Reuters news agency has a report that Hewlett-Packard (HP) will introduce smartphones in early 2011 using webOS HP acquired Palm earlier this year for $1.2 billion (£754 million) and has always maintained that they would continue to support the OS. HP has had Windows based smartphones for some years and although the phones have been…
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Android makes huge gains in US Smartphone market
comScore’s August mobile figures are out and US smartphone ownership is up by a massive 14%, but it’s not great news for RIM or Apple. Following yesterdays Nielsen results today we have comScores August results and it confirms the decline in popularity of the BlackBerry and the rise of Android. The results include the three…
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Intel to release tool to port iPhone apps to other platforms?
According to a report on MacWorld Intel is developing a tool that will make it easier for developers to port iPhone applications to Intel-based smartphones, tablets and other devices The tool will identify changes that need to be made in an iPhone application, making it easier to convert the application to run on Intel-based hardware,…
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Ad network Millenial Media adds new features for Android and iOS
Millennial Media has updated its software developer kits for Android and iOS (Android SDK 3.6.1, iPhone SDK 4.0.4, iPad SDK 4.0.4and respectively), improving experience and performance and adding support for additional advertising and marketing features such as video interstitials, and tailored ads. Here’s a quick feature run down for each mobile OS: Android SDK 3.6.1…
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More than 2 million Europeans bet via mobile
More than 2 million sports book customers in Europe now using the mobile to place their bets. A new report from analysts Juniper Research shows that mobile betting accounted for more than 70% of total global mobile gambling wagers in 2009, with the vast majority coming from the well-established iPAT service in Japan. Additionally consumer…
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iPhone to get refit for CDMA
According to the Wall Street Journal Apple are working on a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) version of the iPhone for US network Verizon. Earlier in the week we had predictions from many Apple watchers and analysts on Apple’s Q4 results and as part of that we said that one of the watchers was, predicting…
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Android stengthens it’s position in the US smartphone market
Android now has first place in the US smartphone market, with both Apple and RIM fighting hard for second place. According to August data from Nielsen Company, Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months, while Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS are in a…
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Adobe Indesign gets a Kindle plugin
Amazon have launched a Kindle plugin for developers using Adobe InDesign. Amazon has launched a free to download Beta Version of Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign, The new tool allows content publishers to more easily make titles available for Kindle by converting Adobe InDesign files directly into Kindle books. “Our aim is to make it…
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Amazon raises the Kindle royalty rate in the UK
UK authors and publishers can now get the full 70% royalty rate from ebooks sold via Amazon’s self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform. Amazon has introduced a new ebook royalty rate for the UK of 70%. Up until now publishers in the UK were only elligible to a 35% royalty – YES 35% – for sales…
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Users want mobile site not apps
A study by network Orange has found that “european” mobile users prefer mobile websites to apps. The Orange “Mobile Exposure 2010”, annual independent study, measures how mobile media users are engaging with mobile content and the mobile internet. The research, covers mobile users – including iPhone users – in just the UK, France, Spain and Poland rather than the…
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iPhone gets some glasses
Google’s iPhone and iPad mobile search app now comes with Google Glasses added. The image search technology will allow iPhone users to point their phone at an object and Google will do the search. The new feature – present in the Android app – uses the new technology to search for images taken from the…
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Opera launch an ad exchange
Seems like everyone wants to own an ad empire, Google, Apple, Microsoft and now Opera. Browser software company Opera has a launched what it calls a “revolutionary platform” for publishers who want to capitalise on the “untapped potential” of the 66.5 million Opera Mini users worldwide. The Open Mobile Ad Exchange service, is a cloud-based…
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John Lewis launches mobile strategy
Next Monday sees the launch of the never knowingly undersold’s retailer’s first mobile version of their 100,000 product online site. The new mobile site launching on the 11 October will enable customers to buy from the full johnlewis.com assortment as well as locate their local shop. Customers can access the new site from their mobile…
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Twitter CEO Evan Williams steps down
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams’s move sees Dick Costolo promoted to CEO amid speculation over site’s future ownership
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LG delays launch of Android 2.2 tablet – software update on the horizon?
Google’s head of mobile Hugo Berra was said to have spooked many a manufacturer last month when he openly noted that Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) is “not optimised for use on tablets”
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Speed kills – the mobile user experience
Lack of speed, kills the mobile user experience, dead. Research has found that the biggest turn off for mobile users is waiting for mobile pages to load. A client once said to us “the mobile web? Isn’t that just the normal web on a small screen?” It’s a scary thought and it’s not an uncommon…
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Ballmer bullish on Windows Phone 7
Microsoft’s head honcho CEO Steve Ballmer has told the Wall Street Journal that he expects big things from Windows Phone 7 (WP7), but he’s not predicting that the smartphone will take over from the PC. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Ballmer explained why they didn’t produce their own WP7 handset, and who…
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Wired UK to do an iPad version that “won’t be better than the magazine”
Publishers Condé Nast are to launch an iPad version of UK Wired to test the market. The iPad version will however not be going monthly immediately. The first version is intended only as a way of testing the water. The original announcement from the Wired blog explains that the iPad issue will be built in-house…
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How to lose £8 million in three years – buy Yospace
We all know that Mobile can be a volatile area, it’s new and there’s no guarantees that anything will work. So it’s no surprise that we learn from the Telegraph.co.uk that mobile video content platform Yospace was sold by publisher Bauer for just £1, three years after being bought for at least £8 million in…
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Apple results sweepstake get your predictions in.
We’re in readiness for Apple’s Q4 results and the pundits are getting their predictions in for what Apple will announce in two weeks time. Horace Dediu at Asymco’s predictions are iPhone units: 12.2 13 million (65% 77% growth) Macs: 4 million (30% growth) iPads: 3.3 5 million iPods: 9.4 9.7 million (-5% growth) Music growth: 26.7%…