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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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-- Orange launching 60 TV channels in France: Orange is gearing up to launch a mobile TV service in France that will feature 60 channels of high-quality video on the carrier's 3G and UMA platform, Unstrung reports . The service is the first of its kind to use 3G and UMA (or Wi-Fi) to offer seamless...
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Vivendi ( EPA: VIV ) Games Mobile Europe is no more. Mobile Entertainment reports that European partners have received "Dear John letters" that effectively ends their contracts with the publisher. A snippet of the letter that ME has seen reads, "I regret to inform you that, following the...
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The use of the mobile internet in Britain grew eight times as fast as the growth of the wired internet, according to the latest study from research firm Nielsen Online. Of course, the actual number of Britons surfing the wired internet is still overwhelmingly higher. The Mobile Media View report found...
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Apple has not only been successful at selling millions of iPhones, but its application storefront has been a runaway hit, too. Launched in July, the App store is available in 60 countries, and is stocked with about 8,000 games, social networking sites, and other reference tools. The number of apps is...
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Orb Networks has launched an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that brings users' home media collections to their mobile devices. OrbLive , which is available for $10 or as a free trial on the App Store, can pull media ranging from music to videos, photos, webcams and live TV. The application...
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-- Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Adds Contacts To Sync For BlackBerry App: BlackBerry fans with a special place in their heart for Google services rejoice. Google Sync for BlackBerry has been updated to include two-way contacts synchronization. The downloadable application previously synched users' calendars...
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For most of the sports-viewing world, the big news in the deal announced today between ESPN ( NYSE: DIS ) and the Bowl Championship Series is the price tag—an estimated $500 million—and the apparently inexorable move of major sports from free over-the-air broadcast to subscription-supported cable. But...
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BSkyB ( NYSE: BSY ) is adding its channel lineup to 3's mobile TV offering in the UK. The satcaster's channels were already available through services offered by Orange , T-Mobile , Vodafone and in O2's now-finished mobile TV trial since 2005. Now the News Corp ( NYSE: NWS ) unit is bringing...
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-- Mywaves Adds Indian Studio Content To Platform: Mukta Arts , a 30-year-old film studio in India, is bringing its content to mywaves to promote upcoming films and pictures from its existing catalog. The new channel will include trailers, behind-the-scenes interviews, music videos, outtakes from films...
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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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Software maker Adobe ( NSDQ: ADBE ) and chip designer ARM Holdings are bringing web-based Flash to mobile phones, set-top boxes, televisions, cars, and personal media players the companies said today. The two are working together to optimize Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR for mobile devices based on ARM...