Hot on the heels of Google's earnings call at the beginning of the week, today was Apple's turn to publish their figures and, surprise surprise, they beat expectations and sold a whole load of bushed aluminium to mobs of doe-eyed consumers.
Google may have to fend of Canadian firm Research In Motion Ltd (RIM) when it comes to snapping up Nortel Networks Corp.’s patent portfolio, according to Bloomberg news, which says the BlackBerry maker could beat Google Inc.’s $900 million offer.
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.As many long-term Reality Check and Sunday Brief readers know, Google Inc. (GOOG) is one of the...
Texans looking to access Texas.gov, the official government website for the State of Texas, have another means in which to do so with the launch this week of a new app, available for free on the Android Market. Officials said the move was made...
Motorola | April 12, 2011 | Press Release
Coming first to Claro´s users, the Lapdock™ accessory for Motorola ATRIX provides an enhanced and more interactive computer-like experience
SÃO PAULO – April 12, 2011 – Motorola Mobility, Inc. and Claro announce the arrival of two highly anticipated products: Motorola XOOM™, the world’s first tablet with the...
Looking to expand its prepaid reach and tap into a rapidly growing market segment, U.S. Cellular Corp. (USM) unveiled a pair of no contract rate plans for smartphone devices.The plans begin at $60 per month and provide unlimited messaging 2 gigabytes of data transmission...
Yep, it's quarterly earnings season again. Google are usually first out of the gate with their numbers, and as expected they dished the dirt yesterday on the absolutely obscene amounts of money they've been making across the board. However the announcements were marred slightly by Google not managing to match analysts' forecasts.
Spint Nextel Corp. has joined the likes of AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA to allow direct carrier billing through apps purchased on the Android Market, leaving Verizon Wireless as the last major provider not offering the service.
Instead of using credit cards, subscribers of Sprint...
Location-based coupon dealer Scoutmob is now deep in the heart of Texas. The Atlanta-based company announced the addition of Austin to its listing of local mobile deal services along with nine other cities: Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Seattle and Washington...
Chipset vendor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is hiring Android driver development engineers, marking the company’s move into the tablet and smartphone space. The move may be a wise one indeed, considering that market research outfit Gartner expects tablet sales to jump from 70 million...
The first handset maker to launch its own channel in the bustling Android market arrived today in the form of Sony Ericsson. SE claims it is offering the channel so owners of their line of handsets have a place to find apps that are...
Eye-Fi Inc., makers of memory cards with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities, is introducing “direct mode,” which allows the transfer of photos from a camera with an Eye-Fi card for a direct and wireless transition to an iOS or Android device, including...
Further proof that the prepaid space is the mobile industry’s hottest segment came this morning with AT&T Mobility (T) announcing it will begin offering its first smartphone through its GoPhone offering. LG Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Thrive has been tapped as the initial prepaid smartphone...
We get it – application stores are cool. With the two biggest games in town, Apple Inc.'s App Store and Google Inc.'s Android's Market both running in to several hundred thousand apps and making developers millions of dollars, it only seems natural that others would want to irk the successful formula.
Funny things, analyst forecasts. The short-term ones tend to be fairly accurate, but the long-term predictions often fall entirely flat. That's not the fault of the analysts, it's due to the inherent unpredictability of mobile and technology markets. Nobody saw Android's success coming, just as nobody thought poor old Nokia Corp. would be in the sorry state they are today ten years ago.
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) continues to tweak its prepaid efforts adding a more pronounced international flair to its Boost Mobile subsidiary. Boost Mobile customers can now add unlimited calling, messaging and push-to-talk features to the carrier’s unlimited rate plan for an additional $5 per...
Google Inc. (GOOG) has reportedly acquired another mobile music startup in the run-up to its widely anticipated mobile music platform for Android.Toronto-based Pushlife was bought for a reported $25 million, but neither company has disclosed the financial terms of the deal."When we started our...
Financial Post | April 8, 2011 | Jameson Berkow
HTC Corp., the Taiwanese smartphone maker branded as being quietly brilliant, quietly surpassed the market capitalization of Finnish phone giant Nokia Corp. this week.
Valued at approximately US$33.8-billion as of market close on Wednesday, that figureexceeded the US$33.4-billion capitalization...
Portland, Ore.-based Urban Airship Inc. has launched in-app billing support for apps running on Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android operating system. The update allows developers to give users the ability to make one-click purchases directly from within their apps.Google launched its own in-app billing mechanism...
Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) has released a software development kit that gives developers an opportunity to build apps for the NOOK Color. The e-reader tablet is due for a firmware update this spring that will give users the ability to download third-party apps...
Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) has released a software development kit that gives developers an opportunity to build apps for the NOOK Color. The e-reader tablet is due for a firmware update this spring that will give users the ability to download third-party apps...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Hot on the heels of the launch of fellow bookseller Amazon's own Android Appstore, Barnes & Noble has today gone official with what has been rumoured for some time - an App Store for their tablet / eBook reader, the Nook Color.
Since Google Inc. announced late last month that the latest version of Android, Honeycomb, would not be open-sourced just yet, many in the development community have cried foul, labelling Google hypocrites and questioning whether Android is really "open," as Google so loudly proclaims it to be.
