Google And Super-Powerful Phones The Stars Of Mobile Show
KMGH Denver
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the one big opportunity for companies to show off the models they are hoping will capture the imagination of customers. Like last year, the show belongs to Google. Almost all of the hot smart phones announced here ...
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Mozilla Tackles Walled Gardens, Demos 'Boot to Gecko' Mobile OS
PC Magazine
The concept, first announced in July, is intended to do away with the "walled garden" approach of today's modern mobile operating systems, like Apple's iOS and Google's Android, Johnathan Nightingale, senior director of Firefox engineer, said today in ...
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Mozilla's 'modest proposal:' Dump the smartphone OS
PC Advisor
And at Mobile World Congress, the non-profit creator of the Firefox browser and its partner, the Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, showed just how serious they are. The companies unveiled details for a smartphone platform that has the merest sliver of ...
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Google Android Welcomes Windows Phone Competition
Mashable
It has now has, according to Google's Mobile and Digital Content division lead Andy Rubin, 300 million activations, with 850000 new Android devices coming on line each day. There are now at least 1000 different Android devices in market and 450000 apps ...
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Google VP Dishes On Android Tablet and App Strategy
PC Magazine
Google's Vice President of Android Engineering explains the company's tablet app and Nexus device strategy. By Sascha Segan BARCELONA—Android is huge here at Mobile World Congress. There are Android phones and tablets everywhere, but we still aren't ...
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From Mobile World Congress, attack of the super phones
Fox News
It's not a phone, it's not a tablet. It's super phone! Rather than getting smaller, smartphones are getting bigger -- and more powerful. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, the annual coming out party for new mobile handsets, ...
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Google Exec Hints of Android 5.0 Release This Fall
PCWorld
More likely, it will be rolled out in the fall, based on comments made by Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of engineering for mobile at Google. He spoke with Computerworld at Mobile World Congress here Monday. "After Android 4 comes 5, and we haven't ...
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Twitter expands mobile advertising
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - Twitter will expand its advertising program for the Apple Inc iPhone and Google Inc Android devices, hoping to better tap into its growing mobile user base and ramp up revenue. The company, which sells "promoted tweets" and advertises ...
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RIM to Put Messenger on Tablet With New Operating System
San Francisco Chronicle
(Updates with comments on applications push in eight paragraph. For more on Mobile World Congress, see SHOW .) Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd., seeking to revive sales of the PlayBook tablet, will incorporate its popular ...
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Samsung to Spend More on Own Mobile Software, Offer Android Alternative
Bloomberg
(005930), the world's second-largest handset maker, will “significantly” increase investment to bolster its own mobile-phone operating system, pitching it as an alternative to Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android. “We believe this is a good platform to build ...
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Nokia, HTC see bright future for Windows Phone adoption
FierceWireless
During a keynote appearance here at the Mobile World Congress trade show, HTC CEO Peter Chou said "we believe Windows Phone will be one of the very strong operating system ecosystems in the market." He was asked directly by Rutberg analyst Rajeev Chand ...
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Mobile Will Change Lives
eWeek
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt challenges Mobile World Congress attendees to usemobile technology to create a global community of equals. BARCELONA, Spain — Reciting a now-familiar theme, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt in his annual ...
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Google's Schmidt Warns Against Creation of 'Digital Caste System'
PC Magazine
The Internet is "like water" - it will find a way to break through, Schmidt said during a keynote presentation here at Mobile World Congress. But "we need to act now to avoid the rise of this new digital caste system," the executive chairman said.
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Stiffening competition suits Nokia CEO Stephen Elop
Helsingin Sanomat
Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop regards the stiffening competition in the smartphone market as a positive thing. Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE announced at the telecommunications field's annual main event, the Mobile World ...
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Twitter to push ads harder on mobile apps
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Twitter will make avoiding advertisements on itsmobile apps more difficult, as it becomes the latest internet company to strengthen its marketing efforts around its users' activity on smaller screens.
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Google Head Warns Of 'Digital Caste System'
KETV Omaha
By Dylan Reynolds CNN BARCELONA (CNN) -- The world must act now to prevent a new digital caste system from emerging, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt told the world's largestmobile phone gathering in Barcelona, Spain. In his keynote address at ...
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Google's Schmidt: Android phones at feature phone prices coming next year
Fiercemobilecontent
BARCELONA, Spain-- Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) executive chairman Eric Schmidt anticipates that smartphones running the company's Android mobile operating system will retail at prices comparable to lower-end feature phones within the next year.
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