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Every Windows Phone that’s been sold to date has a dedicated search key on the bottom of the device that when pressed loads up Microsoft’s search engine, Bing. According to the analysts at comScore, as of October 2011 Bing has roughly 15% market share in the United States when it comes to search engines. That’s…
Similar to the problems that some iPhone owners started experiencing after upgrading to iOS 5, users of Nokia’s first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, are having trouble getting their smartphone to last for more than a few hours. And again, similar to how Apple released iOS 5.0.1 and then admitted that they’ll need to release…
Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies, recently came back from a trip to Japan where he learned quite a few things about the future of Apple products. One of the major stories is that Apple has invested a serious amount of cash, upwards of $1 billion, into manufacturing equipment for one of Sharp’s display factories.…
Tencent is to China today what Yahoo! was to North America in 1999. They’re huge when it comes to instant messaging, microblogging, and they even have a few portals up their sleeve. In other words, they’re massive. So what’s their mobile strategy then? Simple, really. Make Andoid apps available to those who already have Android…
Over the past few years we’ve seen operators backtrack on their once unlimited data plans and instead switch to offering their customers buckets of megabytes. H2O Wireless, which is a prepaid mobile virtual network operator that uses AT&T’s 3G network, used to have an unlimited everything $60 per month plan. For folks with enough common…
It’s recently been discovered by Light Reading that Verizon Wireless is looking to hire a “Global LTE Roaming Manager“. The position is based out of New Jersey, and the word “global” is a bit overblown in this context since they’re really only looking for someone to manage relationships for Canada and Western Europe. Now we…
Around this time last year three of America’s four largest wireless operators announced a bold plan to create a separate company that’d they would all have a stake in which would be responsible for advancing the state of mobile payments. They called the company ISIS. We don’t really know a lot about ISIS, except that…
When AT&T announced their intent to buy T-Mobile in March of this year, we freaked out. The United States needs more competition in the wireless space, not less. Everyone started complaining about the deal, with Sprint being incredibly vocal about the consequences of the government approving the deal. Earlier this week FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski…
It took a few years, but it’s finally happened. More smartphones were sold in China during Q3 2011 than in the United States. The exact number? 23.9 million versus 23.3 million. Not a whole lot, but consider this: the population of the United States is 307 million, meanwhile there are 1.3 billion people in China.…
Brands latch on to other brands in order to expand their target audience, and to reap the benefits of each brand’s unique properties. The companies that do this sort of propaganda remixing typically don’t have brands that are powerful enough to stand alone. Case in point, LG and Prada have just announced that they’re going…