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New Kindle Update Available for Android (AMZN)
Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 9:18am | 90Read More...Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Kindle for Android, the free application that lets users read Kindle books on their Android-powered devices, now includes a number of new features. With the newest update, Kindle for Android now enables customers to search the full text of Kindle...
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Droid Certainly Does... Shipments To Surpass 55 Million Units This Year
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 1:21pm | 228Read More...Android, Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) smart phone operating system is expected to surpass 55 million units this year, writes Digitimes Research. Smart phone shipments for 2010 will top 280 million units around the world, a hefty 57% growth level from last years 178 million units. Smart phones will...
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NPD Says Android Is Now The Leading Smartphone OS In The US
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 3:13pm | 142Read More...According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, Android smartphone operating system (OS) by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) continued to gain share in the US consumer mobile phone market in Q2. The NPD Group said that for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2007, Research In Motion's (...
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Google Discontinues Nexus One
Monday, July 19, 2010 - 4:51am | 120Read More...Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has discontinued the production of the Nexus One smartphone. According to Mashable website, Google HQ has received the last shipment of the smartphone, following which there will be no more Nexus One for US consumers. However, the handset will continue to be sold through...
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Boku Launches New Android App
Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 12:14pm | 131Read More...Mobile payments platform Boku has recently announced receiving a strategic investment from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company has now announced it is launching an in-app mobile billing library for Android. According to TechCrunch, the platform lets developers monetize any Android app with in...
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Mensch of the Week-Google
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 12:00pm | 893Read More...My father always told me to be careful what you put on the internet. He never approved of Facebook, abhorred the idea of Twitter, and never understood why people blog. When I got my new phone in November, he couldn’t bear to watch how much time I spent texting, and surfing the web, and doing all...
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RIMM Delays The Development Of Its iPad Competitor
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 2:36pm | 336Read More...According to an article on CNBC, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is now among the tech shops that are rethinking their tablet strategy. Analyst Ashok Kumar of Rodman Renshaw said that the BlackBerry maker was hoping to offer a tablet powered by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android by the end of this...
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Sprint announces 4G smartphone - Much Ado About Nothing
Monday, February 22, 2010 - 3:28pm | 552Read More...This morning Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) announced it would begin offering a 4G smartphone in the next several months. The chatter suggests it will be an Android powered device that runs on Sprint’s 3G/4G network and will be manufactured by HTC. While this appears to be good news, particularly since it...
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Motorla Emphasizing Handsets and Set-top Boxes Could Reunite it with Microsoft
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 1:11pm | 407Read More...The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is looking to follow steps by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and others to bring more services to the home via the TV or more appropriately via the broadband connection. Verizon is already touting the ability to view Facebook and Twitter and there...
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Motorola Split Raises More Questions Than It Answers (MOT, NFLX, SNE, TIVO)
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 11:28am | 506Read More...Yesterday, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced it was splitting itself into two distinct companies through a tax-free spinoff slated to be complete by first quarter 2011. While we applaud the notion that splitting the company into two – one being Mobile Devices and Home with the second being Enterprise...
