Updated: Amazon Appstore Outside The U.S.? Not So Fast
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) thrives on scale for its business model. But when it comes to launching new products, the company has often taken a caut… 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 »
Keep Social Media On During Civil Unrest, Executives Tell MPs
photo: Getty Images / Dan Istitene
Executives from Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) have warned a committee of MPs that switching off soc… 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 Roadie Looks To Boost China’s App Count, Goes East With Q Mobao
China’s tech giants have been piling into the app store space like a rugby team tackling a wobbling ball. Companies like Tencent, Alibaba /… 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 »
Symbian Lost As Many Users As Android Gained In Europe, Says ComScore
photo: Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Interesting stats out today from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) that underscore just how clear the threat is to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) from Android: the r… Read more »
Industry Moves: Appia; Qualcomm; SonyEricsson; mxData; Appitalism; GoldSpot
» Appia has appointed Craig Forman as its executive chairman. He joins the white label app store company from his position as chai… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-12-11: Google/Oracle, Apple/HTC Patents; Amazon; Adobe
photo: Flickr / brewbooks
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Amazon is taking one more step to enrich its content offerings; it’s reporte… Read more »
Vodafone Looks West For Mobile Ideas, Opens R&D Center In Silicon Valley
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Europe’s largest operator by revenues, is taking some decisive steps to keep pole position for the longer term: today… Read more »
News International Is Launching Mobile Sports and Entertainment Service
A new online and mobile service dedicated to sport and showbiz is to be launched in the wake of the closure of the News of the World by Rupe… 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 »
Mobile Lowdown 9-9-11: Intel Meego; Apple/Samsung; Apps; Microsoft
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Intel is remaining committed to the MeeGo wireless OS, despite reports that… Read more »
Twitter Reaches New Milestone: 100 Million Users (More Than Half On Mobile)
Twitter has not been very forthcoming on user numbers, but today it gave a shower of stats and data to mark a milestone in its growth: 100 m… Read more »
UK Mobile Payments JV Hits Rocks Before It’s Started: Three Appeals To EU
photo: Perras1d, Flickr
Operator partnerships for services are notoriously hard to get right: and it looks like the mobile payments and advertising joint venture be… Read more »
Adfonic Raises £4.7 Million To Grow Its Mobile Ads Auction Business
If you think Android is a fragmented marketplace, take a look at mobile advertising: while there are clearly a few very big players like Goo… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-7-11: Phone Tracking; RIM; iPhone 5; iPad Australia
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» A victory for civil liberties companies, and a possible shadow for some mobi… Read more »
T-Mobile, Orange Reboot Their Mobile TV Services In UK
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
Orange Duets With Spotify Competitor Deezer On New UK Mobile Music Service
Another mobile operator is taking a crack at the streaming music market: France Telecom’s Orange is partnering with Deezer — France’s answe… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-6-11: Apple vs. Nokia; 4G Spectrum; Telefonica; Intel
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) could overtake Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in smartphone shipments by the end… Read more »
Netflix Starts Latin America Rollout In Brazil; Faces Challenges At Home
As promised, the streaming side of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has made its way south. The service went live in Brazil today with Netflix Brasil (a… Read more »
Digital-First Guardian Cuts Down MediaGuardian, Two Other Print Supplements
More developments on the theme of printed newspapers going digital first. The Guardian has announced that the MediaGuardian, plus two other… 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 »
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 »
UK Gives Green Light To Fast Wireless Broadband Service, Free To All Comers
The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is cu… Read more »
Unredacted U.S. Embassy Cables Available Online After WikiLeaks Breach
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A security breach has led to the WikiLeaks archive of 251,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables being made available online, without redaction t… Read more »
Deezer Streaming Music Service Launching In UK
They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the… 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 »
Mobile Lowdown 8-31-11: Amazon Tablet; China iOS; Apple/Wikileaks; FilmOn
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Amazon could have two sizes of tablet in mind for a launch: a seven-inch mod… Read more »
We Love Us Some Mobile Internet In The UK
Numbers out this morning from the Office of National Statistics in the UK give us the most up-to-date picture yet of the growing role mobile… Read more »
Mobile Ad Firm Blyk Picks Ad Man Eric Kip For CEO; Ala-Pietila Now Chairman
photo: Blyk
Blyk, the once-groundbreaking mobile ad company that offered young users free mobile services in exchange for getting ads on their devices,… Read more »
Twitter Ramps Up Its DC Presence, Hires New Public Policy Head
photo: AP Images
A sign of Twitter’s growing power, and increasing need to interface with government to get its message across: the company has hired a new h… Read more »
NY Official Cites Hacking In Rejection Of News Corp. Education Contract
photo: CNN
Losing a $27 million contract won’t hit the News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) bottom line but the New York state comptroller’s rejection of a contract… Read more »
Google Crashes TV’s Edinburgh Party
photo: AP Images
There are three things the TV executive audience have come to expect from the annual MacTaggart lecture: the pantomime of an inter-industry… Read more »
Updated: Developer: Facebook Places Check-In More Popular Than Foursquare
photo: Foursquare
When Facebook announced that it would be folding Places check-ins into status updates, some took it as a sign that the company was bowing to… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-26-11: Gowalla; Cheap Nokias; Skype; Microsoft
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Gowalla cuts down its features and takes a hard look at what people were act… Read more »
RIM Breaks Social Ground With Its New BBM Music Service
photo: Verizon Wireless
It’s taken a little while, but it looks like RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) might have finally woken up and smelled the coffee in the social media world a… Read more »
Facebook’s Mobile Missteps: Places Axed; HTC Status Phone In Question
Facebook has been sizing up the mobile world with hungry eyes for a while now — more than one-third of the social network’s 750-million-plu… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-23-11: RIM; Apple iPhone; Erply; HP; Riots; Patents
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» RIM launched three new BlackBerry devices today, extensions of its Curve ran… Read more »
Advances In Android Carrier Billing: Vodafone First To Offer It In Europe
One of the promising selling points of Android, for carriers, was that, unlike Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), they would have more potential to get inv… Read more »
