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Smartphone Prospects Are Encouraging New Handset Makers To Enter The Market - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sat 22 Mar 2008 05:02 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) must be making the cellphone business look too easy. With the company on track to sell 10 million iPhones this year—after only launching the device in July—it…

Now That The Bidding Is Over, Let The Debate On The Definition Of ‘Open’ Begin - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 20 Mar 2008 06:55 PM PST

Now that the auction is over, and we know Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has won, the attention will quickly focus on how the FCC will enforce the open-access requirements, and…

Spectrum Results Are Out; Google Bids But Verizon Wins - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 20 Mar 2008 11:50 AM PST

The winners of the recent government spectrum auction that raised $19.6 billion are finally being revealed. Based on early reports, the results are as expected: Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) had…

iPhone Round Up: Google Says Android Will Sell More; Rogue SDK Hackers; iPhone Developers Rejected - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 14 Mar 2008 08:32 PM PST

-- Hackers plot bypass: An independent group of software developers calling themselves the iPhone Dev Team claim to be close to breaking Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) brand-new software developer program. The…

Big Players Like Nokia And Google May Be Threatening The Carrier Model: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 12 Mar 2008 01:35 PM PST

Are the new services being developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO), Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and others threatening the carrier’s…

Yahoo Launches Location Service For Developers; But It’s Obviously A Beta - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 05 Mar 2008 07:00 PM PST

Trying to take a slice of the location-based services market, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) launched a new service today called Fire Eagle, which “is meant to be a location broker that…

Google, Yahoo And Microsoft Are Trying To Solve Basic Mobile Problems - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 04 Mar 2008 05:00 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) all made mobile announcements today, releasing technology that helps to make it easier for consumers to access content on their…

UPDATED: Mobile Advertising Forecasts All Over The Map From $11-$250 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 02 Mar 2008 05:55 PM PST

Advertising is the next big opportunity in mobile—by some estimates released this week, it will be a burgeoning $250 billion industry within two years, but other more conservative estimates predict…

Opera Dumps Yahoo For Google - 3 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 27 Feb 2008 06:54 AM PST

Chalk up this round to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Norwegian browser maker Opera has dumped Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) in favor of Google, making it the default search engine on the company’s…

Google Launches Speedy Search App For Nokia Smartphones - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 22 Feb 2008 10:18 AM PST

A new Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search application for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones makes getting to the search box and receiving results much faster, Google said Thursday on its blog. The…

Adobe And Others Wondering If iPhone Will Ever Support Flash - 5 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:36 AM PST

When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released the iPhone last summer, it did not support Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash Player, which meant Internet videos and other Web sites developed in Flash would…

Google’s Prime Position On Japan’s Mobile Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 20 Feb 2008 04:09 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have lost its contract to be T-Mobile’s search partner in Europe last week, but apparently, it has won Japan’s mobile web battle, according to a Businessweek…

@ GDC: Event Is Good Venue To Woo Developers, But There’s No Sign of Apple, Google Or Others - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 19 Feb 2008 12:30 PM PST

In many ways, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) keynote this morning was an hour-long advertisement, explaining to developers why they should pick the Ovi platform the next time they build a game.…

MWC Aftermath: The Industry ♥ the iPhone - 4 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 15 Feb 2008 04:42 AM PST

The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone bandwagon rolls on. At this year’s MWC, a cross-section of execs from operators, to handset makers, to content players were singing its praises—backing them up…

Spectrum Auction Slowly Coming To A Close - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 14 Feb 2008 11:11 AM PST

The government spectrum auction is slowing to a trickle and nearing to a close. In 16 days, and 71 completed rounds, a group of anonymous companies have pledged almost $20…

@ MWC: T-Mobile Picks Yahoo Over Google Around Europe - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 12 Feb 2008 05:38 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is to become T-Mobile’s exclusive web search provider across much of Europe from March, the pair announced in Barcelona. T-Mobile had already started using Yahoo’s oneSearch in…

@ MWC: Nokia And Google In Search Tie-Up - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 12 Feb 2008 03:21 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced Tuesday that they had struck a deal to integrate the search engine with the handset giant’s search application Nokia Search. Initially, Google…

Rough Prototypes Of Google’s Android Make Appearances In Spain - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 11 Feb 2008 10:14 AM PST

The first mobile phones loaded with Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Android software platform made their debut in Barcelona today, showing that the Open Handset Alliance is making progress even though reports…

Yahoo And Microsoft Would Lead In Mobile Email, But Fall Behind In Search: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 07 Feb 2008 06:31 PM PST

As Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) waits for a response from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to its $44.6 billion buyout offer, the analysis on the two companies continues to flow freely. For a…

Coincidence: Spectrum Auction Slowing; Verizon Raising Billions? - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 07 Feb 2008 03:06 PM PST

Yesterday, analysts speculated that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was a big participant in the current spectrum auction, but that it was likely Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) that pulled ahead in the…

Kuwaiti Investor May Be Interested In Clearwire And Sprint Nextel’s WiMax Networks - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 06 Feb 2008 01:30 PM PST

Islamic investment firm Investment Dar said Tuesday that it may be interested in investing up to $800 million in a public U.S. telecom operator, and analysts are guessing the two…

Spectrum Auction Update: Is Verizon In And Google Out?; New Rules - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 06 Feb 2008 09:44 AM PST

After getting the open-access provisions it was looking for in the FCC airwaves auction, observers are speculating that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has bowed out of the bidding. Forbes suggests that…

MSFT-YHOO Roundup: Mobile Implications Under The Microscope - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 05 Feb 2008 04:49 AM PST

Microsoft’s $44.6 billion dollar proposed bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to grab headlines, and more writers and analysts have pondered the implications for the mobile market. The deal wasn’t,…

Spectrum Auction: Bidding Continues On High-Profile “C Block” - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 04 Feb 2008 06:56 PM PST

The highly sought after “C block” of airwaves has received a new high bid of $4.74 billion. Bidding on the C block in the FCC auction had appeared to have…

Google Delays Android SDK; May Give Developers More Time To Be Distracted By iPhone - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 03 Feb 2008 07:35 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said last week that its developer kit for Android will be delayed for several weeks while it makes significant changes. As part of that, it will also…