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gPhone Is Just A Rumor; But Android Developer Angst Is Real - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 14 Jul 2008 11:39 AM PST

Over the weekend, a stream of rumors flowed from Sun Valley, Idaho, where Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives supposedly talked about a Google-branded phone. I’ll explain what happened, but first off,…

Apple’s MobileMe Also Has Activation Problems; But Might Be The Killer App For Apple Long-Term - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:04 AM PST

Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) new Web service called MobileMe, which allows people to sync their contacts, calendar, email and other data between their iPhone and computers, is also experiencing activation problems…

Interview: Jeff Bradley, SVP, AT&T: Enterprise Not An iPhone-BlackBerry War - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Jul 2008 04:38 PM PST

Most of the iPhone hype is concentrated around the consumer opportunity—how many ravenous fans will line up on July 11 to purchase the new iPhone 3G—but a potentially larger opportunity…

Microsoft Buying Portugal’s MobiComp For Mobile Data Backup And Storage - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 26 Jun 2008 06:34 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) continues its push into the mobile space… the software giant will acquire Mobicomp, a Portugal-based mobile software company specializing in storage and restoration of mobile data. The…

Yahoo And Publicis Work Together On Mobile Advertising Initiative - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 25 Jun 2008 08:51 AM PST

Today, Paris-based ad holding company Publicis Groupe formed an ad network spanning all four major ad serving systems—Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google/DoubleClick, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX)—to tightly coordinate…

Symbian As We Know It Dissolves On Its 10th Anniversary; More Details On Nokia’s $410 Million Buyout - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:17 PM PST

Nokia announced this morning that it will pay $410 million to buy the remaining shares of Symbian that it did not already own and then turn the assets into a…

Mobile Developers Still Favor .Net and Java, But The Popularity Of Linux And Android Is Growing - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 20 Jun 2008 11:08 AM PST

One way to look into the future to see which cell phones will be popular is by figuring out what platform developers are building applications for today. Developers tend to…

Mobile Content Bits: Palringo-RIM; Viva Vision; MSNYuuZoo; Hello Kitty Portal; Duke’s Sticky Notes - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 19 Jun 2008 10:55 AM PST

-- Palringo Available On RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) Devices: Mobile instant messaging company Palringo has released its software client for BlackBerry smartphones. The firm’s Rich Messaging Service is now available for…

Google Dominates Mobile Search: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 18 Jun 2008 09:15 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dominates the mobile-search market, owning up to 61 percent of the mobile searches in the U.S. during the first quarter, according to Nielsen Mobile. Trailing behind Google…

No Zune Mobile Phone For Microsoft - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 09 Jun 2008 06:04 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says they have “no plans” to create their own mobile phone, completely dismissing the idea that they could follow the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone’s lead by fusing…

Microsoft To Improve Windows Mobile’ s Music Experience - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 06 Jun 2008 03:09 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is looking to music to help it compete with its mobile rivals including RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), and Nokia.The software giant told Reuters Friday that…

Industry Moves: Oberon Names COO; MMA President Resigns - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 04 Jun 2008 10:42 AM PST

-- Oberon Media: Oberon Media, which develops casual games for multiple platforms including PCs and mobile phones, said today that Don Ryan, the company’s SVP of publishing has been promoted…

@ WAN: Mobile Journalism: Can Publishers Find Their MoJo? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 03 Jun 2008 05:35 AM PST

A panel I chaired at the World Editors Forum at Gothenburg, Sweden, heard how Reuters reporters are using “MoJo” toolkits to gather news, how Telegraph.co.uk is planning to start a…

Qualcomm Creates Mobile Internet Strategy To Go Head-To-Head With Internet Giants - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 29 May 2008 10:53 AM PST

Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) unveiled its mobile internet strategy today at its own Brew conference in San Diego, showing that competition is heating up as internet giants Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo!…

Mobile Content Bits: Brew Gets Flash; Juicecaster Adds Location; Nokia Goes Live; Guitar Hero Rocks - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 28 May 2008 10:16 AM PST

-- Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) announced today at the Brew conference in San Diego that they have upgraded the Brew mobile platform to support Adobe Flash…

Windows Mobile To Grow 50 Percent Per Year—Pacing Smartphone Market - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 27 May 2008 02:37 PM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) expects global units sales of its Windows Mobile software to grow at least 50 percent in the fiscal years 2008 and 2009, reports Reuters. It “expects to…

Microsoft Mobile Push Focused On Both Business And Consumer; Single Device To Dominate - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 23 May 2008 06:15 AM PST

Microsoft would like to be all things to all people when it comes to mobiles, saying it plans to focus on both business and consumer, rather than one or the…

Unlimited Data Plans Drive More Mobile Web Usage In The U.S. Over Britain: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 21 May 2008 09:25 AM PST

U.S. smartphone users spend an average of four hours and thirty-eight minutes a month browsing the mobile Web, whereas their British counterparts spend about two and a half hours a…

Microsoft Offers Mobile Ads On Messenger and Hotmail - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 21 May 2008 04:25 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced yesterday that it would allow ads on two of its mobile services—Windows Live Messenger and its Windows Live Hotmail. The ads—in the form of banners--will be…

Motorola Provides Updated “White Spaces” Device To FCC For Review - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 09:09 AM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) planned again to try and show the FCC that a device can operate on unlicensed TV spectrum, called the “white spaces” without causing interference. They planned to…

Microsoft Launches Live For BlackBerry; Enters Popularity Contest Between Apple And RIM - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 12 May 2008 10:52 AM PST

If the popularity contest is going to be fought between the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone and RIM’s (NSDQ: RIMM) BlackBerry devices, then Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) wants a piece of the…

RIM Puts Microsoft’s Hotmail, Messenger On BlackBerries - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 12 May 2008 05:00 AM PST

BlackBerry users will finally get to use Hotmail as well as Windows Live Messenger on their handsets, out of the box, by the summer, after RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and Microsoft…

Microsoft Enters Low-End Handset Business To Target Undeveloped Countries - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 08 May 2008 11:15 AM PST

For some time, handset manufacturers, such as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Motorola (NYSE: MOT) have been targeting developing countries to increase their global marketshare. Now Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is entering…

Microsoft-Yahoo: Links To All Of Our Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sat 03 May 2008 10:54 PM PST

For quick access to our coverage on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) withdrawing its offer to purchase Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) on paidContent.org… -- BREAKING: Microsoft Withdraws Offer For Yahoo -- MSFT-YHOO: From…

Adobe Sets Flash Free; Aims For 40 Percent Mobile Penetration By Year’s End - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 04:08 AM PST

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is licensing its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices in an attempt to make the technology as ubiquitous on handsets as it is on PCs.…