Google’s AdMob Ready To Serve Ads To Windows Phone 7 App Developers
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is getting a vote of confidence from a company not usually counted among its allies. Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: iPad2 Sales; Microsoft’s 10,000; T-Mobile’s M&A Memo
photo: Tom Krazit
Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: Some initial iPad2 sales figures; Windows Phone 7 apps; and more kindling for the T-Mobile/… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown: Opera’s apps; Android In Europe; Sony Ericsson
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today: Opera launches its own app store; Android’s European march; Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s… Read more »
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Deal With Nokia Comes At $1 Billion Price
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) won a huge new partnership with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) that could light a fire under its mobile division, but it will come… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown: Apple In China; We7 Android; Nokia Qt
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today: Apple’s supposed plan to develop an iPhone for China’s LTE standard; We7 launches a rad… Read more »
Nielsen: Apple, RIM Are Beating Android OEMs In The U.S. Smartphone Race
photo: RIM
Google’s Android OS is leading the pack for smartphone market share in the U.S., but when it comes to the largest smartphone manufacturer, R… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown: Nokia, Apple iPad Pricing, Square, Disney
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Nokia’s MeeGo payoff; what the ASP of today’s iPad tells us about what’s next; Square hits $1… Read more »
Apple’s Jobs Says iPad 2 Makes It Official: PC Era is Done
photo: Apple
On the occasion of the launch of the second generation of Apple’s iPad tablet, CEO Steve Jobs essentially declared the end of the two-decade… Read more »
Infographic: Mobile Browsers Compared Worldwide (Or What Nokia’s Giving Up)
photo: Corbis / Andy Rain
All talk these days is about Google/Android and Apple/iOS, but here’s a nifty infographic that underscores just how fragmented the picture r… Read more »
Android Was The Big Winner At Mobile World Congress
Android dominated the buzz for this year’s event. According to some number-crunching from Webtrends, which analysis how much media outlets (… Read more »
MWC: Android Rocked The House; Absent Apple Still In Attendance
Android dominated the buzz for this year’s event. According to some number-crunching from Webtrends, which analysis how much media outlets (… Read more »
Video: Orange On NFC, Own-Brand Tablets, And Getting Nokiasoft Leverage
Sometimes being the early mover in technology doesn’t always make you the winner– just look at when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GO… Read more »
@ MWC: HTC Says It Will Remain Committed To Windows Phone 7
Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC, today said that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) are “doing what they have to do” and that his compa… Read more »
@ MWC: HTC Shows Off Two ‘Facebook Phones’ And Its First Tablet
photo: Photo Ingrid Lunden
HTC is now a close second behind Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for being the most popular device maker, according to figures released today from the Mi… Read more »
@ MWC: Xbox, IE 9 And Multitasking: Coming To A Microsoft Phone Near You
In Steve Ballmer’s keynote today, his first ever at Mobile World Congress, the CEO of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said that the new version of Wi… Read more »
@ MWC: WAC Finally Goes Commercial; Looks Like Another Win For Android
One year after making its debut at Mobile World Congress, the Mobile Applications Community — the group formed to encourage operator-led ap… Read more »
Nokia Pares Company Down To Two Units: Smartphones And Everything Else
photo: Corbis / Joel W. Rogers
Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which today announced a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) using its Windows Phone platform, has now… Read more »
Why Nokia’s Decision On Friday Matters
Smartphones weren’t expected to outsell PCs until 2012 – but in the fourth quarter they took over, and there’s no reason for them to stop. I… Read more »
Operators To Nokia: Use MeeGo, Or WP7 If You Must. But Please, No Android
In the lead-up to Nokia’s strategy presentation at the end of this week comes a report on what mobile operators are hoping the challenged ha… Read more »
Nokia Needs To Re-Tool Its R&D, Not Ramp It Up
photo: Flickr
Some rather damning numbers crunched today by Horace Dediu, the independent analyst at Asymco. According to his calculations, Nokia (NYSE: N… Read more »
Nielsen: Android, Apple And RIM Are In A Three-Way Tie In The U.S.
photo: Corbis
Some stats released today on smartphones that, for a change, don’t concern the number of devices shipped: Nielsen says 31 percent of U.S. co… Read more »
Google Goes Native, Moves Into App Development?
Here’s another advance in that debate over whether apps or the mobile web will be the dominant way of accessing mobile content in the years… Read more »
Android Gets Even Bigger And Tops The Charts For Smartphone OS
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may still be shipping more devices than any other mobile phone maker, but worldwide, it’s now losing in the smartphone pla… Read more »
Microsoft Puts Mobile On Mute In Earnings
Sales of the Kinect have swiped away all expectations, and Office is still going strong, but mobile was conspicuously absent in Microsoft’s… Read more »
Microsoft’s Results Easily Beat Expectations
photo: AP Images
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) posted a 5 percent increase in sales during the most recent quarter, countering predictions that its revenue would st… Read more »
Survey: Why Aren’t The Crowds Flocking To Windows Phones?
photo: Corbis
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has yet to release any official sales figures for Windows Phone 7 devices since their launch last autumn, but there h… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Apple’s 10 Billion; Sony Qriocity; WP7 Data/Yahoo
– Apple: The App Store hit its ten-billionth download on January 22. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had turned the occasion into a contest, with an $10… Read more »
Microsoft Admits App Glitch, Launches Direct Operator Billing
One more technical, and PR, setback for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and its fledgling Windows Phone 7 operating system: the company yesterday con… Read more »
Apps: Apple Reaches For 10B Downloads, Microsoft Plays The Generation Game
Apple’s quickly racing to break the 10-billion download mark in its app store. In fact, by the time you read this, it may have already made… Read more »
So Who Owns ‘App Store’? Not Apple, Says Microsoft
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has been working really hard at breaking into the smartphone apps race that’s dominated by Google’s Android and Apple… Read more »
So Who Owns ‘App Store’? Not Apple, Says Microsoft
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has been working really hard at breaking into the smartphone apps race that’s dominated by Google’s Android and Apple… Read more »
Android Rules The 4G Roost. Where Are The Rest?
According to comScore, in November, for the first time, Android overtook Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the installed smartphone user base, at 26 per… Read more »
CES: Bitbop Inks Deal To Preload Its TV App On Verizon’s LTE Devices
Is there life after News Corp.? (NSDQ: NWS) Bitbop, part of the Fox Mobile division that was recently sold to the Jesta Group, believes ther… Read more »
CES: Ballmer On Windows 7 Phone: ‘Job Number 1 Is Showing It To People’
photo: Engadget
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) may have cracked the mobile code with its new Windows Phone 7 OS but it’s not quite there when it comes to actual con… Read more »
CES: Ballmer On What Microsoft Has Coming Next
Steve Ballmer started off his Consumer Electronics Show keynote Wednesday by running down Microsoft’s product debuts in 2010, including Wind… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Angry Birds Fly To Windows; HP/Palm Event; ESPN/Sprint
– Angry Birds: Rovio’s hugely successful mobile game may not yet be available on Windows Phone 7 handsets, but it is now making the move to… Read more »
Happy News Year: Mobile Stories You May Have Missed
photo: Flickr / from a second story.
In the last 10 days, Skype went down and up again and launched video calling on iPhones; Clearwire lost its chairman; Paul Allen got legal o… Read more »
Windows Phone 7: 1.5 Million Devices Sold, But Not To Consumers
photo: Tricia Duryee
In the last six weeks, there has been a lot of speculation over just how many Windows Phone 7 handsets have been sold since the devices hit… Read more »
Microsoft With Nokia: Maybe Not As Far-Fetched As It Sounds?
It has been a while since the last time we heard that Nokia and Microsoft might work together on a device — at least a few months. So perha… Read more »
DIY-App Developer Mobile Roadie Takes Diddy And Taylor Swift To BlackBerry
Mobile Roadie has made a name for itself providing a platform for content owners to publish mobile apps for Android and iOS devices without… Read more »
