While Android is picking up steam with multiple handsets and carriers, data from Chitika suggests the Motorola Droid and Verizon Wireless still hold the biggest market shares. This shouldn’t be that surprising, as Motorola’s handset was the beneficiary of the $100 million advertising campaign that led to more than a million units being sold. The…
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Motorola Flipout heading to O2 and Vodafone Germany; Will be available for 349 EUR unlocked
Motorola is launching its newly unveiled Flipout smartphone in Germany. The Android-powered device will be available starting July via Vodafone, O2 and The Phone House, for 349 EUR ($428) free of contract. I guess the two carriers (Voda and O2) will also offer it on some contract which I’m guessing will involve giving away the…
Baidu, Symbian Foundation team-up to enable “Box Computing” on Symbian platform
Symbian Foundation and China’s largest search engine Baidu agreed to co-establish a joint laboratory with the goal to bring wireless “box computing” to the Symbian platform. As a result, developers will be able to incorporate robust search functionality into their apps and leverage this “platform within a platform” to expand the Symbian/Baidu ecosystem. From the…
Juniper Research: Mobile app revenues to exceed $30 billion by 2015
Juniper Research is out with a new report titled “Mobile App Stores: Business Models, Strategies & Market Segmentation 2010-2015,” forecasting that the combined revenues from apps funded by pay-per-download (PPD), value-added services (including freemium and subscription) and advertising is expected to rise from just under $10 billion last year to $32 billion in 2015! The…
Syndiant, Foryou Multimedia and ASTRI Labs develop super tiny pico projector engine
I’m pretty excited every time I get a press release related to pico projectors. That’s the way of the future and I can’t wait for a day to have such a device (which must be a smartphone, BTW) as my primary phone. On that note we bring you this story which involves three companies —…
RoadSync 2.0 hits the Android Market; Coming pre-loaded with many handsets
DataViz announced that version 2.0 of its Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync solution for Android, RoadSync, is now available from the Android Market. In the same press release, the company also proudly noted that their software comes preloaded on select handsets from Acer, Foxconn, Huawei, HP, Sony Ericsson and ZTE. As you probably know, RoadSync allows Android…
VimpelCom reorganises; Now headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands
VimpelCom Ltd. is a new business entity recently created as a holding company that controls Russia’s third-largest (VimpelCom) and Ukraine’s largest (Kyivstar) mobile operator. The company announced a series of personnel and organisational changes, as part of the plan to expand the business. The reporting structure has been divided into four business units – Russia,…
Microsoft paying developers to port iPhone apps to Windows Mobile 7?
When it comes to the number and even the quality of available applications and games, iPhone is the king. Android is growing fast as well, but it still has a long way to go before coming even close to Apple’s figures. Microsoft is trailing way behind along with the likes of Symbian, Maemo and others.…
After Symbian, AutoProfiles comes to Android
Is it a sign of times or what, when we have an app that started its life on Symbian being ported (most likely being re-coded from the ground up) to the Android platform? The app is AutoProfiles and as you can guess, it allows Android smartphone users to dynamically change their profile throughout the day.…
iPhone preorder madness continues – Is AT&T canceling Apple iPhone 4 preorders?
How angry would you be if you spent hours and hours trying to preorder an Apple iPhone 4 yesterday only to find out AT&T canceled your order the next day? Well, scattered reports across the web have said anxious would-be iPhone owners are getting a cancellation notice. In an e-mail to some customers, AT&T said:…