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During Apple’s fourth-quarter conference call yesterday, CEO Steve Jobs ripped into the competition. In particular, he criticized Google Android for being too fragmented and said the “open” label doesn’t mean a thing if it means that end users and developers have to suffer through a poor experience. Google’s Andy Rubin, who is a key figure…
Research In Motion was able to avoid a BlackBerry ban in the United Arab Emirates and it has now struck a deal with regulators and mobile operators to bring a variety of mobile services to the region. The deal could bring mobile payment and banking services to BlackBerry smartphones in the region and it’s a…
The Verizon iPhone rumor just won’t stop and now we’re hearing reports that Apple is in the late-stage testing for its smartphone on the largest mobile operator in the United States. The Boy Genius is reporting that Apple has a CDMA smartphone which in in “AP” testing mode, which is the last stage before a…
Steve Jobs jumped into the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call today and didn’t sound too impressed with the potential iPad competitors. The company shipped more than 4.1 million iPad units this last quarter and this was still below what analysts were expecting. Perhaps that peeved Steve Jobs off a bit, as he tore into the potential…
By most common-sense accounts, Apple had a strong fiscal fourth quarter with $20.3 billion in revenue and more than $4.3 billion in profits. The company did sell more than 14 million iPhone units and more than 4.1 million iPad devices but some of these marks were below analysts’ expectations. “We are blown away to report…
Well, we knew that Verizon would be offering some tiered mobile data plans and it looks like the pricing information has leaked out. It appears that by the end of the month, you’ll be able to pay $15 for 150 MB of data or stick with the unlimited plan for $29.99 a month. This news…
If you think it doesn’t matter what the default search engine is on a phone, then you should check out the data from Chitika: the company said that more than 96% of Apple iPhone users search with Google. The Google App, one of the more popular entries in the App Store, accounts for 8.68% of…
A recent milestone by Google AdMob shows how big the market for mobile advertising could become. “Exciting milestone – the AdMob network has served 300 billion ads since 2007!,” Google tweeted. I remember when AdMob first got started and there was still a ton of questions about how sustainable a mobile advertising network could really…
Most of the hype you see around location-based social networking is about the serendipity of meeting your friends when they’re out and about or how it will be used for location-based advertising. The new Apple iPhone and Android app Unsocial isn’t concerned with those things, as it is using LBS to help professionals connect. The…
If you’re on the fence about getting a Windows Phone 7 device on Orange, you may be happy to hear that the carrier said the Samsung Omnia 7 will offer High-Definition Voice. HD Voice is a technology offered by Orange which aims to provide a higher-quality of voice communication. It’s not used by many other…