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BlackBerry upbeat at Wireless Retail Summit

Craig McLennan, RIM's managing director for North America appeared upbeat as he took to the stage at IQMetrix's Wireless Retail Summit in Scottsdale Arizona today, blowing BlackBerry's trumpet while declaring his firm was “doing really, really well.” “It's an honor to be here: I'm...

TweetDeck beta highlights the 'shocking' level of Android fragmentation

TweetDeck, one of the most popular Twitter clients around, just closed a beta run on the Android platform and its results are staggering.If Android users are curious why their friends and family get to enjoy so many more apps on their Apple Inc. (AAPL)...

Bubble Motion expands voice blogging footprint to Japan

Bubble Motion has inked a new carrier deal in Japan for its BubbleBlog voice-blogging platform with KDDI Corp. (KDDIF). The service, which is particularly attractive in markets where voicemail isn't fully developed, is in the midst of an aggressive rollout in Indonesia, Philippines, India...

Mobile data surges 68% in first half of 2010

Whether or not carriers will admit it, one thing's for sure in the overall scheme of things: mobile data is being used at a faster clip than they can increase capacity.Take Allot Communications Ltd.'s latest report, wherein it calculated mobile data bandwidth usage increased...

Analyst Angle: Data traffic growth drives the content delivery platform (CDP) market: As mobile data traffic explodes, operators will increasingly turn to CDPs to manage—and profit from—it.

The torch has been passed: Mobile data traffic now surpasses voice and it will continue to grow indefinitely. As a consequence, operators need to find ways to not only support this new wave of traffic, but also profit from it as well. Content delivery...

Vevo makes mobile debut on Apple's iOS

The music video site Vevo has released an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch and is working on apps for the iPad, Android-powered devices and other mobile operating systems.The app, which is sponsored AT&T Inc. (T), extend's the premium music video service to...

Samsung gives free Galaxy S' to iPhone 4 complainers

Samsung UK is giving out free Galaxy S smartphones to people who have publicly expressed their frustration with the new iPhone 4 on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Flipboard – the ultimate social network magazine on iPad

If you’re a social geek like me, then Flipboard is the iPad app you’ve been waiting for, aggregating Facebook, Twitter and other feeds into a very appealing magazine-like style.

Fluid new interface or seasickness? Blackberry OS 6

RIM is showing off yet another sneak peek of its BlackBerry 6 operating system today, releasing a YouTube video monday filled with tons of tweetery and far too much Facebook for a traditionally enterprise phone

Motorola shows off its Charm

Motorola is trying to ‘charm’ its way into consumer hearts with its new Blackberry look-alike Android device. The much rumored Motorola Charm has now been confirmed and legitimized by the firm itself, and will be sold exclusively through T-Mobile in the US this summer.

Consumers tapping into smartphones' potential

Consumers are increasingly tapping into the advanced features of their mobile devices, according to a new report released by Compete Inc. as part of its Quarterly Smartphone Intelligence Survey.The firm noted that during the first quarter of this year nearly one in three smartphone...

@ Uplinq: Qualcomm entices developers with augmented reality SDK, peer-to-peer support

SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. has paid $3 billion to developers using its BREW platform, CEO Paul Jacobs told a crowd of about 3,000 during yesterday's keynote speech at the company's first Uplinq conference. That $3 billion amounts to an average selling price of...

Foursquare waits for investors to check in

Foursquare, the smartphone app which lets one “check in” at various real-life locations, proceeding to use that information to spam ones mates via every social network under the sun, is close to locating a bit of funding of its own, it has been reported.

Vodafone Australia prepares to launch Nexus One

Google's Nexus One is continuing its global sales tour, with Vodafone’s Australian branch - Vodafone Hutchinson Australia (VHA) - today announcing it is getting ready to sell the Google Nexus One in Australia, exclusively on Vodafone.

Snaptu brings apps to feature phones

While Smartphones are mostly snagging the headlines thanks to their enormous growth in market share, feature phones which run a non-smart OS and are Java enabled seem to be fading further and further from public consciousness.

Twitter expands sphere of mobile influence with places

Twitter Inc. just did the inevitable. Twice.First it launched a geolocation-based service called Places. Then a few hours later, the entire service crashed and stayed down into the late hours of Monday night out on the West Coast.The fourth day of matches at the...

Worst of the Week: Do it for the children

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Worst of the Week: iPretend

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Reality Check: Communications overload – solved

Editor's Note:Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Last week, Jim did a very thorough job describing the intricacies (and providing an excellent analysis) of the...

Shopping reaches cloud computing heights

With physical stores increasingly coming into competition with online retailers, it seems almost inevitable that one would begin to borrow from the other

@The Cable Show: Bringing TV and content up to the modern era

LOS ANGELES – Kicking off the final day of the cable industry’s big soiree, Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski tried to dampen obvious concerns in the room over his latest regulatory plans. After duly applauding the cable industry for the massive investment it...

@ Digital Hollywood: How smartphones define us, why video hasn't taken off

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. – Few, if any, technologies have taken off as quickly as smartphones have in the United States and it's changing the American lifestyle in the process. At the end of 2008, the U.S. market had a smartphone penetration rate of 15%;...

Reality Check: Listen to what he says

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.This industry provides plenty of topics, and I was torn this week whether to focus on earnings...

New Twitter for Android app pops up

We test out the new Twitter app for Android, bringing you the first screenshots. Review to follow