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Google Developing a Free Mobile Nav App? | Internet2Go – An Opus …

Posted by in Mobile on October 24th, 2009

picture:The PND device companies and their related suppliers are scrambling to reinvent themselves in the wake of better and better smartphone mapping and tools that get people from here to there. TomTom for example launched an …

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Users Spend $2.4 Billion on iPhone Apps | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in Mobile on August 27th, 2009

That number, $2.4 billion, represents AdMob’s estimate of how much users are roughly spending on an annualized basis on paid apps from the iTunes store. These figures are part of AdMob’s July, 2009 mobile metrics report. Much of the.

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New Facebook App Coming (Very) Soon | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in Mobile on August 19th, 2009

picture:The new Facebook app for the iPhone is coming very soon and TechCrunch was given an earliy look. Never a site to avoid hyperbole they called the new upgrade “the most useful app on the iPhone now, period.” While I’m.

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Will Nokia Fall Further? | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in Mobile on August 17th, 2009

picture:Nokia is the dominant handset maker in the world. But it has seen that position erode, especially in the smartphone market. For example, Symbian saw its global market share decline from 62.3% at the end of 2007 to 47% at the end …

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Second Quarter Smartphone Sales Figures | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in Mobile on August 12th, 2009

picture:Gartner released its Q2 handset sales figures today. Overall unit sales were down, though smartphone sales grew a very healthy 27%: Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, …

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Will Android Help Google with Share in China? | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in phone on August 10th, 2009

picture:The news comes that Google has lost market share in China to native search engine Baidu, which now has a roughly 65% market share according to a report recently issued by US investment firm Bernstein & Co (relying on third party …

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Video of Improved Windows Mobile 6.5 in Action | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in Mobile on August 2nd, 2009

picture:From the UK-based Inquirer comes a video demo of Windows Mobile 6.5 in action on a HTC Touch Diamond 2. The entire experience looks to be dramatically (indeed radically) improved from WinMo 6.1.

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Windows Mobile vs. iPhone or Android? | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in Mobile on July 31st, 2009

picture:The past 12 months have been a “tough year” for Windows Mobile, according to Microsoft’s Robbie Bach, president of Entertainment & Devices. Bach addressed financial analysts yesterday during an all-day meeting.

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MSFT's 'Race to Market Challenge' | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in Mobile on July 28th, 2009

picture:There’s something ironic in the name of Microsoft’s competition for apps developers: Race to Market Challenge. That’s because the name of Microsoft’s developer contest is also what Microsoft is facing — a race to.

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Google Mobile Adds Layers to Maps | Local Mobile Search

Posted by in Mobile on July 23rd, 2009

picture:The Google Mobile Blog announced that Symbian and Windows Mobile users can now add multiple search results and content layers — including Latitude — to Maps for Mobile:

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