Ingrid Lunden
May 6, 2011 5:21 AM
Another milestone passed in the mobile industry: Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the reigning leader in mobile handsets, has now lost the number-one position in its most important market, Western Europe. According to figures from IDC, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is now the region’s top smartphone maker; and Samsung is the region’s biggest…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 24, 2011 4:48 AM
We’ve seen lots of build-up to the debut of Motorola’s Xoom tablet today, but—wouldn’t you know it—there’s always someone there to spoil the fun. Yesterday, the online payments company Xoom Corporation filed a case with the U.S. District Court for Northern California for trademark infringement against Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Mobility.…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 6, 2011 5:18 AM
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Mobility has come into being with a bang. On top of two exciting-looking new handsets—with AT&T, it debuted Atrix, which it claims is now the world’s most powerful smartphone; and with Verizon, it’s introducing the Droid Bionic, one of the first handsets to run on Verizon’s LTE…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2011 9:20 AM
Mobile TV may have had a big setback recently with the closure of Qualcomm’s Flo TV. But many other there still believe there is a future for mass-market mobile digital TV services. The Open Mobile Video Coalition, the 900-strong broadcaster consortium, is one of them, and today the group took…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 2, 2011 11:59 PM
We’ve all heard the prediction that 2011 will be “the” year for Android, with more devices—handsets and tablets—based on the OS hitting the market than ever before, and more apps developed for the platform (estimated now to be at 210,000 and counting). And if the last six months are anything…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 10, 2010 5:46 AM
Virgin Media has yet to go commercial on an all-you-can-eat music service it announced way back in June 2009, but it is still forging ahead with a separate strategy to sell music via mobile. Monday will see the launch of a new free app, which the quad-play provider created with…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 9, 2010 6:35 AM
It may not be too much of a stretch to suspect iPhone users are some of the highest spending folks in the market. But compared to those using other devices, they actually bring in less money to their operators. A fascinating bit of number crunching from Pageonce, which develops personal…
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