Verizon’s App-Developer Friendly Drop-In Testing Centers Drawing Near
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is getting ready to court mobile application developers with two research and development centers on both coasts… Read more »
Google’s Mixed Message On The Future Of Mobile Computing
photo: Tom Krazit
You had to attend both days of *Google* I/O to get the full effect: having been present for just one of the two visions of mobile computing… Read more »
Meet The Chromebooks: Samsung, Acer First In Line With Chrome OS
They’re nearly six months late, but the first systems running Chrome OS, which will henceforth be known as Chromebooks, were showcased Wedne… Read more »
Google I/O: 160 Million Chrome Users, Angry Birds, Chromebooks
The second day of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O was all about Google’s Chrome Web browser and its budding Chrome OS project. Google’s Chrome leade… Read more »
Wall Street Weighs In On Microsoft’s Purchase Of Skype
Why is Microsoft paying $8.5 billion for Skype when less than two years ago the VOIP service was valued at under $2 billion? Asked about tha… Read more »
Video: Microsoft’s Ballmer Explains His Purchase Of Skype
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and (a very quiet) soon-to-be Microsoft Skype division president Tony Bates went on CNBC (NSDQ: CMC… Read more »
Updated: Microsoft Reportedly Close To A $7 Billion-Plus Purchase Of Skype
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which has been quiet on the deal front for several years now, is reportedly set to change that in a big way, picking… Read more »
Apple Tops Brand Rankings: What’s The Takeaway For Mobile?
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is still a ways behind companies like Samsung and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) when it comes to overall mobile market share, but it’… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-09-11: Skype; Rovio IPO; Apple Nuance; US Cellular 4G
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more Skype partnering and merger speculation, this time with Microsoft; (NSDQ: MSFT) An… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-05-11: Apple Updates; HP; Android Share; Nortel
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reportedly to start over-the-air OS updates; HP (NYSE: HPQ) beefs up… Read more »
Skype’s The Limit: Facebook, Google Eye Tie-Up With Internet Calling Giant
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Ebay may have decided that Skype was not an asset worth keeping — selling, in 2009, two-thirds of the company it paid more than $3 billion… Read more »
AT&T Finally Ready For Motorola Atrix To Hit 4G Speeds
It’s been a long, slow wait for owners of the Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Atrix hoping to use the fast 4G connections promised to them by AT&T’s ma… Read more »
Graphic: The Osama Bin Laden Effect In Mobile
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You’ve seen the stories about how Twitter was used to break the news on Osama bin Laden’s death, and the huge effect the event has had on In… Read more »
Limelight Buys Web Content Management System Clickability
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Limelight Networks (NSDQ: LLNW), the publicly-traded content delivery network, has bought up Clickability, which is behind a popular web con… Read more »
Why Tiptoeing Through The Mobile Location Minefield Is Essential
photo: Google
The messy disconnect between modern technology and traditional notions of privacy is going to have to be resolved before the only winners in… Read more »
Verizon’s 4G LTE Network Back Up And Running After 24 Hours Of Issues
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Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) finally sounded the all-clear message for its cherished LTE network Thursday morning after a widespread outage o… 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 »
Mobile Lowdown 04-28-11: AT&T/T-Mobile; Apple iCloud; Buongiorno
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Small mobile operators band together against the AT&T (NYSE: T) proposed purchase of T-… Read more »
Sprint: What iPhone? We’re Picking Up More Subscribers Than Ever Before
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For those who thought that Verizon getting the iPhone would be too much of a blow to Sprint’s numbers this quarter, the number-three mobile… Read more »
Technicolor Leads Digitalsmith’s $12.5 Million Funding Round
Video indexing firm Digitalsmiths has raised a $12.5 million third funding round as the business of data storage and content delivery are jo… Read more »
Apple: We’ve Never Tracked iPhone Locations
Both Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) have been put on the defensive regarding charges that they track users of their respective m… Read more »
Yahoo May Spin Off Hadoop Engineering Unit
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is considering spinning off its Hadoop engineering unit into a standalone entity that would continue to develop the open… Read more »
VMware Buys Social Powerpoint Presenter SlideRocket
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Last week’s Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) server outage aside, managing data on the cloud is still likely to be a hot area this year, so it’s safe to… Read more »
Windows Phone 7 Devices Do Not Store Location Info On Phone
Perhaps it’s a good sign for Microsoft: people are taking Windows Phone 7 seriously enough to demand answers as to Microsoft’s policies for… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-26-11
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» YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) On The Verge Of A Big Movie Upgrade? (paidContent)
» St. Louis Post Dispatch owner Lee Enterpr… Read more »
ExactTarget Raises $30 Million More In Part For M&A
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E-mail marketer ExactTarget has raised $30 million in new funding, which it says it will use to “fund key acquisitions, enter new global mar… Read more »
Bobsled Goes Off The Tracks: T-Mobile Suspends Its Facebook Voice Service
Looks like Bobsled, T-Mobile’s new voice service on the Facebook platform, has hit a hitch, only one week into its life: according to Bobsle… Read more »
Eye For An i: Samsung Sues Over iPhone, iPad Patents, Fight Goes Intl
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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 »
AT&T Tells FCC It’s Ready To Take Over T-Mobile’s Wireless Licenses
It’s official: AT&T (NYSE: T) petitioned the government Thursday to take control of T-Mobile’s wireless licenses, an important step in the p… Read more »
Verizon Pulls In Strong Results On iPhone, HTC 4G Sales
When it comes to the iPhone, it looks like for now rising tides are lifting all boats: on the back of strong results from AT&T (NYSE: T) and… Read more »
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Hulu Shuns PlayBook, Verizon Next?
They say progress is about making two steps forward and one step back, so maybe we should consider this a double turn for RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) a… Read more »
TiVo Scores A Victory In Its Patent Battle With Dish
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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) shares are up as much as 40 percent today, after an appeals court ruled in the company’s favor in its long-standing patent… Read more »
Magazine Publishers Scramble To Streamline Their App Production
Magazine publishers are not only trying to pack more features and content into their apps — they’re also trying to design for an ever-growi… Read more »
Sprint, Clearwire Ink New Deal Over 4G Pricing With $1 Billion In Cash
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Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) have decided to re-up their partnership to the tune of $1 billion over the next three years, pro… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-19-11: EU 4G Spectrum; White iPhone 4; MCV; Nokia 3D
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: the EU opens GSM frequencies for 4G services; Sony* Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reports earni… Read more »
Video Delivery Firm Envivio Files To Raise Up To $69 Million In IPO
The latest company to try to go public: Envivio, which said in a filing with the SEC this morning that it hopes to raise as much as $69 mill… Read more »
T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Announce New JV In Europe
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It’s not a full-out merger, but another example of how operators trying to cope with the huge rise in data usage and the pressure of price c… Read more »
Comcast Subs Who Pay For Speed Can Now Download HD Movie In 5 Minutes
Holy broadband, Batman! Comcast’s long-anticipated Extreme 105 Mbps broadband service launched today in major markets across the U.S., poten… Read more »
The Misadventures Of PlayBook: Questioning Reviews Jump The Launch Gun
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has been previewing and talking up its new PlayBook tablet for months already, with demonstrations shepherded by the likes… Read more »
New CNBC Online Video Player Emphasizes Sharing And Searching
After years of offering impressive growth rates but little substance in terms of actual revenues, online video is actually starting to produ… Read more »
