T-Mobile users can tuck Google Play charges into phone bill
CNET
Google Play customers who also are on a T-Mobile plan can pay for their
music, apps, movies, and books from the software store at the same time
they pay off their monthly phone bills, the companies announced today.
Google also said that Sprint will ...
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Mobile Roadie revamps apps platform with iPad and mobile web
The Guardian (blog)
There are plenty of companies trying to help non-coders create mobile apps
with do-it-yourself services, but few have the traction of Mobile Roadie.
Its initial focus on music has seen the platform used by Madonna, Take
That, Taylor Swift, ...
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Google SPDY Accelerates Mobile Web
InformationWeek (blog)
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek In its ongoing quest for speed--essential
to make Web apps competitive with native apps--Google has demonstrated that
mobile Web pages can be loaded much faster using an experimental protocol
its engineers helped ...
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Cleanup in aisle sex: How app stores are censoring smut
Digitaltrends.com
Microsoft is working to scour Windows Phone Marketplace of apps that
contain sexually-oriented images or content. Why the change...and what
might it mean for Windows 8? In a change of practice — if not policy —
Microsoft has begun removing apps from ...
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Location-based services: Are they there yet?
Computerworld
We look at Facebook, Foursquare, Google Latitude and Yelp to see how their
mobile location-based services have prospered -- or not. By Brian Proffitt
Computerworld - Mobile users are more connected to the Internet than ever.
As of December 2011, ...
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Developers look to cash in on smartphone apps
Livemint
"In India, 85-90% app downloads are for feature phones. Smartphones such
as iPhone (from Apple Inc.) are not that deep inside the Indian market. iOS
(Apple's mobile operating system) is a better network for paid apps,
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Brightroll & Google Team Up for Video Advertising in Mobile Apps
ReelSEO Online Video News
Google and Brightroll today announced a new partnership that will see
Brightroll pre-roll video advertising inventory being pulled into mobile
apps through the AdMob SDK and the Brightroll AdMob Adapter. This makes
Brightroll the first video ...
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Google Play Adds Carrier Billing for Apps, Books, Music & Movies
ValueWalk
Today, Google Play published a post on their blog announcing that they
would allow Android users to apply all Google Play purchases to their
monthly cell phone carrier bill. This expansion includes all types of
digital content including mobile ...
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In a Samsung Galaxy Far, Far away... Will Android still Rule?
Mobile & Apps
For example it last year introduced its own Android software store, Samsung
Apps, which has about 40000 apps - a handful compared to Apple's 500000 for
the iPhone and 450000 for Android. And last month it announced its own
mobile advertising service, ...
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RIM Close to Hiring Marketing Chief, Stock Slumps
Mobile & Apps
A woman uses her mobile phone at the Blackberry World Event in Orlando May
1, 2012.(Photo: Reuters) (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd stock slumped
again on Wednesday, even as the company said it was close to hiring a
marketing boss to fashion a ...
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Vungle Attracts Funds From Google, Aol, Crosslink and Others
Private Equity Hub (press release)
Vungle, a company that helps mobile developers promote their apps through
video trailers, has raised $2 million. Investors include Google Ventures,
AOL Ventures, Crosslink Capital and angel investors Charles Hudson's
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T-Mobile Targets First Time Smartphone Buyers With T-Mobile Prism
Hot Hardware
T-Mobile announced its latest budget-friendly smartphone in the form of the
T-Mobile Prism. This Huawei-made device will cost just $20 after a rebate
and with a two-year contract. Users who don't want to commit to the
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Google Play adds carrier billing for digital content
Fiercemobilecontent
Google Play already supports carrier billing for Android applications.
Because Google must strike billing deals with each individual operator
partner, the expanded Google Play carrier billing is currently limited to
T-Mobile USA and Japanese carriers ...
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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Just 5 Percent of Android Devices: Why?
Mobile & Apps
(Photo: Google | Mobile & Apps) After 7 months of its release, the
percentage of Android OS 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, on Android devices
is finally growing. Google has released a comparison chart of different
version of Android OS.
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Windows Phone Plagued By Porn Apps, Microsoft Takes Action Against It
International Business Times
But aside from the extraordinary display options and growing popularity of
handset devices running Windows Phone, Microsoft's mobile device strategy
is falling short in one category: The Windows Phone operating system has
been plagued by porn apps.
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BOKU Signs Agreement with Sprint to Bring More Mobile Payment Options to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Adding mobile purchasing with BOKU will allow Sprint customers to continue
to charge online digital purchases from more merchants right to their
monthly Sprint bill." Purchases can be made right on the user's Sprint
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NYC-Based Mobile Tech Startup bMobilized Lands Funding From Two
Established ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The business case for a service like this is clear when one considers that
people now spend more time in mobile apps than they do online, and by 2015,
American consumers will transact an estimated $115 billion in goods and
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BlackBerry 10 OS: RIM Wows Developers with Virtual Keyboard, Prototype
Phone ...
Mobile & Apps
RIM will need lots of apps available as soon as BlackBerry 10 devices hit
the market, or it will be dead and buried by the mobile community. RIM is
already struggling for some time to keep up with competing mobile makers,
and increasingly more ...
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Google Play Direct Billing Now Offered By More Mobile Carriers
WebProNews
I was so relieved that I could directly charge my credit card on the
Android Market so my phone bill would not contain any nasty surprises.
Turns out that some people actually like the option of direct billing
though. To that end, Google Play announced ...
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Microsoft Announces June Developer Summit for Windows Phone
Gotta Be Mobile
With Microsoft announcing their developer summit for the Windows Phone
platform on June 20 and 21 in San Francisco, California, it appears that
three popular mobile operating systems will be hosting their developer
conferences in the summer period.
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Buzz App Awards 2012 Seeking Best Unsung Mobile Apps
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
buzzdoes, which powers spread-the-word marketing for mobile app developers,
today announced it is accepting nominations for the Buzz App Awards 2012.
Through the contest, buzzdoes seeks to find the next great mobile app,
which might otherwise go ...
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appsbar.com Recognizes "Fit Bottomed Girls" as the appsbar App of the Day
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Each day appsbar identifies an excellent example of an app built with
appsbar's iPhone app builder, Windows Phone app builder and Android app
builder. Today's App of the Day exemplifies how mobile apps can be made as
part of the community with Digi, ...
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Looking at location-based services
Macworld
But not all location-based services (LBS)—or their mobile apps—are
created equal. What follows is a look at the background and differing
approaches of four major social media platforms that provide LBS, with a
special eye to what it all means for ...
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Apple and Google May Become Virtual Network Operators.
X-bit Labs
Google is not too far behind and may also become a mobile virtual network
operator (MVNO) some time later. The biggest question is whether actual
operators will let the newcomers in. "In time, Apple will strike wholesale
deals with one or more mobile ...
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20 New Productivity Apps in April 2012
Practical Ecommerce
The month of April brought virtual assistants, search tools, planners and
task lists, text and dictation apps, and a laser pointer. Here is a list of
April's new mobile productivity apps for Android and Apple iOS. There are
both paid and free apps for ...
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Windows Phone Developer Summit kicks off June 20th, will we hear about
Apollo?
IntoMobile
Apple is holding their annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11th,
Google is holding their annual I/O event on June 27th, and now Microsoft
has just announced the Windows Phone Developer Summit, due to kick off on
June 20th.
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Cloud Services Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, Box & Cubby Compared
Tablet PC Review
You can then access those files either from within Finder on a Mac, the
standard Windows file system on a PC, any web browser, or the free apps
available for mobile devices. Those apps run on Android smartphones and
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T-Mobile Prism wallet-friendly Android phone launched
TechShout!
Running on Gingerbread or v2.3 of Google's mobile OS, the T-Mobile handset
has a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen stretched across its front panel. Being 3G
enabled, users should be able to browse the web with ease and even access
applications through the ...
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Malicious QR codes: a mobile security blind spot
PC Advisor
And what if that malware was optimised to target Apple's iOS, Google's
Android, or other mobile operating systems with a Trojan that would run in
the background and send passwords to its masters? It's an entirely possible
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BlackBerry 10: First impressions
Know Your Mobile
According to RIM CEO Thorsten Heins BB10 'is all about flow' and is
designed to give users a more agile mobile experience whilst on the move.
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Zillow Reports Record First Quarter 2012 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Zillow Mobile operates the most popular suite of mobile real estate
applications, with 10 separate apps across every major platform: Android
(smartphones and tablets), Kindle Fire, RIM (BlackBerry(R)), iOS (iPad(R)
and iPhone(R)) and Windows Phone 7(R) ...
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Glu Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Glu Mobile Inc. (NASDAQ:GLUU) , a leading global developer and publisher of
freemium games for smartphone and tablet devices, today announced financial
results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012. "The first quarter was
a strong start to the ...
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Google Play carrier billing extends to movies, music, and books
ZDNet (blog)
For Android users, one of the more convenient features that Google's app
ecosystem offers has been the ability to pay for app purchases via their
phone bills. The problem, however, is that that functionalty has been
limited to apps, even as Google ...
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The evolution of the mobile phone
Radio 1
Motorola MPx200 (2002): One of the first phones with Windows Smartphone OS.
Users could email, instant message and install applications. But Microsoft
didn't maintain its innovation and CEO Steve Balmer said in 2009: "We
screwed-up with Windows Mobile.
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Google Play offers carrier billing for books, music and movies on select
carriers
Ubergizmo
For those unfamiliar, direct carrier billing is where the purchases you
make for apps, services, music, videos, etc on your mobile device will be
charged to your phone bill as opposed to your credit card. The drawback to
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EA Mobile taking away games you've paid for – you don't own them
Android Community
Basically my title should be "You don't own your games or apps" but I
wanted to toss in EA Mobile so everyone knows who I'm talking about.
Apparently even if you buy a game (and pay $4.99) they can pull it from you
at will, it's only a license.
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Samsung the smartphone software pupil ready to defeat its Android master?
Globe and Mail
Samsung Electronics is the world's largest smartphone manufacturer and
biggest user of Google's GOOG-Q Android operating system. Samsung's
meteoric rise – in the first quarter of 2011 it shipped fewer smartphones
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Microsoft hopes Windows Phone summit can shrink the app gap
CNET
Microsoft is using cold, hard cash, and now a mini-conference, to lure
developers away from Android and iOS. by Jessica Dolcourt May 2, 2012 2:58
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