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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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

Fear, uncertainty and DroidDream – what's next for mobile security? The Guardian (blog) Last year saw a rash of mobile security related stories hit the media, particularly about Google's Android operating system, but how real is the mobile security threat in relation to apps and viruses? I'm concentrating mainly on Android in this article ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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, ... See all stories on this topic »

Google: Technology Is Making Science Fiction Real TIME “People who predict that holograms and self-driving cars will become reality soon are absolutely right,” Schmidt told thousands of attendees at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the planet's largest cell phone trade show. See all stories on this topic » TIME

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Mobile World Congress keynote: breakdown Android Community Mobile World Congress isn't all about new phones and tablet,s and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt demonstrated why with his hour-long keynote presentation hosted by the GSMA. Most of if was expended in showing off Google altruistic intentions for getting... See all stories on this topic » Android Community

SAP Sees Mobile Products Boosting Sales Bloomberg SAP is augmenting its traditional software license-revenue model with offers in which companies lease applications for shorter time periods. The company has acquiredmobile-solutions provider Sybase Inc. (SY) and cloud computing-focused SuccessFactors ... See all stories on this topic » Bloomberg

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

NFC payment plans face detractors as tech comes to US Macworld by Matt Hamblen, Computerworld Mobile payment technologies are spreading fast, asGoogle Wallet is already available on NFC-ready Android phones, and Isis MobileWallet is coming this summer. Apple's rumored iPhone 5 is also reported to support NFC, ... See all stories on this topic » Macworld

Cybercriminals target phones, Android 'most exposed' PhysOrg.com Samsung, Blackberry and Apple mobile phones in 2011. Cybercriminals are sneaking a fast-increasing amount of malware into smartphones to steal data or even money, with those running on Google's Android most exposed to security threats, analysts said. See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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. See all stories on this topic »

PayPal casts doubt on Near Field mobile payments systems The Guardian Google and others are promoting Near Field Communication technology, which involves replacing credit cards with phones which can be tapped on a reader at the till. NFC is the most high profile of the array of new mobile payment technologies on show at ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Mobile World Congress 2012 – Day 3 The Guardian (blog) The first version to work on mobile devices, Windows 8 is Microsoft's bid to remain relevant in a consumer computing world now dominated by Apple and Google. It's a sign of where Microsoft thinks the market is going that it chose not the Consumer ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

The Doro PhoneEasy 740: Finally, An Android Phone For Your Grandparents TechCrunch Accessibility has become quite the theme here at Mobile World Congress: Nokia and ZTE have announced new low-cost devices to bring push Windows Phone into developing markets, and Google chairman Eric Schmidt highlighted the importance of connecting all ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

Google once considered issuing currency Computerworld By Nancy Gohring IDG News Service - BARCELONA -- Google once considered issuing its own currency, to be called Google Bucks, company Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on stage at the Mobile World Congress on Tuesday. GoogleExecutive Chairman Eric ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

Nokia increasingly confident against Android TG Daily It's an incredibly ambitious roadmap as Nokia tries to legitimately compete withGoogle's mobile platform, as well as the iPhone. Being the #1 Windows Phonemaker is a bit like saying Wendy's is the #1 seller of Baconators. See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

IBM Builds Out AppDev, Management Portfolios for Mobile IT Integration Developers “The best way to think about IBM's view of mobile app is to think of the mobile phoneand their applications as extensions to the web, as well as to other legacy [enterprise] systems,” he said. “So, you want to make any aspect of a mobile app available ... See all stories on this topic » Integration Developers

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. See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Schmidt Predicts an Android for Everyone on the Planet New York Times (blog) Mr. Schmidt, chairman and former chief executive of Google, gave the centerpiece keynote of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona before a packed auditorium on Tuesday. He said that although the themes of the conference had focused on high-powered ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

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. See all stories on this topic »

Eric Schmidt talks Google Bucks and $70 Android smartphones Geek Yesterday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google's chairman Eric Schmidt gave a keynote discussing the Internet. It focused on how connectivity will help everyone in the future, and most of all those disadvantaged or oppressed. See all stories on this topic » Geek

Google's Eric Schmidt: mobile groups being 'regulated to death' in Europe The Guardian We at Google are critically dependent on this infrastructure building out." Schmidt surprised many by siding with the mobile phone giants in the debate about telecoms regulation which was kicked off on Monday by Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao. See all stories on this topic » The Guardian