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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Reuters Dips Its Toe Into On-Demand Video News Services

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Published May 10, 2010 at 1:49 p.m.
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Reuters is about to release its Insider service to its subscribers this week, ready to deliver on-demand video content from the news organization and its media partners. It's a gentle, but potent, tweak to position Reuters for 21st century news-breaking ... Insider has been in the works for two years, ever since Reuters took a strategic decision to try to incorporate more video technology into its news reporting. The new service is customizable, and will incorporate 3,000 new clips per week from

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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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Report: $499 iPad Costs Apple $230 to Make, Bring on the Discounts!

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Published Feb. 10, 2010 at 1:53 p.m.
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iSuppli has again done its trick of totaling a device's component costs to show the kind of profits the maker can get. This time, it's the fabled iPad ... and iSuppli's data implies there's room for Apple to maneuver on sales price ... iSuppli reckons that the most expensive part of the device will be its screen, which tallies with the unusual IPS display tech, and the emphasis Apple itself put on the screen quality. Here's what it and other key components likely cost Apple: ... The screen: $80

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C'Mon Get App-y! The Self-Help Section Comes to Your iPhone

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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 12:57 p.m.
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We've all been there--so frustrated by an annoying co-worker or nagging spouse or whiny child or editor (ahem) that we feel like throwing whatever's in our hands. These days, that something is often a smartphone (for 75% of Web-browsing men, it's an iPhone) ... But before life's frustrations leads you to hurl 3Gs worth of connectivity at the nearest brick wall, try putting your device to a more constructive use. From reducing stress and conquering fears to controlling behaviors or managing

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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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Hot at CES 2010: Mullets and Prosthetics

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Published Jan. 11, 2010 at 8:37 p.m.
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As a first time attendee, I found the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming. There was the never-ending expansiveness of sights and sounds but a lack of any robust, breakthrough technology. As I methodically toured the show, I saw the popular trends--3-D television, e-readers and multi-touch devices--but also noted other emerging ideas. In fact, two trends were particularly noticeable in their attempts to fill in voids created by new technologies ...

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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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Olive and Thiel's Audio Solution Don't Need No Stinkin' Speaker Cables

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Published Jan. 5, 2010 at 1:33 p.m.
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Olive and Thiel, a music server maker and high-end speaker builder, seem to have rethought the way home audio is served, and together have cooked up an ethernet-based unit that'll get many a geek excited. But probably not audiophiles ... The basic principle of the Olive+Thiel HD Music System is that chunky, shielded speaker cables that are typically used to hook up performance audio speakers to AV gear are basically a pain to deal with. They require careful routing, you need to install them in

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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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