legal actions and injunctions against Samsung over alleged patent and… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-5-11: iPhone 5 Hints; T-Mobile/AT&T; Google/Admob; HP
photo: NNECAPA
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Best Buy is gearing up for a special “Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fixture installatio… Read more »
Why HP’s Hasty, Bumbling Decision To Dump Mobile Hardware May Doom WebOS
It’s never pretty to watch a big tech company scramble for direction (that is, unless you compete against that company). HP (NYSE: HPQ) is c… Read more »
Report: Amazon Kindle Tablet Is The Real Deal, And It Looks Like A PlayBook
The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet that has been the subject of so much speculation has just taken one leap closer to reality: a report just out… Read more »
The Latest App Store, From China’s Search Giant Baidu: ‘Baidu Yi’
photo: Corbis
Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU), the search-portal provider and “Google (NSDQ: GOOG) of China,” has made a key move into the world of mobile today: it is… Read more »
New Android Devices From Samsung Are A Smaller Take On Tablets
Undeterred by legal challenges and the tepid response to its initial tablet efforts, Samsung doubled down on the category Thursday by gettin… Read more »
HTC Shows Off Two New Mango Devices – But Don’t Call It A Mango Launch
If this week had a theme in the mobile world, it would probably be the week of big devices. This evening at an event in London HTC unveiled… Read more »
MobiTV Files For $75 Million IPO To Fund Its Growth [Video]
Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internation… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-1-11: Missing iPhone; MobiTV; Microsoft; Samsung; Nokia
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Another Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone protoype has been left behind in a bar, a… Read more »
Sony Kisses Qriocity Branding Goodbye, Forms Sony Entertainment Network
photo: Flickr / Ian Muttoo
Many consumers were never completely sure of the correct way to pronounce it, and it has had mixed success as a household name synonymous wi… Read more »
