We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ…

Update: Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) how now posted an item on its own blog confirming that it will stop developing Flash for mobile devices, and will instead concentrate on apps using Adobe Air and HTML5. It will continue to support Flash for PC browsing, it said. Original post below. Widely debated,…

It looks like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be jumping its last major regulatory hurdle in its bid to buy Skype: it is expected to get clearance from the European Union’s competition commission, paving the way for the transaction to close by the end of this year. The deal was first…

It seems so simple, so obvious: mobile developers of the world, unite behind the web and finally achieve platform independence! It turns out that abandoning an app-focused mobile development world in favor of web technologies based around HTML5 is one of those tech industry ideas that everyone agrees is fantastic…

If you look at web browser usage, Opera is barely even worth mentioning. But look at mobile browsers and it’s arguably one of the fastest and more innovative pieces of software for surfing the web on the go. Already a market leader in Russia, Africa and parts of Europe, Opera…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Android: A day after a video surfaced of Nokia’s first Windows Phone, codenamed “Sea Ray,” a picture of what looks to like a Nokia Android prototype. Unlike yesterday’s story, this one really does look like a…

Looks like we might be at a tipping point in the market for mobile apps and how they are becoming the go-to place for digital content. A new bit of number-crunching from the app analytics company Flurry claims that for the first time, this month in the U.S. mobile app…

It must have sounded like a great idea to someone at News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) at the time: “Hey, I know how we can sell more subscriptions through the New York Post iPad App! Let’s block access through iPad Safari and make them go to the app instead.” What they…

Facebook could be hedging its bets on the future of mobile applications versus the development of the mobile Web with a secret project to build an HTML5-compliant mobile Web site that could be a huge turning point in the mobile strategies of Facebook and its partners.

Given Google’s love for the Web and the relative lack of Android tablet applications as opposed to iPad applications, you’d think Android Web browsing on a tablet like the Xoom or Galaxy Tab would be a compelling experience. But that’s not often the case, according to a new study.

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 detailed by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) this week would have left you with the impression that the project you witnessed was the company’s brightest…

They’re nearly six months late, but the first systems running Chrome OS, which will henceforth be known as Chromebooks, were showcased Wednesday at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O ahead of their launch on June 15 in the U.S. Here’s a little more information about the systems themselves and what’s in store…

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 leader, Sundar Pichai, ran through a morning of announcements, which included pricing details on Chromebooks, welcome news about Angry Birds on the Web, and a business-oriented subscription…

GetJar and Opera have resolved their differences over the Opera Mini browser, and it’s now back in GetJar’s app store for downloads, according to a GetJar blog post cheekily titled “Soap Opera.”

Turns out it’s not only the native app stores from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android/Google (NSDQ: GOOG) that get a little hot under their collars when they sense competition from those publishing apps in their app markets. Today GetJar announced that it has rejected the Opera Mini browser from its…

All talk these days is about Google/Android and Apple/iOS, but here’s a nifty infographic that underscores just how fragmented the picture really is for which mobile phone browsers dominate.

Apple’s new subscription rates have gotten some publishers thinking they might start to put more effort instead into mobile web services. But if its audiences they’re after, they might want to consider staying in apps for a little while longer… A new survey out today shows that in the U.S.…

One more app publisher is adding its voice to those decidedly against Apple’s new subscription rules for App Store apps: Readability—which creates apps and web services that let users have pared-down, text-based versions of online articles to make reading them easier—has written an open letter to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today,…

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 Windows Phone 7 will feature multitasking, a top-of-the-range mobile web browser and integration with Microsoft’s buzziest product of the moment: Xbox Kinect: in short, everything that…