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Can Mobile Phones Think?
Nokia's Beta Labs today released a new experimental application called Situations, and it portends a future where context awareness drives the mobile experience, and points to a time when our handsets...
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How to Reach Mobile Shoppers This Holiday Season
Mobile will play a bigger role than ever during the U.S. holiday season, according to IDC. It's crucial then, that retailers tackle a few key challenges — from building a mobile site to understanding...
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LTE: Around the World
Verizon, one of world's largest wireless carriers, today launched its LTE network, being the latest in a series of carriers who are spreading the LTE revolution across the world. So we decided to put...
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Gowalla’s New Strategy: Embrace Enemies & Extend
Gowalla, a developer of a location-based social networking app, has adopted a bold strategy: embrace its archenemies and use them to extend reach. In a new version of its app, Gowalla is making it easy...
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Flipboard: Future is HTML5, RSS & New New Advertising
Mike McCue, the founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile media company, Flipboard, seems to have figured out a business model for his 20-person company. It revolves around a new kind of ad network,...
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RIM Faces Challenges in Moving to New OS
Research In Motion's pick-up of The Astonishing Tribe should bring polish to the aging BlackBerry OS and improve the upcoming QNX platform. But RIM's challenge will be losing as little ground — not to...
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Evil Downside of Better Mobile Devices: More to Carry & Choose
Mobile devices are surely improving. Cameras in phones are replacing point and shoots, while small tablets offer features that once were the realm of laptops. While that sounds great, am I the only one...
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Why Nokia’s NAVTEQ Bought Hit Traffic App Trapster
NAVTEQ, a division of Nokia is rumored to have snapped up Trapster, a popular multi-platform traffic app in a feisty round of bidding. Trapster allows folks to report and get information about speed...
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DailyBooth Goes Mobile. Launches New iPhone App, Android App Soon
DailyBooth, a fast growing photo sharing based social network is launching its much awaited mobile app, which should give its competitors a pause. The iPhone app will soon be followed by an Android...
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RIM In Talks To Buy Gist
RIM, the company behind iconic mobile messaging platform, Blackberry is said to be in talks to acquire Seattle-based start-up Gist, according to industry sources. Gist, much like rivals Rapportive and...
View ArticleU.S. patent office declares Apple multitouch patent invalid… non-finally
Patent guru Florian Mueller reports today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively declared one of Apple’s key multitouch patents invalid, marking the second patent-related...
View ArticleGoogle Maps hits iOS, smacks down Nokia
The big news today is the release of Google Maps for iOS, and the app is already an unqualified success: David Pogue stumbled over himself to praise the new offering, and iPhone users made it the App...
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Why we’re excited about Structure:Data — Mapping Sessions
Spring is right around the corner, which means that the GigaOM conference season is about to kick into high gear. As usual, we’ll be starting off with Structure:Data, our two-day event about big data,...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s edge in the mobile enterprise
New data from Forrester Research (via Apple Insider) indicates end users increasingly want to use Apple’s devices on the job. The market research firm’s annual Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends report...
View ArticleBlackBerry’s ticking clock
Shares of BlackBerry slipped almost 5 percent today after Home Depot announced it will issue iPhones to nearly 10,000 executives and managers, replacing the BlackBerry devices those employees currently...
View ArticleWhy mobile advertising is finally ramping up
AdAge reports today that eMarketer has ratcheted up its forecast for the U.S. mobile advertising market this year, predicting industry revenues will reach $7.29 billion in 2013 rather than the $7.19...
View ArticleWhy Google will do just fine in mobile search
There’s plenty of analysis coming out of Facebook’s big media event in Menlo Park today — far too much analysis, in my opinion — so I’ll point your attention to this little-noticed piece from the New...
View ArticleDevelopers should be paying attention — at the very least — to Sailfish OS
The Finnish startup Jolla announced this morning via Twitter that it has released Sailfish OS SDK installers for Windows, OS X and Linux. The SDK was trotted out at MWC in Barcelona several weeks ago,...
View ArticlePodcast: Why the world needs wearable computing
From smart watches to devices that monitor health, wearables are hot items on the market today. In the latest GigaOM Research podcast, Michael Wolf and Jody Ranck discuss wearable’s place in the...
View ArticleWho else might be considering acquiring WhatsApp?
Digital Trends is reporting that WhatsApp is in negotiations to sell out to Google in a deal that could be in the billion-dollar range. WhatsApp has long been the subject of acquisition rumors and is...
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