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If you haven't heard about the widget wars yet, you are about to. Last week, I moderated a panel at the Open Mobile Summit. The subject was "Apps in the Cloud," which explored the difference between accessing content through applications, which are downloaded to the phone, and content that...
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If the down economy is affecting experimental ad budgets, it doesn't seem to be the case for both Target and Gap, which are launching their very first iPhone applications just in time for the holidays. Tina Unterlaender, who is the management supervisor for the mobile division of AKQA , which led...
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Verizon Wireless ( NYSE: VZ ) issued a statement today that acknowledged some of its employees accessed the personal cell phone account of President-Elect Barack Obama. President and CEO Lowell McAdam stated: "This week we learned that a number of Verizon Wireless employees have, without authorization...
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BlackBerry may be losing at least one more high-profile user, but this time it's not due to the competition. President Elect Barack Obama has been a heavy BlackBerry user for years, but when he joins the White House, he'll likely have to break the habit due to security concerns and vulnerability...
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Back when the iPhone 3G was new and the App Store had just launched, it didn't take much to get the enthusiastic user base to download your app. But four months, 5,500 apps and 200 million downloads later, it's a bit more complicated. John SanGiovanni, the co-founder and VP of product design...
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-- Verizon Wireless ( NYSE: VZ ) has exclusive Beyonce content: Prior to Beyonce's new album release "I AM.. SASHA FIERCE" on Nov. 18, Verizon Wireless will be able to offer its customers on V CAST Music. Starting tomorrow, Verizon Wireless customers will be able to download and purchase...
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Mobile operators are falling over themselves to offer the latest mobile applications, from GPS services that help you locate your friends to chipsets that let you watch TV. So what is Verizon Wireless ( NYSE: VZ ) now touting? A remarkably un-high-tech service that lets subscribers send photos from their...
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Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) is spending $150 million to promote its cutting edge Nseries smartphones, and is appointing Wieden & Kennedy to handle the account after Interpublic Group had handed it since January 2005, AdAge reports . Previously, Wieden managed Nokia's $260 million global ad budget for...
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Thumbplay , a New York-based mobile entertainment company, said today it is trimming its workforce for what they are expecting to be a prolonged economic downturn. Thumbplay wouldn't specify how many employees would be let go, but confirmed it was much lower than the 25 percent reported by Silicon...
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If teens don't read newspapers, perhaps they'll keep up with the news on their phones, or at least that's what The Associated Press is hoping with the launch of two new youth-oriented mobile Web sites on Virgin Mobile USA ( NYSE: VM ) handsets. Both "AP Entertainment" and "CUBI...
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-- T-Mobile USA Holiday Line-up: T-Mobile said yesterday that it is releasing new phones and devices for the holidays. It's releasing the MOTOZINE ZN5, which has a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus and flash. T-Mobile is also releasing the 'cameo,' which is a digital picture frame built...
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In a critical day for the wireless industry, the FCC made three sweeping decisions today, pushing through two mergers and the approval of the controversial white spaces issue, which will allow for an alternative U.S. wireless broadband network. Perhaps, the Republican-led FCC felt it could spend all...
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