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Twitter is now apparently making more money from mobile users that those accessing the service from their computers. At the conference hosted by The Economist Group in San Francisco, the company’s CEO Dick Costolo said that Twitter has generated more ad revenue from its mobile platform than from its website on many days in the…
Freemium games are obviously working for large gaming publishers like Glu Mobile and Gameloft when EA wants to join this trend. Up until this point, Electronic Arts only offered premium titles such as Need for Speed, The Sims 3, Madden NFL and Tiger Woods. And while that strategy is still working for the company, freemium…
Good news for TELUS’ customers with Galaxy S II X smartphone – the carrier and Samsung have started rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich update, with some users around the web already getting it via Kies. The official launch date for the new firmware is set at June 12th and I guess the over-the-air update…
Dolphin Browser for Android got another update. While it’s nothing major, it does introduce few cool improvements, including: The ability to customize your launch screen with 3 options: the last open webpage, homepage and new tab page. This new option is available from the “Lab” under the Settings option. From here you can also restore…
More and more users are getting a tablet, whether it’s the Apple iPad or some Android-based one (or perhaps the BlackBerry PlayBook). According to Yankee Group, tablets in use in the U.S. will climb from 25 million in 2011 to more than 134 million in 2015, with sales eventually eclipsing those of PCs. Apple is…
Yup everyone and their mama have a mobile phone these days. However, you may want to know the specifics like what’s the smartphone ownership structure and how many folks are accessing their email while on the go. St. Louis-based digital marketing and design agency Steadyrain gathered all the data it could found and used it…
There was once a time when mobile phones had just one port, the power port. Then someone figured out it would be easier to drive a car without holding a phone up to the side of your head, and thus the headset jack was added. Phones soon started getting smarter, so another daring individual said…
When it comes to Android versus iOS, most folks in America associate Google’s OS with Verizon, while Apple’s Jesus Phone is seen as something you get from AT&T. That hasn’t stopped AT&T from offering high end Android devices however. The first Motorola Atrix, and the subsequent Atrix 2 that launched just 10 months later, pushed…
With less than 12 hours to go until Apple gets on stage and shows off the next version of iOS, Google’s Andy Rubin (pictured above, left), the father of Android, used Twitter to announce to the world that over 900,000 devices running his mobile OS are being activated on a daily basis. That’s 81 million…
Photographs sent to 9to5Mac show a Moscone West covered in Apple regalia for WWDC. Besides the traditional Apple logo, some banners being hung have iOS 6 emblazoned on their size. The signage for “the world’s most advanced mobile operating system” all but guarantees that a portion of WWDC will be spent discussing the next version…