| Amazon Fire Takes Android for Free While Leaving Google Apps Behind: Tech Bloomberg To do that, Amazon created its own mobile-app store and a browser called Silk. Amazon will make $136 on each Kindle Fire, thanks to movie and book downloads onto the device, according to Ross Sandler, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. Google Phone? See all stories on this topic » | Bloomberg |
VentureBeat
... all Windows Phone apps. That aligns the Windows Phone Marketplace with the practices used in the Apple App Store and the Google Android Market. We asked Microsoft to confirm the story, but a spokesman declined to comment. Mobile app developers who ...
See all stories on this topic »Load up on these mobile apps while planning your Super Bowl party
Chicago Tribune
Do you know what mobile apps to download to get ready for the big game and the even bigger Super Bowl party? No need to throw a yellow flag in the air, because we have you covered. Whether you are intent on watching every play of the game, ...
See all stories on this topic »Thinxtream Upgrades Its Suite of PrintJinni(TM) Wireless Mobile Printing Apps
MarketWatch (press release)
"The enhancements to our PrintJinni wireless mobile printing apps are part of Thinxtream's ongoing commitment to making printing from a smartphone or tablet as simple and convenient as making aphone call, sending a text or taking a photo," said Ranga ...
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| T-Mobile Vivacity Pocket Gamer The T-Mobile Vivacity might not be as quick as a £500 smartphone, but it will rungames and applications, and play movies. Even the 1500mAh battery shows that no compromise has been made, and thanks to the phone's smaller screen size and a lower clock ... See all stories on this topic » | Pocket Gamer |
InformationWeek
Although the Flare desktop device is based on Google's Android mobile operating system, it's not actually a mobile device like the Cisco Cius, which is marketed as an enterprise-grade tablet that you can carry with you or plug into a desktop phone ...
See all stories on this topic »T-Mobile and Google Music Launch "Magnified Artists" Music Store at Sundance
Huffington Post
"In the spirit of Sundance," as Google's Director of Digital Content for Android, Jamie Rosenberg, put it, Google and T-Mobile have paired up to launch "Magnified Artists" - a new addition to GoogleMusic, which allows indie artists to connect and sell ...
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| Google's Mobile Ad Revenues Could Surge To $5.8 Billion In 2012 Seeking Alpha How much does Google (GOOG) make in advertising from mobile? Cowen analyst Jim Friedland estimates that Google is generating $7 per year from each smartphone (and tablet). This includes both search and display advertising in mobile apps on both Android ... See all stories on this topic » | Seeking Alpha |
| The Future of Phones: Forever Unknowable TIME In 2015, however, Windows Phone will account for 16.7 percent of the smartphones shipped, up from less than 2 percent in 2011, according to the IHS iSuppli Mobile & Wireless Communications Service at information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). See all stories on this topic » | TIME |
ZDNet (blog)
By John Fontana | January 23, 2012, 11:52am PST Summary: OAuth 2.0, a key framework for securing native mobile applications and APIs, Monday moved a step from being declared an official Internet Engineering Task Force standard.
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| Google Search Results Change Based On Device Search Engine Roundtable My tests didn't show a huge difference in the number of returned results between the two. So maybe it is a test or maybe it is a bug? I am not sure - but we do knowGoogle added a new mobile bot for smart phones, so maybe Google is building a special ... See all stories on this topic » | Search Engine Roundtable |
| Japanese operator KDDI starts sending Android customers ads via the ... IntoMobile Arguably one of the best features of Google's Android mobile operating system is the ability to swipe down from the top of the screen and see a list of notifications that require your attention. Missed calls, missed texts, someone liking your latest ... See all stories on this topic » | IntoMobile |
| SnapDeal Launches Mobile Web Site; App For Windows Phone MediaNama.com SnapDeal has also launched a native mobile app for Windows Phone 7. The app was showcased last year, and was touted as one of the first Indian apps for the nascentmobile platform, along with The Times of India and BookMyShow. See all stories on this topic » | MediaNama.com |
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Preetika Rana A new report suggests urban Indian students are over social media networks and are focusing on mobile applications instead. Shown, Blackberry posters hung over an Apple iPhone 4 banner in Mumbai, Sept. 28, 2011.
See all stories on this topic »The Circuit: DOJ's Pozen to resign, Supreme Court rules on GPS, AT&T submits T ...
Washington Post (blog)
“This additional spectrum will help meet the growing demand for wireless broadband services,” T-Mobile senior vice president for government affairs Tom Sugrue told the Wall Street Journal. Facebook, Twitter engineers target Google: Engineers from ...
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| I have an NFC phone – why is it impossible to Tap-and-Go through the airport? Tnooz They have established the Open Mobile API initiative which has already been incorporated into some Android NFC devices as a way for the application to access the Secure Element in an Android NFC phone. Google has its Google Wallet which uses the ... See all stories on this topic » | Tnooz |
| Google's Sky Map app goes open source The Mobile Indian By Prasoon Kumar, The Mobile Indian, New Delhi, January 24, 2012 With GoogleSky Map on your Android phone you can discover and browse the night sky just by pointing your phone to space. Google has made its augmented reality Sky Map app open source, ... See all stories on this topic » | The Mobile Indian |
Search Engine Watch
Unless your products are extremely broad appeal, or you're selling mobile download bale goods such as apps, books, music or video, let me save you some time, frustration and money: there is no apparent way to leverage AdMob effectively for performance ...
See all stories on this topic »Google's Chrome Browser Sprouts Programming Kit of The Future
Wired News
At Yahoo!, Node underpins “Manhattan,” a fledgling online service for building and hosting mobile applications. Microsoft is offering Node atop Windows Azure, its online service for building and hosting a much beefier breed of business application.
See all stories on this topic »Updated: Rutberg: Mobile Accounted For Over 40% Of All Tech VC In 2011
MocoNews
Sequoia Capital was the biggest VC in 2011, making 24 investments including several in mobile apps and media services. They included Bubble Motion, Bump, Clickatell, Color, Cotendo, DailyBooth, Evernote, Flite, Inkling, Inkling, Just Dial, MeLLmo, ...
See all stories on this topic »The PocketGamer Mobile Mavens get excited about hitting the big screen with ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz
HandyGames' Christopher Kassulke summed the prevailing feeling up nicely; "The mobile gamesmarket is killing the portable gaming consoles. Perhaps it's time to fight against the real game consoles?" By contrast, Sandy Duncan, of middleware company ...
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| Julian Assange To Host TV Talk Show, Google Reverses Real Name Policy, Orange... Fast Company The change will be rolling out in the coming weeks, and the names will be applied to all accounts associated with a Google profile. --NS Orange To Bring Free Wikipedia ToMobile Phones. Wikipedia and Orange have partnered up to bring free Wikipedia ... See all stories on this topic » | Fast Company |
Bizcommunity.com
Nokia, still the largest seller of cellphones and Microsoft, still unable to reproduce its desktop computer dominance in the mobile space, will be hoping their unexpected alliance bears fruit with the Lumia Windows Phone. Microsoft's Windows 8 is due ...
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| Schools Turn To Cell Phones For Lessons 360 Education Solutions News For students who have smart phones, they can use a number of educational appssuch as Google Earth, and apps that help students find definitions, translations, currency conversions, measurements. Smart phones also allow students to search the web, ... See all stories on this topic » | 360 Education Solutions News |
MarketWatch (press release)
That included not only employing solutions to decrease the time necessary to send content for broadcast, but also to increase transfer reliability over multiple infrastructures such as Internet cafes, ADSL home Internet and 3G/EDGE mobile networks.
See all stories on this topic »@Website Publicity Creates Google AdWords App for HubSpot
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
@Website Publicity, the digital agency for Search, Social and Mobile, announced today the launch of a Google AdWords campaign management application it built for HubSpot, the inbound marketing solution for businesses. @Website Publicity, the digital ...
See all stories on this topic »Smartphone credit cards arrive
Adelaide Now
Google Vice President of Commerce Stephanie Tilenius promotes smartphones as the wallet of the future. Picture: Mary Altaffer. Source: Supplied We regularly shop on mobile phones, but rarely do we shop with them. That is poised to change as emerging ...
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| Pwn2Own 2012: Changed rules, bigger prizes, no more mobile hacks Help Net Security First and foremost, smartphone hacking is no longer on the table - Pwn2Own returns to its roots and will welcome only researchers targeting Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, running on Windows or Mac OS. See all stories on this topic » | Help Net Security |
CNET
And through a partnership with Nokia and Microsoft, the carrier is also gearing up for a big WindowsPhone push this spring. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel, the No. 3 US carrier, has bet big on the iPhone and has a strong Android portfolio. T-Mobile USA may ...
See all stories on this topic »Change How Long Your Phone Rings Before Sending Calls to Voicemail
Lifehacker
Here's how to change your ring delay for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. AT&T and T-Mobile both use the same method, which lets you change the number of rings right from your phone. To do it: You should see a new screen that displays a bunch of ...
See all stories on this topic »PayPal preparing to expand its digital wallet service to 2000 Home Depot ...
Android Apps Appolicious
Online payment service PayPal is continuing to try out its new mobile payment capabilities, expanding its testing grounds to 2000 Home Depot stores. PayPal, the eBay-owned online payment company that offers mobile apps on Google's Android operating ...
See all stories on this topic »The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: AT&T, Verizon Communications, Apple, Google ...
PR Newswire (press release)
AT&T is currently paying a hefty subsidy of approximately $300 per phone to Apple, which is dilutive to the company's earnings. Hence, the analysts are concerned regarding the failure of the T-Mobiletransaction and lofty subsidies, which will hurt ...
See all stories on this topic »Mobile traffic hits 13% of total web traffic, study finds
InternetRetailer.com
Companies that have an online presence but haven't developed a solid mobile strategy yet need to start taking the mobile platform seriously.” Retailers optimizing mobile commerce sites and developing mobile apps should take note of which types of ...
See all stories on this topic »Windows 8 Promises 1-Second Wi-Fi Connections
InformationWeek
Microsoft also is adding features to Windows 8 to make it more mobile-friendly, such as the ability to turn off radios and tools to reduce unnecessary bandwidth consumption. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek While dropped Wi-Fi links can be frustrating ...
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