Depending on who you ask, they’ll say Symbian is either up or down. In its second-quarter results released today, it shipped 19.6 million units, a 5 percent increase over the…

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You might ask what took them so long Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) may be joining Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in the mobile “apps store” market, according to CNET.…

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The worldwide mobile advertising market will be worth more than $12 billion by 2011, Gartner forecasts, but cautions that carriers must be careful if they want to get a piece…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has done an undisclosed amount of strategic investment in already-heavily backed online and now mobile HD video tech provider Move Networks. This is technically part of its…

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Frequent Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) forecaster Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, has come out with a whopper of a prediction that dwarfs many of his previous iPhone guesses. He’s…

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Despite the fact that the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) sells a phone every 18 seconds, the Finnish phone manufacturer doesn’t get much respect in Silicon Valley, Forbes reports today. The publication…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to push for more wireless broadband options in the U.S., and today took another step forward by launching ”Free The Airwaves,” a Web site advocating for…

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In our second of a series (first is here) of reviews on mobile content from the Olympics, we took a look at the major sports news sites – ESPN (NYSE:…

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The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are supposed to be one of the biggest digital events of all time with tons of content being available for all three screens: TV,…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) sold 18 million Windows Mobile licenses in 2008, two million short of its own goal of 20 million, the company said Thursday. The company blamed delayed launches…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has updated its popular Google Maps for mobile application with transit directions for Symbian S60 3rd edition and Windows Mobile devices, Google announced on its blog. The…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) held its annual financial analysts day, and talked in large part about it online businesses (our paidContent coverage is here). The company also talked about mobile advertising…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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-- 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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-- 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…

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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…

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