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You may still can’t get the hot-new HTC One, but you can make your existing smartphone use its fancy backgrounds. Thanks to an enterprising XDA member, you can download beautiful wallpapers from the latest version of HTC Sense and use them on your phone. There’s a total of 18 different wallpapers to choose from, ranging…
Wikipedia has been working to make its site even more accessible to users in emerging markets of the world. Their latest gig involves allowing anyone to access the site’s 25 million articles via SMS and/or USSD. Funded by a $600,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, the new service will launch in the next few months,…
You would think that users are watching videos on their mobile phones while on the go, but you would be wrong. According to IAB’s research (where IAB stands for the Interactive Advertising Bureau), 63% of digital video screening on mobile phones happens at home, with 36% of these home-based digital video activities taking place in…
Google announced that more than 600 new Twentieth Century Fox movies and TV shows will soon be available for rent and purchase from Google Play and YouTube. Fox’s new release Prometheus in HD is already out on the store, three weeks ahead of the Blu-ray, DVD and video-on-demand release. During the next few weeks, even…
British retail chain Tesco acquired e-book provider Mobcast for 4.5 million GBP, which translates into $7.15 million. The move is part of Tesco’s digital efforts to reach customers on their computers and mobile devices. To that end, the company also acquired streaming music service provider We7 in June, and movie service BlinkBox in April 2011.…
One of the innovations that has specifically caught on amongst the mainstream audience is video watching on mobile and Internet. We have a new infographic to illustrate this trend, but before showing it to you, we want to highlight the key points related to online and mobile video watching: Close to 25% of all video…
The largest independent mobile video service Vuclip announced the results of a recent survey of women with 2,700 respondents from the U.S. The results suggest that 78% of women believe their time spent viewing content on mobile is increasing. Moreover, it found that approximately 55% of women are spending more than 30 minutes per day…
Barnes & Noble has struck a deal with DC Comics to bring their popular comics to the Nook Tablet and Nook Color users. The first batch includes more than 100 of DC’s graphic novels, including various Superman, Batman and Sandman titles, as well as the first storylines from The New 52, which is the initiative…
The rumor is that Samsung is either not particularly satisfied with Kobo or desperately wants to make its own e-book reading service. In any case, it is said that the future versions of the Readers Hub won’t be using Kobo, but some other service, most likely made by the Korean company. The screenshot above (which…
Juniper Research issued another press release dealing with prospects of the mobile adult video content. According to the research company, tablet owners present a specially interesting group for the content providers, with the user base set to triple by 2015. Tablet owners are generally more affluent than the average user and are more likely than…