No, Google Doesn’t Make Four Times More Off The iPhone Vs. Android
sparked headlines that the iPhone is more a cash cow for Google than its own mobile platform. But that’s making a lot of assumptions that...
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It’s A “Post PC” World: Smartphones, Tablets Outpace Traditional PC Growth
IT consulting firm IDC has just released its latest hardware forecast. According to the firm, 2011 saw “shipments” of nearly 1 billion...
Mobile Apps vs. the Mobile Web: “It Doesn’t Matter to Consumers”
released a new report this morning that wades into the mobile “apps vs. web” debate. It’s positioned as a metaphor or surrogate for a...
Google, Dell Prepare Tablet Counterattack As Apple Announces Three-Million iPad Weekend
iPad launch day: Where are all the sell-outs? On a conference call this morning about Apple’s just-announced stock dividend, Apple CEO...
Do Consumers Really Prefer The Mobile Web To Apps?
blog post that looked at apps and mobile web usage in the retail segment. The post carried the headline, “Retailer Mobile Websites Beat...
How Apple Made Twitter The Poster Child Of Android’s Tablet Failure
Seemingly taking no chances, Apple didn’t just announce cool features in the new iPad. It also took at dig at Android tablets, to show...
Android Market Becomes “Google Play,” Reflects Google’s Multiplatform Content Aims
Google Play! Today, Google announced that it is changing the name of its Android Market to Google Play, a move it hopes better reflects...
Google’s Smartphone Dominance, Tablet Weakness And Surprising Mobile Ad Numbers
Mobile World Congress is happening in Barcelona, Spain this week. I’d probably be attending but for SMX West starting tomorrow in San...
Will Google Latitude Succeed As A Loyalty Platform?
Latitude has millions of users, what the company doesn’t generally talk about is how many of those people are actively engaged with the...
New “Google Store” Not Beginning Of Larger Retail Push
opened a pop-up “store within a store” to sell Chromebooks in London. There were suggestions that if all went well Google might pursue a...
Google Wallet Gets Its Second US Carrier — AT&T
said in December that it was blocking Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus handset, because of “security concerns,” conspiracy theories...
Will “Apps For Timeline” Make Facebook The Next Major Apps Ecosystem?
Last night Facebook formally launched the previously announced “Apps for Timeline.” If you’re Zynga CEO Mark Pincus (or one of a handful...
Schmidt On CES: “There’s Always Android Products That We Don’t Know About”
CES is to spot new Android products out in the wilderness. Not to close them down, since Android’s free for anyone to use. Just to help...
Sprint To Get Galaxy Nexus, Will Allow Google Wallet
announced that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was coming to its network — with Google Wallet: Galaxy Nexus will also be Sprint’s second...
Who’s Surgin’, Who’s Saggin’: iPhone Or Android?
Some numbers released yesterday by NPD Group suggested that the iPhone was regaining some of the market share it had recently lost to...
Nook Teams With NY Times To Battle Amazon’s Kindle
announced a device promotion with the New York Times to battle its rival: [C]ustomers who purchase a one-year NOOK subscription to The...
Will The New Google TV Partners Be Enough To Help The Platform?
Consumer Electronics Show hits Las Vegas next week, and Google has announced that LG will be joining its Google TV line-up, while...
Report: Google’s 7-Inch Tablet To Be Cheaper Than Kindle Fire
discussion this morning about a DigiTimes report that Google’s forthcoming “highest quality” tablet is a 7-incher. Accordingly, the...
Google’s Coming Tablet: A Response To Kindle Fire, Not The iPad
The Kindle Fire is a deeply flawed tablet — yet it has disrupted the nascent tablet market and especially other iPad challengers. Indeed,...
For Consumers, Android Is More “Clopen” Than Open
Android “Open” For Whom? Google has made much of Android being “open” for use by anyone and thus potentially better than the “closed”...
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