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Google: Five things to look for in 2012 CNET Going forward, Google wants to anticipate searchers' needs without them having to explicitly ask each and every time. Google+ will help give them more tools to do so. Google's mobile-phone fortunes have soared on the back of its Android mobile ... See all stories on this topic »

The Rise of Mobile and the Return of Neolithic-Style Hunter Gatherers Forbes The proliferation of mobile devices, from smart phones to variously sized tablets, is clearly one of the year's big cultural stories. But beyond the battles between Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon, the rise of the mobile mindset points to something ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Looking back on Android in 2011 CNET With so many players circling the idea of mobile payments and commerce, I imagine that we'll see an even bigger push for NFC-enabled devices. Google, of course, wants to corner the market, but there are a number of alternatives in these early days. ... See all stories on this topic » CNET

Forget about mobile payments. The future is the mobile wallet InfoWorld So, one or more apps could easily handle these information cards' data. I'd expect Google, Apple, Microsoft, and RIM to each offer such an app as part of the core app collection on their respective mobile OSes. What would be required is a common API ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Eric Schmidt: The Internet and mobile can "change the world" The Next Web I don't think of this as my phone, it is my personal super computer that can answer any question that I care about in life. Tablets and mobile devices are often referred to as points of access, and Google is continuing to invest it its network, ... See all stories on this topic » The Next Web

Hungry Broadcom Looks To Snatch Smarthphone Share From Qualcomm Forbes Its application processors have thus far found traction only in the lower-end phones. Qualcomm's popularity among the full range of smartphones and relationship with a variety of mobile phone vendors helps it stand out among competition, and it will be ... See all stories on this topic »

Surely They Won't Issue Apple a Patent For This? Forbes For example, this product I turned up with a quick google. There's a new mobile phone 2-in-1 fuel cell charger and battery pack heading for the mobile space in Q4 in Europe and Q1 2012 in the United States and is called the PowerTrekk from myFC, ... See all stories on this topic »

Samsung Galaxy S Glide Review (Video) MobileSyrup.com By Daniel Bader on December 26, 2011 at 2:05pm in Mobile News Almost six months after the initial release of the Samsung Galaxy S II we have the Galaxy S Glide. For specs, it sits somewhere in the middle of the original Rogers Galaxy S Captivate and ... See all stories on this topic »

2011 in review: Mike DeLaet, VP, Sales & Marketing, Glu Mobile Pocket Gamer.Biz PocketGamer: What do you think was the most significant event for the mobile games industry in 2011? Mike DeLaet: We believe the addition of in-app purchases for Android Market, along with carrier billing for several additional carriers, have finally ... See all stories on this topic »

Stop reading this and pay attention to the road! Baltimore Sun Last week, the NTSB recommended that every state ban the use of mobile devices by drivers. That includes hands-free devices too. No texting, no phoning, no nothin'. Today, nine states and DC prohibit all drivers from using handheld cell phones while ... See all stories on this topic »

Mozilla's Boot to Gecko Mobile OS Concept: One to Watch in 2012 OStatic (blog) The OS is squarely focused on facilitating mobile web applications, which is the primary focus of Google's Chrome OS. In the long run, Mozilla's OS could create significant competition with Google's, just as Mozilla and Google compete closely in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Sharp Aquos IS14SH arrives with Android 2.3 Gingerbread The Mobile Indian ... Mobile Indian, Mumbai, December 27, 2011 Company announces a slider handset running Android 2.3 Gingerbread with multi-tap keyboard and an 8 megapixel camera. Sharp has announced a new smartphone running Google Android OS called Aquos phone IS14SH. ... See all stories on this topic » The Mobile Indian

CT Innovators Reunion: Where Are They Now? Campus Technology Proposals from the past year have trended toward the creation of mobile apps and social information systems. The latest winners, announced in October, range from game-oriented apps to apps for medical records and stress management. ... See all stories on this topic »

Two decades of Linux: the big open source stories of 2011 Ars Technica And embedded versions of Linux are part of the explosion of network-connected consumer devices, most notably as the basis of Google's Android mobile OS. But there's still at least one place where Linux hasn't achieved the dreams of Tux the Penguin ... See all stories on this topic »

EurekaMag.com Publishes Mobile Website and New Reviews on Geonet, Heifer and ... PR Web (press release) These as well as all other articles are now available on a new website dedicated to mobile viewing. The EurekaMag.com review of Geonet covers a project to build and operate a modern geological hazard monitoring system. Specifically, the goals of GeoNet ... See all stories on this topic »

Wikitude browser comes to Huawei's Sonic, Ideos X3 The Mobile Indian The mobile augmented reality browser displays information about the users' surroundings through the phone's camera. Huawei has announced a strategic partnership with Wikitude GmbH, the creators of the world's first mobile augmented reality (AR) browser ... See all stories on this topic » The Mobile Indian

Two Companies Profiting From the Surging Mobile Payment Trend Wall Street Daily Like NXP, VeriFone is an official Google Wallet partner. And as I've written before, it recently acquired mobile payments startup, GlobalBay. So it's obvious that the company is honing in on the space. But from what VeriFone's Vice President of Product ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Mobile Video Advertising Is Good For Small Businesses ReelSEO Online Video News Nowadays, the advent of the smartphone allows for mobile streaming on handheld devices, meaning that companies can have their adverts displayed on a wide range of phones too. Despite having only been around for a couple of years, mobile video ... See all stories on this topic » ReelSEO Online Video News

Google Roils Travel Wall Street Journal Once content to simply produce search results, the 13-year-old company is increasingly getting into the guts of these markets, too, offering everything from online music to local coupons to mobile phones. In many ways, Google is still learning how to ... See all stories on this topic »

Tracing Callers Identities via Name and Phone Reverse Lookups, Blocked Numbers Jordan Independent I usually use two resources - the reverse phone lookup for cell phone numbers and/or Number Guru App. Both of these work pretty well for many numbers and can provide the name or at least some information about the mobile number. ... See all stories on this topic »

The Top Ten Media Apps of 2011 The Next Web As we reported, Bambuser has actually become a tool for citizen journalism, and Egyptian activists have been using the service to broadcast Tahrir Square protests in real time from their mobile phones. This goes well beyond Egypt; Bambuser now has ... See all stories on this topic » The Next Web

Taiwan to work to establish mobile commerce foundation next year QR Code Press With products such as the Google Wallet, which turns a smart phone into a mobile payment device, mobile commerce is expected to grow as quickly as the popularity of NFC technology itself. Taiwan Mobile Payments. See all stories on this topic » QR Code Press

Digital space set to turn more active Bangkok Post More branded content will be created to engage consumers with stories and new brand experience through online videos, movies, websites, ebooks, games and mobile applications. Casual games, which are not too hard to play and have a short target, ... See all stories on this topic » Bangkok Post

Switched On: The Year of Reversal Engadget By Richard Lawler posted Dec 27th 2011 at 2:02AM Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo just announced it's forming a joint venture with five partners -- Samsung, Panasonic, Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Semiconductor and NEC -- to develop and . ... See all stories on this topic »

RIP Technology: 10 Products and Services That Died in 2011 PCWorld Verizon's unlimited data plan: If you're a Verizon customer, you've likely been keeping close tabs on your mobile downloading habits since July. That's when the carrier scrapped its all-you-can-eat option for a smorgasbord of mobile data-usage plans. ... See all stories on this topic »

Chomp Leads in App Search During Move to 'Appification' Benzinga (press release) By Benzinga Staff During a year that solidified the move from the traditional web to mobile, Chomp, the leading app search engine, signed influential partnerships and released products that reflected the growing importance of the app ecosystem. As apps ... See all stories on this topic »

Our View: Blocked cellphone merger costs consumers Appeal-Democrat That is why the Federal Trade Commission was so wrong in thwarting AT&T's attempted $39 billion purchase of cellphone competitor T-Mobile USA. In its Aug. 31 suit against the merger, the government contended that competition would be reduced, ... See all stories on this topic »

5 Predictions For Online Video In 2012 Seeking Alpha In 2011, the long-promised ubiquity of video—on-demand anytime, anywhere—started to become a reality, driven by mobile (smart phones, tablets). While this may seem obvious, remember, it was not so long ago (a couple years, really) that most doubted ... See all stories on this topic »

Preview 2012: Technology Travel Weeekly Tom Cates, chief commercial officer of Amadeus North America, believes such marketplace developments, including the advent of social media and mobile apps, will require the evolution of a "next-generation agent," which Amadeus dubs Agent 3.0. ... See all stories on this topic » Travel Weeekly

What Google Failed to Realize for the Holiday Season Android Authority Because of the number of apps on the internet, it is your job to keep yourself updated with the ones that are available. In the past, people loved getting a new mobile phone as a Christmas gift. But because this is too expensive to buy, ... See all stories on this topic » Android Authority

Google Tablet to Menace iPad? 24/7 Wall St. AP Poll of Economists » Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt says his company will launch a new tablet PC in 2012. The product will run on the firm's Android OS mobile platform. Google likely will struggle with the product, much the same as it ... See all stories on this topic »

New iPhone? Try these must-have free apps tuaw.com by Mel Martin Dec 26th 2011 at 7:00PM If you have that new iPhone you received for the holidays, you're probably looking to load it up with some apps that will enhance your mobile experience. Let me suggest some of the best of the free apps. ... See all stories on this topic »

No. 8 tech story of 2011: Patent wars ITworld.com Fueling much of the legal fire was Google's Android mobile operating system -- or, more specifically, Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs's "thermonuclear" reaction to Android. Apple has aggressively sued manufacturers of Android phones such as Samsung and HTC ... See all stories on this topic »

MasterCard Benefits From the Global Shift in Commerce Investment U Its PayPass technology works with Google's Android Wallet application – where you can make payments with your mobile phone. Some may say that MasterCard's stock has been depressed by fears and the numbers that show a reduction in consumer spending. ... See all stories on this topic »

First Facebook, Now Twitter: Social Media Under Legal Siege Forbes A lawsuit between Noah Kravitz, a writer who used to write for mobile phone site, Phonedog.com, and the company has raised the uncomfortable issue of who owns a Twitter account. It is a nuanced case, explained in detail in the New York Times. ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple iOS holiday activations reach lofty heights GigaOm Of the top 20 countries in terms of mobile device popularity, Google's mobile platform grew more quickly in 14; still, Apple pulled ahead overall, since Android grew approximately 12 times faster than usual vs. Apple's 12.5 times improvement. ... See all stories on this topic »

Google and NORAD help to track Santa Coolest Gadgets Now, it is a wonder that we are able to track Santa using Google Earth and Google Maps over at the NORAD Santa site. Of course, being a highly mobile society this year, you can also do so on your mobile phone. Ever since December 24th kicked off ... See all stories on this topic » Coolest Gadgets

Is Amazon the Next Apple? Forbes Android may be catching up in terms of the number of installations and apps, but the Google OS is still light years behind Apple's operating system and only a very small handful of Android phones have come close to the design quality of Apple's line-up ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

JXD Brings Gaming Control to 7-Inch S7100 Android Tablet Gotta Be Mobile JXD is hoping to differentiate its 7-inch S7100 Android tablet running on Google's Froyo build by adding hardware gaming controls for those who like to play games on a mobile tablet. Adding gaming controls would help gamers have easier control of their ... See all stories on this topic » Gotta Be Mobile

First On TechTree: Review: Apple iPhone 4S Techtree.com The device's camera is one of the best 8 megapixel modules I've seen in any mobile phone. The snaps look sharp and crisp. Moreover, it captures natural colours and a good amount of detail. Apple has claimed the iPhone's camera is the fastest, ... See all stories on this topic » Techtree.com