Mobile Ad Space Bursting With Potential but Few Experts

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:07 p.m.
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First smartphones were redefined as powerful social media/Net devices and then: Boom! The advertising industry grabbed on in search of new sources of cash income. But the new ad business are finding everything a bit new and scary, and are still finding their feet ... Apple's iAd Slow Off the Starting Block ... There's been a bit of buzz about Apple's innovative rich-content iAd system recently. Firstly it was reported to be a success, with developers and ad partners finding the whole system

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RIM Dances Into a New Market with BlackBerry 6.0

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Published April 27, 2010 at 2:11 p.m.
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RIM's released video footage of its upcoming BlackBerry 6.0 software--its answer to Android and iPhones. The interface itself is a little unsurprising, but the message behind the vid is clear: RIM is cool, and not just for business stiffs ... We already described how the BlackBerry hardware is suffering a bit of an image problem--the recent minor upgrades almost amount to incremental product spam. Hence the company's future smartphone fortunes, assuming it wants to remain at least proximal to

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Tech Companies Amassing Cash Billions, But Spending Frugally

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Published April 27, 2010 at 12:02 p.m.
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According to the Financial Times, the ten largest U.S. tech companies have added $65 billion to their cash reserves over the last year. What are they doing with the money? Not a lot, it would seem ... The FT pins the growth at something like a 40% increase in the "cash mountains" the big tech companies own, and it's all during the last year. Importantly, this apparent gain in fortune has occurred even while really big, established names like Microsoft, IBM and Cisco Systems are reporting

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iPhones Might Get Automatic Location-Aware Ads

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Published Jan. 16, 2010 at 3:09 p.m.
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Some attention has been lavished on a recent Apple patent that involves using custom icons on the iPhone's homescreen--darn useful for contacts management. But inside the patent is something far more intriguing: adverts that know where you are ... Most commenters on the new patent are concentrating on the way it will relate to contact management on the iPhone--essentially it'll revolutionize the way it's currently done by letting you drop contacts onto the iPhone's home screens, complete with a

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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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Undead Tech: The Modern Subway

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Published Jan. 5, 2010 at 10:56 a.m.
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So far in the Undead Tech series, I've traced back the roots of some pretty rich items: a $75,000 car Audi, a $200,000 spaceflight, and thousands of dollars in laptops, phones, mountain bikes, and e-readers. This installment will poke around in one colossally important everyday technology--one that buys us geographical freedom for the price of a hot dog. It's winter, in a crippling economic recession. Lets talk about the lowly subway train, which, like this beloved Internet of ours, is a series

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Pre-2010 Apple Rumor Round-Up

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 1:18 p.m.
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It's been awhile since Apple's launched a product, so you'd maybe think the rumor mill is silent. Think again, fanboy. At the end of 2009, a number of rumors are popping up that point to an exciting 2010 for Steve Jobs and co ... First up is chatter about the next-gen iPhone. Apple, of course, has a long design-test-development phase before the release of new products, so it's no surprise to learn that the next-gen iPhone, in some version, is probably already a useable piece of hardware ... But

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Undead Tech: The Hooked-Up Luxury Car

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 11:03 a.m.
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In the run-up to the Detroit Auto Show, there have been a lot of new hoopties sneak-peeked by luxury car companies, but perhaps none as truly hooked up as the new Audi A8. The A8 is arguably this year's torch-bearer for slick-but-attainable luxury cars: It rolls on an eight-speed gearbox, streams Google Earth maps into its nav system and even does 3-D terrain mapping ... Sure, I already talked about cars once in this Undead Tech series, but this is different. Computerized cars like the ones in

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Undead Tech: The Smart Printer

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Published Dec. 18, 2009 at 10:38 a.m.
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An installment in a series tracking the evolution of some of the most exciting tech toys and tools of 2009 ... Printers have historically been lobotomized, plasticky pieces of bloat that we begrudgingly tether to our computers. Not anymore. Purveyors like Lexmark and HP have made novel revisions to their high-end models that let the printer operate independent of a PC, with Web access, network connectivity, apps, and services all built in. These things are so competent, so improved, they're

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