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Microsoft: Only We Get To Use Desktop Mode In Apps For Windows 8 On ARM

Feb 9, 2012 3:07 PM

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has cleared up some of the confusion regarding its plans for Windows 8 computers that will use ARM processors, the first time the storied company has built a version of Windows for the chip standard that dominates the mobile world. Windows 8 devices on ARM chips will…

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Microsoft, Windows Phone, windows 8

What’s On Your Strategic Roadmap For Mobile In 2012?

Feb 9, 2012 1:17 PM

Is 2012 “the year of mobile?” No sir. Mobile is simply too disruptive to have just one year. After all, who remembers the year of the TV or the year of the Internet? Talk of “the year of ...” is not only passé but also irrelevant. The disruptive forces of…

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia

Google-Motorola Deal Could Be Approved Early Next Week

Feb 9, 2012 11:56 AM

Google’s bid for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) is likely to get a thumbs up from the U.S. Department of Justice, but still could face opposition from other regulators both in the U.S. and in Europe. The landmark $12.5 billion deal is essential for Google’s attempts to play defense in the mobile…

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Legal, Patents, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Motorola

Report: Apple’s iPad 3 Set To Arrive In Early March

Feb 9, 2012 11:09 AM

It’s been almost a year since former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2, and according to a new report, the company plans to launch the third version of its breakthrough tablet device around a month from now in early March.

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad

How Accenture Used A Mobile App To Get On The BBC

Feb 9, 2012 4:06 AM

When the consulting firm’s logo appeared routinely in Six Nations rugby broadcast graphics this weekend, James Cridland was amongst the viewers to ask: “Accenture advertises on BBC Sport - how?” Sponsorship on the license-funded BBC in the UK is strictly forbidden. But the workaround, for Accenture, was to build a…

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Posted In: Marketing, Mobile, Companies, BBC

Path Apologizes For Address-Book Data Snafu, Promises To Delete Data

Feb 8, 2012 5:26 PM

Path, a company hoping to build a kinder, gentler social network based on sharing within a limited number of people, has apologized for a contact-finder feature in its software that uploaded users’ entire iPhone address books to its servers and said it has deleted that personal information.

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Social Media, path

Keep It Fair: Apple, Google Address Concerns Over Mobile Patent Licensing

Feb 8, 2012 1:33 PM

All is indeed fair in love and war, but not everything is fair in patent licensing. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are working on measures to level the playing field in the mobile patent disputes by clarifying what is “fair” when it comes to patent licensing terms.

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Posted In: Gadgets, Legal, Patents, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Motorola

Jersey Shore, Dora, iCarly To Amazon Prime Instant In Viacom Deal

Feb 8, 2012 10:01 AM

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding its Prime Instant Video library in a deal with Viacom (NYSE: VIA), bringing the total number of streaming videos available free Prime members to over 15,000.

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Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Mobile, Companies, Amazon, Viacom, MTV, amazon prime instant video, nickelodeon

Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?

Feb 8, 2012 5:35 AM

Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services—enabling people to buy Facebook Credits and charge them directly to their mobile bills. Now, it’s increasingly looking like that may just be the beginning: today, UK-based mobile billing and analytics specialist Bango (AIM: BGO) announced that…

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Marketing, Mobile, Companies, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, RIM, Countries, Europe, UK, bango

Nokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go

Feb 8, 2012 3:24 AM

Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today announced that it would be transferring smartphone assembly from factories in Hungary, Finland and Mexico, and putting the operation in Asia.

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Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Money, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, HTC, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Russia, Finland, Asia, India, China, foxconn

Chrome, Meet Android: Google Releases Beta Version Of Chrome For Mobile OS

Feb 7, 2012 12:46 PM

For years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) watchers have wondered why the company has used a unique browser on its Android software while maintaining a separate browser project in Chrome. Those days are over: Google has released a beta version of Chrome for Android, uniting two very important projects and raising questions…

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Companies, Google, Android, chrome

Apple Promises A Crack Down On Those Who Manipulate App Store Rankings

Feb 7, 2012 10:00 AM

It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is showing that it will respond swiftly if anyone starts messing with its App Store. But further investigation into the practices…

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Marketing, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iAd, iTunes, crowdstar, tapjoy

RIM: App World Is Now At 60,000 Apps; 13 Percent Of Publishers Earn $100k+

Feb 7, 2012 7:36 AM

Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, delays on new products, and the departure of its co-CEOs/founders in the last month after several bad quarters. But at a developers’ conference that kicked off today…

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Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, Countries, Europe, UK, playbook, thorsten heins

ITC Said To Favor Barnes & Noble In Patent Dispute With Microsoft

Feb 6, 2012 1:33 PM

For the most part, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has found the mobile industry willing to bow to its patent-licensing strategy. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) decided to dig in and fight and it could be poised to score a point.

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Posted In: Gadgets, Legal, Patents, Mobile, Companies, Barnes & Noble, Nook, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone

Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile

Feb 6, 2012 9:45 AM

When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in terms of internet access, you would think that mobile internet usage would directly follow from these facts. In reality, it seems that it still lagging behind:…

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Posted In: Advertising, Mobile, Companies, Apple, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, Countries, Europe, UK, Asia, India, China, statcounter

Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’

Feb 6, 2012 6:00 AM

It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is that Facebook will do first in the world of mobile marketing, and it could be coming online “within weeks.”

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Legal, Privacy, Marketing, Mobile, Money, Companies, Facebook

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

U.S. Government Developing Android Phones, Promises Quick Software Updates

Feb 3, 2012 2:22 PM

The U.S. government likes to do things its own way. Along those lines, it has decided to embrace Android as a smartphone platform for soldiers and other government employees because of the control it can exert over the software, which in turn underscores how much control Android partners have over…

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Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Companies, Google, Android

Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising

Feb 3, 2012 10:20 AM

Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing massive growth in mobile, but it still hasn’t tried out advertising, its most effective route to revenues, on this platform. That’s not to say it won’t. But…

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Money, IPO, Technologies / Formats, SMS, Companies, Facebook, Zynga, facebook credits

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

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