Android momentum not at risk even as iPhones sales jump, says analyst
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Apple's iPhone gained share among US
consumers who bought a mobile phone in the last three months, as the share
for devices running Google's Android remained flat during the same period,
Nielsen said Thursday. ...
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Mobile apps open up new channel to explore Korea
The Korea Herald
It is very useful since Google maps does not work well in Korea. It also
has some features I have never seen before on a mobile app such as
accessing traffic cameras on highways and checking out the view over the
city from a drone's perspective. ...
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iPad Apps Reach 100000: TouchPad, PlayBook Under Gun
InformationWeek
Switching away from tablets, Microsoft has scored a major victory with
developers for its Windows Phone 7 platform. Nine months from launch, the
Marketplace for Mobile has hit the 25000 app mark. Microsoft is talking the
right talk and walking the ...
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Motorola Sees China Success
Wall Street Journal
Sanjay Jha said in an interview the mobile handset maker has been able to
work with local partners to deliver functions on its phones like email and
maps, which have enabled continued rapid sales. The lack of Google features
may be a more significant ...
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Apps let people save time and bypass the bank
SignOnSanDiego.com
Mobile wallet: Paying for items with a mobile phone is available today, and
many big names — Google, Apple and Visa — are expected to jump in the
next year. The phone is linked to a credit card or another financial
account. ...
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Samsung Gravity Smart SGH-T589 (T-Mobile)
PC Magazine
As a proper Android phone, you get a solid WebKit browser and comprehensive
e-mail connectivity. You also get free voice-enabled, turn-by-turn
directions with Google Maps Navigation. The Gravity Smart works with over
200000 applications in Android ...
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Windows Phone 7 Mango review round up
Know Your Mobile
Its latest mobile outing has become another prime target, with little faith
given to one of the world's largest technology companies. A common
critiscism of Windows Phone 7 thus far is either, 'I don't like the tiles,'
which is fair enough. ...
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WinInfo Short Takes: July 1, 2011
Windows IT Pro
Microsoft may have been late to the game with Windows Phone 7, but the
fledgling mobile platform has seen some important successes despite slow
sales so far. And none are perhaps more impressive than the growth of apps
in the Windows Phone Marketplace: ...
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Nokia to Divest Messaging Unit
Zacks.com
Nokia Corporation(NOK - Analyst Report), the world's largest mobile phone
maker, plans to divest its instant messaging service division to
British-based firm Synchronica for $25 million. The acquisition will allow
Synchronica to enter the US market and ...
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Drive Your Apps
Siliconindia.com
To achieve this, the Automobile honchos are now in a rat race to beef up
their technology staff as more drivers seek to use mobile-phone software
applications such as Internet radio and voice commands in their vehicles.
Hence they are hiring best of ...
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Zuckerberg: Facebook Plans 'Something Awesome' for Next Week
PC Magazine
Mobile Facebook apps and phones have also surfaced in the past few days.
AT&T and HTC announced the first Facebook phone for the US, the HTC Status,
on Wednesday, but social networkers in four other countries have had a
Facebook phone for a while: the ...
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Office 365 debuts, News Corp sells off MySpace (Video)
Macworld UK
Document editing features and messaging functions can also be accessed via
mobile phone. Office 365 comes with a wide range of configuration and price
options, starting from an e-mail only version that costs US$2 per user, per
month, ...
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Engineers work to ease Internet data flow as demand for video grows
PhysOrg.com
(Photo by Chris Emery) The system allows customers to track their phone
usage through a mobile application and avoid downloading videos and some of
the data-intensive applications during peak usage times. Customers are
charged less for using the system ...
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500000 Android Device Activations Happen Daily, Google Says
Social Barrel
Over 300 Android phone variants from different manufacturers keep
bolstering the growth of Google's mobile OS, while Apple only has six
iPhone versions if you include the forthcoming iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. The
Apple App Store, however, has more than ...
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Do we still need antiquated telephone numbers in our digital age?
The Independent
They use their mobile phones and internet connection to stay in touch with
their friends and family. In a world where we are inundated with
smartphones and applications that allow us to communicate via online
profiles and email addresses, ...
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Google+: It's got a great Android app, and big plans for the future
Geek.com
While most of the frenzy's been about the overall design of the site, the
way it works, and how it directly jumps into Facebook's realm, half of
Google+ is its mobile app — which is only available for Android at the
moment. Google's official demo of ...
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Mobiles and tablets: A new threat to the business world?
BBC News
With little time left, he remembered he had downloaded an application
called Lookout mobile security that promised to retrieve the phone if it
went missing. Developed by a California-based mobile security company, the
software also guaranteed ...
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Hacked Skype for Android brings video calling to the masses
Mobiputing
Skype launched version 2.0 of its mobile app for Android this week, adding
support for 2-way video chat. The only catch? The feature only works on 4
supported phones. If you don't have one of those devices you can still make
voice calls to other Skype ...
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Best Weight Loss Exercises & Diets via Training Apps
Phones Review
We have compiled some of the best apps for weight loss exercises and diets;
we have just put a few together to give you an idea of what there is
available for you mobile phone. First up is 'Calorie Tracker' for both
Android (Android Market) and iOS ...
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Taking flight with HTC Flyer
Gadget
As the flyer is essentially a big phone, and Android has come a long way in
ease of use with the Gingerbread update, it is very easy to use. The
interface is that of a standard Android mobile phone smoothed out and
optimised by the use of Sense. ...
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Microsoft Inks Android IP Deals With Velocity Micro and Onkyo
Redmondmag.com
Microsoft currently receives more revenue from the Android mobile OS
(developed by Google) than it currently does from Microsoft's own Windows
Phone 7 mobile OS, based on Microsoft's intellectual property royalties
collected from Android use. ...
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Smart phones, big headaches
Reseller News
Last month Symplified, through its Mobile Edition service, added support
for the iPhone, iPad, Google Android and BlackBerry. Symplified, though,
says support for strong one-time password authentication remains a future
project, though its service can ...
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Watching video on all handsets to be a reality soon
The Mobile Indian
Google has come out with a tool that can convert Flash files into HTML5
files so the users can view the later on all types of mobile devices,
including iOS devices. The tool, which is named Swiffy, thus would enable
the user to watch videos on his ...
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First look at Google+ on Android and iOS
Mobiputing
Currently the mobile web app doesn't support photo uploads even from the
post window. The photos sections look virtually identical in both the
native and web apps — although neither is nearly as attractive as the
desktop browser view which lets you ...
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A Tablet that Wants to Take Over the Desktop
MIT Technology Review
The Cius runs Google's Android mobile operating system, which is used on a
rapidly growing number of smartphones and tablets as well. Android is open
source, meaning it can be modified by anyone for free, yet so far most
companies that have built ...
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Apple, RIM in group buying Nortel patents for $4.5B
CNET
I wonder what the future lies for a company in the mobile phone industry
with little or no patents to protect them from predatory litigation?
Whatever the future holds for them it certainly can't be pretty!!! I can
already see the voltures circling... ...
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Discounted Kindle points to future of ad-supported electronics
CNN
Perhaps Google will eventually subsidize Android phones -- using some of
that potential ad revenue -- to better compete with Apple's iPhone or other
smartphones. (Mobile phones are already heavily subsidized -- sometimes by
hundreds of dollars -- by ...
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The Circuit: AT&T amps up lobbying effort; LightSquared, GPS interference; FTC ...
Washington Post (blog)
Van Schewick sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski asking him to
open up the debate, which she said has important implications for Internet
openness. She said AT&T and T-Mobile have also asked Google to disable
similar apps. ...
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Google Mobilize Comes To Help Small Businesses
Smartphone business news
Google takes initiative and wants to help the small and medium businesses
to create websites for mobile phones. The project is called Google Mobilize
and it was launched at a conference held in London. The concept involves
converting web pages in order ...
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Judge isn't letting Google off the hook in Street View case
Bizjournals.com
Google claims the service was intended for identifying Wi-Fi locations for
mobile device applications such as Foursquare Inc., which allows users to
check into a location using their mobile phone and find out where their
friends are. ...
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The Must Have Jailbreak Apps
Gizmodo
My3G: My3G tricks your phone into thinking it's connected to Wi-Fi when
it's actually on 3G. So you can Facetime over 3G, run higher quality videos
in certain apps and do things that are Wi-Fi restricted. Crucial. Notified
Pro: Like Mobile Notifier and ...
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NFC bridge technologies may be doomed
FierceFinanceIT
You do get the feeling that the world is waiting for the handset makers to
come to market with such phones. They may be unwilling to bet on any other
bridge technologies and invest in supporting other apps. With that said, as
Mobile Banker notes, ...
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Microsoft offers devs a basket full of Mangos
TG Daily
The latest iteration of the operating system is expected to help Redmond in
its effort to gain mobile market share from both Apple (iOS) and Google
(Android). To be sure, senior IDC researcher Ramon Llamas recently
estimated that WP7 is theoretically ...
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Can HTC Eternity outshine Samsung and Motorola smartphones?
International Business Times
Moreover the upcoming Google Nexus 4G is expected to feature
next-generation dual core 1.2 GHz or a 1.5GHz CPU processor. In fact,
earlier Samsung Galaxy S2's dual-core processor overclocked at a whopping
1.504 GHz which includes T-Mobile G2x aka LG ...
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HTC Evo 3D: $149.99 for Glasses Free 3D, Dual Core Power, Gingerbread, HTC Sense
Video Gaming Pros
Along with richer, deeper Google integration, you get one touch access to
even more pre-loaded Google and Android apps, as well as a complete suite
of improved and enhanced Google Mobile Services. New features, such as
Voice Action take your phone to ...
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Quo Vadis, LMS? Trends, Predictions, Commentary
Campus Technology
Feldstein: Mobile is going to be a struggle for LMS developers. These
systems were designed with the PC in mind. On a deeper level, we have to
ask what teaching and learning tasks make sense on a tablet or a mobile
phone. So far, LMS developers have ...
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Samsung Droid Charge 4G: Droid Power for Only $129
Video Gaming Pros
The Android platform offers deep Google integration, a nice selection of
pre-loaded Android and Google apps and services, and access to the Android
Market for your choice of thousands of games and apps for your downloading
pleasure. ...
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Motorola MT870 is the world's first TD-SCDMA dual-core Android phone
Ubergizmo
The phone will also come preloaded with Motorola's brand new mobile market:
the Mobile Market-SHOP4APPS app store. Since Google isn't allowed to sell
apps through its Android Market in China, SHOP4APPS should fill the void
that Chinese Android users ...
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The technology behind Google+ Hangouts
GigaOm
Desktop users will get to view full HD video, users on mobile devices will
receive optimized streams to deal with bandwidth issues. And Google TV
users could see Hangouts appear on their TV sets sooner than they think,
because Google TV comes with a ...
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Documents to Go 3.003
PC Advisor
While office apps have embraced the cloud with a vengeance – Google Docs,
Zoho Docs and Office 365 to name just three – accessing them through your
mobile device can be more trouble than it's worth, plus your documents must
be stored in the cloud in ...
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ANZ's ideas aren't connecting
Technology Spectator
Meanwhile, Google Wallet, launched in May, is driving more banks to
seriously consider their mobile payment strategies. Choosing not to proceed
after conducting a pilot may work when your competitors are also slow to
embrace the technology, ...
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Microsoft Partners Energized by 'Windows 8'
Redmond Channel Partner
For years Microsoft has talked about Windows as an advantage for mobile
phones and potential slates because it's a unified platform. The problem
was that users didn't want to interact with their phones or tablets through
a Windows desktop interface. ...
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Happy Birthday, iPhone!
Golf Talk
By Lora Light on Jul 01, 2011 in mobile Time surely passes by quickly. It
seems that it was just yesterday when the first iPhone with iOS, previously
called iPhone OS, was launched on June 29, 2007. The world's once largest
touch screen smartphone was ...
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Obama 2012 Campaign To Go Beyond E-Mail, Text
NewsFactor Network
"The successful campaign is going to be one that integrates all the various
elements of the digital channel -- email, text, Web site, mobile apps, and
social networks -- together as one digital program and also mixing the
digital program together with ...
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