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BlackBerry Bets Against Native Apps (Again)

While Apple iOS and Google Android have attracted hundreds of thousands of apps, BlackBerry remains stuck at some single-digit percentage of that number. Is it that BlackBerry users don't have the same appetite for apps that other smartphone users have?…

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A Glimpse Into Next-Gen Retail Apps

Sometimes you see something so compelling you just know it's the start of something big. The 7-iCollection iPhone app recently launched by Green Tomato for 7-Eleven Hong Kong fits that bill. Simply put, it uses the phones "augmented reality" feature…

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The Skinny on the New iPhone Guidelines

Yesterday Apple updated various pieces of its developer rules/requirements. The change that got the most press was that Apple was "opening up its popular App Store to products made using Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) Flash program," according to The Wall…

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The Google Maps Behemoth

Last week, Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering, made a blog post announcing 100 million users a month for Google Maps for Mobile. In a fragmented, emergent mobile world, mapping is one area where there is a dominant leader.…

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Is Android Launching In-App Carrier Billing?

Google posted a somewhat innocuous-sounding legal update to its Android Developer Terms and Conditions a few weeks ago: In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to highlight the changes: • In Section 13.1, “authorized carriers” have been added as an…

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Is the Windows Mobile 7 Hype for Real?

Microsoft’s struggles with mobile are no secret. Worldwide smartphone marketshare for its Windows Mobile OS is estimated to be about 2 percent (Admob, May 2010), and MSFT just discontinued the Kin phone, weeks after launch. It would be easy to…

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Apple’s Ecosystem Still Gaining Momentum

Recently I was asked by an analyst, “How sustainable is Apple’s iPhone growth really? If another device comes out with similar functionality at a much lower price, and on a better network, couldn’t there be a market share erosion?” A…

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