Mobile Market Archive

  • TwitchTV Launches iPad and Android Apps; Expands Mobile Market Presence for Live Video Game Streaming Movement

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  • Analogix Announces SlimPort Compatibility with MyDP Mobile Connectivity Standard

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–To enable true HD and 3D streaming capabilities for mobile devices, eliminate royalties and restrictions of competing display standards and provide simplicity for consumers, Analogix ...

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  • Big Fish Games Emerges Dominant in Mobile Market over Mother’s Day Weekend

    SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Big Fish Games emerged as a dominant developer and publisher in the mobile games market over Mother’s Day weekend. With their “Mother’s Day ...

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  • PostUp Launches Twidroyd 4 – #1 Twitter Client for Android Becomes First Mobile App With LivePreview™ of Embedded Links to Web Pages, Photos, Videos and More

    PASADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PostUp, Inc., announced today the launch of Twidroyd 4, the newest version of the most popular and highest-rated Twitter client for Android...

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  • Digi-Key Launches iPhone App for Asia-Pacific Region

    THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Design engineers and purchasers in China, India, Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region can now conduct business with Digi-Key Corporation wirelessly with the availability of...

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  • Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones

    Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones

    In case you haven't heard, IPS panels are making inroads into the lucrative mobile market this year, and Hitachi's been working behind the scenes on something that should keep that momentum going. In the mainstream, touchscreen IPS displays are currently only available on Apple's iPad (and expected to show up in its next-gen iPhone), but should Hitachi's new production technique pan out, we might be seeing this screen tech in much more affordable devices as well. The company has fiddled with the arrangement of the touchscreen elements inside the panel, which it argues has made them cheaper and easier to produce and replace. All good news, but these things do take a while to filter through into reality, until which time you might wanna sate yourself with the latest desktop IPS displays, those ain't too shabby or expensive either.

    Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • ComScore: Samsung edges out Motorola in US mobile market share

    ComScore: Samsung edges out Motorola in US mobile market share

    Well, it doesn't look like the news is getting any better for Motorola these days --- ComScore's latest report finds that the company has slipped from its top spot in US market share among mobile OEMs into a virtual tie with Samsung and LG, with Samsung edging out Motorola by just "a fraction of a percent." They're followed by RIM and Nokia, who are now in a tie for a distant fourth place at 8.3%, and Apple, which is said to have a five percent share. Of course, these stats are just part of a broader report, but the rest of the results are a bit less surprising -- Verizon and AT&T are virtually unchanged in their position as the number one and two carriers at 31.1% and 25.2%, respectively, and the total number of subscribers in the country now stands at 234 million, of which 63.7% send text messages, 30.1% use a web browser, and 28.6% use downloaded apps.

    ComScore: Samsung edges out Motorola in US mobile market share originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu, NEC jointly develop new mobile OS

    Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu, NEC jointly develop new mobile OS

    Just last week, we asked the question if the world needs yet another mobile operating system (Samsung's Bada). Now it turns out Japan's biggest cell phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, apparently thinks the answer is yes. The telecom behemoth (55 million customers in Japan) today announced [press release in English] the development of a brand new "application platform for mobile phones", which is planned to go global, too.

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  • Location-based mobile advertising platform AdLocal enters America with years of Japan Know-how

    Location-based mobile advertising platform AdLocal enters America with years of Japan Know-how

    Mobile advertising is poised to become a huge growth area, with research firm Kelsey Group seeing the market grow from just $160 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2013. eMarketer projects mobile advertising spending in the US will balloon from $648 million in 2008 to over $3.3 billion in 2013. While some believe search will account for the biggest chunk of the market, others expect geo-aware advertising, another way of bringing "relevant" ads to users, to have a bright future, too. This is where AdLocal, a location-based, self-service mobile ad platform that (re-)launched yesterday, comes in. Offered by Sunnyvale-based Cirius Technologies USA, the platform has been around in Japan since 2006, currently commanding the largest share of location-based advertising in Japan's $1 billion [PDF] mobile ad space. And now Cirius is ready to utilize the years of experience the company gained in the world's most competitive mobile market in the US (AdLocal isn't available outside America and Japan at this point). AdLocal allows advertisers to manage their campaigns and publishers to add their mobile sites or applications by themselves through a Web-based dashboard. By locating a mobile user's physical location via GPS, cell identification and other methods, the mobile ad network can tell when a consumer is close to a specific business address and then serves up ads for that business in real-time.

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  • RIM to enter China with customized Blackberry

    RIM to enter China with customized Blackberry

    It took them a while, but now RIM finally is ready to follow Apple and enter the world's biggest mobile market, China, with the Blackberry. The company issued two press releases in the last days outlining their market entry strategy that's built upon a strategic partnership with Beijing-based IT service provider Digital China (which is the country's biggest). Digital China was chosen by RIM as the official Blackberry distribution partner and is expected to help sell the phones to end consumers and companies through their established sales network for computer systems and IT equipment.

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  • China Mobile starts selling Dell Mini 3i

    China Mobile starts selling Dell Mini 3i

    Dost thou desire an Android phone in Red Passion or Oiled Bronze? Begin thy journey, brave Sir Knight, to China where you will be able to purchase the Dell Mini 3i with 3.5-inch touchscreen for a few coins of the realm. The Mini 3i, as you’ll recall, is Dell’s first smartphone in almost half a decade [...]

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  • Japan gets LTE next-generation mobile services next year

    Japan gets LTE next-generation mobile services next year

    Faster data access with virtually no latency: LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile broadband networks are coming, at least in the world's most advanced mobile market, the nation of Japan. The country's biggest cell phone carrier, NTT Docomo, said yesterday at GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong it will go fourth generation as early as December 2010.

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  • NTT Docomo to start LTE services in Japan in December 2010

    NTT Docomo to start LTE services in Japan in December 2010

    Faster data access with virtually no latency: LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile broadband networks are coming, at least in the world's most advanced mobile market, the nation of Japan. The country's biggest cell phone carrier, NTT Docomo, said yesterday at GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong it will go fourth generation as early as December 2010.

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  • Dressed To Kill: Modu 2 To Sport Android Jacket

    Dressed To Kill: Modu 2 To Sport Android Jacket

    Israeli modular phone manufacturer, Modu, looks to be shaking things up with its next modular gadget – Modu 2. In a recent interview with TechRadar, Modu CEO, Dov Moran, has let (some of) the beans spill on Modu’s ambitions for its next generation of devices. For anyone who is unfamiliar, Modu’s modular ecosystem includes various “jackets” [...]

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  • HTC announces the HD2 (aka Leo)…for Europe

    HTC announces the HD2 (aka Leo)…for Europe

    You win some, you lose some. In this case, the European mobile market is the winner of HTC’s newest handset, the HD2 (previously known as Leo), while the US is s#^% out of luck…for the time being. This beautiful device is sure to make many a jaw drop with its glorious 4.3″ 480×800 WVGA capacitive touch [...]

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