NYC: No Taxi Hailing, Payment Apps For You
InformationWeek
After Uber released a mobile app that aims to help passengers and drivers locate one another, New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission quickly told taxi drivers to steer clear of such apps. By Eric Zeman ... "A driver must not use any electronic ...
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Google Announces Increase In Revenue (NASDAQ: GOOG)
Jags Report
Analysts are watching to see whether Google can make as much money on mobile devices as the company has on desktop computers. Advertising is Google's main business, but advertising does not make as much money on phones as it does on computers.
See all stories on this topic »Mobile wars: Stakes are high for Apple with iPhone5 launch as rivals catch-up
The Independent
In addition to Apple next week, HTC is launching a new mobile in New York the week after. And then there's Google, which has not only got its Nexus tablet but is also behind the "open" Android operating system, which is being used by so many of Apple's ...
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Nokia Could Reach $4.50 If Lumia WP8 Catches Windows 8 Wave
Forbes
The tech giants who are collaborating on creating a third ecosystem of mobile devices alongside iOS and Android announced the launch of their first Windows Phone 8 devices, the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820. While the new phones sport quite a few new ...
See all stories on this topic »Firefox Targets Developing States with Open Source Affordable Smartphones
techPresident
Mozilla hopes its phone will increase the use of the Web itself on mobile devices, instead ofmobile apps typically designed to work only with Apple or Google products. It still plans to release a mobile “store” where people can find and buy mobile ...
See all stories on this topic »Developers blast Microsoft for limiting Windows Phone 8 Preview
InfoWorld
Microsoft managed to rile up the Windows Phone developer community this week by announcing that the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview Program will only be available on a limited basis to those with published apps and the full SDK won't come out ...
See all stories on this topic »Why Apple and Google should be scared of Amazon
CNET
Oh, and did I mention that Amazon is reportedly working on a phone as well? Why does ... Amazon, for example, can't sell e-books in its iOS apps, unless it wants to implement in-app purchases and give Apple a 30 percent cut of its e-book revenues. On ...
See all stories on this topic »First to a Mobile Payment Application Wins!
CFO.com Magazine
And customers – who have been empowered by web search and, with their smartphones, can compare prices right in your store – won't use it if it provides no advantages over a credit card other than the short-lived kick of using their phones for something ...
See all stories on this topic »Nokia to start selling make-or-break smartphone in November
Reuters
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia will start selling its new smartphone, potentially its last chance to break into the most profitable part of the mobile phone market and secure its future, in November, sources at European telecoms operators said on Friday ...
See all stories on this topic »Dickson Realty investing in mobile app to draw new customers
Reno Gazette-Journal
The new roll out also included mobile apps that can be downloaded from the Google Play and Apple App Store. The apps can be ... App users can capitalize on smart phone touchscreens by drawing the search area that interests them. The redesign also ...
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Google Snaps Up VirusTotal, A Malware Fighter from Spain
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google has used its search engine to help Internet users detect malware, and some of its own services, including the Android mobile operating system, have had to combat malware in the form ofmobile apps that people download from the Google Play store.
See all stories on this topic »Inside Look at How Google Builds Its Maps
Mashable
Google is locked in a battle with the world's largest company, Apple, about who will control the future of mobile phones. Whereas Apple's ... Geo data — and the apps built to use it — are whereGoogle can win just by being Google. That didn't matter ...
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Big week for gadgets ahead of new Apple iPhone
The Associated Press
... had a hit since the Razr phone came out in 2004. Under new owner Google Inc., Motorola Mobility is trying to change that. ... Samsung, which surpassed Nokia as the world's largest maker ofmobile phones in 2011 and overtook Apple in smartphones ...
See all stories on this topic »Samsung Galaxy S3 hitting the 20 million mark means..
PopHerald.com
The new mobile operating system, the same OS running on the incoming Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and the Google Nexus 7 tablet, will add new features to the popular Galaxy S3 including the GoogleNow platform and the enhanced Google voice search which is a ...
See all stories on this topic »Motorola Droid RAZR M: Full Review
LAPTOP Magazine
It may not be a ground-breaking super-phone with a giant screen like the Samsung Galaxy S III or the HTC One X, but the compact 4.3-inch Motorola Droid RAZR M for Verizon Wireless packs plenty of punch and fits comfortably in any pocket or hand. For ...
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Hope Springs Eternal: RIM, Nokia Rally; iPhone 5 Looms
Forbes
And I really do think there could be an opening for Windows Phone 8, particularly if Microsoft can sow seeds of doubt with the Android OEMs about the conflicts Google has in both supplying software to handset makers and competing with them at the same ...
See all stories on this topic »Motorola Droid Razr M - black
CNET
The phone -- available now for preorder and officially shipping September 13 -- has fast dual-core processing, Verizon 4G LTE access, plus a generous helping of battery life. The Droid M is also handsomely crafted with ... Running Android 4.0 Ice Cream ...
See all stories on this topic »Got2App Launches Premium Mobile Marketing Service
PR.com (press release)
Got2App Mobile Services is a designer, developer and distributor of customized native apps and HTML5 web based apps geared toward establishing a mobile marketing presence for businesses and organizations of all sizes. ... Got2App's industry specific ...
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InformationWeek
After Uber released a mobile app that aims to help passengers and drivers locate one another, New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission quickly told taxi drivers to steer clear of such apps. By Eric Zeman ... "A driver must not use any electronic ...
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| How To Get Your Mobile Site Found Marketing Land They show a clickable phone number within the body of the ad, and, according toGoogle, increase CTR by 6% – 8%. • Click-to-download: These ads have been specifically crafted to drive downloads of native mobile applications, appearing only on the ... See all stories on this topic » |  Marketing Land |
| Twitter beats Facebook on mobile ads IBNLive.com EMarketer expects Google, which generates mobile revenues from both search advertising and banners in apps, to see US sales of $1.4bn in 2012 and $3.6bn in 2014, net of payments to app makers, publishers and other partners. Copyright The Financial ... See all stories on this topic » |  IBNLive.com |
| App of the Week: µTorrent Beta for Android Technoholik With apps like these, Android users longer need to rely on a PC for their torrenting needs, or have to sync the same content to the mobile device. µTorrent for Android reflects one of Android's strong points - you don't have to jailbreak the device to ... See all stories on this topic » |  Technoholik |
Jags Report
Analysts are watching to see whether Google can make as much money on mobile devices as the company has on desktop computers. Advertising is Google's main business, but advertising does not make as much money on phones as it does on computers.
See all stories on this topic »Mobile wars: Stakes are high for Apple with iPhone5 launch as rivals catch-up
The Independent
In addition to Apple next week, HTC is launching a new mobile in New York the week after. And then there's Google, which has not only got its Nexus tablet but is also behind the "open" Android operating system, which is being used by so many of Apple's ...
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| Android, iOS Gain Market Share At Expense Of BlackBerry In US Social Barrel New data from comScore reveals that Google's and Apple's mobile operating systems gained more market share in the US for the May to July quarter. Research In Motion's BlackBerry ... The comScore data reveals that 75.6 percent of mobilesubscribers sent ... See all stories on this topic » |  Social Barrel |
Forbes
The tech giants who are collaborating on creating a third ecosystem of mobile devices alongside iOS and Android announced the launch of their first Windows Phone 8 devices, the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820. While the new phones sport quite a few new ...
See all stories on this topic »Firefox Targets Developing States with Open Source Affordable Smartphones
techPresident
Mozilla hopes its phone will increase the use of the Web itself on mobile devices, instead ofmobile apps typically designed to work only with Apple or Google products. It still plans to release a mobile “store” where people can find and buy mobile ...
See all stories on this topic »Developers blast Microsoft for limiting Windows Phone 8 Preview
InfoWorld
Microsoft managed to rile up the Windows Phone developer community this week by announcing that the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview Program will only be available on a limited basis to those with published apps and the full SDK won't come out ...
See all stories on this topic »Why Apple and Google should be scared of Amazon
CNET
Oh, and did I mention that Amazon is reportedly working on a phone as well? Why does ... Amazon, for example, can't sell e-books in its iOS apps, unless it wants to implement in-app purchases and give Apple a 30 percent cut of its e-book revenues. On ...
See all stories on this topic »First to a Mobile Payment Application Wins!
CFO.com Magazine
And customers – who have been empowered by web search and, with their smartphones, can compare prices right in your store – won't use it if it provides no advantages over a credit card other than the short-lived kick of using their phones for something ...
See all stories on this topic »Nokia to start selling make-or-break smartphone in November
Reuters
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia will start selling its new smartphone, potentially its last chance to break into the most profitable part of the mobile phone market and secure its future, in November, sources at European telecoms operators said on Friday ...
See all stories on this topic »Dickson Realty investing in mobile app to draw new customers
Reno Gazette-Journal
The new roll out also included mobile apps that can be downloaded from the Google Play and Apple App Store. The apps can be ... App users can capitalize on smart phone touchscreens by drawing the search area that interests them. The redesign also ...
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| iOS 6 Release Date and What to Expect from iOS 6 Gotta Be Mobile iOS 6 is the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system. This software ...iPhone 4S. Updating to iOS 6 is an easy task for anyone using an iPhone or iPad with iOS 5, as the update should arrive as a download right on the phone. ... Like Google... See all stories on this topic » |  Gotta Be Mobile |
| Chevy adopts a bring-your-own-maps approach to navigation GigaOM Don't expect Chevy to open the floodgates – Google Maps Navigation and Apple Maps aren't suddenly going to pop up on your new Spark's in-dash monitor. The EnGIS-designed service was developed specifically for GM and it comes with a one-time fee of... See all stories on this topic » |  GigaOM |
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google has used its search engine to help Internet users detect malware, and some of its own services, including the Android mobile operating system, have had to combat malware in the form ofmobile apps that people download from the Google Play store.
See all stories on this topic »Inside Look at How Google Builds Its Maps
Mashable
Google is locked in a battle with the world's largest company, Apple, about who will control the future of mobile phones. Whereas Apple's ... Geo data — and the apps built to use it — are whereGoogle can win just by being Google. That didn't matter ...
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| Why Amazon, Apple tablet releases won't be a big deal until they're $100 or less VentureBeat That's exactly what happened when cell phone prices dropped to this level. India and China both have close to a billion mobile subscribers today. Cisco estimates that by the end of 2012, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of ... See all stories on this topic » |  VentureBeat |
The Associated Press
... had a hit since the Razr phone came out in 2004. Under new owner Google Inc., Motorola Mobility is trying to change that. ... Samsung, which surpassed Nokia as the world's largest maker ofmobile phones in 2011 and overtook Apple in smartphones ...
See all stories on this topic »Samsung Galaxy S3 hitting the 20 million mark means..
PopHerald.com
The new mobile operating system, the same OS running on the incoming Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and the Google Nexus 7 tablet, will add new features to the popular Galaxy S3 including the GoogleNow platform and the enhanced Google voice search which is a ...
See all stories on this topic »Motorola Droid RAZR M: Full Review
LAPTOP Magazine
It may not be a ground-breaking super-phone with a giant screen like the Samsung Galaxy S III or the HTC One X, but the compact 4.3-inch Motorola Droid RAZR M for Verizon Wireless packs plenty of punch and fits comfortably in any pocket or hand. For ...
See all stories on this topic »
| What Windows 8 needs to succeed BetaNews The goal of any app store is to provide as many choices as possible for users, but there is an inherent problem with having thousands, if not millions of apps available. You simply can not maintain control. Low-quality apps can easily flood into any ... See all stories on this topic » |  BetaNews |
Forbes
And I really do think there could be an opening for Windows Phone 8, particularly if Microsoft can sow seeds of doubt with the Android OEMs about the conflicts Google has in both supplying software to handset makers and competing with them at the same ...
See all stories on this topic »Motorola Droid Razr M - black
CNET
The phone -- available now for preorder and officially shipping September 13 -- has fast dual-core processing, Verizon 4G LTE access, plus a generous helping of battery life. The Droid M is also handsomely crafted with ... Running Android 4.0 Ice Cream ...
See all stories on this topic »Got2App Launches Premium Mobile Marketing Service
PR.com (press release)
Got2App Mobile Services is a designer, developer and distributor of customized native apps and HTML5 web based apps geared toward establishing a mobile marketing presence for businesses and organizations of all sizes. ... Got2App's industry specific ...
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