Cracks Show in Google's Nexus One Strategy

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Published Jan. 11, 2010 at 4:49 p.m.
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Google's Nexus One just keeps popping into the news, but this time its for all the wrong reasons: Barely a week since its launch, the complaints targeted against it are growing from lots of angles. Did Google make a boo boo? ... Over at PCWorld is the most damning collection of charges against the Nexus One, and that's even without ripping into the nastiness of the "superphone" label used by Google's team during the launch event. That's since been called into question, after it turned out the

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Apple's News Strategy: Steal Google and CES Thunder

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Published Jan. 5, 2010 at 12:13 p.m.
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Apple just announced that its App Store has blown past three billion app downloads, which is impressive. But the timing is curious, as are the swirling rumors about the upcoming Apple Tablet. Is Apple trying to out-PR CES and Google? ... Apple's press release, coming with words from the man Steve Jobs himself, broke just now. And the fact that three billion downloads have been achieved is frankly astonishing--the two billion figure was only reached at the end of September, and as the guys at

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Game Changer: iPhone Apps That Work on the Zune HD

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Published Sept. 21, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
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Microsoft may be building a self-branded smartphone to combat the iPhone. But with over 60,000 apps, Apple's behemoth App Store might be too big to beat. What if a Zune (or a Zune-phone) could run iPhone apps? ... That's the potential shown by WordMonger, a little iPhone game made by developer Foundation42. Engineers there ported their iPhone game to work on the ZuneHD in under 12 hours, reports Mashable. But how? (Below, a video of the iPhone game working on the Zune.) ... The trick: the

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Is 3jam Better Than Google Voice?

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Published Aug. 7, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
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You've probably heard a lot about Google Voice since Apple punted it from the iTunes App Store: It's a free telephony service that allows one phone number to ring all your phones. It also lets you receive and send SMS messages on your computer, centralize your voice mailbox on the Web, block and re-route callers, record calls, and perform other bits of phone-related chicanery. The only real problem with Voice is that it's hard to get into--you need an invitation. And like all things Google, it's

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Your iPhone Could Kill Cellphone Towers, Steal Your Identity

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Published July 29, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
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That iPhone in your pocket is nasty. If you're not careful about screening SMS's it can steal your personal details. And if you're careless enough to jailbreak the thing, it can kill cell-phone masts. Seriously--even Apple says so ... Two cybersecurity experts are due to reveal a gaping security flaw in the iPhone's handling of SMSs at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference today. It's a simple hole through which a malicious SMS--which may appear as benign as a single random character, from a

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Motorola to Inject Life Into Android, With Developer Program

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Published July 24, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
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It's becoming clear--the future of the smartphone is intimately tied with app development, and that's something Motorola knows. It's trying to promote app building for the Android platform with a new MOTODEV program ... The developer program comprises new MOTODEV Studio software, an Eclipse-based development environment that dovetails with Google's own Android SDK. It's designed to facilitate app building, and it's tailored to suit Motorola's own Android handsets. There's also the App

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Apple Could Overtake Nokia's Smartphone Share in Four Years

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Published July 8, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
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The popularity of the iPhone and the App store is driving Apple's growth so rapidly that it will overtake Nokia in smartphone market share in just four years. A report from Generator Research predicts Apple will sell 77 million iPhones by 2011, the same year its rising star crosses paths with Nokia's falling sales numbers ... Current trends suggest Nokia's share will drop from 40% today to around 20% in 2013. Meanwhile, Apple is expected to continue grabbing share, hitting 33% in the same year.

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Ten Days In, How's the Palm Pre Doing? Not Too Badly

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Published June 16, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.

Here's one for the iPhone haters: Just ten days into its life, Palm's Pre seems to be doing not as badly as some hoped. There are, of course, some big plusses and minuses to talk about, and it turns out that some of our early Pre predictions were pretty accurate ... Sales ... Though Palm holds the absolute sales figures very close to its chest, some analysis placed the figures at 50,000 units in the first weekend, and other rumors suggested that the follow-up webOS phone, dubbed Eos, is on hold

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The Slick New Ads in iPhone OS 3.0

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Published June 3, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
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In five days, Apple will likely loose a new iPhone operating system on the world, and with it, new expectations of what a phone can do. Less glamorously--but no less importantly--it will usher in a new phase of innovation for mobile advertisers, who make the free apps we know and love a worthwhile pursuit for developers.In anticipation of iPhone OS 3.0, mobile ad provider AdMob has been hard at work figuring out three things: 1) how its ad units can take advantage of all this social networking

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Five Days to New iPhone: Rumor Round-Up

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Published June 3, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
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As we get closer to the new iPhone, the rumors get hotter (even hotter than our last round-up). Here are the more interesting stories, one of which is a doozy ... Chinese iPhone in July, Along with the Rest of the World?A Chinese release for Apple's favorite toy has been expected ages, and news about it has surfaced and sunk before. The main hang-ups were the actual details of the contract with China Mobile, which seems to have been angling for some control over the Chinese App Store and maybe a

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