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Canalys: Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Overtake PC/Tablet Market

Feb 3, 2012 5:58 PM

Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011, a milestone for the computer industry.

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Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry

Apple Clarifies: We Don’t Own The Content You Put Into iBooks Author

Feb 3, 2012 3:49 PM

When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works created in the program must be sold exclusively through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The company has now tweaked the EULA to make it a bit more clear.

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, Companies, Apple, iPad, ibooks author

Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted

Feb 3, 2012 5:16 AM

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Germany, one involving IP licensing on older iPhone models (not the 4S) and one involving iCloud. However, as the day progressed, an injunction on…

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Posted In: Legal, Patents, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Germany

Survey: Kindle Fire Owners Happy With Their Purchase But Not iPad-Happy

Feb 2, 2012 12:03 PM

Do Kindle Fire owners still like their devices now that they’ve had a few months to kick the tires? A new survey indicates that for the most part, they’re more pleased with their purchase than those who bought other Android tablets last year but less satisfied than iPad owners.

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Apple, iPad, Google, Android, changewave, kindle fire

Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are

Feb 2, 2012 9:20 AM

Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the growth we’ve seen in the space, you can argue that it might be missing a trick.

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Search, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Apple, Facebook, Google, Android, Countries, inneractive, jumptap, mojiva

Living In A Smartphone World: Apple Number-Three Among ALL Mobile Players

Feb 2, 2012 6:30 AM

It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position in mobile sales. After all, Apple was only making smartphones and Nokia was still leading in that still-niche category, as well as mobiles overall.…

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Posted In: Mobile, Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, LG, Nokia, Samsung, idc

Samsung Takes The Apple Route For Its Next Big Launch, the Galaxy S III

Feb 1, 2012 12:30 PM

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung is taking a note from Apple is in how it debuts its big products. The company today announced that it would not be launching its next big…

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Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Events, Mobile World Congress, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung, Countries, Asia, Korea, Europe, galaxy s ii, galaxy s iii, samsung galaxy

Report: China Telecom Will Finally Get The iPhone 4S In February

Feb 1, 2012 6:13 AM

Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China Telecom, says that it will start to sell the iPhone 4S by the end of this month or early March.

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Posted In: Mobile, Technologies / Formats, 3G, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Nokia, Samsung, Sprint, Verizon, Countries, Asia, China, china mobile, china telecom, china unicom

Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission

Jan 31, 2012 8:00 AM

The ongoing, back-and-forth legal fight that is the Apple/Samsung patent dispute today took on a new dimension in one of its key battlegrounds, when the European Commission launched an antitrust inquiry into Samsung’s technology licensing practices.

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Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Patents, Regulatory, EC, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Samsung, Countries, Asia, Japan, Korea, Europe, Germany, galaxy tab, galaxy tab 10.1n

Industry Moves
Apple Picks Dixons Group CEO Browett As New Retail SVP

Jan 31, 2012 6:07 AM

Napoleon once described the UK as a “nation of shopkeepers”, so it is somewhat fitting that this is where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gone to find its next retail supremo.

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Countries, Europe, UK, john browett, peter oppenheimer, ron johnson

RIM In Trouble In Europe? Not In The UK, It Claims

Jan 30, 2012 7:28 AM

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) is taking a beating at the moment from handset makers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung, which have eaten into a smartphone market share that it took years for the BlackBerry maker to build on both sides of the Atlantic. RIM, however, claims that it is still…

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Posted In: Mobile, Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung, WPP, Countries, Europe, UK

Farewell, Yahoo Apps, We Hardly Knew Ye: Deals, News Plus Eight Others Gone

Jan 30, 2012 6:20 AM

Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure, the internet company is pulling support for 10 of its less-popular mobile apps.

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Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Movies, Sports, Media & Publishing, TV, Mobile, Search, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Groupon, Portals, RIM, BlackBerry, Twitter, Yahoo

Your iPhone Has To Be Made In China, And Apple Can’t Absolve Your Guilt

Jan 28, 2012 5:00 AM

“For a quarter of a century, Washington and Wall Street have wanted China to become an integral part of the world economy. Their wish has been granted, and now it’s time to come to grips with the implications.”—Jeffrey Garten, Yale, June 2002 (BusinessWeek) Ten years after those words were written…

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Posted In: Gadgets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, foxconn

Exclusive
Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service

Jan 27, 2012 12:39 PM

It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a…

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Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, Hulu, Netflix, News Corp., Fox, Countries, Europe, Germany, bitbop, jesta

Earnings
Nokia Tottering At The Top Of Mobile Rankings; Apple Leading Smartphones

Jan 27, 2012 6:24 AM

With most of the major handset makers having reported earnings for the quarter that ended in December, analyst houses are laying out their rankings in global smartphone and overall mobile shipments. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has just about managed to keep its top position overall, while Apple’s phenomenal quarter has put…

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Posted In: Advertising, Mobile, Money, Earnings, Research & Metrics, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Nokia, RIM, Samsung

Distimo: When It’s Time For A Mobile App Sale, Choose Your Price Wisely

Jan 26, 2012 3:46 PM

In an insanely crowded mobile apps marketplace, pricing is one of the ways to stand out from the competition: for better or worse. Distimo shared some data Thursday on app-pricing strategies as well as the old-fashioned retail concept of the sale.

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Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android

Tablets: Apple’s Lead Narrows Among Widening Field Of Android Makers

Jan 26, 2012 12:15 PM

With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A report out today from Strategy Analytics said that for Q4 it was Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the company that effectively created the market for tablets two years ago…

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Apple, iPad, Google, Android, HP, Microsoft, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung

Earnings
AT&T: The iPhone Was Good, But Not Good Enough To Hold Off A Q4 Loss

Jan 26, 2012 10:30 AM

A set of quarterly results today from AT&T (NYSE: T) that underscored some of the aftershocks the carrier is feeling in the wake of its failed bid to buy T-Mobile USA. The carrier swung to a loss and failed to meet analysts’ estimates on earnings, partly down to a $4…

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Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Regulatory, Media & Publishing, TV, Mobile, Money, Earnings, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, Apple, iPhone, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon

Rhapsody Goes To Europe As New Music Services Compete, News Corp’s Fails

Jan 26, 2012 6:38 AM

Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success.

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Best Buy, Napster, News Corp., RealNetworks, Spotify, rhapsody

Earnings
Nokia Q4: Scrambling For A Grip, But Still Falling; 1M+ Lumia Phones Sold

Jan 26, 2012 6:14 AM

Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The handset maker confirmed analyst estimates that it has sold over a million Lumia Windows Phone handsets - but that didn’t stop a horrible 31 percent slide in its…

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Posted In: Money, Earnings, Technologies / Formats, 3G, 4G, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, Countries, Europe, UK, Latin America, Asia, China, lumia

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