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And the winners in mobile are: Apple and Google

Posted in Android, App store, Apple, iPhone on Jan 11th, 2010

Robert Scoble of Scobleizer interviewed Michael Schneider, CEO of Mobile Roadie (watch video below) an “up and coming” app development platform. Schneider and Scoble discuss many mobile/smartphone trends and topics. Here’s a short excerpt; Your mobile phone is really what your laptop was three or fours years ago … It’s really that powerful … As [...]

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Apple and Google go big for mobile ads

Posted in AAPL, App store, iPhone, Tablet on Jan 10th, 2010

As they saying goes; Go big, or don’t go at all … Both Apple and Google are going big for the mobile advertising space. Last week, Apple (AAPL) countered Google’s $750 million November 2009 purchase of AdMob by acquiring Quattro Wireless for nearly $300 million. NPR host Liane Hansen had Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster as [...]

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Converting a Troglodyte PC user to the iPhone

Posted in App store, iPhone on Dec 26th, 2009

I had a bit of fun at my friend’s expense this Christmas. We were having a discussion over the merits of iPhone. He’s a PC user and someone finally had to give him his first iPod. He is grudgingly beginning to understand the value of an iPhone, yet he “can’t use a virtual keyboard” … [...]

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Gene Munster discusses iPhone’s first mover advantage

Posted in AAPL, App store, Apple, Google, Research in Motion on Dec 18th, 2009

Piper Jaffray tech analyst, Gene Munster, appeared on Bloomberg radio (Dec. 16) and the prime topic was smartphones. Munster discusses iPhone and Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone platform first-mover advantage. The Piper Jaffray analyst also talks about Android, the rumored Google (GOOG) Phone, and Research in Motion’s (RIMM) Blackberry. Piper Jaffray has a $277 price target on Apple [...]

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Shanghai Unicom experimenting with a social networking site

Posted in App store, China Unicom, iPhone in China on Dec 14th, 2009

China Unicom has their new Wo Portal for delivery of value added services, including: news sites, video on demand, a mobile bookstore, and mobile TV (CCTV1-10). China Unicom has made no secret of their intention to build out their own app store (Wo Portal expansion or site to be named later?) to participate in the [...]

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