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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Digital Music From Mobile Pandora, Sony's iTunes Rival

BY Kit EatonFri Nov 20, 2009 at 6:54 AM

Digital music turned the recording industry upside down several times already, and given the amazing rate of change it's going to keep evolving dramatically. A couple of news items today point to how this evolution will mean we ...READ»

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Will Customer Outrage Ruin Verizon's Smartphone Campaign?

BY Chris DannenThu Nov 12, 2009 at 3:46 PM

Verizon Wireless is on a roll: its Droid phones are making headlines, advertisements are getting under AT&T's skin, 4G is almost ready to roll and everyone seems convinced the carrier will eventually get the iPhone. But could ...READ»

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Phone-Cloud Lets You Ditch Office Landlines

BY Chris DannenFri Oct 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM

For many office workers, landlines are a redundant nuisance: one more voicemail account to check, one more thing to ring during a clandestine nap. But most office buildings wreak havoc on cell reception. New intra-office phone ...READ»

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How to Mobilize Your Social Media

BY Dilithium VideoSpaceThu Oct 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Your Entire Social-Network Audience Is Not on a ComputerREAD»

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Undead Tech: the Wrist-Mounted Cell Phone

BY Chris DannenMon Oct 19, 2009 at 4:17 PM

Glamour shots of this concept cell-phone wristwatch have been bouncing between design blogs, and Samsung announced recently that it would release a real-life analog in Europe by the fourth quarter of this year. But the wrist-mounted ...READ»

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Furious Sidekick Owners Blame Microsoft

BY Chris DannenTue Oct 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM

Update: T-Mobile says that much of the data may indeed be recoverable on Microsoft's backend, according to the New York Times. Engineers in Redmond are "optimistic that much of it can be recovered," but individual customers have yet ...READ»

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Amazon Streamlines On-the-Go Sales--Opens 1-Click Mobile Payments to Third Parties

BY Clay DillowTue Oct 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM

That familiar "Buy Now With 1-Click" button, so enticing on Amazon.com, is about to become a temptation for mobile customers everywhere. Amazon is offering its Mobile Payments Service (MPS) platform to third parties for integration ...READ»

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Amazon Brings One-Click Buying to Mobile Apps

BY Chris DannenMon Oct 5, 2009 at 1:20 PM

Amazon's patented one-click purchasing has been the boon companion of plenty of impulse purchases. Now the retailer is looking to bring the one-click experience to mobile phones for businesses that use its PayPal competitor, Amazon ...READ»

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Google Embeds Bigger Ads Into Smartphones

BY Chris DannenMon Oct 5, 2009 at 1:02 PM

If you use Google AdSense to monetize your site, you'll now be able to run large, fancy ads when people visit your site from an iPhone, Pre, or another large-screen smartphone. According to TechCrunch, the new JavaScript ad modules ...READ»

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ISPs to Add Mobile Broadband to Service Plans

BY Chris DannenMon Sep 28, 2009 at 2:22 PM

Internet providers like Comcast and Time Warner are beginning to offer mobile 3G service as a bundle with home Internet, reports the New York Times. The goal: undercut wireless providers like Verizon and AT&T, who sell such ...READ»

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Verizon May Cancel Plans for Palm Pre

BY Chris DannenFri Sep 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM

Verizon has reportedly lost interest in carrying the Palm Pre smartphone, according to the Street. The Pre is currently offered only on the Sprint network, which has been losing customers of late (though its prepaid division, Boost, ...READ»

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Evernote: Your Other Brain, for Windows

BY Chris DannenFri Sep 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM

Evernote is a remember-everything notebook app beloved by obsessive developers, project managers, and generally forgetful creatives everywhere. This week the company launched a revamped Windows version, which will bring it up to speed ...READ»

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How Foursquare Can Steal Local from Twitter

BY Chris DannenWed Sep 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM

Foursquare, a hyperlocal where-to-go app for smartphones, announced they'd be opening business accounts earlier this week, potentially beating Twitter to a rich revenue model. But Dennis Crowley, Foursquare's founder, says he's not ...READ»

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The HP-85: iPhone of the 1980s

BY Chris DannenMon Sep 21, 2009 at 4:03 PM

On Friday we reported a new iPhone app that makes it easier to start a small business. The idea that a small, portable computing device could help grow a concept into company isn't a new one; in fact, it was the genesis of HP's marketing campaign for their early 1980s PC, the HP-85.READ»

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Autodesk's SketchBook Goes Mobile, Has Pressure-Sensitive Brushes

BY Chris DannenWed Sep 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM

Art nerds know that Autodesk's SketchBook Pro is the go-to animation for illustrators, but what they'll learn tomorrow morning is that it's also a powerful tool on the go. SketchBook Mobile is the handheld edition of its popular ...READ»

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BICSI Fall Conference and Exhibition

BY Clay DillowWed Sep 16, 2009 at 1:13 PM

Back when information transport systems were but networks of hard wires moving telephone signals, Building Industry Consulting Service International pulled itself together from a handful of small telcos looking to discuss concerns in ...READ»

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MobileBiz Bootcamp

BY Clay DillowMon Sep 14, 2009 at 6:07 PM

"Mobile." If there's a single buzzword that's caught fire right now, "mobile" is napalm hot. Mobile apps, mobile ads, mobile devices, mobile Internet . . . it seems that the future of just about everything involves packing it to go. ...READ»

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What's So Hard About Augmented Reality, Anyway?

BY Chris DannenThu Sep 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM

Yesterday I posted about Nokia's anemic vision of augmented reality. And while we should all hold the world's largest phone-maker to a high standard when it comes to technology like AR, it's worth discussing why the future of these ...READ»

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Mobile Payments Are Taking Off. But Which One to Use?

BY Chris DannenTue Sep 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM

Mobile payments system Boku just announced that it will work with a bevy of social networks and gaming sites. But competitor Zong, was recently chosen to pilot Facebook's virtual currency, called Credits. Both sites will face ...READ»

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To Combat iPhone, Microsoft Unleashes Slowness, Confusion

BY Chris DannenWed Aug 19, 2009 at 1:14 PM

Microsoft will use one version of its Windows Mobile operating system to combat Android sales, and another version against the iPhone, According to Digitimes. The hare-brained two-tier strategy won't roll out until October, when ...READ»

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3G.co.uk reports on 3G Mobile Broadband

BY Lydia HowardMon Aug 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM

Europe : Newly released 3G+ and Long Term Evolution (LTE) forecasts by technology and media specialist Coda Research Consultancy show that portable laptop and netbook users accessing the internet via mobile broadband will number 418m worldwide by 2017...READ»

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Vietnam ramps up to 3G launch

BY Lydia HowardWed Aug 12, 2009 at 11:15 AM

I was in Vietnam in the middle of May, and it was my first visit. I was really overwhelmed by the extent of modernization that is taking place there...READ»

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Seven (More) Reasons to Ditch Your iPhone

BY Chris DannenSun Aug 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM

It's been a nasty week for iPhone users. Apple has buckled to pressure from AT&T and denied Google's Voice application from the App Store: a nifty service that helps you consolidate phones and manage your voicemail online.READ»

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Android Surpasses Windows Mobile in Web Traffic

BY Chris DannenThu Jul 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM

According to AdMob, Web traffic from Google Android devices is quickly overtaking Windows Mobile in the smartphone segment with 25% month-over-month growth in June. The advertising company, which does 40% of its business serving ads ...READ»

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Growth of Mobile Services in India

BY Lydia HowardWed Jul 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM

Since I joined Dilithium Networks in June, in the exciting field of mobile video, I have had a chance to reminisce about my 15 year on and off association with the telecommunication industry in India from a vendor perspective.READ»