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  • Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition

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    Jordan Crook
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:04 pm
    We took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we’re back. What we’ve got for you today leans into more expensive turf, and unfortunately, our favorite Android devices for the past two months are also exclusively at Verizon, so Big Red subscribers should pay attention. Without further ado, these are our favorite December/January releases of the Android persuasion: The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the LG Spectrum, and the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx. Enjoy! Samsung…

  • ThinkPad X130e Mini Review: Built Like a Tank, Ready for School

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    Josh Smith
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Lenovo is most often known for their ThinkPad business systems, but the company also offers a number of systems aimed at the education market, like the ThinkPad X130E. The X130E is a much tougher... This is a summary. Please visit Notebooks.com for the full article.

  • Siri isn’t a bandwidth hog & users aren’t the problem

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    Stacey Higginbotham
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    The sky is falling again in cellular land, and this time Siri is to blame. At least, that’s the assessment from an opinion article in the Washington Post  Friday morning claiming Siri not only unleashed a huge new pattern of data consumption on mobiles, but that in return, her piggy ways destroy the experience for the rest of us because of the shared nature of cellular networks. From the article: And building new capacity isn’t cheap. Everyone — not just the first-class passengers — ends up paying for it. So prepare for higher cellphone bills. And in the meantime? Prepare to sit…

  • Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung's support site?

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    Terrence O'Brien
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:26 pm
    Seriously, we can't caveat this one enough -- there is no way of knowing if this is in fact the Galaxy S III or, if it is, when it might come to market -- but, it looks like Samsung's "next big smartphone" just made a cameo on the company's support pages. Listed as the GT-i9300, the mystery device reared its head over at the Global Download Center of the United Arab Emerites site. If Sammy is to keep with its naming scheme i93XX would be a flagship device -- the i90XX line was the Galaxy S, i91XX represents the S2 series, while the i9250 and i9220 are the Nexus and Note respectively. As we…

  • LyricFind secures global deal for almost 2m songs

    Mobile Entertainment: Stream
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:33 am
    Contracts with four publishers will allow rollout across 20 markets.
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  • Google tells Android devs to kick the menu button to the curb, seriously you guys

    Terrence O'Brien
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:28 am
    If you've seen Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus in action, then it should be clear that the menu button has no future in the Android ecosystem. In order to drive that point home, Google has posted over at the Android Developer blog urging app creators to "say goodbye to the menu button." With the until now standard key getting the boot, big G wants devs to start designing interfaces that focus on the ActionBar introduced with Honeycomb. Of course, there's only so much room on the screen, and that's where the "action overflow" button comes in handy. Those vertical elipsis hide useful,…

  • Shocker! New RIM CEO targets existing BlackBerry users for upgrades

    Richard Lawler
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pm
    All of new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins' fresh ideas will apparently still be revealed to the company's board in a couple of weeks, but he's already dropped some gems in interviews with the Wall Street Journal and Reuters (update: and Bloomberg). First item on the agenda? Getting current users upgraded to the latest and greatest BlackBerry hardware. Citing internal statistics that indicate 80- to 90- percent of the company's customer base aren't running BlackBerry 7 hardware yet, it will work closely with US carriers to promote upgrades until the new BB10 devices hit later this year. There's no…

  • MasterCard's QkR mobile payment system enters trial in Australia

    Terrence O'Brien
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:15 pm
    MasterCard is all over the map when it comes to mobile payments. The credit company will partner with anyone, anywhere, anytime if it means getting new customers and making a buck on the deal. Its latest offering is called QkR, an Australian effort with support from the Hoyts chain of movie theaters and Commonwealth Bank. The initial trial run will be at La Premiere cinemas, where customers will be able to order and pay for food and beverages right from their seat with the QkR app. To initiate the transaction a you scan the QR code or tap the NFC tag attached to the arm rest, and a staff…

  • Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung's support site?

    Terrence O'Brien
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:26 pm
    Seriously, we can't caveat this one enough -- there is no way of knowing if this is in fact the Galaxy S III or, if it is, when it might come to market -- but, it looks like Samsung's "next big smartphone" just made a cameo on the company's support pages. Listed as the GT-i9300, the mystery device reared its head over at the Global Download Center of the United Arab Emerites site. If Sammy is to keep with its naming scheme i93XX would be a flagship device -- the i90XX line was the Galaxy S, i91XX represents the S2 series, while the i9250 and i9220 are the Nexus and Note respectively. As we…

  • Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with guest CrackBerry Kevin, live at 5PM ET!

    Brad Molen
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:05 pm
    Just wake up from a very restful week-long slumber? First of all, we're envious of your good fortune. Second, Research in Motion made a few changes to its leadership chart. Third, you must be really hungry right about now. So grab a sandwich, come back in an hour and join Myriam, Brad, Sean Cooper and our very special guest Kevin Michaluk (yes, Mr. CrackBerry Kevin himself) as we discuss the northern news, as well as anything else that happened this week.Be sure to send questions or comments you have for us or Kevin via Twitter (we're @engadgetmobile), or make your voice heard in our Ustream…
 
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  • Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition

    Jordan Crook
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:04 pm
    We took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we’re back. What we’ve got for you today leans into more expensive turf, and unfortunately, our favorite Android devices for the past two months are also exclusively at Verizon, so Big Red subscribers should pay attention. Without further ado, these are our favorite December/January releases of the Android persuasion: The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the LG Spectrum, and the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx. Enjoy! Samsung…

  • Face.com Launches KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone

    Sarah Perez
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:54 am
    Facial recognition company Face.com has just released a new mobile application that takes advantage of its technology to identify the faces of your friends in photos. Called “KLIK,” the app is a real-time, facial recognition mobile camera app for iPhone that automatically identifies your friends by name before or after you take their their photo. To use the app, you have to configure it with your Facebook account, as that’s how it learns who you friends are. You don’t, however, have to immediately share the pictures you take using KLIK on Facebook – that part is…

  • RIM’s New CEO Backtracks: “There Is A Lot Of Change”

    Jordan Crook
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:58 am
    On Monday of this week, RIM’s new CEO made a statement that set off a bomb on the blogosphere, and I’m not sure he understood its repercussions at the time. “I don’t think any drastic change is needed.” If you’ve been paying attention to RIM and its numbers, you know that what the company desperately needs is change. Sales are declining, platform market share is dwindling, and the BlackBerry brand, to a large extent, has lost the power it once had behind it. So in a recent interview with CrackBerry, Heins made sure to clarify exactly what he meant by…

  • Apple Overtakes Samsung As World’s Largest Smartphone Vendor In Q4

    Sarah Perez
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:48 am
    According to the latest report from Strategy Analytics, Apple has now overtaken Samsung to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume. Apple achieved 23.9% market share during Q4 2011, narrowly beating out Samsung’s 23.5% share. In addition, Apple shipped 37 million units in Q4, again going neck-and-neck with Samsung and its 36.5 million units shipped during the same time. However, notes Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, “while Apple took the top spot in smartphones on a quarterly basis, Samsung became the market leader in annual terms for…

  • Disney, Q-pot Choco, Honey Bee: Japan Gets 3 Extra-Cute Android Phones

    Serkan Toto
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:16 am
    Android adoption is growing rapidly in Japan, with local handset manufacturers doing everything they can in order to meet the demands of customers in all segments of the population. One particularly attractive target group seems to be women, given how many Japanese companies say they design Android phones specifically for female users. Here are three recent examples. First, Sharp has designed a weird “chocolate bar”-type handset that Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo plans to roll out on Valentine’s Day. The so-called “Q-pot.Phone SH-04D” [JP] comes…
 
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  • Wifi + Zigbee Demo Smart Grid Interoperability

    Sam Churchill
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:31 pm
    The Wi-Fi Alliance and ZigBee Alliance got together this week in a public demonstration of interoperability between Wi-Fi devices and ZigBee-enabled smart energy meters at DistribuTECH in San Antonio. They were promoting the new Smart Energy Profile 2.0, designed for energy meters. The multi-vendor demonstration established Wi-Fi device connectivity to both Wi-Fi and ZigBee meters, reports Fierce Wireless. It was reportedly the first time that this kind of mixed technology has been publicly demonstrated. Products to be certified with the Smart Energy Profile are expected to include…

  • North Carolina Launches White Space Network

    Sam Churchill
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:10 pm
    The world’s first commercial White Spaces network launched Thursday in North Carolina. So far, the FCC has only approved one white spaces device — a 1.5-lb. rectangular-shaped radio from Florida-based KTS Wireless. The KTS device, used in the Hanover NC network, is a small, last-mile, transmitter. It uses the company’s frequency agile radio which received FCC approval Dec. 26, making it the first unlicensed transmitter allowed to operate in the TV band. The WiFi Alliance says don’t call it “Super Wi-Fi” – it only leads to consumer confusion since “there…

  • WiMAX Forum Gets New President

    Sam Churchill
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:07 pm
    Today the WiMAX Forum announced that effective February 1st, 2012, Ronald Resnick will retire from his role as the President of the WiMAX Forum. “Mr. Resnick has been a valued part of the WiMAX leadership for the past eight years,” said Dr. Mohammad Shakouri, Interim Chairperson of the WiMAX Forum. “The WiMAX Forum would like to thank Mr. Resnick for building a strong foundation for this organization, which will continue its work in standardizing and certifying technology to bring broadband to underserved markets across the world. We all wish Mr. Resnick the best of luck in his…

  • Ericsson Buying BelAir?

    Sam Churchill
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:02 pm
    Telecom networking giant Ericsson is buying BelAir Networks, adding its outdoor WiFi technology to Ericsson’s portfolio, reports Kevin Fitchard of GigaOM. BelAir gear is used extensively by AT&T (in NYC, Chicago and San Francisco), Cablevision (with a large-scale deployment in the NY area), and Time Warner Cable (with a large-scale deployment in the Los Angeles area). Bright House Networks turned on a 2,000 hotspot network across Florida. Belair’s outdoor metropolitan picocells, including the BelAir100SP Strand Picocell, which can be mounted outdoors on cable coax. The…

  • AT&T: On the Couch

    Sam Churchill
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:29 pm
    During AT&T’s quarterly earnings call, CEO Randall Stevenson blasted the FCC over its leadership in making additional spectrum available to carriers, reports ReadWriteWeb. Stevenson said that because of AT&T’s spectrum crunch it will be forced to raise prices and take additional actions against the highest data users. Stevenson’s remarks come as AT&T announced that it sold 9.4 million smartphones including 7.6 million iPhones in the the fourth quarter of 2011. AT&T is complaining about lack of spectrum. Who do they have to blame for that? Verizon and…
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  • ThinkPad X130e Mini Review: Built Like a Tank, Ready for School

    Josh Smith
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Lenovo is most often known for their ThinkPad business systems, but the company also offers a number of systems aimed at the education market, like the ThinkPad X130E. The X130E is a much tougher... This is a summary. Please visit Notebooks.com for the full article.

  • Will Your Next Notebook Have Kinect Built In?

    Josh Smith
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:24 am
    Microsoft’s Kinect has been a huge hit in the living room, bringing accurate motion and voice based controls to the Xbox 360. This is great for games, but what about work? The Daily got an... This is a summary. Please visit Notebooks.com for the full article.

  • If Embedded Webcams Are Good Enough, Why Do We Need 1080p Video Chat?

    K. T. Bradford
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:17 am
    Logitech released their Q03 2012 financial results [PDF] earlier this week and the news was mixed, at best. A section that caught my eye dealt with the company’s webcam business. Sales are down... This is a summary. Please visit Notebooks.com for the full article.

  • How To Turn Off Or Change Troublesome Keys In Windows

    K. T. Bradford
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:33 pm
    Do you often find yourself accidentally hitting the wrong keys on your laptop because of poor design or just messy typing? I know your pain. Some keys just get in the way. The solution to this... This is a summary. Please visit Notebooks.com for the full article.

  • School Districts in 41 States Using Google’s Chromebooks in the Classroom

    K. T. Bradford
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:45 am
    Google’s Chromebooks may not have been a hit with the tech reviewers who dismissed the very idea of laptops that only work completely when connected to the Internet. That didn’t stop the... This is a summary. Please visit Notebooks.com for the full article.
 
 
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  • Yahoo kills a bunch of mobile apps you’ve never used

    Ryan Lawler
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:25 pm
    Yahoo is cleaning house on the mobile product side, announcing Friday that it is “decommissioning” a long list of mobile apps. Apps that will no longer be supported include winners like Yahoo! Meme and Yahoo Mim (say what?), as well as some more general mobile apps like Yahoo Answers for Android and Yahoo Deals for iPhone. Unfortunately, Yahoo! Sketch-a-search, which I didn’t even know was a thing before today, is also getting the axe. (You can see the full list on the official announcement.) Somewhat paradoxically, Yahoo is pitching its non-support of these apps as part of…

  • Google Videos eating up GBs? Here’s how to fix it

    Kevin C. Tofel
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:40 pm
    A key advantage to owning an Android phone with a 720p display is that you can watch content in true high-definition. The 1280 x 720 screen on my Galaxy Nexus is what I call “an HDTV in my pocket.” I’ve been renting high-def videos from the Android Market, simply because they’re stunning to look at. But there’s a huge problem: After watching the rentals, the massive media files aren’t disappearing from my phone. The Problem I noticed this after my CES travels earlier this month. During that trip, I downloaded some HD content to the Galaxy Nexus so I could…

  • With webOS put out to pasture, Jon Rubinstein exits HP

    Ryan Kim
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Jon Rubinstein, the man who helped oversee Palm’s move to a new webOS operating system and later sold the company to Hewlett-Packard, has quietly exited the company. It’s an unsurprising move, but one that further signals the end of the Palm era at HP. The departure, first reported by AllThingsD, was expected, considering HP’s decision to open source webOS and get out of the mobile hardware market. The writing was already on the wall when Rubinstein in July was moved into a product innovation role within the Personal Systems Group at HP. HP bought Palm in 2010 for $1.2…

  • Forget e-books; are you ready for virtual books?

    Kevin C. Tofel
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:43 am
    Updated. As an avid e-book reader and lover of gadgets, I love the concept of this “virtual” book. Siglio Press is offering 250 signed and numbered copies of a limited edition print book that requires a webcam and computing device to actually be read. Why? The print pages — a back-and-forth series of letters between two lovers — only have glyph-like symbols on the page. The book contents appear in virtual reality images on screen when the book is held in front of the webcam. Here’s how it works: Is this project the most practical way to read a $24.95…

  • Siri isn’t a bandwidth hog & users aren’t the problem

    Stacey Higginbotham
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    The sky is falling again in cellular land, and this time Siri is to blame. At least, that’s the assessment from an opinion article in the Washington Post  Friday morning claiming Siri not only unleashed a huge new pattern of data consumption on mobiles, but that in return, her piggy ways destroy the experience for the rest of us because of the shared nature of cellular networks. From the article: And building new capacity isn’t cheap. Everyone — not just the first-class passengers — ends up paying for it. So prepare for higher cellphone bills. And in the meantime? Prepare to sit…
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  • Hotels are upgrading WiFi infrastructure to meet iPad, iPhone users’ needs

    Esme Vos
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Good news for travelers lamenting about hotel Wi-Fi! Hotels are finally upgrading their Wi-Fi infrastructure to meet the needs of iPad, iPhone and laptop users. Last October, Andy Abramson posted an article entitled Why Hotel Wi-Fi Is Being Crushed By iPads And What To Do About It in which he detailed what hotels needed to do to improve guests’ Wi-Fi experience (in a nutshell: upgrade!). With more visitors using iPads, hotels are faced with angry guests who complain that the hotel’s Wi-Fi network is too slow or drops their connections. Face it: if you are in the hospitality…

  • Edgewater Wireless signs deal with leading Brazilian distributor after successful trial

    Esme Vos
    19 Jan 2012 | 2:06 am
    Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. formerly known as KIK Polymers Inc and currently trading as KPI.V on the TSXV, and Red Network, a leading distributor of networking solutions in Brazil, have entered into a distribution supply agreement following a successful trial in Brazil. The Edgewater Wireless EAP3000 Access Points demonstrated superior performance in an outdoor trial where a single unit was able to transfer high-speed, high-definition (HD) video from an HD WiFi camera while simultaneously supporting multiple data transfers and voice over IP (VOIP) phone calls. The trial was deemed…

  • New Tropos 1410 Delivers Secure Field Area Networks for Smart Grid and Other Industrial Applications

    Esme Vos
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:10 am
    Tropos Networks has announced the Tropos 1410 wireless mesh router and wireless bridge for field automation applications. The new product line extends advanced enterprise-class security to utility and industrial applications that monitor and control field automation devices. Furthermore, it provides communications for these applications for as little as half the cost of competitive proprietary, low-speed wireless networks per connected automation endpoint. Tropos 1410 wireless mesh routers and wireless bridges create secure, IP-based field area communication networks serving thousands of…

  • Santa Clara, CA muni Wi-Fi network gets a second chance

    Esme Vos
    13 Jan 2012 | 2:05 am
    I know you’re thinking what I’m thinking: “Here we go again.” Santa Clara, California has announced that it is re-launching its free citywide Wi-Fi network, only this time, it’s not the network created by MetroFi (the bankrupt wireless ISP that had contracts to deploy Wi-Fi networks in various cities across the US) but the city’s own. Background: MetroFi had won a contract to unwire Santa Clara, but the company went into bankruptcy after it failed to make money. Santa Clara bought the network (the MetroFi access points) from MetroFi and issued a public…

  • Bright House sets up 2000 WiFi hotspots in Orlando and Central Florida

    Esme Vos
    13 Jan 2012 | 12:59 am
    Bright House Networks, a cable company in Florida, has begun offering free Wi-Fi service (to Bright House customers) at more than 2000 Wi-Fi hotspots in central Florida, beginning with downtown Orlando and shopping centers, parks and beaches around it. People who do not subscribe Bright House’s Internet and cable service can still access the network for a fee. They can choose from hourly, weekly and monthly paid plans. Bright House says it will expand the number of hotspots to other locations in Florida and outside the state. Bright House is not the first cable company in the United…
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  • Telco-OTT Strategies report now published

    Dean Bubley
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:56 pm
    The report is now available.135 pages88 operator services mentioned4 service categoriesContent, video & portalsCommunications, social & identityCorporate & cloud ConnectivityComprehensive discussion of what "Telco-OTT" means, why it's inevitable, and key success factors for making it work. Covers everything from VoIP to femtocells to SaaS to IP-VPNs to portals to IPTV-anywhere.More details coming over the next few days.For pricing details & to purchase the report, please…

  • Peak Telephony - why voice has to be about more than phone calls

    Dean Bubley
    24 Jan 2012 | 4:57 pm
    This thread is from my Facebook page. The original poster is a 23yo friend, others range up to about 40-45yo. I thought it was worth a post as it highlights the reason why re-organising a trillion-dollar industry about something as near-obsolete as the 100-year old "phone call" is so dangerous.[Note: I don't know "Samuel" who defends the phone call, but by an interesting coincidence there's someone on LinkedIn who's a "technology analyst" with the same age & academic background].Ruth: Am I alone in really not liking talking on the phone? Or am I a bit weird? It's just that someone phoning…

  • 800+ providers of telephony services in a shrinking market? Consolidation to Telco-OTT, not federation, is the answer

    Dean Bubley
    21 Jan 2012 | 6:56 am
    Every telco, fixed or mobile, operates its own telephony service. Some operate two or more - either with separate enterprise platforms, IMS (mostly fixed, but VoLTE for some in the future), or OTT-style VoIP.This is ridiculous.The conventional telephony market is peaking, and in various areas declining. Apart from emerging markets with new users, even mobile telephony is reducing in price and popularity, as people switch to messaging or in some cases Internet-based VoIP alternatives. Pricing regulation, and accounting changes, are also driving down the measured market size.Yes, we see some…

  • 2012 Winners and Losers

    Dean Bubley
    18 Dec 2011 | 5:04 am
    It's time for the annual merry-go-round of analyst predictions, and so I'll thrown my hat into the ring as usual. Some of these will come as "no surprise" to my regular readers & clients, others represent a bit of a change of stance.I'm hideously busy before I head off for the holidays, so I'm afraid these are just bullet points. More detail & explanation will crop up here over time, or on my new subscription @DApremium Twitter channel.Winners:Telco OTT services & business models This won't surprise many regular readers as it's a theme I've talked about for many years. It's a…

  • New! Disruptive Analysis Premium Twitter subscription stream @DApremium - sign up today at an introductory promotional rate

    Dean Bubley
    14 Dec 2011 | 12:59 pm
    What am I doing? I am launching the first analyst paid channel for Twitter: a subscription for "premium" exclusive tweets of my analysis, opinion and market observations.Why am I doing this?I've been using Twitter for over a year and a half, posting as @disruptivedean. I was a hold-out for a long time before grudgingly signing up. Although I've got a fairly good "reach" from it, I've been vocal in criticising it. I'd much prefer to just use something more useful like LinkedIn or Quora for "status" updates and more detailed discussions instead.But unfortunately, Twitter is like tax - as…
 
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  • Why Web OS Really Failed, and What it Means for the Rest of Us

    Michael Mace
    3 Jan 2012 | 2:27 pm
    The New York Times has an interesting article this week explaining why HP's adventure with Palm failed.  The latest explanation is that Web OS just wasn't ready for prime time, according to Paul Mercer, who was senior director of software at Palm (link).Paul's an extremely bright software guy.  It's unusual for someone with his seniority to go on the record with criticisms of his former product, and I applaud him for it because it helps us all learn.  If Paul says Web OS was unready, I'm sure it was.  But respectfully, I don't think that's why Web OS failed. I think the…

  • A New Survey on Information Management

    Michael Mace
    16 Dec 2011 | 12:47 am
    I'd like to interrupt the usual programming here to ask you a favor.The startup I'm working on will ship its first product in 2012.  As part of our development, we'd like to get some data on how people are affected by information overload.  We hope our product will help with that problem, but we need to understand better how people feel about the problem and what they're doing about it today.  So we're doing a survey.I think that you, the folks who read Mobile Opportunity, are a very good cross-section of technology users, so I'd like to ask you to take the survey.  I know…

  • Lessons From the Failure of Flash: Greed Kills

    Michael Mace
    10 Nov 2011 | 8:04 pm
    Adobe's decision to stop development of mobile Flash has deservedly gotten a lot of attention online.  It's a sad story for Adobe and Flash developers: a dominating standard on the PC web failed to get traction in mobile, and will now be abandoned gradually in favor of HTML 5.  But the story's not limited to mobile -- without a mobile growth path, I think Flash itself is destined to become a dwindling legacy standard everywhere (link).  I think the whole Flash business edifice is coming down.How did Flash go from leader to loser?  There are a lot of explanations being…

  • Amazon vs. Apple? No, it's Amazon and Apple vs. Everyone Else

    Michael Mace
    28 Sep 2011 | 8:49 pm
    To me, there's something magnificent about a well-executed product strategy.  Features and price and marketing all come together to delight a particular type of customer, and everyone wins.  The developer gets to sell a lot of products, and the users get something that improves their lives.In the tablet market right now we have the privilege of watching two companies do great strategy, Apple and Amazon.  The press wants to label the Kindle Fire an iPad killer, but really it's the first sensible iPad counterpoint, a tablet device with its own unique design center and business…

  • Happy Birthday, Business Computing

    Michael Mace
    4 Sep 2011 | 11:36 pm
    September 5, 2011On this date sixty years ago, September 5 1951, the world's first business computing program was first tested on the world's first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (link).LEO was inspired by wartime computers that calculated things like artillery aiming tables for the military.  Lyons was a massive restaurant chain in the UK, and realized that the new digital computers could simplify its human-driven accounting operations.  So it built its own computer, consisting of 21 racks with 6,000 vacuum tubes and occupying about 5,000 square feet.  The…
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  • AT&T says cell sites greatly improved in my area (twice). Oh, really?

    todd
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    On Nov. 26, 2011, AT&T Wireless sent me a text message stating that over 50 cell sites in my area had been enhanced. Did I see better coverage or data speed? Actually, since then it appears that a section of the city of about 2 miles by 0.5 miles does not have any 3G data […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

  • Will iBooks textbooks need ads to support expensive multimedia book development?

    todd
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    Apple’s multimedia iBooks textbooks fascinates me in terms of its development (Apple iBooks Author for Mac OS X) and the books themselves. One thing is clear, developing these multimedia textbooks is going to be an expensive proposition. Textbooks tend to be much more complicated publications that, for example, novels because of the the number of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

  • Students will need 64GB iPads to store multiple rich media iBooks

    todd
    25 Jan 2012 | 3:37 pm
    Apple’s updated iBooks 2 app supports highly interactive multimedia textbooks created by the new free iBooks Author software for Mac OS X. iBooks Author’s EULA lock-in clause has raised a ruckus (see: Publish an ebook created using iBook Author & lock yourself in Apple-land forever). However, there’s another problem that may be a showstopper for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

  • Sencha demos CSS3 animation support in iBooks created using iBooks Author

    todd
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:47 pm
    Can you include CSS3 animation in iBooks created using Apple’s new iBooks Author app? That’s what the people at Sencha wondered about too. So, they created a CSS3 animation using Sencha Animator and included it in a test iBook created with iBooks Author. You can see the result above. How to Embed Interactive CSS3 Animations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

  • Apps updated for my iPhone & iPad in the past week: 30

    todd
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    Thirty (30) of the apps for my iPad &/or iPhone were updated in the past week. Apps that do not have comments in the list below indicates that the update is simply a bug fix release. Action Movie FX 1.1 New video fx: Demolition Rock. New FX packages available for purchase. Bing 3.02 Brisksaber 1.1.0 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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  • MMW Exclusive: AOL Turns to Mobsmith to Drive Mobile Display Ad Sales

    Michael
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:02 pm
    On Friday, we learned that Mobsmith – a leading turnkey mobile advertising platform for advertisers and premium publishers – has been tapped by AOL to drive mobile display ad sales in all AOL markets nationwide. Mobsmith provides AOL with mobile advertising technology capable of serving premium mobile ad units including dynamic ads based on location and demographic targeting, and rich media ads. Mobsmith says its mobile ad technology enables AOL’s sales teams to instantly create, manage and optimize rich media mobile display ads for thousands of their national and local…

  • Twitter Sparks Controversy With Censorship Effort

    Michael
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:46 am
    Microblogging giant Twitter is at the center of controversy today following the announcement of a new policy that will allow Twitter to effectively block or remove content. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter announced on its official blog. “Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi…

  • Distimo Report Puts Spotlight on Apps Already in The Spotlight

    Michael
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am
    A new report published Friday from Distimo provides an overview of the effects when an application is featured in the Apple App Store for iPhone, Apple App Store for iPad and Google Android Market. One of the key findings of the report shows that the average revenue rose by 41% in the Apple App Store for iPhone when looking at those applications that were already among the 100 highest grossing applications in any category, on the first day of the sale. Moreover, Distimo’s report finds, the revenue during the whole sale increased by 22%. In the Apple App Store for iPad those figures were…

  • Millennial Media Rolls Out New User Engagement Tool for Mobile Apps

    Michael
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:02 pm
    On Thursday, the mobile advertising gurus at Millennial Media raised the curtain and rolled out the red carpet for a new solution for advertisers to drive usage and engagement within their branded apps. The new “App Engagement Program,” the company says, will allow brands to re-engage users who have previously downloaded their app, and use mobile display ads to drive them back to specific destinations inside the app. Advertisers who use the new solution will also gain “unique conversion metrics, and the ability to re-target consumers with relevant messaging.” With the App…

  • Infographic: Seven Deadly Sins of Mobile Marketing

    Justin
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:38 am
    The folks over at Text Marketer have published a new infographic that explains how to run a successful SMS campaign by avoiding the so-called “7 deadly sins of mobile marketing.” Covering everything from the right calls-to-actions to proper testing, segmentation, and even the downfalls of developing a “pointless app,” the infographic uses original, primary research with references to eConsultancy and the Information Commissioners Office out of the U.K. The full infographic is embedded below.  Let us know what you think and whether you agree or disagree with these…
 
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  • webOS daddy Jon Rubinstein exits HP

    Rik Myslewski
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:51 pm
    Enough is enough: 'I'm gonna go for a swim, have a little lunch..." Jon Rubinstein, late of NeXT, FirePower, Apple, and Palm, has resigned from his position at HP, where he endured the mismanagement and eventual overboarding of Palm's webOS mobile operating system.…

  • Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO

    Andrew Orlowski
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:19 am
    Incentivising the McJobs Analysis  Stephen Elop got a pretty indulgent reception from analysts, and most of the press yesterday, after delivering some shocking results. Nokia turned a profit of €2bn into a loss of €1bn in the new boss's first full year; volumes are down by 29 per cent; sales of the new Windows phone are unremarkable (to put it generously); and Elop has scrapped guidance for the rest of the year. [Summary] News like this would normally have analysts reaching for the panic button - but not today. Why would this be?…

  • Galaxy drives up profits for Samsung

    Brid-Aine Parnell
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am
    Smartphone sales fuel massive multi-billion dollar investments Samsung's smartphones have helped drive the company to an operating profit of ₩5.3 trillion ($4.7bn) in the fourth quarter of last year.…

  • NAO: British bobbies wasting £80m BlackBerry stash

    Brid-Aine Parnell
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:43 am
    Some forces share 1 among 100, some have 150 for 100 officers Brit coppers are not getting enough benefits from their £80m splurge on BlackBerrys and other mobile devices, the National Audit Office has said.…

  • [NSFW] iPad Fleshlight lets fanbois express their love

    Iain Thomson
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:56 pm
    Coming soon: Fondleslab f**king NSFW - UPDATED  A conceptual design for a new iPad case would let Apple fanbois get very personal indeed with their favorite fondleslab.…
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  • Hit Rate

    janchip
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:18 am
    Throw a few things into the duffel, packing lenses and assorted field study gear. Tomorrow Shanghai to Addis Ababa for a week on the ground with the frog+ crew in, the beginning of a month and a half on the road/skies/mountain trails that will take in Ethiopia, the Oahu’s North Shore, the TED conference in Long Beach, Old Delhi and surrounds, plus no-doubt one or two more journeys and destinations. See you on the other side. Photo: Salloum on the Egyptian-Libyan border.

  • Ride Hard

    janchip
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:47 am
    One of those short stopovers in San Francisco – three hours on the ground.

  • Arctic/Antarctic Expeditions

    janchip
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:15 am
    One of the benchmarks of a nation’s development is its perceived ability to explore unchartered territories – whether heading to the moon, or sending scientific expeditions to the more far flung corners of the globe – this advertisement for the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Adminstration sponsored by Chinese outdoor equipment/clothing brand Toread. As Chinese soft-power grows, so will Chinese brand’s ability to leverage events beyond its borders as proof of (at least) being able to hold its cultural own and (at most) its cultural superiority. Thought for today: How a…

  • The Handbag Paradox

    janchip
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:41 am
    Been tracking the contents of people’s bags, pockets and car boots for a while now, to understand how people equip themselves for what lies out there. Bag mapping is a useful method to get a sense of activities and priorities when people transition between their home space and what lies outside – the participant is asked to bring their ‘most often carried bag’ and lay the objects they carry on a flat surface, talking through the purpose and last-use of each item. Things to look out for – where the bag is kept in the home and what is clustered around it, what is packed/repacked…

  • The Reverse Tip

    janchip
    21 Jan 2012 | 7:52 pm
    In China a fapioa – the official receipt used for expense claims has a resale face value of 2 – 10% of face value – leaving one behind in a restaurant or taxi is the equivalent of giving a tip (in a culture where tipping is uncommon) and not requesting one allows the person or establishment to avoid ringing the exchange through a cash register. There are two primary practices around handing out fapioa: the first is that they are printed to the exact value; the second is that the seller takes an equivalent sum from book of fapioa that contains various denominations. In many…
 
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  • Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP

    Kris Keilhack
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:50 pm
    Culminating many months of silence from the former Palm CEO, All Things D is reporting that Jon Rubinstein is leaving Hewlett Packard, effectively shutting the book on one of the last vestiges of the old Palm guard at the company. This news comes just two days after HP's announcement of their WebOS open-source timeline. The All Things D article goes on to state that Rubinstein has "no immediate plans" and the departure comes on the heels of his fulfillment of a 12-24 month commitment to stay onboard with HP in the aftermath of the Palm acquisition in 2010. The article concludes with report…

  • HP to Deliver Open WebOS 1.0 in September

    Ryan Kairer
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm
    HP today made a number of announcements regarding its plans to open source the WebOS operating system. HP has released a detailed schedule for releasing components of the OS with the full source available by September. In addition, the company has released version 2.0 of the Enyo developer tool. Enyo 2.0 enables developers to write a single application that works across mobile devices and desktop web browsers, from the webOS, iOS and Android platforms to the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers – and more. The source code for Enyo is available today, giving the open source community…

  • HP Releases Updates for TouchPad, Pre 2 and Pre 3

    Ryan Kairer
    12 Jan 2012 | 2:29 pm
    HP has released new round of webOS updates for the HP TouchPad, Pre 2 and even the officially unreleased Pre 3 smartphone. The free updates are available now as on device over the air downloads. webOS v3.0.5 TouchPad users will be receiving webOS 3.0.5. This TouchPad update offers users faster switching in Calendar views, IM presence indicators and faster scrolling in Email, support for HTTP Live Streaming, the ability to easily toggle auto-correction on or off, and an option you can set so that a period will be inserted when you press the space bar twice. Further details can be found here.

  • HP Eventually Plans to Release New WebOS Tablets

    Kris Keilhack
    9 Dec 2011 | 3:28 pm
    The dust has not even settled on today's mega-announcement from HP to open-source WebOS and we already have some new info straight from the mouth of CEO Meg Whitman and board member Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame) regarding a possible return to WebOS hardware in the future from HP. The Verge conducted a sit-down interview in with Whitman and Andreessen earlier today about the future of WebOS, both as an ongoing open-sourced project and as the possible basis for future HP Tablet hardware. For the time being, only a few excerpts from the full interview have been posted. In short, Whitman…

  • HP to Open Source WebOS

    Ryan Kairer
    9 Dec 2011 | 12:51 pm
    HP has just posted a press release detailing its decision on its future plans for the webOS platform. In short, the company plans to open source the webOS software but is noncommittal on any future hardware plans. HP says they will make the underlying code of webOS available under an open source license. Their desire is for developers, partners, HP engineers and other hardware manufacturers to work on the project to deliver ongoing enhancements and new versions. HP also will contribute ENYO, the application framework for webOS, to the community in the near future along with a plan for the…
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  • Review: Cygnett Platform – Universal Tablet Stand

    PPCApache
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:31 pm
    With more and more people looking at buying Tablets, be it an Apple iPad 2 , Motorola Xoom or even the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 (yes you can get them in Australia now…) as their main internet/ media device. So can Tablets be as good or even better than a Notebook? I believe so and you can make it even easier with Cygnett’s new Platform, this simple yet elegant designed stand could make the staunch supporter of the Notebook think twice about possibly moving to the Tablet side. I received my review unit of the Platform and have been using it over the Christmas / New Year break and must say the…

  • Review: OtterBox Defender Case for iPad 2 & iPad 1

    PPCApache
    14 Nov 2011 | 7:04 am
    Recently this year I purchased an iPad 2, replacing my original iPad which i gave to my Wife Lisa. Both are now covered with a bit of OtterBox TLC namely OtterBox’s Defender case. There are quite a bit of a difference in the two cases other than colour of course. With the iPad 2 being loads thinner than its older counter part, and the introduction of the camera with the iPad 2 also has influenced a rethink of the Defender Case. Here are is my review on these two great looking cases… THE CASE At a glance the cases standout with style, clean lines, smooth finishing’s and over all just…

  • Review: Samsung SCH-LC11 LTE Hotspot

    CR H.
    11 Nov 2011 | 4:19 pm
    We’re finally getting a chance to play with one of Verizon’s LTE hotspots here at Mobilitysite, so today we bring you a quick review of the Samsung SCH-LC11 LTE hotspot! Hardware The Samsung LTE hotspot is a cute little device. It’s very, very small, very light, and pretty good looking. The device sports a plain black soft-touch paint. The top of the device has all of the requisite branding (Samsung, Verizon, 4G LTE), along with a small power button, and 4G/3G/WiFi status lights. Along the side is a microUSB port tucked behind a sliding plastic cover. The power button is a little too…

  • Review: BlackBerry Torch 9850

    CR H.
    9 Nov 2011 | 9:10 pm
    Along with the new 99xx, RIM recently released an updated Torch, and a rebranded Storm – the Torch 9850. Is RIM’s third attempt at an all touch device a winner? Read on to hear our thoughts! Hardware The Torch 9850 is RIM’s third all touch BlackBerry, following the original Storm, and the Storm 2. Where the two previous Storms had a special “clicky” screen, which RIM dubbed SurePress, the newest Storm, err, Torch features a standard capacitive display. The screen is a gorgeous one with a resolution of 800×480 at 3.7”. It’s very bright and very vivid – as are most…

  • Press Release: Activision’s ‘Wappy Dog’ Out Now for Nintendo DS

    PPCApache
    9 Nov 2011 | 5:15 pm
    Santa Monica, CA – November 8, 2011 – Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) is delivering the perfect new companion for kids just in time for the holiday season – Wappy Dog, has hit shelves today! Developed by SEGA TOYS, Wappy Dogcombines virtual and physical pet companionship, including both an electronic toy dog and a Nintendo DS videogame which communicates with one another via sound to create an unprecedented interactive experience. “Wappy Dog is groundbreaking,” said David Oxford, Activision Publishing. “With…
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  • Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook Challenge Gallery Kickoff Live Blog

    Adam Mills
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:15 pm
    The Dell XPS 13 is Dell’s first Ultrabook, and they are celebrating the launch of this small wonder with a kick off event in San Francisco. We are on hand at the Carte Blanche Gallery in the Mission District to see what real users think of the thin and light XPS 13 Ultrabook. The event is hosted by Dell and Intel, and will include photography speakers including French photographer Gwen Lafage. The Dell XPS 13 is a 13 inch notebook, but you wouldn’t guess that by looking at the Ultrabook. By combining an edge-to-edge display and a small bezel Dell was able to cut down the size…

  • Droid RAZR MAXX Crushes Competition in 4G LTE Battery Life Test

    Adam Mills
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
    Yesterday, Verizon launched the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX which is essentially a Motorola Droid RAZR with a massive 3,300 mAh battery on board. Needless to say, it’s an intriguing phone because of the poor battery life that Verizon’s 4G LTE smartphones get. But just how much better is it? Well, LaptopMag went ahead and answered that question for us today and the answer is clear: The Droid RAZR MAXX destroys the competition in the battery life department. The smartphone was pitted against a number of other Verizon 4G LTE smartphones including the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the LG…

  • Samsung Still Reviewing Launch Date for Galaxy S III

    Adam Mills
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:28 pm
    During yesterday’s earnings call, Samsung executive Younghee Lee revealed that the company is still reviewing possible launch dates for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III. She would not get into specifics as far as a date was concerned but at the very least, her statement is pretty much the first official confirmation of the Galaxy S III’s existence. Like we had any doubts. By now, you’ve probably heard the back and forth in regards to the launch of the Galaxy S III. But if not, here’s how it has gone down. Two days ago, a report surfaced claiming a whole bunch of…

  • Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video

    Josh Smith
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:55 pm
    The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in our Droid RAZR review, which was decent, but it left many heavy users wanting more. The Droid RAZR MAXX doubles the battery of the Droid RAZR, up to 3300mAh. This is a major jump in battery power, and cetainly a worthwhile upgrade — even if it is a cut to the original RAZR owners. Droid RAZR MAXX…

  • Sony Xperia S Has Two New Features Revealed Before Launch

    Adam Mills
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:38 pm
    While most of the attention at CES 2012 was on Nokia’s Lumia 900 and Verizon’s Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX and Droid 4, Sony also launched two new Android phones. One of those phones is the Xperia S which is a GSM 3G/HSPA phone that will be sold internationally. And while we thought we knew what the Xperia S was all about, Sony has dropped a couple of new features upon us prior to launch. On its Facebook page, the company has confirmed that the device will come with an anti-stain shell which is perfect for those of you that love to spill coffee or soda all over your electronics. We…
 
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  • Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites

    ronan
    11 Jan 2012 | 8:53 am
    About 82% of the Alexa 100 top sites use some form of server-side device detection to serve content on their main website entry point. As you descend from the top 10 to the top 25 and top 100 sites the percentage of sites using server-side detection falls from 100% to 96% to 82%. This is an interesting fact given the all of the recent discussion in the blogosphere of responsive design using client-side techniques such as media queries.read more

  • Future of the Mobile Web: Request for submissions

    mclancy
    6 Jan 2012 | 8:35 am
    Dear mobiForge community, We have invited a number of colleagues and opinion formers from across several different verticals to a forum event in Dublin on January 26th next to discuss some of the most pressing issues, trends, opportunities and challenges in today’s mobile web environment. People from companies like Adobe, Cloud Four, Nokia, Yiibu and others will be coming along. The idea is to build towards a consensus on current technology, facts, fictions and opportunities of the mobile web in an environment that is increasingly noisy and hype filled. read more

  • Mobile web content adaptation techniques

    ronan
    1 Nov 2011 | 12:20 pm
    Introduction This article will help you pick from amongst the many techniques for building a mobile website. It doesn't describe how to do it, rather it instead tries to help you to pick the right approach. Before we begin it's worth clarifying exactly what the goal of the exercise is. Generally speaking, people who are looking to build a mobile site fall into two categories. They're either:read more

  • Displaying Status Bar Notifications in Android

    weimenglee
    20 Sep 2011 | 8:59 am
    Developers of Android are no doubt familiar with the Toast class, which displays a little pop-up containing whatever message you want to display to the user. However, the Toast pop-up will automatically dismiss itself after a while, making it useful as a tool to provide timely feedback to the user (such as informing the user that a file has been saved successfully), but not a really good tool to use for some asynchronous action (such as telling the user that an incoming SMS message has arrived). read more

  • The best of breakingdevelopment conference

    ronan
    15 Sep 2011 | 4:45 am
    As many of you know, the breakingdevelopment conference took place in Nashville, Tennessee over the last few days. It appears to have been a really seminal conference with 13 leading mobile web developers speaking. Others have already put together summaries of the conference but I thought I'd link to what I thought were the most interest presentations.read more
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  • Report: mHealth App Market to Reach $392M by 2015

    Justin Montgomery
    10 Jan 2012 | 12:48 pm
    In a new report and forecast published recently by Frost & Sullivan, the firm suggests the market for mobile health apps is set to reach $392M by 2015. The report, dubbed ”Analysis of the U.S. Broadband mHealth Applications Market,” notes that the continued expansion of business models and significant value offerings from mobile health applications attribute to the firm’s healthy forecast, but also warns against the various restrictions in terms of market entry — citing the FDA’s evolving mHealth guidelines. The firm also notes that a major challenge for the…

  • Forecast: ATA CEO Reveals 7 Trends Shaping the Telehealth Market

    Justin Montgomery
    9 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pm
    Jonathan Linkous, Chief Executive Officer of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), has issued 7 trends he expects for the year ahead in terms of telemedicine and overall telehealth services as we begin 2012. Linkous predicts major changes for the telehealth industry, covering everything from the rise in so-called “virtual medical centers” to the multi-nationalization of the industry and even the concept of telemedicine becoming a standard of care.  Of course, the rise in mobile access to healthcare in general is included as well. For the entire list, visit this press…

  • Research: Mobile Development using HTML5 Set for Rapid Growth in 2012

    Justin Montgomery
    6 Jan 2012 | 12:41 pm
    As the mobile application market continues to gain incredible momentum as we enter 2012, increased fragmentation and the need for cross-platform development is reinforcing the need for HTML5, according to new research from mobile application development provider Kony. The research surveyed executives at over 100 Fortune 500 companies and found that 74% of executives were considering HTML5 implementation.  However, only 7 percent said that it would replace their current native application offering, suggesting HTML5 will co-exist with native applications well into the future.  In addition,…

  • FDA Issues Draft Guidelines for Healthcare Social Media Marketing

    Justin Montgomery
    5 Jan 2012 | 1:26 pm
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance for healthcare organizations wanting to leverage “emerging electronic media” for marketing purposes — particularly organizations related to pharma and medical devices. The move marks the first time the FDA has clearly addressed rules for pharma and medical device companies’ digital communication — specifically mentioning channels such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.  The predominant message in the draft guidelines stipulate that pharma and medical device companies must provide only fair,…

  • Report: 2.2M People Using Remote Patient Monitoring at the end 2011

    Justin Montgomery
    4 Jan 2012 | 3:37 pm
    New data just published by market research firm Berg Insight suggests that roughly 2.2M people were actively using remote patient monitoring services as we closed out 2011. This figure only represents those using remote monitoring services based on equipment with “integrated connectivity” or systems that use monitoring hubs with “integrated cellular or fixed-line modems.”  Still, Berg projects the market for home monitoring systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18 percent between 2010 and 2016, reaching 4.9 million connections globally by…
 
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  • SFR chief blames Orange for enabling Free Mobile's low-cost service

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:11 pm
    French operator SFR has criticised France Telecom (FT) Orange for signing a roaming agreement with Iliad's Free Mobile, allowing Free to launch low-cost services. Esser The CEO of SFR, Frank Esser, said in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde that Free Mobile wouldn't have been able to offer such cheap pricing without the Orange roaming deal, adding, "We have always said that we will never sign such an agreement." Esser pointed to Free Mobile's "social" package, which costs as little as €2 per month for one hour of calls. "Making offers for €2 does not provide support for…

  • Fitch: Nokia lags competition but has time to gain traction

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:09 pm
    Nokia's fourth-quarter loss of €1.07 billion underscores the uphill task the company has in competing with Apple and Samsung for smartphone prominence, according to a new report Fitch Ratings. However, the credit ratings firm believes Nokia's robust cash position provides breathing space for the company to challenge the two leading suppliers as the Finnish company makes the transition to a new smartphone strategy based on its partnership with Microsoft's Windows Phone. Of note, Nokia's poor fourth-quarter results failed to affect the company's credit rating which Fitch had already…

  • O2 UK tops daily Twitter limit to calm security fears

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:07 pm
    O2 UK has exceeded its daily amount of tweets allowed by Twitter in a campaign to pacify subscriber fears over a security breach that gave customers' phone numbers to websites they visited on their mobile phones.  The company admitted that it had accumulated the same amount of Twitter mentions in a day as it typically does in an entire week as thousands of O2 UK customers sought answers via the company's Twitter account. Worried customers wanted to understand what O2 UK was doing to stop subscribers' mobile numbers were being leaked to any website they visited in a security breach that…

  • Study: Video streaming to help drive 15-fold growth in German data traffic

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:05 pm
    German mobile operators face a 15-fold increase in data traffic between 2011 and 2016 driven largely by an increase in video consumption, according to a new report from Solon Management Consulting (SMC). The growth will accelerate as more mobile-oriented content becomes available and faster networks make video calling and streaming a more viable option, SMC said. "Younger users especially are no longer just exchanging text messages. They want to permanently check their Facebook accounts, make video calls via Skype or watch video," Stephan Kalleder, an SMC analyst and author of the report,…

  • Vodafone inches towards Indian IPO

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:04 pm
    Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao indicated that the positive resolution to its $2.2 billion dispute with the Indian tax authorities has helped open the door for an initial public offering for its India subsidiary. Speaking at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Colao told Reuters: "Everything that goes in the direction of stability of law and certainty of law is (positive) as we are an investment led sector...and therefore we need to have long-term visibility and stability of conditions to tell our shareholders and prospective shareholders what we are going to do." Commenting on the…
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  • Samsung Sharing 11.6-Inch 2GHz Exynos 5250 Tablet at MWC?

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:04 pm
    Earlier today, we talked to you about the coming arrival of Samsung's Exynos 5250 processor, a dual-core component that should mark a substantial improvement of the performance of the current generation of dual-core chips. This evening, we're learning about what may be one of the first devices to feature the upcoming chip. Android and Me got a ... Read More Related Posts New Galaxy Tablet Dubbed Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1? (Photo) by Evan Blass | 13-Feb-11 T-Mobile Galaxy S II Getting 1.5GHz Dual-Core Qualcomm Chip? by Stephen Schenck | 13-Sep-11 Samsung Galaxy S II Ad Shows Off Dual-Core, HSPA+…

  • Google Earth Updated to Feature Prettier Image Rendering

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:35 pm
    Yesterday, Google announced the arrival of Google Earth 6.2 for PCs. Despite the relatively minor decimal increase in version number, this release featured a major upgrade to how the program renders terrain. Though Google Earth smartphone apps haven't been formally updated since, it's looking like Google made the needed changes behind-the-scenes, ... Read More Related Posts Google Earth Now Playing Nice With Tegra 2 Androids by Stephen Schenck | 4-Jan-12 Google Adds Web Android Market Screenshot View Controls by Anton D. Nagy | 28-May-11 Google+ For Android Updated With Several Features by…

  • Chinese Retailer Advertising Windows Phone Pre-Orders

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:10 pm
    We've been keeping our eye on the progress Windows Phone has been making towards a launch in China. With language support in place, we've been waiting for news of the operating system's official Chinese debut. Nokia has helped provided our most recent estimate of when just such an event may occur, announcing its intent to bring its Windows Phone ... Read More Related Posts Nokia Ad Push Raising Lumia's Profile; 800 Available November 16? by Stephen Schenck | 26-Oct-11 Nokia Lumia 710, Lumia 800 Pose Together Pre-Launch by Evan Blass | 25-Oct-11 Nokia Lumia In-Store Ad Display Pictured Next To…

  • ZTE V66 Seven-Inch Tablet Pictured for Verizon LTE

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:26 pm
    A couple days ago, we got to see ZTE's Optik tablet in a Sprint leak that claimed the seven-inch tablet would be going up for sale in early February. The Optik is ZTE's model V55, but the company also has plans for a very similar seven-inch Honeycomb tablet, the V66 on Verizon. That one's shown up already with some preliminary FCC paperwork, but we ... Read More Related Posts ZTE Optik Tablet Tipped for Sprint, But What's With Its Battery? by Stephen Schenck | 25-Jan-12 HTC Puccini: 10-Inch LTE Tablet for AT&T (Image) by Evan Blass | 9-May-11 HTC Thunderbolt Launch Receives Another Date Rumor…

  • SIM and Micro SIM Tips for Switching Between Phones

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:05 pm
    The SIM card, or subscriber identity module, has been a standard in GSM phones for many years. It's always been very easy to switch your mobile network account between GSM phones since all you had to do was take the SIM card out and put it in a different phone and everything worked because all of the SIM cards and SIM card slots were the same. ... Read More Related Posts After microSIM Comes nanoSIM, A Third Smaller by Anton D. Nagy | 12-Nov-11 T-Mobile Introduces Micro SIM All Ready For iPhone 4 by Stephen Schenck | 22-Jul-11 Apple's iPhone 30-pin Connector To Support Thunderbolt, USB 3.0?
 
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  • Your iPhone Has To Be Made In China, And Apple Can't Absolve Your Guilt

    Tom Krazit
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:20 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 we still find ourselves wringing our hands over how much American prosperity is derived from Chinese manufacturing. A series of articles from The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) this week on Apple’s tricky relationship with the company that builds the iPhone and iPad makes…

  • Report: Facebook IPO Could Arrive Next Week With Hopes Of $10 Billion

    Tom Krazit
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:12 pm
    The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the paperwork it will set Facebook on the path toward one of the richest IPOs in tech history. Facebook could raise as much as $10 billion when shares of its stock are sold to the public, and the usual “people familiar with the matter” are telling the Wall Street Journal that the first step could come by next Wednesday. It is believed to be preparing an offer that values the company between $75 billion and $100 billion, according to the report.

  • Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service

    Ingrid Lunden
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:20 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 business out of it—is today laying off most of the staff that worked on Bitbop and shutting down the service. According to a source, there are about 50 people getting laid off—people who worked on the Bitbop mobile video service. A small group will stay on to help with the final…

  • Former Palm CEO Rubinstein Leaving HP After Demise Of WebOS

    Tom Krazit
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:52 am
    Jon Rubinstein, the former Palm CEO who revived the company under WebOS but was never able to produce a breakthrough product after HP paid $1.2 billion for Palm, is leaving HP (NYSE: HPQ). His departure is not exactly a surprise, coming six months after he was reassigned just before HP began to wind down its mobile strategy. Rubinstein, a former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) executive who played a key role in the development of the iPod and the iPhone, had been working in a fuzzy role within HP’s Personal Systems Group after ceding day-to-day control of the WebOS business unit to Stephen DeWitt in…

  • Analyst: Google Threat To Big Ad Agencies Like WPP, Publicis 'Unwarranted'

    Ingrid Lunden
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:26 am
    Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is a massive player in the digital advertising world, but given that this remains only a part of the overall ad market, the Internet giant will not soon pose a real threat to big ad agencies of the world like WPP, Interpublic and Omnicom, according to a report out today from Pivotal Research Group. Pivotal, which today initiated coverage on WPP, Interpublic and Omnicom, wrote in a lengthy report that its analysts “remain skeptical” the companies that have made a big splash in online advertising, like Google, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)—or presumably…
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    BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

  • Microsoft and Asus may be working on Kinect-enabled Windows 8 laptops

    Todd Haselton
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Asus is reportedly working on Windows 8 laptops that are equipped with Microsoft’s Kinect technology. The Daily recently reported that it was able to “check out” two different prototype laptops that “appeared” to be made by Asus. The Kinect sensor was built into the area where a notebook’s camera would typically reside, and The Daily also noted a set of LEDs below the screen. Microsoft reportedly confirmed that the notebooks were Kinect-enabled prototypes. As The Daily points out, a Kinect-enabled notebook could allow a user to interact with Windows 8 or…

  • DROID RAZR MAXX customers won’t have to wait for custom ROMs

    Dan Graziano
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:05 pm
    Verizon released the DROID RAZR MAXX on Thursday for $299.99 with a new two-year agreement. The device features a massive 3,300 mAh battery and a slightly thicker frame than its predecessor, the DROID RAZR. Other than that, the handsets are identical. Droid-Life confirmed on Friday that both devices run the same exact software, in fact — the Android version on both devices features the same build number, same kernel and same baseband version. We have seen similar products in the past (DROID 2 and DROID R2D2), but they all carried slightly different software versions to accommodate…

  • Nokia still top vendor as global handset shipments reached 1.6 billion in 2011

    Zach Epstein
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm
    Global mobile phone shipments grew 14% annually to shatter the previous shipment record in 2011. Market research firm Strategy Analytics estimates that 1.6 billion cell phones were shipped last year, representing more than one-fifth of the world’s total population, which surpassed 7 billion in late October last year according to the Population Reference Bureau. An earlier report from the GSMA estimated that there are now more than 6 billion total mobile connections worldwide. Read on for more. Handset shipments grew 11% to reach 445 million units globally last quarter according to…

  • Apple’s mobile web share reportedly slid in Q4 as Android took No.1 spot

    Dan Graziano
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:05 pm
    Although Apple outsold all Android vendors in the fourth quarter, the Cupertino-based company’s share of mobile internet usage is reportedly beginning to slide. An analysis of last year’s Internet usage shows that in the United States, the proportion of Android mobile web visitors overtook Apple users by the end of the year, according to 51Degrees.mobi. The share of Apple’s iOS web traffic in December fell to 34.1%, while Android increased to 36.6%. In Europe, Apple remained ahead with 42.6% however, despite an increase in Android traffic that pushed the platform to 25.5%…

  • Twitter announces ability to censor content by region

    Todd Haselton
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Twitter announced recently that it now has the ability to, and will begin to, censor content on the social network by country. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” the company said in a blog post Thursday. “Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there.” Twitter gave France and Germany as examples, two countries that ban pro-Nazi rhetoric from being posted on the Internet. Previously, Twitter would have had to delete specific content…
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    Communities Dominate Brands

  • Gutenberg is a moblogger, Martin Luther is coding and the Medici are using MPesa

    Alan Moore
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:26 am
    In No Straight Lines there is an entire chapter devoted to all things mobile. It is called Gutenberg is a moblogger: economic, organisational and societal transformation through mobile communications. It maybe that a certain Mr Ahonen - has much of this covered on the CDB blog. I explore mobile from the perspective of what it can do at an organisational and at a societal level. From the Achuar tribe in the Amazon rainforest using mobile and GPS enable digital technologies to challenge the Peruvian government and the mining companies trying to exploit their habitat and way of life to children…

  • Last in my Trilogy of Nokia Numbers postings re Q4. The Regional Split. What do you do if 92% of your loyal customers reject your new toy (Lumia)

    Tomi T Ahonen
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:28 pm
    This is the last of the trilogy of Nokia numbers postings related to the Q4 results. The first looked at the overall market performance of Nokia smartphones (world-record crash). The second posting gave the best calculations of how well Lumia and N9 sold, because Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is too much a coward, and ashamed to reveal the numbers. Now we dig into the numbers for one more look. How did the regional markets split, smartphones vs dumbphones. This will be interesting and we have some devastating news coming out of that analysis.For those who can't bear to follow written…

  • How Many Lumia Sales? As Nokia (and Microsoft) ashamed to reveal number, lets count - and compare to N9 MeeGo sales

    Tomi T Ahonen
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:14 pm
    Nokia CEO is a coward to not give the exact count of Lumia sales in his Q4 results, the launch quarter for Lumia. So lets do some math based on the available info, to count exactly how many it was.When Microsoft launched Windows Phone a year ago, Microsoft proudly told the world that they shipped 2 million Windows Phone smartphones by HTC, Samsung and others. They soon were spooked, however, when the sales dwindled and dried up and stopped giving the sales breakdown. By the Spring, Microsoft insisted all Windows Mobile smartphones be counted together with Windows Phone - even as these two…

  • Nokia Q4 Results: Now Official, Elop has Created World-Record Destruction of Market Share in One Year

    Tomi T Ahonen
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    The Nokia results are out and they are brutal. It ended up being almost exactly as I predicted back in February. Nokia smartphone market share has crashed to 12% from 29% exactly 12 months ago. As I said, Nokia's smartphone unit went from generating growing profits, to generating increasing losses. And yes, just like I predicted, all of Nokia Corporation was pushed into loss-making. For 2010 Nokia sold twice as many smartphones as Apple, and by Q4 iPhone was outselling all Nokia smartphones almost exactly by two to one. This is a historical moment. We have witnessed the establishment of…

  • Apple Results? Beyond Monster Quarter selling 37M units of iPhones to 25% market share

    Tomi T Ahonen
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm
    In Bloodbath news we expected a great quarter by Apple but the iPhone has simply blown everyone away including just about all analysts. Apple reported 37M unit sales of iPhones. This is up 116% from Q3 more than doubling sales in just 3 months. The unit sales are up 130% from a year ago. iPhone market share has hit about 25% for Q4 (obviously we don't know exact market share until all companies have reported and we have a full market size, but that is pretty surely within one percentage point either way). This is up from 15% market share three months ago. Wow. Wow-wow-wow. Apple has had…
 
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    Wireless Watch Japan

  • Japan Smartphone Survey - 100 Girls

    admin
    21 Jan 2012 | 12:40 am
    Model Press conducted a survey with 100 females age 18 to 29 regarding pros & cons of smartphones: http://bit.ly/xJmYQB

  • Social TV App for Japan Mobile

    admin
    19 Jan 2012 | 5:47 am
    Groovy Jpn Social TV free app, see @tune_TV and think GetGlue, recently launched on iOS and 'droid: http://bit.ly/zfrdGr

  • DeNA Announces JV with NetDragon

    admin
    17 Jan 2012 | 3:34 am
    DeNA to establish $6M joint venture with HK-based NetDragon to localize and dist. games for Mobage in China: http://bit.ly/yyJpT1

  • Gree Making Moves in Korea

    admin
    16 Jan 2012 | 2:47 am
    Gree Takes 6.8% Stake In South Korea Game Developer Mobicle Co. announcement details after the hop: http://bit.ly/AonI4a

  • KDDI Press Blitz for 2012

    admin
    16 Jan 2012 | 2:22 am
    KDDI blasts 14 PR's; new Galaxy SII WiMax & InfoBar handsets, new AU brand plus lower price plans & more: http://bit.ly/w2Agce
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    MobileMarketingProfits.com | Build Your Business with Mobile Marketing

  • Cute QR Code at Jamba Juice

    Kim Dushinski
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am
    Mobile Marketing in the Wild: After school yesterday, my daughter and I went to Jamba Juice. I spotted a really cute QR Code on the wall. The giant strawberry with a QR Code embedded in it was calling out to me to scan it.… Read the rest

  • 3 Steps to Mobilize Your Business NOW

    Kim Dushinski
    15 Dec 2011 | 12:49 pm
    Given that nearly everyone on the planet who is old enough to be a potential customer of yours (explored fully here) has a mobile phone, it is imperative that your business takes steps to mobilize now. If your customers haven’t already interacted with you on mobile, they will.… Read the rest

  • Why 67% Mobile Access is a Big Deal

    Kim Dushinski
    13 Dec 2011 | 10:23 am
    Why 67% of the world’s population having mobile phone access is a BIG DEAL to your business. Your business needs to market to reach customers. Plain and simple, without effective marketing your business will suffer. Effective marketing is being able to reach and be reached by the right customers at the right time with the right message.… Read the rest

  • New Site Design

    Kim Dushinski
    22 Nov 2011 | 8:58 am
    I am so excited to have a new design for my site and want to say that while the site is live, there are still quite a few tweaks and adjustments we are still making. If you see something strange or missing graphics or links that don’t work, please excuse our virtual dust.… Read the rest

  • What a Load of BS, this is NOT Mobile Spam

    Kim Dushinski
    3 May 2011 | 12:50 pm
    If you know me at all you know how firm my stance is against mobile spam. I have been known to tell students in my courses and attendees at my speaking events, “Do not send mobile spam. If you do and I find out I will come kick you in the shins.” Yes, I have said those exact words and I mean them.… Read the rest
 
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    Mobile Industry Review

  • Chuck the flowers and buy her a Kindle?

    Ewan
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    I like the way this advert from Amazon speaks directly to me. Valentine’s Day? Nice reminder. Gift? Yeah I need to think about that. Oh, a Kindle? Good idea! I like buying technology. That said my wife already uses the Kindle app on her iPhone. But maybe she needs a stand-alone device? It’s better than flowers… Posted via email from MIR Live

  • Convention Center saves $50k deploying iPads & FileMaker solution

    Ewan
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:48 pm
    Here’s a useful case study on how the city of Austin’s Convention Center team have used iPads to replace their old paper folders. It’s yet another example of the consumerisation of the information technology departments. The city of Austin’s Convention Center waves goodbye to over-sized, overstuffed paper binders by deploying iPads and developing custom apps with FileMaker Go. via How the Austin Convention Center saved $50,000 by deploying iPads and Filemaker Go | TabTimes. This paragraph in the post specifically caught my attention: In previous iterations, the…

  • The Pre-MWC Drinks Reception: Thank you for coming!

    Ewan
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    The pre-MWC drinks reception with Hotwire PR took place last night in London. It was absolutely fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet everyone and discuss MWC. There was a simply brilliant array of vendors and brands represented, from e-commerce platforms to aggregators, digital service providers, mobile advertising, telecoms — indeed the selection of innovative mobile companies present was really encouraging. Perhaps predictably, there was strong enthusiasm for MWC — and I must say a shout-out to James Body of Truphone for having attended 13 MWCs (and 3GSMs as…

  • By 2020, the planet will have 24 billion connected devices – Infographic!

    Ewan
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:17 pm
    It’s Infographic time thanks to the team at the GSMA. They’ve completed a study of the wide array of product announcements at CES earlier this month. The study shows that more than half of the devices launched are ‘connected‘ in some way (i.e. 3G/4G/WiFi). This is super news for the wireless marketplace. In specific categories, the GSMA noted that more than 90 percent of TVs, 70 percent of automotive devices, 44 percent of healthcare devices and 30 percent of cameras are connected. We’re not quite there today in terms of ensuring everything will intelligently…

  • Stream Communications launches super-fast 3G data service

    Ewan
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:10 am
    I met this company at the UKTI MWC event this week and was thoroughly excited by the possibilities of their offering. I’m having a crazy day today so here’s their press release. Have a read and see what you think: Stream Communications announces the launch of freeflow, a new extra fast 3G service and SIM for iPad and Smart Tablet users. Users of freeflow will experience web page download rates over Stream’s 3G network up to 50% faster than could be experienced from a typical ‘consumer’ 3G SIM.  In addition, because of the way Stream manages the connection between the…
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    All About Symbian

  • 1.5 billion Series 40 phones, plus half a billion Symbian too

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:05 am
    The news that Nokia just handed over its one and a half billionth Series 40 phone was interesting - and impressive - and got me thinking and fact-checking. Just how many Symbian-powered smartphones have been sold, in total, i.e. in the last decade? Turns out it's now well over 500 million, i.e. over half a billion Symbian smartphones have already been sold and are... out there in the world somewhere. Some thoughts below.

  • Review: Drop It!

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:04 am
    Although I'm a fan of casual games, there does come a point where a casual title can be just a little... too casual. Drop It!, with a total game time as short as a few seconds and as long as you can keep the main gameplay going (around a minute or so in my case), runs very close to this boundary but redeems itself with several physics options, a dash of strategy and a little genuine excitement.

  • Review: Lloyds TSB Mobile Banking

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:04 am
    Mobile banking seems to be one of the last few frontiers that are not well catered for here in the UK. There are many money managers, but few official applications, for our high street banks. Lloyds TSB has stepped up to provide Symbian users with access to online banking and the ability to find nearby branches and ATMs. One catch though – the mobile banking element is handed off to a mobile website. Which is... something of a fail...

  • Nokia Q4 2011 - in the heart of transition

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:55 am
    Nokia has released its Q4 2011 results, reporting an operating loss of €954 million, with net sales of €10.0 billion (down 21% YoY). Nokia's Devices and Services division's profits were €203 million. Margins in devices and services were 3.4% (down from 12.7 % on Q4 2010 and up from 3.1% in Q3 2011). Total smartphone device sales were 19.6 million, compared with 28.6 million units in Q4 2010 (down 31% YoY) and 16.8 million units in Q3 2011 (up 17%, QoQ). 

  • In-app purchases now possible with latest QML Store beta

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:34 am
    Even though the QML Store client is now the 'norm' and formally released, the betas continue, with v3.22.044 now supporting in-app purchases, i.e. applications can call the Store client when needed for handling payments. A few screens and links below. Of note is that this client is now built on the very latest Qt 4.7.4 and Qt quick components v1.1, both of which are baked into the upcoming Belle OS update.
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    Wireless Watch Japan

  • Japan Smartphone Survey - 100 Girls

    20 Jan 2012 | 3:40 pm
    Model Press conducted a survey with 100 females age 18 to 29 regarding pros & cons of smartphones: http://bit.ly/xJmYQB

  • Social TV App for Japan Mobile

    18 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pm
    Groovy Jpn Social TV free app, see @tune_TV and think GetGlue, recently launched on iOS and 'droid: http://bit.ly/zfrdGr

  • DeNA Announces JV with NetDragon

    16 Jan 2012 | 6:34 pm
    DeNA to establish $6M joint venture with HK-based NetDragon to localize and dist. games for Mobage in China: http://bit.ly/yyJpT1

  • Gree Making Moves in Korea

    15 Jan 2012 | 5:47 pm
    Gree Takes 6.8% Stake In South Korea Game Developer Mobicle Co. announcement details after the hop: http://bit.ly/AonI4a

  • KDDI Press Blitz for 2012

    15 Jan 2012 | 5:22 pm
    KDDI blasts 14 PR's; new Galaxy SII WiMax & InfoBar handsets, new AU brand plus lower price plans & more: http://bit.ly/w2Agce
 
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    SolSie.com

  • Facebook Timeline is Coming To Your Profile Whether You Want or Not

    SolSie
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:09 pm
    Last year Facebook introduced a new format for user profile, called Timeline. The new format highlights user statuses, photos, etc.. in 2 column format, along with a photo cover on top of the page. Timeline comes with strong emphasis on chronological order of your life with ease of navigation by month or even year.. Until now, the giant social network lets users opt in to try Timeline format, but that opt-in period will be soon over. All Facebook members will be forced to use the new format. Users will receive a notification 7 days before the switch over takes place. Since the Timeline format…

  • Expand Your iPhone Photo Beyond Its Edges with AntiCrop App

    SolSie
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:56 pm
    A new photo editing technology just arrived with AntiCrop, an iOS app that offers the ability to expand the photos on your iOS devices. The app is using a technology similar to content-aware filling features you find in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Meaning if you take a photo in a middle of a field, you essentially can stretch the edges to make larger frame and the app will fill in the additional space with similar texture, color, etc..   The $.99 app lets you open an existing photo or new, you then optionally can pick an output size or leave to the original size; Cropping handles…

  • Reasons why Microsoft Overtook Yahoo In US Search Engine Traffic

    SolSie
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:48 pm
    It’s big news because this time its Microsoft and Yahoo in the US search engine traffic, where Microsoft has surpassed the US search engine market share of Yahoo. As per the figures released by the Comscore, Yahoo has been overtaken by Microsoft’s Bing search engine with a good 15.1 percent of US web search. On the other hand, Yahoo has experienced a 0.6 percent of the drop in the search market share and this change was noticeable between November and December of the year 2011. Microsoft has overtaken Yahoo in the US search Engine traffic and shall be looking forward to dominate with much…

  • Meet Evi The New Intelligent Artificial Voice Assistant for iOS and Android

    SolSie
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:14 pm
    While Siri is excellent for iPhone 4S and US users, many Android and older iPhone users are left in the cold. Meet Evi, the new Artificial Intelligent assistant app from True Knowledge, a company that provides computerized search & answer algorithm to many other online services. Similarly to Siri, Evi is using Nuance for speech engine. The app is available on both iPhone and Android. Evi can not yet set up a calendar appointment nor reminder but she can answer questions on cooking and calories, local information and shopping, time and measurement questions, as well as helping you to…

  • Happy Lunar New Year

    SolSie
    22 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm
    The Lunar New Year occurs in the early months of our calendar year, typically January or February and this year falls on January 23rd. Asians are celebrating the start of the Year of the Dragon. In Asian tradition, each year is dedicated to a specific animal. The Dragon, Horse, Monkey, Rat, Boar, Cat, Dog, Rooster, Ox, Tiger, Snake, and Ram are the twelve animals that are part of this tradition. In 2012, the Dragon is welcomed back after the 2011 year of the Cat Each of these animals are thought to bestow their characteristics to the people born in their year. It has been known the Year of…
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    UMPCPortal

  • The Amazing Open Pandora Story Continues

    Chippy
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:16 pm
    The Open Pandora project has been an amazing project to follow. We first reported on the product, an OMAP-based Linux mini-laptop primarily focused on gaming emulation (but kitted out with some interesting features for anyone interesting in mobile computing) in Dec 2 Read more ...

  • Netbooks at CES 2012 – They Should Have Been Better

    Chippy
    17 Jan 2012 | 9:20 am
    I honestly expected to see more, and better netbooks at CES. The Cedar Trail platform is a solid one and there’s absolutely no reason why netbooks need to fade away because with a bit of a re-design (thinner, SSD, better connectivity, hi-res screens) they could still control a good segment of the market. Asus were showing their ‘flare’ netbook in three variants (1025CE, 1025C, 1225B) and the X101CH. T Read more ...

  • Post CES 2012 – Ultra Mobile Computing Solutions Remain Limited

    Chippy
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:40 am
    You know what you want in an Ultra Mobile Computing solution. You want a rich spectrum of quality desktop applications with security, flexibility and processing power wrapped up into a handheld device. Unfortunately, after a busy CES, your options remain limited. Computing at CES this year was all about Ultrabooks and Ice Cream Sandwich and while b Read more ...

  • I’m covering Ultrabook Madness at CES this week.

    Chippy
    9 Jan 2012 | 6:09 pm
    I’m focusing on Ultrabooks this week at CES though if I’m lucky I’ll have time to take a look at some netbooks and tablets. It’s more hectic than ever here and press day has been brutal so far. Events go on well into the evening tonight and then I’ll be up at 5am to head over to an Intel booth preview where I hope to get a good overview of their latest mobile products. Give me a few Read more ...

  • Ultra Mobile Reporting Kit CES 2012

    Chippy
    4 Jan 2012 | 8:20 am
    CES is just days away and I’ve just finalised the kit-list for my Ultra Mobile Reporting Kit V11. I’ll be there for the week and focusing on Tablets, Netbooks, Ultrabooks and, if I find anything, UMPCs. 2011 was a year of change in the way I did reporting for my websites Carrypad, UMPCPortal and Ultrabooknews. The Samsung Galaxy Tab gave me more mobility than I h Read more ...
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    Unwired View

  • Asus Transformer Prime Ice Cream Sandwich lockups to be fixed in February

    Florin
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    Not long after updating their Asus Transformer Prime to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, some users have started complaining about random lockups. There’s a thread over at the XDA Forums (here) where quite many users are reporting this (or similar issues). Luckily, Asus has acknowledged the problem and it’s working to fix it. According to The Verge, the company hopes “to have a fix [for the issue] available in early February.” It’s not the first time when Transformer Prime owners are reporting problems – the tablet had a GPS issue, too, which was fixed with a software update…

  • Sony Xperia S features anti-stain shell, fast charging battery

    Florin
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:32 pm
    Announced a few weeks ago at CES as the first Sony smartphone, the Xperia S could become available before the end of this month (at least in the UK). What you may not know about the new handset (because it wasn’t included in the press release announcing it) is that it features an anti-stain shell – this was unveiled last week by SE on Facebook. Swiss website PocketPC.ch quotes Sony Ericsson’s Product Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, confirming the anti-stain shell (it’s a nano-coating actually). Another thing that’s been reportedly confirmed is the fact…

  • LG’s upcoming Optimus 3D sequel, the CX2, could be sold as the 3D Max

    Vlad Bobleanta
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:40 am
    The LG CX2 got leaked a few days ago as the successor to the first 3D-enabled smartphone, the LG Optimus 3D. Yet CX2 is obviously just a codename (or, worst case scenario, will be used as the model number when it launches). So then one has to wonder what this device will end up being sold as. Thankfully, it now seems that it won’t be labelled the Optimus 3D 2. According to GSM-Israel, a very reliable source said it would be called 3D Max. It’s unclear if it will keep the Optimus branding that so far has been seen in every Android device to come out of LG – or not. So it may…

  • LG Optimus Pad now free at Rogers (with contract)

    Vlad Bobleanta
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:04 am
    Following a previous (but not as steep) price drop in June of last year, the LG Optimus Pad is now free if you sign a new contract with Rogers. The nice thing is that this isn’t limited to three-year contracts (as great deals usually are in Canada) – you can also get the 3D tablet for free with a two-year service agreement. That’s not something that happens often, and perhaps it may just convince some that free is the best price after all. The LG Optimus Pad is in a class of its own in the Android tablet space with its dual cameras which enable 3D photo and video shooting.

  • Wi-Fi-only Motorola Xyboard tablets now shipping in the US

    Vlad Bobleanta
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:33 am
    The Wi-Fi-only Motorola Xyboard tablets have been up for pre-order in the US for over two weeks. We knew they were going to start shipping this month, and that has finally happened today. So if you pre-ordered one, it’s on its way to you. Otherwise, you can just go and buy one now. These Xyboard tablets are basically just Droid Xyboard units sans the mobile data connectivity and without any Verizon branding. They were initially supposed to ship during the week of January 18 (so last week), but better late than never. Just to recap, the Xyboard 10.1 is available in 16 GB (for $499.99)…
 
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    biskero

  • Nokia N9 sales between 1.5M and 2.0M in Q4?

    biskero
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:51 pm
    Nokia announced their 2011 Q4 financial results and it was not that good! What I was looking for are the number of Nokia N9 sales. Nokia did not mentioned this number but people start to investigate and looks like that the Nokia N9 sales between 1.5M and 2.0M in Q4 !!! If true those are really good numbers! Alessandro

  • Nokia N9 news and upcomging PR1.2

    biskero
    16 Jan 2012 | 4:19 pm
    Via mynokiablog.com, looks like there are some news for the Nokia N9, firmware update coming soon with thousands of improvements. Also check out some features about the Nokia N9 you might not know. Alessandro

  • Attending Qt Day 2012 in Florence

    biskero
    11 Jan 2012 | 5:02 pm
    I will atted the Qt Days 2012 in Florence on January 27th and 28th. I will be interesting where Qt is headed and what is new both from technical and business point. More infos here and here. Alessandro

  • Nokia Lumia 900 launched

    biskero
    9 Jan 2012 | 7:07 pm
    Looks like a new device from Nokia has launched: Nokia Lumia 900 Alessandro

  • 1Billion app downloads over the Holidays!

    biskero
    4 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm
    Via EngadgetMobile, looks like mobile application usage is exploding since over the holidays there were more than 1 Billion downloads on the various mobile application stores. These are impressive numbers but also pose a challange for developers. On one side is a great opportunity but on the other is a very difficult business to be in. Alessandro
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    mobi Enthusiast .mobi

  • mobiEnthusiast is Anti-Piracy and Pro-Internet Freedom

    Holly Kolman
    18 Jan 2012 | 2:23 am
    Tweet Posting pictures of celebrities as a profile picture… linking to a scene from a favorite movie on YouTube… Quoting a movie line… all of these things seem pretty harmless, but without owning the copyright, they’re infringing on someone’s intellectual property. And, if SOPA / PIPA passes, if someone visits your site and does any [...]mobiEnthusiast is Anti-Piracy and Pro-Internet Freedom is a post from: mobiEnthusiast.mobi © 2010 All Rights Reserved. Looking for a job or a candidate in mobile marketing, mobile development or apps development? Try our new Mobile Jobs…

  • Do you check restaurant menus from your phone?

    Holly Kolman
    8 Jan 2012 | 10:06 pm
    Tweet Now that so many people are using mobile phones to decide where to eat, I wonder – how important is it for a restaurant to have a mobile-friendly menu? So far, it seems pretty important, according to a LinkedIn poll conducted by mobiEnthusiast’s author, Holly Kolman. Have you voted yet? If not, here is [...]Do you check restaurant menus from your phone? is a post from: mobiEnthusiast.mobi © 2010 All Rights Reserved. Looking for a job or a candidate in mobile marketing, mobile development or apps development? Try our new Mobile Jobs section. Thanks for reading! Related…

  • Mobile Site or App?

    Holly Kolman
    29 Nov 2011 | 9:03 pm
    Tweet What’s Better for Your Business: A Mobile Site or an App? It seems like every day I encounter small business owners and developers who are having trouble deciding which would be better, a mobile site or an app. Earlier this year, the general consensus was that apps were the way to go, with very [...]Mobile Site or App? is a post from: mobiEnthusiast.mobi © 2010 All Rights Reserved. Looking for a job or a candidate in mobile marketing, mobile development or apps development? Try our new Mobile Jobs section. Thanks for reading! Related posts:iPhone Developers – Get those…

  • iPhone Developer Jobs: Geography Matters

    Eric Melchor
    23 Sep 2011 | 11:08 am
    Tweet Mobile Site Identifies Cities Where iPhone Developer Jobs are Plentiful… and Not Detroit, the Motor City, may be the best city to look for a job in the automobile industry, but if you are an iPhone Developer you are going to have a hard time finding work. If you don’t live in Detroit, don’t [...]iPhone Developer Jobs: Geography Matters is a post from: mobiEnthusiast.mobi © 2010 All Rights Reserved. Looking for a job or a candidate in mobile marketing, mobile development or apps development? Try our new Mobile Jobs section. Thanks for reading! Related posts:iPhone…

  • Mobile Infographic: Embrace the Mobile Web

    Holly Kolman
    23 Sep 2011 | 7:15 am
    Tweet My new hobby is collecting infographics about mobile marketing and mobile development. Today I heard an astonishing figure that 55% of Twitter users are visiting the 9th-ranked Alexa site using mobile devices. If you are posting links that don’t go to mobile pages, there’s a very good chance that you’ve wasted the time it [...]Mobile Infographic: Embrace the Mobile Web is a post from: mobiEnthusiast.mobi © 2010 All Rights Reserved. Looking for a job or a candidate in mobile marketing, mobile development or apps development? Try our new Mobile Jobs section. Thanks…
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  • The Latest Thing in Fast Food: Edible Braille

    vivek
    15 Jan 2012 | 12:04 am
    Wimpy, a restaurant found an interesting way to let visually impaired customers know that they have Braille menus handy in all of their locations. To spread the word they made impressions of Braille messages on hamburger buns, with words spelled out in sesame seeds. A video promoting the effort shows Wimpy sandwich artisans using tweezers to painstakingly place each individual seed on each bun. The specialized burgers bearing various messages about burger authenticity (“100% pure beef!”) were brought to three Braille institutions for future customers to enjoy. Awesome idea

  • Say Hello to Little Printer :)

    vivek
    30 Dec 2011 | 3:13 am
    I wrote about Berg’s ideas earlier too and their ideas, innovation always give smiles on my face. Something different but connected to physical stuff. So here is another super cool idea they called as “Little Printer” crafted it beautifully. “Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.” You can say its little newspaper which can fit any where plus paper is like a screen that never turns…

  • Balloon Fishing

    vivek
    28 Dec 2011 | 1:41 am
    Balloon Fishing, i just loved this cool game designed using augmented reality, made me smile.

  • Here’s To The Crazy Ones “Steve Jobs”

    vivek
    9 Dec 2011 | 10:43 pm
    Well here’s a reminder don’t be afraid to see things differently. The now iconic quote debuted in a 1997 television commercial for Apple Computer. The text was said to have been partially written by then Apple CEO Steve Jobs (along with Rob Siltanen and Ken Segall). He embodied the characteristics in this quote arguably better than anyone in history. Today it lives on as a mantra for artists, inventors, entrepreneurs and innovators around the world. ” I simply loved this fantastic letterpress poster.”

  • Starbucks Holiday Cups Come to Life With Augmented Reality

    vivek
    8 Dec 2011 | 11:24 pm
    Starbucks adding a lots of fun to their holiday packaging using augmented reality app. We will soon see lots of ‘Interactive Packaging’ and way to engage people. Let’s have some fun
 
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  • For The GeoGeeks – Carnival of The Geospatialists #3

    glenn
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:40 pm
    It’s been a couple of weeks so that means time again for another Geo Carnival… a fun roundup of GeoMusings and down-right cool, GeoGeekery from around the web. The first 2 GeoCarnivals... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Nokia Shutting Down Navteq Mobile Developer Resource NN4D | AnyGeo Well, with all the hooplah, reorganization, restructuring, yadayada going on at Nokia the past year or two you can't really be surprised when you hear something

  • Nokia Shutting Down Navteq Mobile Developer Resource NN4D

    glenn
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:31 pm
    Well, with all the hooplah, reorganization, restructuring, yadayada going on at Nokia the past year or two you can’t really be surprised when you hear something to the effect of Navteq... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Webinar – Hear All About FME 2012 From Don and Dale

    glenn
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:15 am
    Recall Safe Software recently announced the release of FME 2012. Well, today you can hear all about it direct from Don Murray  and Dale Lutz at Safe Software. What I’m talking about here is a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Webinar To Look At Open Source Geo Solutions For Small Business

    glenn
    25 Jan 2012 | 3:48 pm
    Here’s details of a webinar that should appeal to many. The focus of the event is hot topics such as free tools, and open source software, with a focus on the small business owner. Some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • Nokia Fixes Lumia 800 Battery Issues, Preps Camera Improvements

    Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire)
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:43 am
    Nokia’s first Windows Phone-based mobile phone, the Lumia 800, came to the market with a series of issues affecting its battery performance. Nokia has already delivered a software update to the handset’s users, and it appears that things have been put back in order. In a recent post on the Nokia Discussion... (read more)

  • Samsung GT-i9070 Spotted at FCC En-Route to China

    Softpedia News (Cosmin Vasile)
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:01 pm
    Unveiled a year ago, one of the most popular Android smartphones available on the market, Samsung Galaxy S II still makes headlines from time to time.   Due to customers’ high demand for Samsung Android products, the Korean handset m... (read more)

  • Android 4.0 Kills the Menu Button

    Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire)
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:01 pm
    With Android 3.0 Honeycomb, came along the lack of a menu button on devices. In Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, no hardware button means that developers need not map it in their applications anymore. Before Honeycomb, the button was used for applications to deliver various options that were relevant to the user, using the activity’s built-i... (read more)

  • DROID RAZR MAXX Now Only $199.99 at Amazon

    Softpedia News (Cosmin Vasile)
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pm
    DROID RAZR’s chunkier brother is available for purchase at Verizon Wireless for $299.99 (230 EUR) with a new two-year agreement. Although the smartphone was launched only yesterday, it looks like Amazon already slashed DROID RAZR MAXX’s price to only $199.99 (150 EUR). 

  • Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus Down to $99.99 on Contract

    Softpedia News (Ionut Arghire)
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm
    The first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone in the world, none other than the Galaxy Nexus, is now available for purchase on Verizon’s network for only $99.99 with the signing of a contract agreement. Amazon was the one to reduce the phone’s price tag, and users interested in taking advantage of the deal should head over to its website for that. One certain thing is that the Galaxy Nexus does seem to be one of the most appealing smartphones on V... (read more)
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  • 2012 GM Advanced Tech Window

    Popwuping
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pm
    On the heels of Samsung's touchscreen windows is this concept demonstrator from the GM Advanced Technical Center. The Windows of Opportunity (WOO) Project was inspired by psychological studies indicating car passengers often feel disconnected from their environment, GM asked the Bezalel students to turn car windows into interactive displays capable of stimulating awareness, nurturing curiosity and encouraging a stronger connection with the world outside the vehicle. One more step towards never talking to each other but through a screen.

  • The Evolution of Music Online

    Popwuping
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:58 pm
    PBS Off Book discusses the massive changes in music distribution and how music blogs and websites have arisen as the new arbiters of quality. As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was an influx of artists onto the cultural scene, and audiences were left wondering how to sort through them all.

  • SIWA cushioned case

    Popwuping
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am
    I saw a small collection of SIWA bags in the Fine Arts Museum in Taipei recently and I loved the feel of the paper-like material, it felt soft and flexible. It looks just as you see above, like crumpled paper. Over time, depending on how you handle it, the look of the material will change with use. Designed by Naoto Fukasawa, this SIWA large cushioned case is a perfect for carrying a 13" laptop and it's provides padding for minor scrapes and bumps. Zipper opening and highly water resilient. SIWA cushioned case

  • Bring back the stylus!(?)

    Popwuping
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:17 am
    Farhad Manjoo writing for Slate states his case for "bringing back' or using a stylus with an iOS devices. For certain uses, the stylus is way better than fingers--it's more precise, easier to control, and more capable. A stylus lets you type just as fast (and maybe faster) than you can with your finger on a touchscreen and it allows for fine-motor skills like drawing and photo editing. Jobs wondered who wants a stylus. I do! And if tablet and app makers took some time to optimize their product for styluses, you will, too. Today, people use styluses on iPads for specialized, pen-specific…

  • Tablet and E-book ownership nearly double over the holidays

    Popwuping
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:43 am
    Pew Internet: The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time period. The number of Americans owning at least one of these digital reading devices jumped from 18% in December to 29% in January. It's not entirely clear which devices account for this increase, the survey strongly suggests that the Kindle Fire and Nook pricing played a role but doesn't produce data to support the assumption. But a…
 
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    mobileYouth®

  • Kodak vs Apple: Key lessons for the mobile industry when focusing on youth

    Graham Brown
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:49 am
    Kodak Could Have Been in the Mobile Business By Now   This week was a tale of two brands. On the one hand, Kodak. Kodak could have been the Apple of photography but last week, the iconic American brand filed for bankruptcy protection. On the other, Apple’s latest earnings figures surpassed analyst expectations. The difference? Not [...] (click the item title for the full story)

  • Students are the Future of Mobile Customer Experience

    Graham Brown
    19 Jan 2012 | 3:36 am
    Craig’s Journey 19 year old Craig from New York is hunting down a patch to solve an upgrade problem with his Android phone. He’s tried T-Mobile customer service but gave up after the rep referred him back to the manufacturer claiming they didn’t support his OS anymore. He shows me a list of forum posts [...] (click the item title for the full story)

  • Where would Blackberry be without women?

    Graham Brown
    12 Jan 2012 | 2:19 am
    image (c) Flickr The Change Agents that Made Blackberry The world’s 1 billion youth female mobile owners are key to the future of Blackberry. Rather than employing creative agencies to engage this segment, RIM needs to focus on strategies that partner with the key change agents – Disruptive Divas. Increasing female representation in innovation, marketing [...] (click the item title for the full story)

  • 100 Key Trends in Youth Mobile Culture

    Graham Brown
    1 Jan 2012 | 7:08 am
    New Presentation to Download mobileYouth is pleased to announce a new 4 part PDF for 2012. You can download all 4 parts of the PDF free by signing up to the newsletter below at the end of this post. Here’s what you’ve been saying about it… (click the item title for the full story)

  • Will Teenage Pirates turn Mobile into a Social Business?

    Graham Brown
    15 Dec 2011 | 4:23 am
    (c) Flickr Social Business – Raising the Bar Social Business means replacing numbers with people. Social Business means turning the data into stories. Every customer has a story to tell. It’s the businesses that help customers tell their story, engage them in dialogue and then make these insights count that will win in the next [...] (click the item title for the full story)
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    Mobile Phone News & Blog from Right Mobile Phone News | rightmobilephone.co.uk

  • T-Mobile to Announce Unlimited Data Plan

    Jay
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am
    T-Mobile are set to unveil a new tariff from the beginning of February, offering consumers a truly unlimited data package, set to rival the One Plan package on offer from Three. The contract package, dubbed 'The Full Monty', is set to come in at £36 per month, and as well as offering unlimited data, the tariff will also offer unlimited text messages, unlimited T-Mobile to T-Mobile calls and 2,000 cross network and landline minutes. The package is rumoured to be a fixed deal, regardless of handset chosen, although more expensive devices such as the iPhone may carry an upfront charge. Contract…

  • Motorola Mobility Profits Slump

    Jay
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:53 am
    The latest manufacturer to release details of Q4 2011 profits is Motorola, and they make rather painful reading. Operating profits dropped to a pretty abysmal £44.6m operating loss. Sales were up 5 percent on 2010, with full year sales up a healthy 22 percent across the division. The overall operating loss for 2011 was £181.4m. Unit sales in Q4 2011 were 10.5 million phones, of which 5.3 million were smartphones, whilst Tablet sales were at 200,000. In total during 2011 Motorola Mobility shipped 42.4 mobile units, of which 18.7 million were smartphones, and over 1 million Tablets. Motorola…

  • O2 Apologise for Mobile Number Security Breach

    Jay
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:19 am
    O2 has published an apology for the security breach, which led to users' mobile numbers being shared with websites when browsed from a smartphone or dongle. The statement said: “We investigated, identified and fixed it this afternoon. We would like to apologise for the concern we have caused. We are in contact with the Information Commissioner's office, and we will be co-operating fully.” The last line relates to an investigation launched by the Information Commissioner's office into the security breach, to find out more about how the problem occurred. O2 has a list of FAQ's, detailing…

  • Nokia Sells Over 1 Million Lumia Phones, Posts Heavy Q4 Losses

    Jay
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:58 am
    Nokia has released details of their earnings from Q4 2011, showing heavy losses of 1.07 billion Euro, contrasting to a profit of 745 million Euro in Q4 2010. The overall number of Nokia smartphones also declined, with 19.6 million units sold during the last quarter of 2011, a decline in sales of 31 percent compared to the year before. The positive aspect of the smartphone sales, though, has to be the number of Lumia devices sold, with Nokia stating that over 1 million devices have been sold to date. Nokia also state their intention to introduce the Lumia range into new territories in the…

  • O2 Sharing Customer Mobile Numbers with Websites

    Jay
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:41 am
    O2 is accused of sharing customer mobile numbers with websites visited from smartphones and mobile broadband services, leaving customers open to receiving SPAM and possible identify fraud. The accusation comes from Lewis Peckover, who claims that when a user connects to an internet service using a mobile data connection, information including the mobile number is passed on to the site. Apparently not all users are suffering from the problem, particularly BlackBerry handsets seem to not be sharing this data, however that still leaves a large number of users who are open to security issues. To…
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    Pocket-lint : phones

  • Samsung Galaxy S III receives official recognition

    Paul Lamkin
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    Delay on the cards though? The rumour-mill is awash with Samsung Galaxy S III murmurs, following a couple of reports suggesting that the future flagship smartphone from the Korean company was facing a delay. The Galaxy S III grapevine seemed to suggest that the next big Sammy Android instalment would be getting a February unveiling at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Not so, says The Verge though who cite our old pals "people familiar with the matter" as saying that Samsung had originally planned to announce the handset at MWC but has now decided to delay the news. It will still be out…

  • Best Android customisation apps

    Dan Sung
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:45 am
    Your smartphone, your choices One of the joys of Android is supposed to be customisation and yet few people even bother to change their wallpaper after unboxing their little darlings. One of the problems is that most of us have been scarred by our early live wallpaper experiences - the ones that were just a little too much for our?phones?to handle 24/7 back when the insides of mobiles weren't quite as chipped up as they are these days.Fortunately, things are different nowadays. Android smartphones have harnessed much more bite with plenty of RAM and often a dual-core processor to help kick…

  • HTC Sense 4.0 to boast 50GB of Dropbox space

    Paul Lamkin
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:31 am
    Streamlined UI detailed HTC Sense 4.0, the Taiwanese company's latest Android UI, is set to launch sometime soon, possibly with the rumoured HTC Ville or HTC Edge and mobile site PocketNow is claiming to have the low-down ahead of its release. It has apparently had a play with a "non final build" of the software and, one of the biggest claims that it makes, is that the software will allow for 50GB of free Dropbox space. The massive allowance will sit as a virtual drive on a Sense 4.0 device apparently, with "deep integration" with other apps such as email. Back in October, HTC announced that…

  • BlackBerry Bold 9790 lands on Vodafone

    Paul Lamkin
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:56 am
    Skinny Bold action Vodafone has announced that the BlackBerry Bold 9790 is now available on its network. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is more an update to the BlackBerry Bold 9780 rather than just a thinner version of the Bold 9900. It features a QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad and a 2.45-inch, 480x360 touch display. It boasts a Marvell Tavor MG1 1GHz processor, 768MB of RAM and 8GB of onboard memory - with an expandable memory card slot that supports up to 32GB of additional storage.The OS on board is BlackBerry 7. As with other phones from the Canadian manufacturer, the phone will come with…

  • Android kills the menu button, demands action

    Paul Lamkin
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:11 am
    Action bar is the future The menu button on Google's Android is all but dead and is to be replaced permanently by the action bar. That's the message from Scott Main, lead tech writer for developer.android.com, who has posted an article advising Android developers to change their ways. "Honeycomb removed the reliance on physical buttons, and introduced the ActionBar class as the standard solution to make actions from the user options immediately visible and quick to invoke," he wrote. "In order to provide the most intuitive and consistent user experience in your apps, you should migrate your…
 
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  • on the dark side

    Jean
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:57 pm
    БогородицаAt midnight (UTC) this site will go dark for 24 hours in solidarity with the anti-SOPA/PIPA internet blackout. Thank you, Wikipedians, WordPressians, Redditters and Cheezburgerz for leading the charge. Bookmark this post: Hide Sites

  • ubitasking. Taylorism. The horror…

    Jean
    23 Jun 2011 | 6:21 pm
    иконографияПравославни икониI’m always trying to think of silly new buzzwords (“ubitasking”), and I’m also always trying to avoid the hackneyed ones (“crowdsourcing”). Mechanical Turk (ach! 41% of it is SPAM) -type platforms are brushing up against place-sensitive applications, and the results are intriguing, particularly in the coordination of humanitarian aid. In one case, Crowdflower…

  • Games Go Home

    Jean
    16 Jun 2011 | 11:16 pm
    After reading up about the riots last night (and there’s so much to read – here, here, here, here, here, and here, for starters…) I went and devoted some in-transit iPhone note-taking to reflection on the ‘festivities’, specifically in light of issues related to my research into urban life and pervasive media/computing. On my mind [...]

  • Participatory Mobile Urban Experience Planning

    Jean
    9 Jun 2011 | 4:38 pm
    … or, Streethacking with Ubiquitous Media, if you prefer. This is the thing toward which I’m now turning most of my academic affections and attention. Reading Henri Lefebvre, Matt Hern, Paul Dourish, and many others has led me to this increasingly (and appropriately) crowded (for instance, here, here, here, here, here, and here, for some [...]

  • update

    Jean
    6 Mar 2011 | 10:45 pm
    мека мебелThis blog is going to get more frequent updating in short order – more time on my hands in the coming months. Expect some dissertation-related posts as I crystallize my proposal. It’s coming together. It’s mobiles. Cities. Ubi-comp. And, I think, postphenomenology. Bookmark this post: Hide Sites
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    Free Telecom & Wireless Magazines and Downloads from alltop.tradepub.com

  • Unified Communications Buyer's Guide

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The Unified Communications Buyer's Guide offers complete information to help you compare your options, including guidance to help you evaluate a solution's:level of complexityease of useTotal Cost of Ownership (TCO)reliability/availabilitycustomer satisfactionComprehensive UC solutions can pay for themselves quickly- as long as they are easy to use. Because what can seem at first glance to be simple and straightforward can in fact turn out to be complex and labor-intensive, the guide includes a section dedicated to the importance of having an in-person demo before investing in any UC…

  • Microwave Journal

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    For more than 50 years, Microwave Journal has maintained an editorial balance between theory, practical uses, applications and news with their technical coverage of the RF, microwave, and wireless industries.Request Free!

  • Enabling Mobility for Healthcare Professionals

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Only SAP offers the wealth of mobile technology solutions that can help you plan, develop, and deploy mobile technology for healthcare providers. This paper discusses the challenges of transforming your healthcare operation using mobile technologies and describes leading practices that can help you address these challenges. It also provides an overview of SAP® solutions that you can use to support a mobile healthcare initiative.Request Free!

  • Investigating UC Vendors

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    This 27-page detailed publication delivers the information needed to evaluate Unified Communications vendors. Gartner evaluates UC using a framework of six broad communications functions, including: voice & telephony, conferencing, messaging, presence & IM, clients, and communications applications.Unified Communications vendor ratings, along with their strengths and cautions, are provided.Download this complimentary publication now for:Total cost of ownership analysisThe top 6 characteristics to look for in a UC solutionFrom the Gartner Files: MarketScope for Unified Communications for the…

  • iPhone and iPod Touch iOS 5 Essential Training

    23 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The course also includes hands-on demonstrations of how to accurately type and efficiently use finger gestures, and includes tips for setting up the iPhone and iPod Touch so they behave as expected. An extensive section on troubleshooting helps when the occasional glitches happen.Topics include:A tour around the iPhone and iPod TouchDisplaying the iPhone screen on a TVUnderstanding the keyless keyboardGetting the latest version of iTunesAlong with the free video training tutorials you will also receive monthly offers, tips, and insider information you won't hear elsewhere--including special…
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    The Enterprise Mobility Forum

  • Bricks & Mortar Should Embrace and Not Fear The Savvy Mobile Shopper

    Philippe Winthrop
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:16 am
    It’s (once again) a great day to be a Boston sports fan.  The late (and great) Myra H. Kraft must have called in a few favors last night when the New England Patriots squeaked by the Baltimore Ravens for a spot in the forthcoming Super Bowl.  Hopefully she also called in a few favors so [...] Click the article title to read the entire blog post.

  • Apple’s New Textbooks: The Enterprise Mobility Perspective

    Philippe Winthrop
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    As we speak, Apple is showcasing in New York City its new iBooks 2 platform, alongside its new wonderfully immersive Textbooks.  In one respect, I’ve been wondering when this would happen in the education space.  Nevermind the green side of the equation (less trees being turned into pulp),... Click the article title to read the entire blog post.

  • A Brief Recap of The 2012 AppNation Enterprise Summit

    Philippe Winthrop
    17 Jan 2012 | 8:04 am
    I love being a road warrior.  While it can be a drag at times to have to explain to people that my office is seat 8C on United Airlines, it does keep me in check with my better half.  I may, however, have taken it to the extreme last week.  After an 18 hour trip [...] Click the article title to read the entire blog post.

  • Emerging Global Opportunities In Enterprise Mobility

    Philippe Winthrop
    10 Jan 2012 | 12:23 pm
    It’s about 104 degrees right now in Buenos Aires.  I’m here, one more day than I had planned for my honeymoon because there was a minor problem with the plane that was supposed to take us home yesterday evening.  They grounded the airplane because they couldn’t get the public... Click the article title to read the entire blog post.

  • Five Predictions for Enterprise Mobility in 2012

    The Enterprise Mobility Foundation
    2 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    This Executive Insight covers five of the most important trends that The Enterprise Mobility Foundation believes will define mobility within the workplace in 2012.  Organizations are encouraged to consider these predictions – and their associated recommendations – in order to be prepared for the... Click the article title to read the entire blog post.
 
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  • Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100 Unlocked Phone with 8MP Camera and Touchscreen – International Version (Black)

    celladdons
    28 Jan 2012 | 10:57 am
    Samsung's GALAXY S II is a powerhouse of a smartphone in a fantastically sleek and lightweight design. Considerably thinner than the original GALAXY S and rivals such as the iPhone 4 (8.49mm v 9.3mm) the GALAXY S II is stunningly light (only 117g) and packs the latest version of Android (Gingerbread). The one feature most people will notice immediately is Samsung's best ever screen; the monster 4.27-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen runs at 480 x 800 resolution, has colours visibly brighter and more vivid than other phones, better contrast and lower power consumption, and performs superbly for…

  • GoPro Camera HD HERO2 Outdoor Edition CHDOH-002

    celladdons
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:58 am
    GoPro spared no-expense engineering the HD HERO2. The result is arguably the most versatile, powerful and easy to use camera in the world.

  • LG Optimus Prepaid Android Phone (Virgin Mobile)

    celladdons
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:40 am
    Fast 3G connectivity via Sprint's 3G network Powered by the Android 2.2 operating system with deep integration of Google services and access to thousands of apps to customize your phone via the Android Market Preloaded Voice Actions from Google allow you to send texts and e-mails, navigate to local restaurants, search the web, or play music--all simply by speaking Built-in GPS for real-time location on maps, driving directions, and more (additional charges may apply) Google Maps Navigation (Beta) provides free, pre-loaded turn-by-turn voice guidance. Powered by Google and requiring an…

  • GoPro Camera HD HERO2 Motorsports Edition CHDMH-002

    celladdons
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:55 am
    GoPro spared no-expense engineering the HD HERO2. The result is arguably the most versatile, powerful and easy to use camera in the world.

  • LG Tone (HBS-700) Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Headset – Retail Packaging – Black/Orange

    celladdons
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:36 am
    With LG TONE’s premium sound quality, conversations and music live in perfect harmony.
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    TechKnots Mobile

  • Nokia Has Shipped More Than 1.5 Billion Series 40 Phones

    Vikas SN
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:27 am
    Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia might be showing signs of recovery in the smartphone segment, but it is way ahead of its competitors in the low-cost feature phones segment. Nokia today announced that it has shipped its 1.5 billionth Series 40 (S40) phone, a Nokia 303, in Sau Palo, Brazil. The company also claimed that it is currently selling about twelve S40 phones every second, and estimated that there are currently 675 million active owners of S40 phones in the world, as noted by BBC. Nokia shipped its first Series 40 phone in October 1999, the Nokia 7110, which was a slider phone…

  • TaazzaGo Relaunches as Localbeat. Debuts An iPhone App; What Next?

    Vikas SN
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:39 pm
    TaazzaGo the Bangalore-based hyperlocal startup which offered information on news, deals, and events around you, has rebranded itself as Localbeat and launched its iOS version. This app will offer local and city news, aggregated deals and discounts, movie and event information along with citizen reporting and yellow page services, much similar to its Android version. The company currently claims to cover more than 40 cities in the country including Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Mysore, New Delhi, Shillong,…

  • Apple Q1 2012: 37 Million iPhones; 15.4 Million iPads and $13bn Profit

    Vikas SN
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:44 pm
    Apple has announced its Q1 2012 results with a quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion and quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion, making it the biggest quarter ever in the company’s history. According to the report, Apple has sold 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads in the quarter, recording a growth of 128 percent and 111 percent respectively, from Q1 2011. In total, the company has sold around 62 million iOS devices. It should however be noted that Apple has included an extra 14th week into the quarter, which means that the figure includes the launch week of iPhone 4S and the…

  • Australian regulators fines Nokia over SMS spam

    Apurva Chaudhary
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am
    Remeber those messages sent by Nokia on how to use certain feature on the device more productively? Well, Australian regulators have fined Nokia  A$55,000 ($58,000) for spamming customers. They have urged that the Finnish cellphone maker change their text message marketing. While Nokia offered helpful tips over SMS, it did not offer an easy way to unsubscribe from the service. “Some businesses are still not getting SMS marketing right. The same rules apply to SMS marketing as for email marketing, and the same rules apply to all businesses, big and small,” said Richard Bean,…

  • Android app player to be pre-loaded on upcoming BB 10 Smartphones and PlayBook 2.0

    Poonam Rodrigues
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:21 am
    With Android and Apple devices selling like hot cakes, the other mobile manufacturers are left with just bits and pieces of the market leftover. Another major player in this league feeling the pinch is RIM. With the company continually losing consumer interest in its devices the investors forced a change which had dire consequences. RIM’s co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have resigned in favor of ex-COO Thorsten Heins. The CEO duo was in command of RIM for a long span of nearly twenty years. The major shift in power has resulted in a radical change as Heins has confirmed that an…
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    Msgme Blog

  • Mobile Marketing For Corporate Local Businesses

    kane
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:20 am
    So today my colleague was a in a Starbucks* in San Francisco. Clearly a person at a Starbucks in San Francisco isn’t big news. This particular trip, however, was interesting for two, contrasting, reasons: He saw a beautifully branded QR code on an in-store display promoting the purchase of Starbucks bags of coffee. Scanning the QR code was stellar: it connected to a mobile optimized page where he could vote for his favorite roast, watch a movie, post to social networks, make comments, i.e. everything he could ever want. As my colleague held up his phone to scan the code, he heard an…

  • SMS Marketing And Dynamic Data Management

    kane
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am
    Today we look at another one of SMS marketing’s intricacies: dynamic data management. Somewhat more complex than integrating zip codes or unique codes into message flows, but that’s what makes working at a technology company fun. Within dynamic data management, we’re going to explore two concepts in particular: making SMS conversational and integrating with external data inputs. Conversational SMS As we all know, SMS continues to run rampant in the U.S. One of the main reasons for this we can find out by talking to anyone who uses text messaging: it’s easy to have an interactive…

  • 77177 Campaign Spotlight: Sundance Film Festival and Finding North

    kane
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:50 pm
    Exciting news today: TakePart and Participant Media just announced their latest mobile campaign – set to go live during the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. The campaign is in support of TakePart and Participant Media’s latest film, Finding North. In a long line of brilliantly executed activist films, including Inconvenient Truth, The Cove and Waiting For “Superman”, Finding North focuses on the impact of hunger in the US. The film details how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and how exactly it can be solved once and for all: the…

  • How SOPA & PIPA Affects Mobile Marketing

    Esther
    18 Jan 2012 | 6:24 pm
    January 18th, 2012: Blackout Day. By now you’ve probably heard of the public outcry against the SOPA & PIPA bills as leaders of the free internet (including Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, Facebook) take up the march against them. So what exactly are SOPA and PIPA? In order to understand how these bills affect your mobile marketing initiatives, it’s important to have a bit of background on the issue first. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is an anti-piracy/censorship bill currently making its way through Congress. It gives law enforcement and content creators (i.e. the…

  • QR Codes and Mobile Apps

    kane
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:14 pm
    Some good stats today on two mobile marketing channels: QR codes and mobile apps. They caught my eye not just for the information that they shared, but because of the conclusions that the authors drew. Let’s take a look: QR Codes: eMarketer released stats on QR codes, their recognizability and why consumers are scanning them. The first, entitled “U.S. Internet Users’ Familiarity With QR Codes, October 2011,” breaks down a key difference between how consumers perceive QR Codes: Percentage of consumers that have heard of QR codes: Percentage of consumers that can identify a QR code when…
 
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  • Review: Samsung Omnia W

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:16 am
    Windows Phone is being called as the OS of the future and a number of handset manufacturers have started tilting towards the new platform. Samsung had already committed to Microsoft and had launched the Omnia 7 long back. Now there’s an upgrade, err...sort of. The Omnia W is the latest offering by Samsung running Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango. While the device doesn’t look all that bad, it also falls in a decent price segment. [ Visit http://mobigyaan.com for full content and more! ]

  • Make changes in Android to reduce data consumption: NTT DoCoMo

    28 Jan 2012 | 2:13 am
    We all know Android OS uses data almost all the time. Well, Japanese mobile phone service provider NTT DoCoMo will request Google to make changes in the OS to transmit control signals less often. DoCoMo has identified some Android applications that send out control signals once every three to five minutes even when not in use. This translates to ten times that of a conventional mobile phone which means a lot of load on the network. [ Visit http://mobigyaan.com for full content and more! ]

  • Blackberry comes up with apps for fitness, doctors and paramedics

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:27 am
    BlackBerry, it seems is making efforts towards improving healthcare. It has unleashed seven apps that will help patients medical personnel perform better and faster. Of course, they need to have a BB handy to use these. Check out some apps below: [ Visit http://mobigyaan.com for full content and more! ]

  • HTC to focus on Quality rather than Quantity this year

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:13 am
    HTC had a number of devices launched both on the Android and Windows Phone platforms last year. While the company did fairly well, they are now saying that they will be launching less number of smartphones and tablets in the year 2012. The company has revealed that it will be focussing more on head-spinning and quality devices rather than launching an array of devices. [ Visit http://mobigyaan.com for full content and more! ]

  • Photo-centric apps out for BlackBerry; check them out

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:23 am
    Apple has done it with the iOS 5. Android has done it with the Ice Cream Sandwich OS. And finally, BlackBerry has woken up to photo editing on the phone. BlackBerry has provided users with free and paid BlackBerry photo-editing apps. It seems BlackBerry is finally getting its act together to keep its loyalists from wavering. These include free ones such as: [ Visit http://mobigyaan.com for full content and more! ]
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  • Japan’s NTT DoCoMo to request that Google reduces Android’s data usage

    Matt Brian
    28 Jan 2012 | 3:17 am
    In what appears to be one of the first public cases of a mobile operator approaching a smartphone operating system provider to amend how its software operates, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo is reportedly to ask Google to reduce the amount of data its mobile OS consumes, Reuters reports. According to the report, DoCoMo has already taken issue with an Android VOIP application that allows free voice communication, which assisted in bring down its service on Wednesday, but will also campaign for Google to increase the periods between when the Android operating system requests new data for its…

  • Nokia outlines how it plans to solve the retail problem for its Lumia smartphones

    Alex Wilhelm
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:02 pm
    A new quote from Nokia’s CEO, Steven Elop, is making the rounds today that outlines how Nokia intends to combat both iOS and Android handsets, and confirms a new strategy that Microsoft is set to employ in the United States. We are of course discussing how the Lumia handsets will be treated in a retail setting. When a consumer approaches a sales representative at a carrier outlet, asking what smartphone they should select, how is the advice that they receive guided? Two things are the key influencing factors: cash, and opinion. A sales rep who is hot on Android is unlikely to recommend…

  • HTC’s Sense 4.0 to bring ‘Guest Mode’ functionality and 50GB Dropbox storage

    Matt Brian
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:46 am
    Taiwanese smartphone maker has delivered numerous different interpretations of what it believes the Android user interface should look like but if a new report from PocketNow is to be believed, we could see some impressive new features with the launch of Sense 4.0. The mobile-focused website says that HTC’s new Sense 4.0 UI has been overhauled to deliver improved typography and improve how it displays widgets and data. To clarify this, Sense 4.0 is said to now position tabs depending on device orientation and will now display button functions to reduce confusion. It is also suggested…

  • Samsung: We are “still reviewing” Galaxy S III launch

    Matt Brian
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:12 am
    With Mobile World Congress less than a month away, speculation surrounding the launch of Samsung’s new flagship device, the Galaxy S III, has begun to circulate. According to Samsung’s SVP of Marketing, Younghee Lee, the company is “still reviewing” when the company will unveil the next model in its super-successful range of Galaxy S smartphones, leaving the company open to introduce the device in Barcelona at the mobile-focused event at the end of February. Sammyhub shares a recording of the earnings call in which Mrs. Lee responds to questions surrounding the…

  • Samsung posts record Q4 profits, but still no official smartphone sales figures

    Matt Brian
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:42 am
    Samsung exceeded its preliminary financial estimates in the fourth quarter to post record operating profit of 5.3 trillion won ($4.72 billion), a 76% rise year on year, thanks to increased smartphone, memory chips and flat-panel sales. At the beginning of the month, the Korean electronics giant posted its preliminary results, noting that its operating profit had reached 5.2 trillion won ($4.5 billion), with a reported 35 million smartphones sold over the three-month period. However, today’s filing shows a slight increase in its profits from its earlier report, likely helped by a boost…
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  • New RIM CEO claims that change is coming, but it won't involve Android

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:02 pm
    New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins backtracks on the issue of change, but dismisses the idea of outsourcing to AndroidNewly appointed RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has assured BlackBerry fans and, most importantly, investors that change is indeed coming to his embattled company. This is in contrast to a recent video interview in which Heins implied that an overhaul of RIM was unnecessary. "If we continue doing well what we're doing, I see no problems with us being in the top three players worldwide in the next years in wireless", he said.  Naturally, that didn't sit well with investors, resulting…

  • Official Steam app released on Android and iOS

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:57 am
    Valve has launched the official Steam mobile app for both Android and iOSValve has released its Steam companion app onto the Android Market and iOS App Store for Android and iOS devices. The companion app allows you to monitor your progress, connect with other players, view in-depth stats, and purchase games through the Steam store. Players can also catch up on gaming news. The app essentially gives you the ability to do everything you can already do in the full version of Steam. All changes made in the app will push to Steam immediately. So far, the app works on all Android 2.2 and 2.3…

  • Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus now on sale at Amazon Wireless for just $99.99

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:59 pm
    Verizon's Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Samsung Galaxy Nexus is now on sale at Amazon Wireless for just $99.99The world’s first Android 4.0-powered superphone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, is now on sale for only $99.99 at Amazon. The Galaxy Nexus normally retails for $299.99 on-contract. Some highlight-worthy specs of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus include a massive 4.65-inch Super AMOLED display with 720p resolution, 4G LTE, a 5-megapixel camera, and NFC. The Galaxy Nexus also features a speedy 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 32GB of storage, and 1GB of RAM. As a reminder, this deal applies to only…

  • Xbox Live games coming to Android and iOS

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:20 am
    A Microsoft spokesperson has revealed plans to bring select Xbox Live titles to 'other' mobile platforms including Android and iOSA Microsoft spokesperson has suggested that Xbox Live games will be extended to additional mobile platforms.  Speaking with Forbes, the spokesman noted: “While the Xbox Live experiences and games always work best on the Windows platform, we understand that some Xbox fans may be using other types of devices. To satisfy that need, we are working to extend a few of our Xbox experiences and titles to other platforms.” Of course, by 'other types of…

  • Nokia reports massive $1.38 billion loss in Q4 2011

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:18 am
    Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia saw device sales drop 31 percent while overall profits dipped a full 9.3 percent Nokia has reported an operating loss of $1.38 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011 due to a drop in phone sales. The Finnish phone manufacturer saw revenues drop 38 percent compared to last year's Q4. Total smartphone shipments also fell to 113.5 million, a 31 percent decline from last year. Unfortunately for Nokia, the bad news didn't stop there. Total net revenue fell for Nokia's mobile phone and its network divisions 12.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 10 billion.
 
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  • Rumor: MetroPCS to get LG Optimus 2

    Joe
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    Pictured above is a slightly grainy picture of the LG Optimus 2. It’s actually already available through Sprint, but as the apps on the homescreen of this picture indicate, this one is headed for MetroPCS. It will be a CDMA device, not an LTE one, just like the Sprint model. It also features a 3.2-megapixel camera, 800MHz processor, and a 3.2-inch screen. Chances are it will come in at a value price, especially since MetroPCS is introducing a pair of higher end Android devices later this month. Via Howard Forums. This post originated at PrepaidReviews.com - The number one resource for…

  • Consumer Cellular adds web and messaging bundles

    Joe
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    Consumer Cellular recently announced a number of package deals that include web and messaging features. There are five in total. The Lite package contains 100 messages and 10MB of web for $2.50 per month. The Ready package has 500 minutes and 50MB for $5 per month. The Active plan contains 1,000 minutes and 100MB of data for $10 per month. The Complete package has 2,500 messages and 250MB of data for $20 per month, and the Max plan has 5,000 messages and 500MB of data for $30 per month. Consumer Cellular customers can upgrade to one of these plans at Consumer Cellular’s website. Via…

  • Virgin Mobile will start throttling data speeds in March

    Joe
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    We knew it was coming. It was just a matter of when. We learned last year that Virgin Mobile would throttle the speeds of its heaviest data users. It will begin this practice on March 23rd, with users who exceed 2.5GB per month getting their speeds throttled. To be clear, this applies to Virgin smartphone customers using Beyond Talk plans. Throttled speeds are 256Kbps, which is something of a relic for old dial-up users. If a user gets throttled, he has to either way for the beginning of the next billing cycle, or otherwise pay for a new monthly plan immediately. Neither seems like an…

  • Tracfone getting Samsung SCH-R375

    Joe
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    It might not be the fanciest looking phone, but the Samsung SCH-R375 is headed for Tracfone. Its biggest feature is a QWERTY keyboard. In most respects it’s a low-end phone, featuring a 1.3 megapixel camera and little else. It’s actually a great prepaid phone for texting. There is no word on pricing and release date, but we can assume it will be relatively soon and cheap. Via Phone Scoop. This post originated at PrepaidReviews.com - The number one resource for Tracfone Prepaid information on the web! This post originated at PrepaidReviews.com - The number one resource for Tracfone…

  • The best prepaid phones for text messaging

    Joe
    18 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm
    When we started the Prepaid Reviews blog in 2007, there wasn’t much in the way of prepaid phone selection. They were mostly old, cheap models that postpaid carriers had ditched long ago. Then again, when we started the blog, there was no iPhone. Apple has since changed the cellular phone industry, and we can see the residual effects in prepaid phone offerings. Better phones than ever are available, and for affordable prices. While five years ago it was difficult to find a prepaid phone with a QWERTY keyboard, it’s fairly commonplace now. It makes it easier to build the following…
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    UNTETHER.tv - Living and breathing the future of mobile (video)

  • m-Pulse Episode #3: No more customer stalking, BlackBerry's fate and GigaOm's Kevin Tofel predicts the mobile future

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:19 am
    Welcome to our newest show - m-pulse - the show that explores the most important stories in mobile over the past week, brings you in depth interviews with the minds shaping the mobile industry and highlights some of the companies or products that have moved the industry forward. This week we sit with Kevin C Tofel, purveyor of all things mobile at GigaOm, to talk about his 16 2012 mobile predictions, Peggy jumps into some surprising consumer behaviour desires (i.e. to not be stalked by brands) and Rob tries to make sense of the mess that has become RIM after the CEO shakeup.

  • ORDR.in: Why mobile is THE breakthrough for restaurants - with founder David Bloom

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:03 pm
    As part of an ongoing dialogue between mobile experts and proof that mobile will have an incredible impact on nearly every single business on the planet we venture into the restaurant industry today. This is a tough industry to succeed in let alone sell into - even harder if it is something the restaurant can't sell like technology. Most of the technology in restaurants has been to speed up process thereby reducing costs - until mobile. ORDR.in helps restaurants turn their websites, mobile websites and apps into order taking, money making machines with mobile being the breakthrough…

  • Smartr Contacts: How mobile enabled them to reinvent the concept and relevancy of a contact - with Michael Albers

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:28 pm
    How does mobile change the way we connect and stay in contact with people? The paradigm of the "contact manager" or "personal information system" is being changed by the context and connectedness of mobile devices and one company is reinventing this information layer that ties us all together. The company is Xobni (something I've been using since they were in beta many years ago), the product is Smartr Contacts (JUST released for iPhone) and the expert is Michael Albers - VP of Product Development and the man whose task it was to get this latest release into the…

  • This Week in Location Based Marketing - Episode 61: NearBuy brings analytics to the cloud, Digby launches LocalPoint + Scott Kveton of Urban Airship

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:15 am
    Following The Big Show on the future of retail in New York City we focus on some timely stories from some of the companies that made a splash at the conference. From cloud analytics company NearBuy to geofencing service LocalPoint launched by Digby to Foursquare getting into the menu business and the smartest glasses we've ever since. Plus a clip from Urbain Airship's CEO Scott Kveton. Episode 61 Recorded: January 22, 2012 Hosts: Rob Woodbridge & Asif KhanShow highlights: 1. NearBuy Systems launches cloud-based analytics service (8:25 2. Digby Launches LocalPoint (13:00) 3. CBS…

  • Chaotic Moon: How they went from Rupert Murdoch's The Daily to Sesame Street's Grover to the Board of Awesomeness - with whurley and Phil Wheat

    18 Jan 2012 | 10:14 pm
    When you call something the "Board of Awesomeness" you clearly need to deliver on the promise. Who else better to do so than evil genius whurley and his team of brains at Chaotic Moon Labs. They unleashed the Board of Awesomeness at CES this year as a part of a broader master plan yet to be released. Why is it being covered here? Watch the first part of the episode to see it in action. When we last connected with whurley it was around the time he launched Chaotic Moon (found here) and it was an episode for the ages. This time around we get a quick run through of the things…
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  • The Top 5 Failed Gifts to Return after Christmas

    Tim Attwood
    4 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    In addition to returning your collectible Justin Bieber wig and your Kim Kardashian wedding photo album, don’t hesitate to return technological gadgets that provide insufficient quality for your buck. Sure, your family meant well when they gave you that cheap Android tablet, but you especially know that you can do better. By returning some of the lowest quality gifts of the season, you will have the chance to obtain better gadgets that will make your life easier. 1. Android Tablets Return: Low Quality Android Tablets — Lousy Android tablets like the PanDigital 72-70FW 7-inch tablets will…

  • Top 10 Gadgets for 2011 Holiday Gift Giving

    Tim Attwood
    1 Dec 2011 | 8:00 am
    Holiday shopping for any gadget lover in your life can be confusing unless you are equally technologically inclined. Between trying to keep track of new products and who is producing the best of each and then shopping around for the best deal, it can frustrate a shopper to the point of simply going into an electronics store and letting them talk you into whatever they want to sell you. Those of you who fall into this category, take heart; you need a list to use as a jumping off point. Here are ten of the best, most sought after new technological gizmos for 2011. Unless you have been living in…

  • BlackBerry BBX: RIM Elevates its Mobile OS

    Tim Attwood
    2 Nov 2011 | 9:29 am
    Struggling with falling market shares, lower Blackberry shipments and the recent outage of service for users across the country, mobile phone and tablet maker RIM is in a difficult position. Inroads are quickly being made into what was once exclusively their territory by both Apple and Google, and the company is hoping that its newly-announced cross-platform OS, BBX, will be what puts them back on top. BBX is a combination of the Blackberry OS and the QNX platform which RIM acquired last year. Together, they create BBX. But this is an entirely new animal – apps that work on current versions…

  • The Kindle Fire: Amazon’s new eReader and Android Tablet

    Tim Attwood
    6 Oct 2011 | 3:47 am
    Announced on September 28, 2011, the much-anticipated Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon showed consumers a great deal to love and a number of things to be concerned about when the device drops in November. Speculation about the device has been rampant over the last year with Amazon as a perfect contender for the tablet market. While it doesn’t appear that the Fire will have the heat necessary to burn down the Apple tree, it has a lot to like. What’s In a Fire? First off, a lower price. Amazon is aiming to bring digital content to a wider array of users by pricing its 7” Kindle Fire at…

  • Android Convergence with Ice Cream Sandwich

    Tim Attwood
    28 Sep 2011 | 8:00 am
    Due to be released in fall 2011 is Google’s new Android operating system, called Ice Cream Sandwich. It is being touted as a combination of the current mobile phone OS, Gingerbread, and their tablet OS, Honeycomb. According to Mike Claren of Google, the company wants “one OS that runs everywhere”. The idea is to ensure that all Android devices, regardless of type, will be able to run the same OS, making it easier to develop new features and push out updates. Tasty Rumors About Ice Cream Sandwich There are bits and pieces of information about Ice Cream Sandwich floating…
 
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    Wireless Federation

  • Apple passes Exxon as the most valuable firm (USA)

    Editor
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:22 am
    US giant Apple Inc has reportedly emerged as the most valuable US company surpassing Exxon once again. According to reports, the market capitalization of Apple was at $ 418.5 on Wednesday, while Exxon had a mobile capitalization of $ 413 billion. However, Exxon regained its position at the end of the day.  Apple recently reported [...]

  • Nokia welcomes Marko Ahtisaari to the Nokia leadership team (Finland)

    Editor
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:06 am
    Leading mobile phone maker, Nokia, has appointed Marko Ahtisaari as Executive Vice President, Design, and a member of the Nokia Leadership Team, effective February 1, 2012. He will be reporting directly to President and CEO Stephen Elop. According to a report by the company, Ahtisaari will continue to lead the Nokia design team, responsible for [...]

  • Airtel indicates rise in tariffs if additional spectrum is charged (India)

    Editor
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:29 am
    India’s leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel, has hinted at an increase in the call rates in the event that the government decides to charge the operators for the additional spectrum allocated to them. According to reports, Sunil Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, has said that if the government decides in their wisdom that this industry needs [...]

  • Indian finance ministry proposes spectrum as collateral for loan (India)

    Editor
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    The Indian finance ministry has proposed a new policy according to which mobile operators can use their spectrum holdings as collateral for a loan, as reported by ET. The move comes as an attempt to smoothen the functioning of the banking sector as well as help the telecom industry meet its credit requirements. According to [...]

  • Televisa’s plea to acquire stake in Iusacell faces rejection (Mexico)

    Editor
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:01 am
    Mexican multimedia conglomerate Televisa’s attempt to acquire a 50 percent stake in mobile operator Iusacell has reportedly been rejected by the Mexican regulatory authority. The deal has been under review for nine months and estimated to be worth US$ 1.6 billion. According to reports, the decline by the regulatory authority CFC, could have negative consequences [...]
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  • Going It Alone vs Investors in Mobile Development

    9 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm
    I just wanted to take a brief moment to talk about startups, entrepreneurship and lifestyle. As I've been working on my mobile app to help the bullying problem, the common wisdom is that I should get investors and build a company.

  • How I'm Learning Mobile App Development

    5 Jan 2012 | 4:06 am
    Nothing beats learning something new to put yourself in the shoes of a beginner. When you do this you realize how hard it is to find the information you're looking for. I am doing what I call 'Task Driven Learning'

  • Programming Creatively

    3 Jan 2012 | 4:20 am
    They say being lazy is a good thing for programmers. This laziness will cause you to avoid reinventing the wheel by finding an existing solution out there.

  • Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Mobile Enterprise Strategies

    24 Oct 2011 | 9:10 am
    I am reporting all of this week from the Field Mobility Summit 2011 in Sydney, Australia where I am speaking, and teaching a workshop on implementing enterprise mobility. I recorded this episode of Video Comments mostly from Lavender Bay Park in North Sydney. In it, I share results from the Enterprise Mobility Survey 2011 and its relevance to mobile strategies.

  • Google's New Android OS. What's In It for the Enterprise?

    21 Oct 2011 | 9:08 am
    Guest writer and mobility analyst Andre Guilleman shares his insights on Google's new Android OS version, Ice Cream Sandwich.
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  • Mobile App Guidelines Break New Ground; Apple & RIM Target New Heights

    Jeff Hasen
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:09 am
    This was a week for transparency in mobile with something for everyone. For consumers, there was movement on the privacy front with the Mobile Marketing Association releasing its Mobile Application Privacy Policy. The document is hailed as a first, providing precise guidelines that addresses the core privacy issues and data processes of many mobile applications. For industry watchers, news from RIM and Apple gave us a deeper look at company performance and clues to the capabilities that likely play a lead role in deciding the leaders from the laggards. While it was hardly a shocker when…

  • RFID & Mobile Retail: Moving From Efficiency To Engagement

    Gary Schwartz
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:55 am
    National Retail Federation Show, New York City: This week the old Javits Center in the New York hosted retail folk from across the U.S. and shed some light on a technology play that may define a new industry I call Retail 2.0. Indeed, the reality of a connected shopping experience with smartphones at the center may not be far off. However, this show was proof to me that we have to get past our focus on technology (and B2B) and walk in the shoes of our customers (understanding that it’s B2C that is really at the core). And, since it is about the shopper experience, it’s clear that…

  • CES: 2012 Banner Year For Mobile & Gadgets; Google Clamps Down

    Jeff Hasen
    13 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    This last week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas will be remembered for innovation and limitation. The show — where approximately 3,100 companies took the wraps of more than 20,000 products — was big in more ways than one. I haven’t met a person who covered the over 1.85 million net square feet of exhibit space (more than 37 football fields), but I did glean enough from the reports I’ve read about the show highlights to know this year will be huge for gadgets. Innovation abounds. But, first, let’s talk about the limitation — and what’s behind it. In my…

  • The Pulse Video Show Debuts Today; Gary Schwartz Talks Mobile 2012 Megatrends

    Peggy Anne Salz
    12 Jan 2012 | 4:24 am
    Today (!) marks the launch of The Pulse, a new vodcast series produced by Rob Woodbridge, founder and owner of UNTETHER.tv, in collaboration with MobileGroove. We welcome our guest Gary Schwartz, CEO of Impact Mobile, Inc., North America Chair of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) and author of THE IMPULSE ECONOMY, a book that examines the evolution and future opportunities around mobile commerce and transactions. Gary’s no-holds-barred analysis of mobile’s impact on bricks-and-mortar retail suggests America’s shopping malls are in for tough times in 2012 as users move…

  • The Kindle Fire Comes To Europe; Are Developers Really Ready?

    Scott Bown
    5 Jan 2012 | 5:24 am
    Amazon has been able to do what other Android tablets can only dream of – offer a highly compelling consumption device that not only undercuts the iPad on price (and admittedly features) but, in many cases, beats it on content availability.  Scott Bown reveals the company’s source of competitive advantage and what all this means for developers everywhere. The Internet ushered in the age of free content, a shift in models that had a massive impact on the worlds of publishing, music, news and entertainment. We have seen large companies stumble (and fall) as they struggled to adapt…
 
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  • Instapaper – Updated

    Joanne Carter
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:39 am
    Instapaper is an excellent app for reading web pages offline. It’s optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod Touch’s screen. It’s very useful for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don’t have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you’re commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line. This app has just been updated, check out What’s New below. This is a free update but if you haven’t already downloaded this app you can do so here. It retails for…

  • Our Daily App Giveaway – Simple Life

    Joanne Carter
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:21 am
    Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer.  We value our readers so much we want to share our love of apps with you. That’s why we have created this new section as each day we will be giving away free apps. Today we have some Simple Life apps to giveaway, each worth $0.99/£0.69. Simple Life is a unique hybrid app for the family, with relaxation modes, mini-fun modes and gameplay modes. 

Packed with content, explore three different modes each filled with unique fun and games, check them out below. Would you like to try this app for free? If…

  • Our Daily App Giveaway – ProInsights – Worth $9.99/£6.99 Each

    Joanne Carter
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:20 am
    Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer.  We value our readers so much we want to share our love of apps with you. That’s why we have created this new section as each day we will be giving away free apps. Today we have some ProInsights apps to giveaway, each worth $9.99/£6.99. ProInsights is a revolutionary app that transforms your LinkedIn profile into brilliant infographics and helps you unlock fascinating insights about yourself and your network.

Love LinkedIn but find your profile a tad dull and unexciting? Ever stopped and wondered if…

  • New For iPad – MotionPhone HD

    Joanne Carter
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:52 am
    California based Scott Snibbe Studio today introduces MotionPhone HD 1.1, his new entertainment app for iPad devices. MotionPhone enables a unique form of visual communication, allowing people to create animations together over the Internet. The app, created by Scott Snibbe Studio, is the company’s first release since producing Bjork’s groundbreaking Biophilia App Album last year, and is a similarly innovative combination of interactive visuals with music. This app retails for $4.99/£2.99 and you can download it here. In MotionPhone, fingers’ movements become colorful…

  • Crystal War Blood Field – Price Drop

    Joanne Carter
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:36 am
    We recently reviewed this awesome game, you can read it here and if that review didn’t make you go out and out to buy it then perhaps this incentive will. Usually this app retails for $1.99/$1.49 but today it can be yours for only $0.99/£0.69/download here. RPG meets RTS in the most gripping multi-player game yet! Crystal War: Blood Field picks up where Crystal War left off. Introducing a much requested multi-player feature. Choose your character class (human or goblin) and face off against other players in network mode to determine victory. Dozens of character types, skills to…
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  • The Children’s App Manifesto

    admin
    15 Jan 2012 | 11:45 am
    contentAI studios, creators of MySantaTalk, were pleased to see and sign onto the: Children’s App Manifesto:  http://childrensappmanifesto.net/ We’ve seen too many quickly hacked together children’s apps that may show off a developer’s technology nicely but have not been thought through when it comes to protecting children, particularly children’s privacy (Not to point fingers, but, those “Santa Apps” that acquire someone’s phone number and address without parental controls? ) This is a maturing Industry in it’s nascent stages.  The…

  • Santa and his 2011 Chat – THANK YOU EVERYONE !

    admin
    20 Dec 2011 | 10:21 am
    Preparing the revised MY SANTA TALK for 2011 took a little longer than anticipated — The new User Interface and delivery system came together in November and early December, then we timed the release to coincide with INTEL’s AppUp store featuring MY SANTA TALK last week. The results have been remarkable.  High volumes of concurrent users.  But, mainly very high numbers with regard to sessions running 30, 40, 50+ steps in duration (many running from 7-12 minutes)…and, while anonymous (we really don’t know who is using the app, other than by Country and device), we…

  • 11 Days Before X-Mas. . .We’re In Amazon’s App Store…

    admin
    14 Dec 2011 | 4:46 pm
    Cutting it a bit close this year, but, our MySantaTalk Android app (thanks @appsgeyser) passed validation and made it into Amazon’s App Store:  http://www.amazon.com/contentAI-studios-My-Santa-Talk/dp/B006M5F2YG/ Passing validation for Kindle is a second step…not sure we’ll make it this year??? So, get your chat with Santa on…almost anywhere!

  • INTEL’s AppUP Team are all on the SUPER NICE List!

    admin
    13 Dec 2011 | 9:03 pm
    Thanks AppUP for featuring the MySantaTalk app this week (good timing!)…. INTEL’S appUP (Windows 32 & 64)** http://www.appup.com/applications/applications-My+Santa+Talk *  A Featured App-of-the-Week on 12 December 2011

  • 2011 Chat with Santa – Now Available

    admin
    12 Dec 2011 | 11:54 am
    Welcome to the release of our 2011 Holiday version of MY SANTA TALK — an interactive chat and story with Santa, mainly for Mobile, but, also as a desktop App from INTEL’s AppUp store. The new UI developed by contentAI is featured with the mobile web and app versions.  Have a safe and happy Holiday. Start your Santa Chat Adventure now…   Mobile Web URL:  http://m.mysantatalk.com Android:  Marketplace or AppsGeyser Windows 32 & 64:  INTEL AppUP Text:  SANTA   To: 20757 (U.S. Only to receive URL via SMS) Also available on most Android App Stores.  iPhone and…
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    MobleWar

  • Controversial Apps

    AJ
    3 Jan 2012 | 4:21 pm
    Since the creation of smartphones, many users have been creating highly effective, useful apps and addicting games to make mobile devices an integral part of our lives. However, every once in a while, someone decides to create an app that big players Google and Apple deem to be unacceptable. From the thousands upon thousands of apps that have been created and accepted by either screening process, only a handful has been banned. The Twisted Ban By Apple One of the most controversial apps to hit…
 
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    InsiderMobile

  • The market for mHealth application reached $US 718 million in 2011

    markus_pohl
    13 Jan 2012 | 6:19 am
    Guest post by research2guidance – 2011 was the first year of substantial business in the market for mobile health services delivered via smartphone applications. Since our first mHealth report was published last year, the growth in this market has greatly accelerated. The main drivers for this growth have been the increase in the smartphone user base on the demand side, and the doubling of the number of mHealth applications on the supply side. Mobile healthcare market has grown a lot in the last year … A majority of the major healthcare companies have discovered mHealth…

  • How to Plan Your Adult Mobile Strategy

    julia_dimambro
    11 Jan 2012 | 12:03 am
    When you combine the constantly changing landscape that is the mobile industry with the renowned innovation that the adult entertainment industry is famous for, how on earth do you identify the right business model for YOUR business? Let’s face it; if you’re anything like me, you are presented with a cavalcade of potential business opportunities on a weekly basis. But with mobile, most of the time you are travelling on an unmade road. So much of it hasn’t existed before so you have no case-studies to refer to and only your gut instinct as to what you think will generate the big…

  • The market for mobile app development services reached $US 20.5 billion in 2011

    markus_pohl
    10 Jan 2012 | 3:12 am
    Guest post by research2guidance – The development service market today is almost 3 times of the size of the application download market. The market for mobile application development services, including application creation, management, distribution and extension services, has reached $US 20.5 billion in 2011. App development services became a mass market that has surpassed the app content market by a factor of 3. $US 6.8 bn in app download vs. $US 20.5 bn in app development In 2011 publishers created $US 6.8 billion in application download revenues. Today most app project revenue is…

  • Top 4 Mobile Marketing Industry Trends Affecting 2012

    kane_russell
    3 Jan 2012 | 12:09 pm
    Recently, we ran a piece analyzing the various Mobile Marketing Heisman Trophy candidates for 2011. This was a shout out to those 2011 mobile marketing initiatives that made the biggest splash from a consumer and mainstream headline media perspective. Today we’re taking a different approach: as we look back on 2011, here are the key 2011 trends that will have the biggest impact on the business side of mobile marketing in 2012: 1) Industry Consolidation 2011In 2011, several mobile marketing companies including iLoop Mobile, Air2Web, and Hipcricket all got gobbled up by various industry…

  • Welcome to Wigs-Lace. Offering wigs, hair extensions, falls

    thenuptse
    2 Jan 2012 | 4:54 am
    Welcome to Wigs-Lace. Offering wigs, hair extensions, falls, and other creative hair solutions that reflect today salon and fashion trends at discount prices
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  • Mobile advertising predictions for 2012

    jcoops
    9 Jan 2012 | 4:46 pm
    Happy New Year.  It’s set to be an exciting one for the world of mobile and mobile advertising in particular.  So here’s 7 predictions for the year ahead: 1. Mobile ads go rich media – whereas 2011 was all about mobile banner ads and mobile search taking off, 2012 will see mobile ads become increasing rich using video, interactives and other engaging techniques to grab attention 2. HTML 5 – this is the underlying technology driving the emergence of rich media ads.  It’s also increasingly going to be the glue that allows new types of mobile services to be…

  • Case Study: Eliminating Performance, Interference Issues with Multi-Channel Wi-Fi access points

    evos
    21 Dec 2011 | 12:09 pm
    Problem: Providing Wireless Internet Connectivity in a Crowded Environment J&J Telecommunications needed to solve a major customer problem. The 855-boat slip South Shore Harbor Marina located in League City, TX needed to provide WiFi Internet Connectivity to their customer’s Mobile, Laptop and Tablet devices without having to install customer-premises equipment on the customer’s boat. Adding to the complexity of the challenge was the existence of over 100 other WiFi access points in the area broadcasting on the b/g and n WiFi bands. Many of the boaters in the marina were complaining…

  • Smartphones and tablets to drive 350% increase in Wi-Fi hotspots by 2015

    evos
    11 Nov 2011 | 12:45 pm
    The Wireless Broadband Alliance has published a report on the state of the global public Wi-Fi hotspot market compiled by analyst firm Informa. It includes a comprehensive survey of 259 service providers and Wi-Fi vendors. The report reveals that global public Wi-Fi hotspot numbers are set to grow from 1.3 million in 2011, to 5.8 million by 2015, a 350% increase. The number does not include “community hotspots”, where users share their own Wi-Fi access point with others, which add an additional 4.5 million worldwide. China Mobile alone plans to deploy a million hotspots and Japan’s KDDI…

  • Cassandra Stand at MAX 2011

    lrisuleo
    30 Sep 2011 | 5:43 pm
    This year I will have the honor and pleasure to represent Small Screen Design at MAX 2011 in Los Angeles and showcase our Cassandra Stand application. This will be my first MAX, so if you’ll be there too and if you like, just stop by and say Hi! Originally Posted on Leonardo Risuleo.

  • Charlotte, NC awards public safety LTE network contract to Alcatel-Lucent

    evos
    30 Sep 2011 | 5:37 pm
    A consortium of cities in North Carolina led by Charlotte using a $16.7 million BTOP grant from the NTIA for a public safety 700 MHz LTE network, has awarded the contract for building out the network to Alcatel-Lucent. The project is owned by CharMeck Connect, a joint venture among the city of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, and the towns of Cornelius, Davidson, Huntersville, Matthews, Mint Hill and Pineville. To reduce the costs of the deployment, as well as the maintenance and operation of the LTE network, CharmeMeck Connect is using a “hosted model” which according to this LTE white…
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    Alltopstartups

  • These 15 Companies Raised Over $190 Million In Funding This Week

    Thomas Oppong
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:48 pm
    A lot of successful entrepreneurs have built businesses and great companies with little or no money. By most of them along the way secured or raised a lot more money to expand, hire more or to acquire more clients. Finding the cash to expand your business takes time and perseverance. Luckily, there are still options for funding new and existing companies, but finding and securing the cash takes careful research, good negotiating skills, and, above all the passion to launch your new business or grow that startup into a high growth company. The following startups raised over $ million this…

  • The 8 Faces of A Leader In Business

    Guest Author
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:28 pm
    The role of a Leader in the business world encompasses every kind of position or job description. Whether you’re the boss or a simple clerk in the company, you can apply the principles of leadership in your own department or even in disciplining yourself. Undoubtedly, being a leader is essential in running your own business. It is believed that great leaders breed success. Average leaders expect nothing but mediocrity. To become a leader and entrepreneur at the same time requires a lot of things. You need to be the general of your own army not just someone passively standing and drinking…

  • Need To Sell Your Car? Mobile Inspector Takes Care of The Details

    Thomas Oppong
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    If you’re thinking of selling or trading-in your car, cDemo has created Mobile Inspector to help you make the process simple and easy. Mobile Inspector lets you quickly and easily merchandise your inventory online from one device. Mobile Inspector gives you step-by-step instructions to professionally document, photograph and video their vehicle. Using only one device without any extra data entry, cDemo allows you to quickly and easily capture data for your products and merchandise your inventory. Using an iPhone, iPad, or iTouch Mobile Inspector gives dealers a powerful hand held tool to…

  • Some of The Best Social Media Monitoring Practices For Your Business

    Thomas Oppong
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    Customer and internet users are now armed with all the tools they need to wreak havoc on any business or individual. Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Yelp and some customer feedback and complain sites are the new ways of sharing frustrations and anger. The unfortunate part of it is that you can’t control what they will say about you or your business. But the good news is that there are equally brilliant and great tools that can help you monitor and respond accordingly to all the negative noise on the web about you and your business to protect your online reputation. There are now…

  • Facebook Edgerank – What It Is All About And How To Make The Most of It

    Guest Author
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:36 pm
    What is the first thing you do when you first step in your office cubicle? Be honest, no need to be a shy guy. Yah, we know you, like most others, are used to check the status or content shared your our friends on Facebook. Then like a sensible human being, you start liking some content, shares pictures that you might have forgot to upload at home or commenting randomly at other photos. But the tea is being served, the whole process gets interrupted and the daily grinding thus goes on. But have you ever wondered why some content appear at the top while other lags behind others? This is not a…
 
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  • Find Out How To Get The Greatest Free Ipad Apps

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Find Out How To Get The Greatest Free Ipad Apps Article by margaret mary Everybody has been in a state of affairs where they hear an amazing track on the radio, however they don’t know what it is or who sings it. With the Shazam app,

  • iphone-app-creator

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    www.iphoneappcreator.info ★ Do you LOVE your iPhone iPad and have always wondered how other people make iPhone Apps? Have YOU EVER thought about making an iPhone App; but have felt that because you have NO COMPUTER experience you couldn’t make one? Do you…

  • useful android apps

    admin
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    in this video i go over a few useful apps. aldiko, astro file manager, documents to go, talk to me and flashlight. these are great apps to have and i’ll have more videos like this to come. this is the key to the document to…

  • iphone app creator free

    admin
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    iphone app creator free Article by Abel Morin When searching by way of the eyes of the customer, there are two sorts of apps: compensated and cost-free, with each and every obtaining its very own rewards, and every single becoming similarly…

  • SAP Mobile Apps Are Here

    admin
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Move over consumer apps — SAP Mobile Apps are here. Get an overview of the innovative mobile apps that SAP is providing across a wide variety of lines of business and industries.Video Rating: 4 / 5 Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d614').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
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    Near Field Communication (NFC) / Smart mCommerce

  • Apple Becomes World’s Largest Smartphone Vendor in Q4 2011

    Kenneth G. Mages
    28 Jan 2012 | 3:25 am
    According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew 54 percent annually to reach a record 155 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011. Click here for more.

  • The G20′s Internet Economy to Reach $4.2 Trillion by 2016 as Nearly Half the World’s Population Become Web Users

    Kenneth G. Mages
    28 Jan 2012 | 3:15 am
    The Internet economy of the G-20 economies is projected to reach $4.2 trillion in 2016 — nearly double the size it was in 2010 — providing companies and countries with a vital source of growth as they battle to thrive in an era of uncertainty, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Click here for more.

  • MetroPCS Sued for Visual Voicemail Patent Infringement

    Kenneth G. Mages
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:55 am
    Klausner Technologies announced today that it has filed suit against USA based mobile network operator, MetroPCS over allegations of patent infringement under the Klausner U.S. Visual Voicemail patents. Click here for more.

  • All handset makers are readying NFC payments, says MasterCard exec

    Kenneth G. Mages
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:40 pm
    Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard’s head of Emerging Payments, has some good news for those waiting on NFC-enabled phones for contactless payments. In an interview with Fast Company, McLaughlin said that he didn’t know of a handset maker who wasn’t working on integrating support for PayPass contactless payments. Read the full article at NFCNews…

  • Nintendo adds NFC to Wii U controller

    Kenneth G. Mages
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:35 pm
    Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that the forthcoming Wii U game controller will feature embedded NFC technology. According to Iwata, the NFC controller will contain the same contactless standards used in FeliCa and Mifare products, enabling it to interact with a variety of different NFC-tagged objects to enrich the gaming experience. Read the full article at NFCNews…
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    Mobile Insight Out

  • Consumer: Why Should I Care About 4G/LTE?

    Arvani Group
    31 Dec 2011 | 11:55 am
    We are excited to see that fourth generation (4G) mobile networks, using Long Term Evolution(LTE) standards, are growing both in the US and globally. Mobile operators deploying these networks, such as Verizon and AT&T, are able to offer their subscribers … Continue reading →

  • WebOS Disembodied But not DeadOS!

    Arvani Group
    9 Dec 2011 | 8:42 pm
    HP announced today that it will contribute the WebOS software to the open source community.  HP says WebOS provides developers an easy way to develop applications based on standard web technologies. And, for device vendors, WebOS provides “a platform to … Continue reading →

  • Why Verizon Wireless Acquisition of Cable Companies’ Spectrum is Huge Deal!

    Arvani Group
    6 Dec 2011 | 1:01 am
    On Friday Dec 2, Verizon Wireless announced that it will acquire 122 AWS spectrum licenses covering 259 million Americans for $3.6B, from a joint venture of three US cable companies. This will give Verizon Wireless a sizable spectrum advantage over … Continue reading →

  • The Business Side of HTML5 and Killing of Flash

    Arvani Group
    10 Nov 2011 | 1:26 pm
    I was asked to lead the discussion at last week’s Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco on Roadmaps for the Open Mobile Web:  HTML5, Monetization and Discovery. It was a last minute request, as the original moderator could not make … Continue reading →

  • Excavating Valuable Artifacts from a Ho-Hum iPhone Event

    Arvani Group
    4 Oct 2011 | 3:22 pm
    Apple just completed their press event, announcing the iPhone 4S. We could be disappointed that this was not about iPhone 5, as most had expected. And, there was no disruptive “one more thing”, the signature piece that Steve Jobs had … Continue reading →
 
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  • Met Office Launches Official Met Office Weather App for Android

    Pamela
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:10 am
    Are in search of a weather app for Android, then your quest came to an end because the Met Office has launched the Met Office weather app for the first time for Android. Met Office has brought this app for U.K users for now and rest of the countries will get soon as they are [...]

  • How to Enable FaceTime Over 3G on iOS 5

    rudra
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:45 am
    As we know FaceTime works only on WiFi. It does not work over 3G network. But you can enable FaceTime over 3G feature on your iPhone running iOS 5. Recently we have posted a tutorial to enable FaceTime call over 3G on iPhone running iOS 5. If you are not able to enable FaceTime over [...]

  • LG Optimus Pad available for free at Rogers

    Priyadarshini
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:50 pm
    In these days Rogers has come out with a new surprise as it has decided to come out with a price cut of the LG Optimus Pad in Canada. Now the buyers of LG tablet can get it entirely free along with a 2 or 3 year contract basis, while you get it for $549.99 [...]

  • How to Root Acer Iconia Tab A500

    Pamela
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:05 am
    Acer Iconia A500 Tablet is a renouned device and it is my personal favorite. Currently it is running through Android 3.0 Honeycomb and it can be updated to Android 3.2.1 version  by flashed using  ClockworkMod Recovery. But before updating your lovable Honeycomb tablet, you need to root it first and the third party developer XDA [...]

  • iPhone 5 with 4-inch Display is Ready for Production Ahead of Summer 2012 Launch

    rudra
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:20 am
    Good news for the people those are waiting for iPhone 5. The production of iPhone 5 will be started soon and it will be launched in the summer of 2012. According to 9to5Mac, iPhone 5 with 4-inch display is ready for production which indicates that Apple will launch iPhone 5 in the summer of 2012. [...]
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  • Windows Phone Tango to support 120 languages, developers can code in C++ in next iteration

    Rahul Mathur
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:15 am
    WPSauce is here at Windows Phone dev camp, courtesy WPSauce editor Karthik Ragubathy who has been live tweeting this event. One of the two most important and rather shocking relevations comes from two speakers at the event. The surprise package was the Tango tid bits from the speakers in the talk. The speakers have more or less confirmed 120 languages in Windows Phone Tango and support for C++ development in future iteration of Windows Phone, most probably Windows Phone 8. More coverage from Karthik below: This post comes directly from the Windows Phone Camp in Hyderabad, India [ Thanks to…

  • WP7, especially Nokia’s firstborns, might come to China really soon

    chassit
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:25 am
    A member of Chinese WP7 forums WPXAP  has found a very interesting block of new product promotion on Beijing local evening paper. The advert comes from one of China’s largest electronics retail chain. By the name of Suning, the retail giant has been exposed earlier to be key partners to Nokia and Microsoft in terms of WP7 ice-breaking in the Central Kingdom. We know there are a lot of stuff to be done, like trimming off core OS components that are blocked by China (Facebook and Twitter, to name a few), and barter with government officials about the business license of the Marketplace,…

  • Microsoft Ad SDK now available for developers in India and six more countries!

    Rahul Mathur
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:33 pm
    Microsoft SDK allows developers to add advertisiment banners in their application and earn revenue in return. We have seen developers use this quite often instead of going the paid route (Elbert Perez is one of the succesfull experimenters). Initially available only in USA, Microsoft expanded the availibility to 13 countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and United Kingdom) in September and after a long wait, it’s available in 6 more countries leaving some developers happy and others looking for alternatives. 6 new countries in…

  • The Nokia Numbers are in: only more than a million devices so far

    Malcolm Williams
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:17 am
    Numbers, numbers, numbers, it is something that we have all demanded from Windows Phone OEMs since last year. We have estimates and figures, but it’s nice to know concretely how Windows Phone is doing in comparison to the competition. The bearer of at least some numbers comes from the desk of Nokia in their quarterly call. According to the report, Nokia has sold well over 1 million Lumia Windows Phones devices to date. To add a bit of perspective here to that number, let’s add a few things. The well over one million devices includes the time of release (November 16) to January 26.

  • Rumor: Lumia 910 with 12 MP camera?

    Malcolm Williams
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am
    Oh Eldar, we have to admit something. Right or wrong, we love your tweets really we do. Because when it comes to Windows, you have such a unique track record. In a sense of outdoing himself from the round of rumors, Eldar confirms that a new Lumia device is looming. When it comes to the camera, however, there are a few questions. 8 mp or higher? We know that the North American version definitely has a 8 mp camera, but the Eldar may have a word to give about the camera specs. We know that Nokia is giving preference to specific carriers to make changes to the hardware (much like the GSII), but…
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  • How Mobile Barcodes and NFC can play together

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:20 pm
    New Data from Nellymoser indicates that well over 90% of the top 100 magazines in the US have featured at least one mobile barcode since May 2011; as recently as November 2010, just 9% had. With the proliferation of mobile barcodes in print and the availability of NFC there are new possibilities to use 2d barcodes in print to connect advertising to in store experiences.     Instead of scanning a 2dbarcode to watch a movie or gain more information in a print advertisement what if the 2dbarcode delivered a coupon or linked to a customer loyalty application for the product advertised.

  • New Reporting Dashboard

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:59 pm
    If you can’t measure something you can’t improve it. That’s true for many things in life, but particularly for marketing campaigns, and even more particularly, mobile barcoding campaigns.  You can spend countless hours and dollars trying to figure out how to measure the effectiveness of your 2d barcode campaign. With the addition of NFC and QR to the Tag platform we’ve released a new reporting dashboard giving you great insight into your campaign. What’s great about this new reporting dashboard is that it gives you extensive details on your campaign that are not available in…

  • NFC Beyond Mobile Payments

    17 Jan 2012 | 3:08 pm
    The past couple of weeks we’ve released a variety of scenarios on how NFC can be used. Today I wanted to show some examples beyond mobile payments where you can see NFC in action.   Instead of just looking at a small screen and pressing buttons, NFC is breeding a new class of "tangible" mobile games that let you have fun -- naturally -- in the real world with physical objects, just as you would when playing traditional family and party games.  Previously I posted on how NFC mobile gaming makes simple real-life games interactive explaining how restaurants could leverage this…

  • How NFC Can Improve Customer Loyalty Programs

    12 Jan 2012 | 3:14 pm
    Rather than giving your customers yet another punch card to stuff in their wallets, consider taking your restaurants loyalty program online. Using Tag’s NFC technology  to link to sites where they can check in, play games, notify customers when their table is ready, or offer discounts and loyalty rewards are just a few ways you can improve your customer service.   In smaller settings such as a coffee shop, NFC touchpoints at the cash register could be an easy, paperless way for customers to track how many drinks they have left until that free one. Or adding NFC touchpoints on…

  • NFC Mobile Gaming

    5 Jan 2012 | 11:16 am
    On average Americans spend 2.7 hours per day socializing on their mobile device. That’s more than twice the amount of time they spend eating and over a third of the time they spend sleeping each day. The driving force behind this behavior is the increasing number of people who have smartphones combined with the proliferation of the mobile web, which allows them to connect with people anytime, anywhere. With 1.08 billion smartphones and predictions showing that by 2014 mobile Internet usage should supersede desktop Internet usage, it’s pretty safe to say that a large portion of our…
 
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    The Official Lookout Blog

  • Lookout’s take on the ‘Apperhand’ SDK (aka ‘Android.Counterclank’)

    lookout
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:08 pm
    Today, news came out that claimed a particular family of malware, termed ‘Android.Counterclank’, had infected 5 million users. We disagree with the assessment that this is malware, although we do believe that the Apperhand SDK is an aggressive form of ad network and should be taken seriously. This isn’t malware. The average Android user probably doesn’t want applications that contain Apperhand on his or her phone, but we see no evidence of outright malicious behavior. In fact, almost all of the capabilities attributed to these applications are also attributable to a class of…

  • Lookout Super User: Natisha

    lookout
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:09 pm
    Occupation:  Surgical Nurse Location:  New York Lookout user since:  2010 Favorite Lookout feature:Security Scan What Natisha uses her phone for?  “Everything!” How Natisha learned about Lookout: “I was browsing for apps and found Lookout. I noticed that the app was highly rated and that the reviews said it was very ‘easy-to-use.’ They were right—I’m sure glad I downloaded Lookout!” Moral of the story: “Lookout saved me!  Lookout stopped me from downloading a bad application on my phone; unfortunately, my sister wasn’t as lucky. She didn’t have Lookout…

  • Introducing Lookout Labs’ Mobile Threat Tracker

    Yuri
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    Here at Lookout, we like to push the boundaries of mobile. That’s why we started “Lookout Labs,” an initiative that enables our team to quickly create and launch new mobile products. Many of you have already had the chance to find a lost phone with Plan B, or learn a little more about Carrier IQ with our detector app; both were concocted in Lookout Labs. Today, we’re excited to introduce our Mobile Threat Tracker: (available for download on the Android Market). This interactive app allows you to zoom through time and watch as thousands of sparks light up the globe; each…

  • Put It On My Tab: Lookout Offers In-App Billing For T-Mobile Customers

    lookout
    18 Jan 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Good news T-Mobile customers! Now, rather than manually entering in credit card numbers to purchase Lookout Premium, T-Mobile customers* can simply charge Lookout Premium directly to their T-Mobile phone bill. We’re excited to offer this new service as a secure and convenient way for T-Mobile customers to pay for Lookout Premium. In addition to all of Lookout’s free features, Premium offers comprehensive protection with: Safe Browsing to scan every site you visit and every link you click in real-time, protecting you against the latest online threats. Remote Lock and Wipe to secure and…

  • CES 2012: Gadgets Coming Your Way Soon

    Kia
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:11 pm
    What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas— unless it’s the ground-breaking technology put on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show in the Americas. January 10th through the 13th, industry leaders commanded the CES stage to preview their innovative products with hopes of generating a buzz that’ll go far beyond the confines of Sin City. Here’s the Lookout lowdown on the week’s festivities: CES 2012 was the year of sleek smartphones and cutting-edge tablets amid a sea of other high IQ gadgets. Yes, the devices we’ve come to rely on for staying in touch…
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    Networking Exchange Blog » Topics » Mobility

  • Mobile Trend Suggested by the 2012 AT&T Developer Summit

    Hsuan-hua Chang
    16 Jan 2012 | 9:54 am
    The 2012 AT&T Developer Summit took place on January 9th in Las Vegas. There were close to 2,500 guests from 33 different counties in attendance. The big announcements were as follows: The AT&T API Platform exposes a core set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), offers unique developer monetization opportunities, and supports a robust development environment. The target is HTML5 developers since HTML5 addresses the device fragmentation problems. APIs include Payments, U-verse, MMS/SMS, Location, Device capabilities and AT&T mHealth. AT&T Cloud Architect offers a cloud…

  • Enterprise Mobile Strategies [Video]

    Maribel Lopez
    11 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Enterprise Mobile Strategies often is thought of in terms of processes that need to be implemented. However, Maribel Lopez, of Lopez Research in San Francisco, sees a different way to help businesses identify the processes that can benefit from mobile.This particularly applies to, but is not limited to, how CRM is implemented on mobile devices. Watch this video as Terry Brock, Editor-in-Chief for AT&T’s Networking Exchange Blog interviews Maribel Lopez on this important concept. Discover what you need to know to mobilize the different components necessary in today’s mobile enterprise.

  • Small Business Tech Predictions for 2012

    Mario Armstrong
    4 Jan 2012 | 9:01 am
    Mario Armstrong is a digital lifestyle expert, the tech corespondent for the TODAY show and CNN, and the host of a daily tech talk radio show on SiriusXM. An entrepreneur by nature, Mario made his passion his career by quitting his day job and founding Mario Armstrong Media. AT&T has sponsored the following blog post. As a digital lifestyle expert, people are constantly coming to me wanting to know what the next big trend will be. For 2012, all of my predictions relate to one thing: mobility. As smartphone and tablet adoption reaches critical mass in 2012, all the major new innovation…

  • Successful Mobile Management [Video]

    Maribel Lopez
    3 Jan 2012 | 9:30 am
    In the past, mobility management meant largely device inventory, select policies for what devices were permitted and a top-down approach. Today’s Enterprise IT professionals must deal with deeper security issues and application management. Join us in this insightful video as Terry Brock, Editor-in-Chief for AT&T’s Networking Exchange Blog, interviews Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research about what solutions are needed today to be effective.

  • Editorial Review of 2011 – Mobility

    Terry L. Brock
    22 Dec 2011 | 4:41 am
    We are continuing our year-end wrap-up and evaluation of the Networking Exchange Blog.  As your Editor, I get the opportunity to review, analyze and study the great posts that you read about.  My job is to do what editors do — spell-checking, grammar checking, revising, adding links and more to make your reading experience with us enjoyable and educational. You might have seen me with the video interviews I did with Maribel Lopez. In my role, I have the wonderful opportunity to connect with the delightful people who are your authors. These people are the geniuses.  You and I get to…
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  • On-Premise or Cloud-Based Enterprise Mobility?

    Sky Technologies
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm
    The Cloud. It seems that in today's ever-changing IT world, everything can now be cloud-based. We have all varieties of IT services now available "on demand." So, what about enterprise mobility? Can mobile enterprise applications be made available as a service and, if so, what needs to be taken into consideration when deciding between on-premise and cloud-based solutions? Here are a few suggestions for you to consider. read more

  • Mobile Outlook 2012 survey is now open

    Sky Technologies
    20 Jan 2012 | 12:21 pm
    Has your organization mobilized SAP? Share your insights and click here to take the Mobile Outlook 2012 survey today. SAPinsider and insiderRESEARCH have partnered with top mobility analyst Kevin Benedict to survey SAP customers regarding enterprise mobility and explore the findings in the Mobile Outlook 2012 report. Sky Technologies is excited to announce that we’ve signed on as a sponsor of this comprehensive study. read more

  • What Are We Building? - Blueprint & Design

    Mobility Expert
    18 Jan 2012 | 3:08 pm
    Enterprise mobility projects come in a variety of sizes using many different methodologies. An agreement should have been reached in the earlier phases of the project on strategically how the blueprint and design phase is to be undertaken. Now is the opportunity to move past the strategy and into the reality, at least for the process and application design.  read more

  • Sky Launches SkyCloud and Announces Partnership with SAP and Sybase

    Sky Technologies
    28 Nov 2011 | 4:32 pm
    You may have already heard that Sky Technologies has announced some exciting new developments recently. For those of you that haven’t, here’s a quick summary read more

  • To mobilize an existing process or re-engineer it? That is the question.

    Sky Technologies
    22 Sep 2011 | 1:27 pm
    In your enterprise mobility project, one of your goals is most likely to get the most out of your business process as possible. However, before you start mobilizing, it may be a good idea to first step back and assess your current process as it stands. After all, how much you benefit from mobilizing a process goes back to the quality of the process itself. While mobilizing an existing process is undoubtedly less expensive and risky, you may want to consider re-engineering the process if it’s lacking or could use some updating or cleaning up. read more
 
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    SMS Marketing Blog

  • Clingo Text-to-Win Contest Winners Announced

    Derek Johnson
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:32 pm
    Last week we held a text-to-win contest to win one of ten Clingo Universal Car Phone Mounts. To enter, all you had to do was text TATANGO to 68398 on your mobile phone. Congratulations to the people below that won. Matt Drengler Darryl Lee Ashley Smith Brett Weiss Melanie Balducci Adam Feber Daryn Picklesimer Barb Haley Peter Nathan Cesar Villa Want to create your own text-to-win campaign? Try Tatango free for 7-days.

  • 5 Must Haves for Advertising Your SMS Campaign

    Derek Johnson
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:46 am
    When advertising an SMS campaign, there are a few specifics that must be included within the advertisement. Both the mobile phone carriers and the Mobile Marketing Association’s U.S. Consumer Best Practices mandate these requirements. a) Description of the program. It’s required that you state specifically what the subscriber is subscribing to. (i.e. To receive weekly discounts and special) b) “Msg&Data rates may apply”. This exact phrase is required below the call to action within the advertisement. c) Provide a resource for help. A resource such as a website or phone number…

  • Tatango First to Offer Unlimited SMS Keywords

    Derek Johnson
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:10 pm
    For years now, SMS marketing providers have charged fees for additional keywords. Don’t know what an SMS marketing keywords is, watch this video. Yesterday I had a customer call and me ask why we charged these additional fees. To be completely honest, I didn’t have a good answer… everyone else is doing it? That answer didn’t sit very well with me, so from now on, Tatango is giving our customers unlimited SMS keywords at no additional cost. If you’re an existing Tatango customer that has additional keywords, no need to do anything, we will remove the additional…

  • Mobile Coupon Usage Continues to Grow

    Derek Johnson
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:45 am
    Recently our good friends at Microsoft Tag released an infographic highlighting the continued growth in mobile coupon usage. I’ve embedded the infographic below, but one of the statistics that caught my eye as it pertains to SMS coupons, I wanted to point out. When it comes to preferred methods of receiving mobile coupons according to U.S. mobile phone owners, text messaging captures over 50% of the market share. This outweighs email, apps, qr codes and even location based check-ins. This is definitely great news for SMS coupons and even better news for businesses that are currently…

  • Jamie’s National Cell Phone Database

    Derek Johnson
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Last month we exposed a man trying to sell 80+ million mobile phone numbers for $10K. Since then, we’ve been getting emails left and right about others doing the same thing. Out of all the emails we’ve received, Jamie’s National Cell Phone Database Website takes the cake for the most ridiculous. You can watch the videos below to see why… While these types of shady characters would be nearly impossible to catch or prosecute, there is a simple answer to stopping this madness. Instead of trying to cut off the source of the mobile phone numbers, we as an industry can stop…
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    Android Tablet Fanatic

  • 12 Gadgets that Help You Cheat on Your Girlfriend

    Jack
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:44 pm
    PLAYAH! Source In the aftermath of the information and communication revolution adultery has become more difficult than ever. An undeleted text message or flirty Facebook comment can reveal a cheater’s tryst to their significant other in an instant. Cheetahs are cool. Source Long gone are the days of the ‘Mad Men’, when an adulterer could ‘stay late at the office’ 5 days of the week and still return to an adoring wife. In the 21st century a cheater needs to be as cunning as a spy and as thorough as CSI. But fear not, help is at hand for every love-rat out there.

  • 7 Tablet Apps Perfect for a Freshman

    admin
    10 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    Want to know how to get better grades… write better reports… and have better sex? Then, my dear freshman, this is the most important list you’ll read this year. Learn from my experience; I’m a junior now and I wish that I had these apps two years ago. 1. TabNotes TabNotes is an app that captures your handwriting, as you scribble across the screen with a stylus (or your finger). And it rocks on so many levels. For instance, let’s say you prefer mind-mapping to linear/traditional note-taking. With TabNotes, you can select different colors and draw directly on the screen. And unlike a…

  • 5 Most Important People in the Android Tablet World

    admin
    9 Jan 2012 | 6:24 am
    Here are five people may play the biggest part in how the tablet world will look in 2012 1.Sanjay Jha CEO of Motorola Mobility Who is he? According to his company biography, Sanjay Jha has been “instrumental” to the development and prosperity of Motorola Mobility. Under him the company has grown both in the tablet and smartphone markets. Motorola Mobility’s flagship tablet, the Motorola Xoom, was the first to come equipped with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) in January 2011. It has been a best seller ever since. Why is he important? Motorola has announced the upcoming release of two new…

  • Android 4.0 Features

    Pippa
    29 Oct 2011 | 8:52 am
    Google recently released the latest version of the open source software ‘Android 4.0′ which they have titled ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’. Sounds like something you would buy from a street café, but is it really that good to eat? The Ice Cream Sandwich release brings a new focus on ease-of-use and aesthetics. While Android 3.0 focused solely on large-screen mobile devices, Android 4.0 improves many of those features and scales them down for use on mobile phones, too. It offers a more refined user interface with lots of new innovative features such as:     • Lock…

  • The World of Android Apps [Infographic]

    Jack
    19 Oct 2011 | 5:08 am
    The newest territory in the virtual world is the one inhabited by the Android Apps, ripe for exploitation with rich rewards awaiting those who can navigate its treacherous currents and tame its savage beasts… In the grand tradition of e-territory mapping we at Android Tablet Fanatic have mashed up this little beauty to help with your orientation to (and exploitation of) the dizzying world of Android tablet apps. Add this Infographic to Your Website: Simply copy the code below and paste it into the HTML of your blog, website, or Static FBML box on Facebook </p> <div…
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    FierceDeveloper

  • Chris DeWolfe: From MySpace to the mobile space with 'Fluff Friends Rescue'

    Jason Ankeny
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:36 pm
    Chris DeWolfe first entered the popular consciousness as the co-founder and CEO of MySpace, the pioneering social network launched in 2003 and sold to News Corp. two years later for $580 million. At the peak of its influence MySpace was the most visited social networking site in the world, and in mid-2006 even surpassed Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) as the most visited website in the U.S. But, faced with mounting competition from Facebook and Twitter, MySpace traffic soon began to decline, and in April 2009, DeWolfe relinquished the CEO reins to former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta. (News Corp.

  • WebGL proponents want developers for web-based 3D apps

    Jason Ankeny
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:40 pm
    Mobile developers who want to migrate their applications from native platforms to the Web have another tool at their disposal: WebGL, a cross-platform framework that can be used to display sophisticated 3D graphics and applications in a mobile phone browser. WebGL made its way onto smartphones late last year when Sony Ericsson introduced it as part of a software upgrade for its 2011 Xperia phones. By doing this, Sony Ericsson became the first manufacturer to support WebGL in the Android Web browser. The company is encouraging developers to get started working with the technology. "One of the…

  • Developer interest in Android is surging, but is Google ready?

    Jason Ankeny
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:26 pm
    Sometime within the next 12 months, Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android is poised to eclipse Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS as the mobile operation system most important to the developer community according to independent technology analyst Ovum's second annual Developer Insights survey. Ovum reports that while Android is gaining in importance among developers, most respondents are building apps for both Android and iOS, not one or the other. Ovum also notes increasing developer interest in Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone and Research In Motion's (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry as well as increasing…

  • In-app purchase revenues to top $5B in 2015, fueled by loyal users

    Jason Ankeny
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:41 pm
    In-app purchases are on pace to generate 64 percent of total mobile application revenues in 2015, up from 39 percent in 2011, according to information and analysis provider IHS Screen Digest. The firm adds that in-app purchase revenues will rise to more than $5.6 billion in 2015, compared to $970 million a year ago. As of the third quarter of 2011, freemium applications--i.e., free downloads that offer premium in-app transactions like virtual currency and virtual goods--represented 45 percent of the top-grossing apps on Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) and 31 percent of the highest-earning apps on…

  • RIM unveils BlackBerry Native SDK 2.0 for Tablet OS beta 3

    Jason Ankeny
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:21 pm
    Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) rolled out the third beta release of its BlackBerry Native SDK 2.0 for Tablet OS, delivering new tooling enhancements, API improvements and documentation updates. Highlights of the latest SDK release include a new Add Library Wizard promising to simplify the process of adding library dependencies to a project, alongside improved Deployment Setup Wizard navigation and workflow as well as enhancements to the BAR file editor to view localized manifests for each locale. RIM is also including Scoreloop social gaming APIs, a new "Hello Native SDK" tutorial to walk…
 
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  • Clearwire's mixed results highlight big job ahead

    Dan O'Shea
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:02 pm
    For a company that seemed like it was on the ropes just a little over a month ago, Clearwire seems like it is doing everything it can to fight back, whether that involves seeking more financing at a time when the perceived value of its spectrum holdings has soared, or releasing quarterly results early to highlight growing revenue. Clearwire did both of those things this week, as it sought to raise about $300 million through a new debt issue, money that presumably will be used for its LTE upgrade, though Clearwire did not outline specific plans for the money. The company also reported that its…

  • FiberTower exploring options, gets Nasdaq delisting notice

    Dan O'Shea
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:25 pm
    The travails of wireless backhaul provider FiberTower are continuing, as the company acknowledged it had received a delisting notice from Nasdaq. The company also hired FTI Consulting's Corporate Finance & Restructuring Group to help FiberTower "with identifying and evaluating financial and strategic alternatives to maximize value for the Company's stakeholders," according to a company statement. Barring an appeal, trading of FiberTower stock on Nasdaq will be suspended on Jan. 30. The dreaded evaluation of strategic alternatives is often one of the final moves before a company sells…

  • Celeno brings Wi-Fi to Amino set-top boxes

    Dan O'Shea
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:06 pm
    Celeno Communications is looking to land its Wi-Fi technology in consumer living rooms after landing a deal to supply Wi-Fi solutions for Amino Communications' IPTV set-top boxes. Celeno's OptimizAir Wi-Fi chipsets will be used globally by Amino in its hybrid  IPTV/over-the-top gear. The companies said that Wi-Fi/Ethernet bridges powered by Celeno's CL1830 system-on-a-chip as an after-market addition to the Aminet A130, A140 and A540 set-top boxes. Applications enabled by these bridges include whole-home wireless PVR functionality, allowing the consumption of centrally stored content…

  • Wi-Fi Alliance hosts Wi-Fi/ZigBee interop demo

    Dan O'Shea
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:25 pm
    Wi-Fi appears ready to edge further into the home automation market, as the Wi-Fi Alliance this week hosted a public demonstration of interoperability between Wi-Fi devices and ZigBee-enabled smart energy meters. The demonstration, which took place at the DistribuTECH 2012 event in San Antonio, is the latest step in promoting Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0. The multi-vendor demonstration established Wi-Fi device connectivity to both Wi-Fi and ZigBee meters, reportedly the first time that a mixed technology set-up has been publicly demonstrated. The interoperability event included eight…

  • Wi-Fi offload at core of reported Ericsson BelAir buy

    Dan O'Shea
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:31 pm
    Network equipment vendor giant Ericsson Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) reportedly is set to acquire metro Wi-Fi specialist BelAir Networks, a move that would directly reflect the increasingly popular role Wi-Fi off-load schemes are playing in mobile broadband networks. The news was reported by GigaOM, and attributed to unnamed sources. Both Ericsson and BelAir declined to comment, according to the report. After being seen as an outcast for many years, Wi-Fi is getting attention from the traditional mobile industry as carriers may look to relieve network congestion and mobile users may look to avoid…
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    FierceMobileContent

  • Spotify eclipses 3M paid subscribers worldwide

    Jason Ankeny
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:04 am
    More than 3 million consumers worldwide have signed up for the premium version of the Spotify streaming music service, the firm reports. Spotify offers on-demand streaming access to more than 15 million songs--users can create and manage their own playlists, share tracks via Facebook, Twitter, email and SMS and wirelessly sync their playlists to their mobile phone or iPod. The U.S. version, launched in July 2011, offers three flavors: Spotify Free (on-demand, buffer-free access with occasional advertising); Spotify Unlimited (uninterrupted, ad-free access via computer for $4.99 per month);…

  • Valve Software expands Steam gaming platform to iOS, Android

    Jason Ankeny
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:57 am
    Valve Software, creators of the Steam desktop gaming platform, is expanding to mobile devices with the new Steam app, available for devices running Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android. The Steam platform is home to bestselling franchises including Counter-Strike, Half-Life and Left 4 Dead. Steam offers roughly 1,800 titles in all, with more than 40 million PC and Mac accounts worldwide. The new app (currently in beta) enables gamers to chat with Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, view screenshots and user-generated content, access gaming…

  • Google Wallet shakeup: Head of consumer payments Gupta resigns

    Jason Ankeny
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:34 am
    Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) head of consumer payments Vikas Gupta has resigned his post, the second high-profile management move within the Google Wallet m-commerce unit within the past week. Gupta was previously founder and CEO of Jambool, the currency and payment solutions provider acquired by Google for $55 million. Prior to his exit, Gupta was a leader on Google's payments team, supervising the Wallet effort and reporting to vice president of payments Osama Bedier, AllThingsD reports. Days earlier, Google vice president of commerce Stephanie Tilenius, another key exec spearheading the Google…

  • Twitter courts controversy with new censorship standards

    Jason Ankeny
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:07 am
    Twitter is facing a storm of criticism after outlining new standards that will enable the microblogging platform to block content from users within a given international region while keeping it available across the rest of the world. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression," reads a post on the Twitter blog. "Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or…

  • Google Music update brings downloads, YouTube sharing

    Jason Ankeny
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:42 am
    Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) continues to expand its streaming Music platform, adding new features enabling users to more easily retrieve media from the cloud. Google Music automatically syncs each user's entire digital music library for streaming access across their Android smartphones and tablets. A revamped version of Google's Music Manager now gives users the option to download their complete library, including songs they've uploaded to the cloud and tracks purchased in the Google Music store. All music will remain accessible from the cloud. In addition, Google Music users can now share YouTube…
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    Europe Mobile News

  • SFR chief blames Orange for enabling Free Mobile's low-cost service

    Paul Rasmussen
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:11 pm
    French operator SFR has criticised France Telecom (FT) Orange for signing a roaming agreement with Iliad's Free Mobile, allowing Free to launch low-cost services. Esser The CEO of SFR, Frank Esser, said in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde that Free Mobile wouldn't have been able to offer such cheap pricing without the Orange roaming deal, adding, "We have always said that we will never sign such an agreement." Esser pointed to Free Mobile's "social" package, which costs as little as €2 per month for one hour of calls. "Making offers for €2 does not provide support for…

  • Fitch: Nokia lags competition but has time to gain traction

    Paul Rasmussen
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:09 pm
    Nokia's fourth-quarter loss of €1.07 billion underscores the uphill task the company has in competing with Apple and Samsung for smartphone prominence, according to a new report Fitch Ratings. However, the credit ratings firm believes Nokia's robust cash position provides breathing space for the company to challenge the two leading suppliers as the Finnish company makes the transition to a new smartphone strategy based on its partnership with Microsoft's Windows Phone. Of note, Nokia's poor fourth-quarter results failed to affect the company's credit rating which Fitch had already…

  • O2 UK tops daily Twitter limit to calm security fears

    Paul Rasmussen
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:07 pm
    O2 UK has exceeded its daily amount of tweets allowed by Twitter in a campaign to pacify subscriber fears over a security breach that gave customers' phone numbers to websites they visited on their mobile phones.  The company admitted that it had accumulated the same amount of Twitter mentions in a day as it typically does in an entire week as thousands of O2 UK customers sought answers via the company's Twitter account. Worried customers wanted to understand what O2 UK was doing to stop subscribers' mobile numbers were being leaked to any website they visited in a security breach that…

  • Study: Video streaming to help drive 15-fold growth in German data traffic

    Paul Rasmussen
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:05 pm
    German mobile operators face a 15-fold increase in data traffic between 2011 and 2016 driven largely by an increase in video consumption, according to a new report from Solon Management Consulting (SMC). The growth will accelerate as more mobile-oriented content becomes available and faster networks make video calling and streaming a more viable option, SMC said. "Younger users especially are no longer just exchanging text messages. They want to permanently check their Facebook accounts, make video calls via Skype or watch video," Stephan Kalleder, an SMC analyst and author of the report,…

  • Vodafone inches towards Indian IPO

    Paul Rasmussen
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:04 pm
    Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao indicated that the positive resolution to its $2.2 billion dispute with the Indian tax authorities has helped open the door for an initial public offering for its India subsidiary. Speaking at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Colao told Reuters: "Everything that goes in the direction of stability of law and certainty of law is (positive) as we are an investment led sector...and therefore we need to have long-term visibility and stability of conditions to tell our shareholders and prospective shareholders what we are going to do." Commenting on the…
 
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    HTC Phones

  • HTC Sense 4.0 UI Features

    Sona
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:20 am
    The HTC Sense 4.0 will soon be available on the HTC Ville and the HTC Edge. The newest version of the HTC UI is designed to combine all of the HTC brand apps and features a single platform ideally adopting them for the smartphones. To make the typing process easier the newest UI version is adopting the location of the buttons with the mode, thus for the landscape mode we have the buttons on the right side providing a wider viewing space for the screen. The buttons will be available in rounded square form instead of the current bubbles, plus each button will have a description of its…

  • HTC Looking for a Hero Smartphone

    Bruce
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:02 am
    Much has been written and said about the difficult situation the Taiwanese HTC found itself recently. As rationality demands, reasons behind such failures were investigated and it seems HTC has found out the main mistake it made last year. The mistake was the launch of so many devices within a very short time period. This did confuse potential HTC buyers and the strain of confusion indirectly made them drop HTC as a choice for purchase. This is the conclusion HTC analysts came to. Besides there is always a method of looking at what makes the competitors succeed. And that is focusing on one or…

  • HTC Rezound Getting Minor Update to Fix Radio Issues

    Morti
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:50 am
    Though nowadays all Android users are waiting for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update and make guesses as to which brand and model will get it first, Verizon decided to push out a minor update to fix HTC Rezound radio issues. This is official information as the carrier has placed a new support document for the HTC Rezound, which just went live on Verizon’s website. The update will bring the phone system to the new 2.01.605.11 software build. Besides fixing the radio bugs, it will improve the Rezound’s entire software stability. The changelog is absolutely impressive. If you want to get…

  • HTC Evo 4G to be Discontinued at Sprint

    Bruce
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:39 am
    Everything in this life has its beginning and end. The same formula works naturally in the world of smartphones. It is always encouraging to see mobile operators introducing some new, technologically more advanced and nicely designed products to the customers. Each carrier has also a list of phones it has decided to stop selling. All products inevitably find their way there sooner or later. In this sense, if you own an HTC Evo 4G you need to learn Sprint has inserted the mentioned device in its End-of-Life (what a depressing name) list. This means Sprint will start cutting down its shipments…

  • HTC Claims Victory over Apple in a Patent Case

    Bruce
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am
    In the ongoing legal battle between HTC and Apple, each side tends to claim that victory was on its side after each decision the court passes. So it becomes really difficult to understand the real motives standing behind such announcements, but we do not have access to the very internal matters in each company. Anyway, in the latest court suit, where Apple sued HTC for infringing several of its patents, things stay unclear so far. Technically it seems Apple should be content from the decision of US International Trade Commission, which put a ban actually on some of HTC smartphones, which were…
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    Volker on Mobile

  • MoMo Manchester @ the BBC

    Volker
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:45 am
    If you are in the North-West of England and have nothing to do or, rather, nothing really, really important to do, you may want to drop in for our latest Mobile Monday Manchester edition, which takes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Conference season: Where I will be…

    Volker
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:14 am
    Yes, conference season is firmly upon us and, before I descend into the mayhem that tends to come with it, let me tell you where you can find me over the next couple of weeks. This week sees London... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Carnival of the Mobilists # 257 (#COTM)

    Volker
    18 Jan 2012 | 7:28 am
    This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists comes to you from Kansas, more specifically from Steven Hoober, and here’s what he has in stock for you: Will larger screens lead to poorer mobile... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Sweden’s Mobile Wallet

    Volker
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:15 pm
    Funny old world this. I haven’t written about operators for a while until last week. And here I am again. They seem to be coming in pairs… Anyway, there were reports today on an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Be Free! How an ickle player changes an industry

    Volker
    12 Jan 2012 | 6:47 pm
    In the UK, there used to be attempts to make mobile calls free to users (Blyk tried to refinance this over permission-based advertising). It failed. In France, Free charges its users but is a)... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Adobe Flash Lite

  • Flash Game: Flash Player 11 Stage3D Game-Hardcore MX

    Li YongFei
    11 Jan 2012 | 2:59 am
    Hardcore MX is one of the games that when you play it first, feels right – the sound, the graphics, the casual gaming concept for a quick in-browser game during a break. Via flashstreamworks

  • Flash Component: Teoti Graphix Released MobileUI Toolkit 1

    Li YongFei
    15 Dec 2011 | 9:27 pm
    Teoti Graphix has released the MobileUI Toolkit 1. The feature of  MobileUI Toolkit 1: A PopUp that is an inversion of control type manager decorating SkinnablePopUpCtontainer subclasses such as the Dialog and TextDialog. An Alert API that uses static methods but is not at all tied to static methods for open and close, the PopUp class can even be extended. An enhanced MobileButton that adds a longClick event and longClickDelay style. A vertical and horizontal Picker component that is not based off of the List. This is important for memory and performance needs. A simple ProgressBar…

  • New Flash Book: What’s New in Flash Player 11 & What’s New in Adobe AIR 3

    Li YongFei
    10 Dec 2011 | 1:41 am
    O’Reilly has published a set of books by Joseph Labrecque: “What’s New in Flash Player 11” and “What’s New in Adobe AIR 3“. The books are currently only available in digital format (ePub, Mobi, PDF). Read more from here.

  • Nokia C7 upgrades the firmware to v024.002

    Li YongFei
    23 Nov 2011 | 5:18 am
    The Nokia C7 upgrades the firmware to v024.002.

  • Flash News: Adobe Released Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3

    Li YongFei
    12 Nov 2011 | 6:53 am
    Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3, which included next-generation technologies like the gorgeous, cinematic 2D and 3D hardware accelerated graphics of Stage 3D, Adobe announced the availability of Flash Player 11.1 and Adobe AIR 3.1 for desktops and mobile devices. This minor update to Flash Player and AIR includes the following features for developers: Updated iOS 5 native extensions for Adobe AIR: Flash-based apps can now take advantage of new services provided by iOS 5. Create apps that integrate the latest iOS 5 capabilities like iCloud and iMessage. Updated Native text input UI…
 
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    Android Best Phone

  • LG Prada Phone 3.0: Performance Is Not Everything, The Important Thing Is Style!

    Android Best Phone
    17 Jan 2012 | 8:06 am
    LG Prada Phone 3.0 After KE850 and KF900, Prada back again collaborated with LG to create a fashion phone. The third series from the cooperation of both vendors was also proven to produce a gadget that is quite attractive. Seen from its name, it is clear that Prada made ​​by LG has a slightly different market segment from any other Android gadgets, which is targeting the socialite. Especially for those who are already familiar with the name Prada. Therefore, no wonder anymore if the phone is more priority to appearance rather than performance. Just look at the body is slim and bright…

  • Samsung Galaxy W i8150 Review

    Android Best Phone
    8 Jan 2012 | 8:14 am
    Samsung Galaxy W i8150 Samsung Galaxy W i8150 attract the attention of all smartphone users. with 3.7-inch screen and looks more compact than the original Galaxy S. LCD screen of Samsung- alaxy W i8150 has a WVGA resolution, which means that this phone has a higher pixel density (252ppi vs 233ppi). Samsung Galaxy W i8150 using MSM8255T Qualcomm chipset (1.4GHz CPU, Adreno 205 GPU), which has been used in several popular upgraded phones, like Samsung Galaxy S Plus and Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S as well.   Main Features of Samsung Galaxy W i8150: Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support HSDPA…

  • Samsung Galaxy not get Android ‘Ice Cream’

    Android Best Phone
    2 Jan 2012 | 3:45 pm
    Some vendors have started to square off sending Android 4.0 update for its gadgets. But unfortunately, for the owner of the first version of the Samsung Galaxy S would not get an OS that has a nick name is Ice Cream Sandwich. Samsung states that the unavailability of Android 4.0 for Galaxy S because older versions of these phones not powerful enough in terms of RAM and ROM to run the OS. Especially if it collaborated with TouchWiz features and other applications. Galaxy S itself is quite successful in the market. This was evidenced by the results of sales exceeded 10 million units.

  • LG Prada 3.0, Ready-style Phone

    Android Best Phone
    18 Dec 2011 | 1:09 pm
    LG Prada 3.0 Premium LG phone in collaboration with fashion brand Prada ready to go beginning of 2012, as was previously thought. If previously have not been willing to give LG leaks about the phone, then this week that South Korean companies began to introduce the LG Prada 3.0 to the public. The entire body of the phone has a classic black color that looks elegant. LG Prada 3.0 comes with 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen that is claimed have the world’s highest brightness level. Wrapped in the philosophy of Prada, the handset presents a glossy full touch screen on the front and Saffiano…

  • HTC Rhyme, Cell Phones for The Fashionistas

    Android Best Phone
    17 Dec 2011 | 12:50 pm
    HTC Rhyme In terms of design this phone does look interesting with a rather quirky color. Each corner was packed in the form of curves which makes it comfortable grip. Matter of weight, this phone is also not too heavy, so maybe it fit for use by women. To become look good, this phone also equipped with some interesting accessories that entered into the sales package, like the Docking Station. The shape is not too large, can be used as a speaker at the same time recharge the battery. Docking is only for HTC Rhyme, and can not be used for other HTC cell phones. This product is bundled with a…
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  • App Review “Crackle” Watch TV and Movies for Free

    Anthony Munns
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:52 am
    Crackle – Movies & TV App A great free application that allows Android users to watch FREE movies and TV shows has been released, the application is also getting more and more content so this is not some one trick fly by night app, though the web version is pretty poor looking and seems to only feature made for TV type content. What is needed however is the Adobe 11 Flash download otherwise there are reported issues using the app, but seen as this is free you cant complain. The Adobe 11 Flash app is available here: Crackle App Allows You To Watch TV On Your Android Device If you are…

  • RIM’s Blackberry Roadmap For 2012 Leaked

    Anthony Munns
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:02 am
    RIM have a roadmap: Yes RIM do indeed have a plan to take the Canadian corporation out of their current dark alleyway, with a new RIM CEO and upper management structure taking shape, and with this leaked blackberry roadmap, it is intriguing to see what they have in store over 2012. Blackberry Roadmap So as you can see, RIM will be bringing out a new line of Curves and a Wi-Fi media server, as well as an upgrade across the board from BB7 to BB7.1. In keeping with some peoples current suggested thoughts on the direction that RIM should consider, it would appear that the first smartphone to be…

  • iPhone 5 Release Date And Larger 4 Inch Screen

    Anthony Munns
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:26 am
    iPhone 5 release date update and rumour mill time again: Oh I know you all get a little tired of these stories but they have to surface from time to time. Yes it appears a Foxconn employee (of the unnamed variety of course) has let the cat out of the bag in terms of what we can come to expect from the new version of the Apple iPhone, the iPhone 5. And if these rumours are to be believed from 9to5 mac then you may well be in for a treat as the increased screen real estate is something I think the iPhone does need to address, especially with such a huge amount of wasted space at either end of…

  • IBM and HTC Scare Research In Motion After Joining To Provide Enterprise Smartphones

    Anthony Munns
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:58 am
    IBM and HTC enter business land for Android Smartphones and Tablets: It has been relatively quiet from those guys at Taiwan’s HTC corp, and perhaps we have a reason why. Both IBM and HTC are looking to team up and try to corner the business sector with Android devices. Flying in the face of Apple and Blackberry devices who currently seem to be the favored operating systems and choice of device for enterprise clients, it would be a shame for Android as an O/S to miss out on this highly lucrative niche and it will be unwelcome news that the new CEO of research in motion will not be…

  • O2 Fixes Mobile Number Web Browsing Leaks Scandal – Help And Advice Inside

    Anthony Munns
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:02 am
    O2 have fixed the web browsing number leaks problem finally! O2 are going to get a hammering over this and rightly so. O2 Fix Number Leak The situation appears to be that if you have been browsing on your mobile phone using an o2 data connection in the last 15 or so days, you will have been unwittingly sending your mobile phone number to that websites database in the HTTP requests which usually contain pretty useless info about who you are in terms of location and IP address etc. o2 stupidly to let every website you visit on your mobile know your phone number: This is absolutely great news if…
 
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    IntoMobile

  • Infographic: Apple’s cash explained

    Dusan Belic
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:24 am
    After another successful quarter, Apple is worth more than $400 billion, which is about $6,622,516 per employee. If it was to pay a corporate tax on its massive cash reserves of $97.7 billion, that money could buy an iPad for every person in Canada and Greece. However, 2/3 of that reserve is stored offshore. Moreover, Apple’s cash reserve is enough to pay off the total public debt of 8 EU countries, including Slovakia, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Cyprus, Estonia and Malta. In the last three months, Apple brought in 4x more profit than Walmart, the world’s largest…

  • Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G Touch gets EL29 update

    Dusan Belic
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am
    Sprint has started rolling out a small update for the Samsung Epic 4G Touch to fix one of the most annoying issues folks had with phones on the Now Network – Carrier IQ integration. That “minor detail,” described as “security update,” isn’t the whole story — aside from that, the new software also updates the calendar app, allowing users to dismiss multiple calendar alerts at once. In addition, there’s the Commercial Alert System (CMAS) activation… and that’s about it. So it’s nothing major but still we advise you to keep your…

  • Hot Deal: Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch in white now just $99.99 at Amazon

    Dusan Belic
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:12 am
    The white Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch is now available for $99 at Amazon Wireless, a full $100 off Sprint’s asking price. Needless to say, you’ll still have to sign-up for a new two-year contract to take advantage of this offer. If you’re, however, upgrading – prepare to cash out $50 more; or if you just want the phone sans any carrier contracts signed, that benefit will cost you $529.99. You can check out Amazon’s deal on this sexy-lookin’ device from here. The phone color isn’t a big deal for you? Then get the black version of the Epic Touch. It…

  • BBC updates its News Android app with support for large tablets

    Dusan Belic
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:10 am
    Good ol’ BBC has once again updated its Android app, this time focusing on all of you with Android tablets. Yep, the new version of the application sings along Honeycomb devices, offering “simple browsing in landscape and portrait view.” In other words, it [application] now has a new UI for “large tablets” while those of you with 7-inch ones will continue to see the mobile phone version… And that’s about all there is in this release. The future update will also bring Live News Channel and home screen widgets. All in all, if you’re getting your…

  • Canada’s Future Shop offers Samsung Galaxy S II LTE and Tab 10.1 bundled for $250

    Dusan Belic
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:08 am
    Canada’s Future Shop is running a neat campaign, bundling Rogers’ Samsung Galaxy S II LTE with the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and offering the package for $250, saving you $250 along the way! Of course, you’ll still need to put your signature on a carrier contract, but you would have to do it anyway. So if you want both a tablet and smartphone — both of which rock — this is the offer for you. I doubt you’ll be able to get the same deal for less. After all, Rogers is selling the Galaxy S II alone for $149.99 on a 3-year contract, meaning you’re getting the…
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    Volker on Mobile

  • MoMo Manchester @ the BBC

    Volker
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:45 am
    If you are in the North-West of England and have nothing to do or, rather, nothing really, really important to do, you may want to drop in for our latest Mobile Monday Manchester edition, which takes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Conference season: Where I will be…

    Volker
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:14 am
    Yes, conference season is firmly upon us and, before I descend into the mayhem that tends to come with it, let me tell you where you can find me over the next couple of weeks. This week sees London... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Carnival of the Mobilists # 257 (#COTM)

    Volker
    18 Jan 2012 | 7:28 am
    This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists comes to you from Kansas, more specifically from Steven Hoober, and here’s what he has in stock for you: Will larger screens lead to poorer mobile... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Sweden’s Mobile Wallet

    Volker
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:15 pm
    Funny old world this. I haven’t written about operators for a while until last week. And here I am again. They seem to be coming in pairs… Anyway, there were reports today on an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Be Free! How an ickle player changes an industry

    Volker
    12 Jan 2012 | 6:47 pm
    In the UK, there used to be attempts to make mobile calls free to users (Blyk tried to refinance this over permission-based advertising). It failed. In France, Free charges its users but is a)... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Smartphone Biz-news.com :: Smartphone News

  • The 2012 Global Mobile Awards Nominations

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:29 am
    The GSMA announced nominees for the 17th annual Global Mobile Awards. The winners will be presented on Tuesday, 28th February at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, For 2012, the GSMA introduced 18 new awards. In total, 158 nominees have been shortlisted Continue reading The 2012 Global Mobile Awards NominationsOriginally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 26/01/2012

  • New Samsung Smartphones with One Single Recharge a Day

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:25 am
    Samsung has made some promises this year at CES 2012. Let’s see if they are able to keep them until the end of this year. Many, if not almost all the smartphones of today fail to stay charged even a day-light.Continue reading New Samsung Smartphones with One Single Recharge a DayOriginally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 23/01/2012

  • Apple iPhone, Partly Built By 13-Year-Olders for 70 Cents per Hour

    19 Jan 2012 | 4:40 am
    Not many people know that the popular iPhone and iPad are made in unbelievable working conditions. According to a report conducted by NPR, some of those working in production are 12, 13 or 14 years old. Continue reading Apple iPhone, Partly Built By 13-Year-Olders for 70 Cents per HourOriginally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 19/01/2012

  • 2012 Brings 2.5 Million New Viruses. The Main Target: Android Smartphones

    16 Jan 2012 | 4:23 am
    2012 will bring a total of over 2.5 million new viruses, a marked increase in malware dedicated to mobile devices and attacks against large organizations, according to the report released by the German IT security company G Data.Continue reading 2012 Brings 2.5 Million New Viruses. The Main Target: Android Smartphones Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 16/01/2012

  • CES 2012: Intel Sets New Standards in Smartphones and Tablets

    12 Jan 2012 | 5:05 am
    Intel has announced a series of progresses on its entire activity in the smartphones industry, including the signing of a partnership for several years on many devices with Motorola Mobility and provided information on a Lenovo smartphone based on the new platform of the Intel Atom processor. More Intel Atom-based smartphones are to hit the market in 2012.Continue reading CES 2012: Intel Sets New Standards in Smartphones and TabletsOriginally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 12/01/2012
 
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    Vomo

  • 5 steps to achieving viral reach on mobile: Don’t play it safe

    Ryan van Jaarsveld
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:26 am
    Step number three in the five step process to getting your mobile campaign to go viral is “Don’t play it safe”. When we receive a brief and the client wants to achieve viral reach we know that the one sure way to tell if we are doing our job is if the client has that look in their eyes that says they’re scared. It’s rare for the client to move ahead regardless. To put themselves aside and realise they aren’t necessarily their target market. As they say – no guts, no glory! We all know the feeling we get when we pass something on via e-mail, SMS or word of mouth and the…

  • Why downloading is important to the mobile campaign

    Staff Reporter
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:51 am
    Why are downloads so important to mobile marketing campaigns? In one word, apps. Apps are the lifeblood of smartphones (and in some form, feature phones) and without them, mobiles would be lifeless, and featureless. So, what can they do for a mobile marketing campaign? British Examples As part of an exciting mobile campaign, British Airways decided to promote a mobile application on its website. The airline wanted to promote its exclusive “Executive Club” mobile app. With the app, customers can manage all aspects of their account such as real-time flight information, checking-in,…

  • Going mobile now? Tips on how to be ready for your mobile campaign

    Staff Reporter
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:56 am
    Mobile marketing is mainstream and an important part of any company’s drive to create a new campaign. Successfully launching a product these days means integrating new media with the old; this in turn can create a better response from the target audience. As an example of how successful mobile campaigns can be, certain films now launch with preview mobile websites to drive the levels of engagement. Downloadable content, exclusive to the mobile website provide incentives for the user to visit the site, this is in order to discover new content on a daily basis. Going mobile is important,…

  • RIM: Big changes at the top, or not?

    Staff Reporter
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:13 am
    For some time now, Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry, have stood fast while their stock price plummeted, it’s market share shrunk and it’s perception amongst consumers moved from the cutting-edge to the butt of a global joke. So it was with no small relief that the market absorbed the news that RIM’s co-executive chairmen, Jim Basillie and Mike Laziridis, resigned on Monday the 21st of January, 2012. The two long-standing corporate giants were replaced by Thorsten Heins, a former Siemens executive who joined the Canadian company only four years ago. But in his…

  • Contextually relevant advertising proves its worth to advertisers

    Staff Reporter
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:48 am
    It’s one of the first things you learn when you begin planning marketing campaigns: aim your campaigns at the people who care about the products you’re selling. In the world of online and mobile, it’s more important than ever. Kontera, a content technology specialist firm, has some new data which proves that contextually relevant advertising has a higher click-through rate “than the industry average for US Google display ads.” One of the key drivers of better advertising performance is the issue of a “cohesive user experience” where users move…
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    GoAndroid

  • Rumor: Samsung to launch Galaxy Tab 11.6 at MWC

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:34 am
    German site TabTech.de is reporting that Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Tab 11.6 at MWC and According to a rumour-based report over at Android and Me, Samsung might be launching a tablet to blow the rest out of the water at Mobile World Congress next month. The author of the report, Taylor Wimberly, says that he saw the device with his own eyes and camera at a special Samsung event at CES, but was told to remove photos of the device from his camera after the event. About Device  Samsung to announce the next-generation of the Galaxy Tab at Mobile World Congress. It…

  • LG Optimus 3D2 now known as 3D MAX

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:14 am
    Some Days days ago, we brought you the news about LG’s second generation 3D phones, dubbed the Optimus 3D 2 or the CX2. The fact that the Korean company is concentrating on another 3D phone probably means the phone was a hit, at least in some markets, possibly Korea, itself. According to GSM-Israel, a very reliable source said it would be called 3D Max. In the meantime, here’s a refresher of the rumored specs of the 3D Max: 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, auto-stereoscopic (no glasses needed) 4.3-inch 480×800 Nova display, dual-5 MP cameras at the back (with 3D photo and video abilities), 8…

  • Sony’s Acquisition of Sony Ericsson Approved By EU

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:52 am
    The previously 50%-50% joint venture is now history. The European Commision has approved sale of Ericsson's half to Sony. Sony is now the only company with stocks in Sony Ericsson. Sony has finally gained full control over Sony Ericsson after they paid 1.05 billion euro for the shares they didn’t own before. They name Sony Ericsson will not be used any more on products as the new company will be called Sony Mobile Communication. We have already seen that in the announced Sony Xperia devices. Hopefully, now that they completely own the Sony Ericsson mobile division, they’ll be able demand…

  • Galaxy Tab Edged By Kindle Fire as most used Android tablet

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:34 am
    Real Fire Kindle Fire and tablets are firing up app usage and doubling in ownership along with eReaders. The numbers, which are pulled from application sessions among all Android tablets, compare usage in November and January. The Kindle Fire represented just 3 percent of usage in November, when the Tab ruled the roost with 63 percent. In just two months’ time, the Galaxy Tab had slipped to 35.6 percent, a hair below the Fire. Flurry tracks usage in thousands of apps, covering 20 percent of all consumer sessions on more than 90 percent of all Android devices each day.This is the…

  • Android Honeycomb 3.2 vs Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm
    Everything on Honeycomb feels very slick, well planned out and well put together. The layout is clean and crisp, and animations and screen transitions play out smoothly, letting you effortlessly navigate from one section to another.The settings menus also make great use of the expanded tablet screen real-estate, with a dual split-screen setup that can be independently swiped through.Compared with previous builds, the notification panel is a little different. Rather than a swipe down bar from the top you now have a pop out menu at the bottom right, activated with a tap or swipe. This has been…
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    Mobot

  • Samsung: no decision yet on Galaxy S III launch date

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    We've been a bit down in the dumps over the last couple of days at the news that the Samsung Galaxy S III won't be in Barcelona at MWC next month, just cos Sammy has been slow to get its predecessor out the door in the US. But there's a glimmer of a chance that we're jumping the gun in writing the S III off as a no-show, as the official line from Samsung itself is that no decision has actually been taken yet. Click here to read more...Samsung: no decision yet on Galaxy S III launch date is a post from: Mobot.net

  • RIM's Heins disses Android in clear-the-air comments

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    If Thorsten Heins was wondering just how big the task was lying in front of him, the answer came pretty quickly this week when the global tech press slammed his opening comments as new RIM boss as just the sort of stuff that got the BlackBerry maker into trouble in the first place. Well now he's come out and clarified those remarks, saying he's well aware that change is needed, and taking time to put the boot in to those endless Android clones in the process. Click here to read more...RIM's Heins disses Android in clear-the-air comments is a post from: Mobot.net

  • Steam beta app drops on iOS and Android

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    The gamers among you will no doubt be familiar with Valve’s Steam, particularly if you use a PC. If you’ve never heard of it before, Steam is essentially a digital gaming distribution thingy with sexy community stuff. Now you can log into your Steam account on the go, with the all-new Steam app for Android and iOS. Well, sort of. Y'see, it’s currently in closed beta. Click here to read more...Steam beta app drops on iOS and Android is a post from: Mobot.net

  • Quarrel £0.69 @ App Store

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Quarrel has just launched on Xbox Live Arcade, and to celebrate, you can now grab the original game for just 69p on the app store. Quarrel Deluxe was a bargain at £2.99, frankly. Check out our Quarrel Deluxe review for more details. Quarrel £0.69 @ App Store is a post from: Mobot.net

  • Transcend 8GB class 6 microSD card, £5.56 delivered @ Amazon (zoombits)

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Get this Transcend microSD card deal @ Amazon (zoombits) We continue our impromptu look at microSD card deals this week, with this Transcend 8GB class 6 effort, currently available for £5.56 from Amazon seller zoombits. Click here to read more...Transcend 8GB class 6 microSD card, £5.56 delivered @ Amazon (zoombits) is a post from: Mobot.net
 
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    Call Loop Blog

  • Automate Your Mobile Marketing with Nanacast & Call Loop

    Chris Brisson
    9 Jan 2012 | 3:35 am
    Alright, alright, alright… A few week a friend of Call Loop’s, Justin Brooke, introduced us to the owner of the marketing platform, Nanacast. After two intro messages, a link to the API platform, and about about five minutes later, I had fully integrated Call Loop to my Nanacast account. So for you Nanacast lovers out there… it’s here. Now you can add voice broadcasting and text messaging into your Nanacast account. What Does The Integration Let Me Do? Automated Mobile List Building So when someone buys your product from your Nanacast account, they’ll…

  • Mobile IPO’s, Trading, Profiting & Protesting

    brett
    29 Nov 2011 | 2:05 am
    You know how a lot of people walk around wondering about things they did and didn’t do in the past and figure when things suck it might be because they chose the wrong path? That stock tip in 2000 to buy dogtreats.com IPO or maybe when you heard that people are going to one day have phones in their pockets and you looked at them like they just told you they know gnomes… Now they look at you the same way and say, “You don’t gnome me!” Yeah well this is going to be of the opposite approach. This is the good tip you didn’t get far enough in advance, we still…

  • Maximize Black Friday & Cyber Monday With Text Message Updates

    brett
    23 Nov 2011 | 2:25 am
    It is that time of the year again, time to over indulge on turkey, drink too much, blame it on someone else and eat leftovers for the next 2 weeks until you never want to see stuffing ever again (side note….stuffing is disgusting, really lets fill a bird carcass with breadcrumbs and think for a second it might be good for you…I’ll pass give me some more pie). But then again you can’t eat too much because you have to get your tennis shoes on and go hang out like a crazy person in front of Best Buy to save money on stuff you really don’t need. Isn’t There A…

  • Google Analytics Taking Mobile Tracking Deeper

    brett
    21 Nov 2011 | 3:35 am
    Google analytics has been working on some really cool features for their updates to their system. One of the really cool features is the one that is included in the Visitors tab called Mobile. Mobile isn’t new to analytics but it is new in this fashion. Previously you could only track what type of  operating system your visitors were coming from. This data could be important to know to make sure your site was formatted in the correct way so that visitors had a good user experience.  It was also beneficial for helping to know what kind of visitors you had to your website. If it was…

  • “What’s the best time to send out my SMS text message?”

    brett
    9 Nov 2011 | 2:46 am
    What time is the right time, that is the question.  This has long been a question of a lot of people that do email marketing.  When is it going to be the best day and how frequently should the drip campaign go out…and at what time???? Well the simple answer is going to be the one that a lot of people don’t like to hear – Test It. But before you go ahead and decide and leave and mess with our bounce rate and time on site…STOP.  We’ll give you some tips that we have seen over time and learned from all of our niches and testing results. Evaluate Your Niche This…
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    TheAppTimes

  • How to Find the Latest Trends on Google Search Results

    Adeline
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:54 am
    If you are a pro blogger, advertiser, or marketer, you are probably looking for a quick way to discover trends and insights for a Google search term, in a specific product category, a specific geographical location, or even for a specific time period. The Insights for Search Google chrome extension lets you accomplish this and [...]This is a post from: theapptimes.com. A good WordPress blog needs a good framework. Check out the Genesis Framework which provides state-of-the-art code, smart design architecture, an array of beautiful frames, unlimited access to the support forum, as well as…

  • How to Copy a Table from a Web Page to Excel 2010

    Adeline
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:09 am
    Recently, I posted an article on iTunes keyboard shortcuts. The shortcuts were detailed in a table format. Now, if you want to copy the table from the web page onto Excel following the usual copy and paste or copy and paste special process, you will find that the content is skewed and badly formatted. Luckily, [...]This is a post from: theapptimes.com. A good WordPress blog needs a good framework. Check out the Genesis Framework which provides state-of-the-art code, smart design architecture, an array of beautiful frames, unlimited access to the support forum, as well as unlimited use the…

  • iTunes Keyboard Shortcuts to Quickly Accomplish Tasks

    Adeline
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:27 am
    Keyboard shortcuts in any application play an important role in helping to accomplish tasks more quickly. The trouble of course, is that almost every application uses a unique combination of shortcut keys which limits the scope of its usage. If you are in the habit of frequently using iTunes, you may print a copy of [...]This is a post from: theapptimes.com. A good WordPress blog needs a good framework. Check out the Genesis Framework which provides state-of-the-art code, smart design architecture, an array of beautiful frames, unlimited access to the support forum, as well as unlimited use…

  • Give your Android Phone an iPhone Like Look

    Adeline
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:56 am
    The battle between the Android and the iPhone seems to be never ending. Inspite of the surge in the number of Android phones, the popularity of the iPhone has not waned. In fact, many Android users still hope to get their hands on the iPhone. That’s probably because the iPhone has more features, flexibility, and [...]This is a post from: theapptimes.com. A good WordPress blog needs a good framework. Check out the Genesis Framework which provides state-of-the-art code, smart design architecture, an array of beautiful frames, unlimited access to the support forum, as well as unlimited use the…

  • How to Create a Facebook Timeline Cover

    Adeline
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:55 am
    The Facebook Timeline feature has been making all the news with the recent announcement that the feature is going to be forced on users who have still not migrated to the feature. For readers still not familiar with Facebook Timeline, it can be best described as a storyboard of your life through images, videos, status [...]This is a post from: theapptimes.com. A good WordPress blog needs a good framework. Check out the Genesis Framework which provides state-of-the-art code, smart design architecture, an array of beautiful frames, unlimited access to the support forum, as well as unlimited use…
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    Mobile Phone Contracts, Deals, News & Reviews by My Phone Deals

  • ZTE V9A Light Tab 2 Arriving Soon

    Gary Palman
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:44 pm
    ZTE have manufactured several affordable smartphones and seem to be making a move to the tablet market. UK online retailer Clove has announced that the budget tablet, ZTE V9A Light will be arriving in the UK by the end of this next month. Although the specifications are not particularly high end, the outlook for this little tablet is promising. According to details revealed by Clove, the Light Tab 2 will arrive already running on Google’s Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system as opposed to the usual tablet versions such as the Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich. There has been no…

  • Budget Sony Xperia Tapioca Leaked Online

    Jamie Kindler
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:22 pm
    As revealed by the leaked inventory system, the Sony Tapioca is scheduled to be released in July 2012. Sony recently announced that they weren’t planning to unveil any high end smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in February next month. However, they are reportedly planning to release a budget handset, currently dubbed the Sony Xperia Tapioca. The handset, also called the Sony ST21i was first spotted on an India inventory system for Sony. Oddly enough, this listing only shows an image of the bottom of the handset, which confirms that it will come with a square angular design, not…

  • White Galaxy Note Coming to Carphone Warehouse

    Collin Elder
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:23 am
    John Lewis were the first the stock the white handset, but it has now become available from other stockists. If you’ve been put off buying a white Samsung Galaxy Note because of the rather steep SIM free prices, then you won’t have long to wait as the Carphone Warehouse have announced today that they will be stocking the handset on pay monthly contracts. Official pricing details have yet to be confirmed by the high street retailer, however it is assumed that it will cost the same as the original Galaxy Note. The darker version will be available for £41 per month on a 24…

  • LG Prada 3.0 Coming to Phones4U Tomorrow

    Gary Palman
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:12 am
    The LG Prada 3.0 has been a highly anticipated handset, as it is super stylish and comes with plenty of good specifiations. LG’s latest collaboration with designer Prada, the LG Prada 3.0 will be arriving in stock at Phones4U tomorrow, slightly earlier than its promised release date of “early February”. If the order page on the Phones4U website is any indication, then the handset will be arriving on Vodafone and O2 sometime tomorrow morning. There will also be a more expensive Orange contract available. For £31 on Vodafone or O2, you will get 5000 texts, 900 minutes…

  • Pink Samsung Galaxy S2 Now in Stock

    Jamie Kindler
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:05 am
    Although the Galaxy S2 will arrive running on Android 2.3, it will definitely be receiving an update to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. The pink version of the Samsung Galaxy S2 has arrived in stock early at the online phone retailer Unlocked-Mobiles.com. This is despite expectations that the handset will be released in mid-February. The revamped Galaxy S2 will come with the exact same specifications as its black and white siblings, the only difference will be the pink coloured battery cover. This means that the pink handset will come with a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen and a…
 
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  • T-Mobile to offer its UK customers unlimited data plan option

    lsd
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:49 pm
    Starting february T-Mobile will be offering its UK customers unlimited data plan option. The package is known as fully monty. It is expected to cost around £36 per month. It also includes unlimited text messages, unlimited voice calls from T-Mobile to T-Mobile phones, plus 2000 minutes either on cell phones or landline. The package comes in [...]

  • Best antivirus for Android

    lsd
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:36 pm
    Malware has become a very big problem for computer users and smartphone users are not behind them. Android has the largest share in smartphone market and with super powers comes villains. Thanks to the Android’s openness its exploited by hackers alot, many times apps which have malware in them are uploaded to Android market and [...]

  • Steam for iPhone and iPad

    lsd
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:03 pm
    Steam one of the most widely used platform for gaming on PC and Mac is arriving now on iOS. Steam is known for wide variety of games, almost every genre of game is available on steam. Steam servers are also amazing and their prices are fair(during holidays their are amazing sales). The best past about [...]

  • Apple in process of developing revolutionary product iMind

    lsd
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:40 am
    According to our source who was close to Tim Cook  has recently stated to me that in the summer of this year , Apple will release iMind. This iOS device will allow you to control every Apple product without making a single movement or speaking a single word. He states that it will “just work.” [...]

  • Apple coming with a Smart OLED TV powered by Siri

    lsd
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:31 am
    According to retailer TechnoBuffalo Apple is in process of launching smart Oled tv powered by Siri. The source spoke on condition of anonymity. According to the source the tv is super sleek and gorgeous. The tv is in production and has Olded panels and has maximum size of 42inches. Apple Tv will use Siri for controls [...]
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  • How to Jailbreak iPad 2 Untethered With Absinthe

    admin
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:29 pm
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  • How To : Untethered Jailbreak For iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is Here

    admin
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:25 pm
    iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners rejoice! Your patience will now be rewarded. The untethered jailbreak for your device is now available. You can get it here. Check out the instructions and video after the break. iPhone 4s iPad 2 How to Jailbreak the iPhone 4S or iPad 2 with Absinthe : Step 1: Download, extract, and run Absinthe from here. Step 2: Connect your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 via USB. Step 3: Click “Jailbreak” to run the Absinthe jailbreak. It will take a while on the beginning portion, and eventually your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 will look like it’s restoring a backup. It will say…

  • How To Jailbreak iPhone 4S Untethered With Absinthe

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    20 Jan 2012 | 9:17 pm
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  • Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Got New Update

    admin
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:51 pm
    The Samsung Galaxy Note has just received a new software update. This update bringing user a new keyboard that can use as an alternative and that should facilitate a lot the ones who like the one-hand writing. These new keyboard and dialer brings an alternative design that you immediately understand with one single image: With this update you can align the keyboard to the right or left of the screen just as you see on the image, which should make you able to use it with only one hand. This is still an Android 2.3.6 version and not the much anticipated ICS version but it still brings some nice…

  • Samsung Announced New Smartphone Called Star 3 and Star 3 DUOS

    admin
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:45 pm
    Samsung has announced 2 new touch screen phones or smartphone called Star 3 and Star 3 DUOS.  These specs of the Smartphone is similar but the only different is the Dual SIM capability. Specifications of Samsung Star 3 and Star 3 DUOS : - 3-inch (320 x 240 pixels) TFT LCD touch screen display - Dimensions – 58 x 102 x 11.5 mm and weighs 95 g - Dual-SIM ( for Star 3 DUOS only) - 3.2 Megapixel Fixed Focus camera - Samsung TouchWiz Lite - 3.5mm Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS - Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v 3.0 - 20MB User memory that is expandable up to 16GB with microSD - 1,000 mAh…
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