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Posted in January 2011

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Comment: Phart? hehehe - SReedy January 31, 2011

Android Dethrones Symbian Globally


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January 31, 2011 : For the first time in 10 years, Symbian is not the global OS leader. Google has taken the crown, and the regime of Android will rule in 2011

Chongqing Telecom Creates a Wi-Fi Ruckus


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January 31, 2011 : A unit of China Telecom will roll out more than 4,000 Wi-Fi nodes to blanket China's largest province with indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi coverage

Talking Smack on the WAC


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January 31, 2011 : 4:00 AM Openwave director says the WAC is wack

OpenWave Amps Up Browser Apps


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January 31, 2011 : Vendor announces Amplicity, a development platform on which operators can offer browser-based mobile apps

OS Watch: Samsung Tabulates a Record Quarter


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January 28, 2011 : Samsung's riding the success of its Android Tab, ZTE has displaced RIM in handset shipments and CostCo gets the Atrix in this week's OS digest
Comment: Re: WP7 European perspective - SReedy January 28, 2011

ZTE Sees Mobile Growth in the US & Europe


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January 28, 2011 : Chinese vendor is targeting the US and Western Europe for an onslaught of low-cost, Android-based smart phones

Microsoft WP7 Shipments Start Slow


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January 27, 2011 : Company shipped 500,000 Windows Phone 7 devices in December. That's a lot, but the growth is nowhere near Android's quickening pace
Comment: ChiTown - SReedy January 27, 2011

Elop Promises Nokia Will Change Faster


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January 27, 2011 : Handset maker's market share drops in the fourth quarter, as its new CEO urges the company to change faster and teases a new OS for Nokia

Moto Hangs in Mobility Limbo


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January 26, 2011 : Moto Mobility's first earnings report as an independent company were so-so as it waits for its new advanced devices to hit the market
Comment: Jha confirms February - SReedy January 26, 2011

Motorola Xooms Out Next Month


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January 26, 2011 : 4:20 PM A leak suggests the Xoom will be coming to Best Buy Feb. 17 for $700 to $800

Rumor: RIM Bringing Android Apps to QNX


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January 26, 2011 :

Verizon Grows on Data Deluge, Even as Subs Fall


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January 25, 2011 : Verizon saw its subscriber growth slow as consumers waited on the iPhone, but it had its best quarter ever for data growth

Apple Breaks 10B Apps Threshold


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January 24, 2011 : Apple continues to lead the pack in mobile apps, the little widgets that will increasingly make or break a mobile phone for consumers

Qualcomm, Nvidia Face Off in the Core


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January 24, 2011 : Smart phones are going dual-core in 2011 for a faster, better Web experience, and chipmakers are going head-to-head to get inside
Comment: Re: Light Math? - SReedy January 21, 2011

Starbucks' Mobile Brew


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January 21, 2011 : 3:40 PM Starbucks is serving up mobile payments, a brew carriers are wise to order

OS Watch: Google Sees Dollar Signs in Mobile


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January 21, 2011 : Android could be Google's mobile ATM, T-Mobile takes the blame and AT&T breaks it off with Nokia as this week's OS watch unwinds
Comment: Re: Google CEOs - SReedy January 20, 2011
Comment: Search & Ads - SReedy January 20, 2011
Comment: mCommerce - SReedy January 20, 2011

Google Does the Executive Shuffle


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January 20, 2011 : Co-founder Larry Page will take over as CEO as current chief Eric Schmidt slides into the executive chairman role
Comment: What the G? - SReedy January 20, 2011

Qualcomm Adds the Ching to ChaCha


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January 20, 2011 : 5:40 AM Qualcomm Venture Partners invests $3 million in ChaCha's SMS search biz

Verizon Soothes Non-iPhone Buyers' Remorse


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January 18, 2011 : 1:45 PM Bought a Verizon Android and now have iPhone envy? Big Red will give you $200 to ease the pain
Comment: Spotify - SReedy January 18, 2011
Comment: Re: Would you rather... - SReedy January 18, 2011
Comment: Re: Would you rather... - SReedy January 18, 2011

Comes With Carriers?


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January 18, 2011 : 1:00 PM As Nokia has learned, unlimited music packages, such as Ovi Music Unlimited (aka Comes With Music), are still a hard sell
Comment: Re: Would you rather... - SReedy January 18, 2011
Comment: Would you rather... - SReedy January 18, 2011

Sprint Raises 3G Prices to 4G Levels


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January 18, 2011 : Tacks on a $10 'premium data charge' to 3G Everything data plans as customers test the limits of unlimited data

Opera Browses Tablets


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January 14, 2011 : At CES 2011, Opera debuted its Web browser for tablet computers on a variety of different operating systems

OS Watch: iPhone Steals Moto's Thunder


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January 14, 2011 : Moto is getting the short end of the stick in this week's OS watch, as Verizon fawns over the iPhone and RIM projects to outsell it

Wireless in the Caribbean


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January 13, 2011 : 4:05 PM What I did for my Christmas vacation

Verizon's iPhone: Angst for Android


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January 13, 2011 : Android was the growth story of 2010, but with the iPhone on both major carriers in the US, 2011 will be more competitive

CES Operator Winners & Losers


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January 12, 2011 : 3:20 PM RootMetrics rates the operators' wireless networks at the cell phone black hole that is CES

Xplornet Plots Canadian 4G Network With Tellabs


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January 12, 2011 : Canadian operator is among the first to plan a WiMax network with a software-driven transition path to LTE
Comment: Re: Switchers - SReedy January 11, 2011
Comment: Switchers - SReedy January 11, 2011
Comment: Verizon's network improvements - SReedy January 11, 2011

Verizon iPhone Questions


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January 11, 2011 : 4:30 PM Will AT&T customers switch to Verizon for the iPhone, and can Big Red handle it if they do?
Comment: Re: The REAL question - SReedy January 11, 2011

Intel, Nvidia Make Nice for $1.5B


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January 11, 2011 : Fresh off its mobile dual-core processor coming-out party, Nvidia gets access to Intel's patents and vice versa
Comment: HTC - SReedy January 10, 2011

AT&T Has FauxG Too


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January 10, 2011 : 10:15 AM Now AT&T is calling its HSPA+ network 4G too, but why is it upgrading from 4G to 4G?

CES 2011: OS Watch Goes Gadgets


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January 7, 2011 : Android was far and away the star of CES, but other operating systems got on board the gadget train too

CES 2011: Skype Steals International Scene


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January 6, 2011 : 3:45 PM Wireless operators must cede their cross-border biz to VoIP giant Skype

CES 2011: Skype Buys Up Qik for Mobile Push


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January 6, 2011 : Doubling up on video streaming and video calling will give wireless operators a powerful partner – or competitor – to contend with

CES 2011: Moto's 4G Gadgets Blur Lines


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January 6, 2011 : Moto unveils an HSPA+ 'lapdoc' for AT&T, but Verizon gets both an LTE smart phone and a 3G-soon-to-be-4G Android 3.0 tablet

CES 2011: Microsoft... That's It?


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January 6, 2011 : 5:00 AM Ballmer touts the growth of Windows Phone 7, but doesn't say how he'll keep it going

CES 2011: AT&T Accelerates LTE Push


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January 5, 2011 : Promises to complete its LTE rollout by 2013 and announces 20 4G devices for 2011, including smart phones from HTC, Motorola and Samsung
Comment: AT&T Developer Conference - SReedy January 5, 2011

CES 2011: HTC 4G Phones for All!


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January 5, 2011 : 10:20 AM Even AT&T, according to an ad in Rolling Stone

CES 2011: Mobile DTV Ready for Prime Time?


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January 5, 2011 : Open Mobile Video Coalition uses CES to promote free-to-air ATSC-M/H digital TV devices and services, but will anyone tune in?

Sprint Shifts to Next WiMax Phone


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January 4, 2011 : Sprint's third WiMax-powered smart phone, the HTC Evo Shift, got official today ahead of CES