RIM Execs Dish Details on BlackBerry 10, BES 10 and the Enterprise

Despite shrinking U.S. mobile market share and an ongoing loss of consumer confidence in the company, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) is still putting the enterprise first. [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent’s revenue grows, loss shrinks
Alcatel-Lucent reported growing revenue and a shrinking loss for the first quarter of 2011, helped by...
Google’s Android Eating Away at Apple, BlackBerry Lead
Google's Android mobile operating system is slowly chipping away at the market share lead of iOS from...

Adobe Flash discontinued on Android today, making way for HTML5

As of today, Adobe will disable new installs of Flash via the Google Play Store, marking the end of Adobe Flash on Android devices, and therefore shutting itself out from 85 per cent of the mobile market. [...]

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Adobe says no Flash Player for Android 4.1, plans to withdraw app on Aug. 15
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Adobe Calling Quits on Flash for iPhone
Adobe is halting development of a Flash-to-iPhone software tool introduced with it's Creative Suite 5...

Android and iOS dominate mobile market, says IDC

Android was on over two-thirds of smartphones shipped in the second quarter, with Apple’s iOS on around a sixth of them — more than all the remaining smartphone OSes combined, IDC said Wednesday. Windows Phone’s share of the market continues to grow, although it remains far behind the front runners. [...]

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iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped
Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first...
How Android stacks up
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Canalys: Android takes the lead in the US
Android took the top U.S. spot among smartphones shipped in the second quarter, according to new research...
Android becomes best-selling smartphone OS, says Canalys
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Reports: FTC investigates Google over Motorola patents

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's Motorola Mobility unit to determine whether it is stifling innovation in the mobile market by refusing to license certain patents to its competitors, according to published reports. [...]

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ITC to review Xbox ban recommendation in Microsoft, Motorola case
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Apple sues Motorola over patents in mobile phones
Apple filed two lawsuits against Motorola and Motorola Mobility late Friday in a US federal court, claiming...
ITC clears Apple of infringement of three Motorola patents, holds decision on fourth
The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Friday that Apple did not infringe three of Motorola Mobility's...
ITC favors Microsoft in Motorola tiff
In another blow to Android, a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission issued an initial determination...

Article: Challenges and Opportunities in Mexico, a Concentrated Mobile Market

Federal District, Jalisco and Veracruz lead in mobile connections [...]

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Article: iOS Dominates Mobile Internet Traffic in Mexico
Android and Apple iOS take the mobile mantle as subscriptions get a boost from lower prices...
Article: iOS Dominates Mobile Internet Traffic in Mexico
Android and Apple iOS take the mobile mantle as subscriptions get a boost from lower prices...
FCC finds AT&T’s purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's staff has found AT&T's proposed US$39 billion...

FCC finds AT&T’s purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's staff has found AT&T's proposed US$39 billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile USA to be contrary to the public interest, with officials there saying the deal would result in the largest single concentration in the U.S. mobile market in history. [...]

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What happens now to the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger?
Staff at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission have decided that AT&T's proposed acquisition...
What happens now to the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger?
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AT&T fires back at FCC staff report on T-Mobile deal
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Sprint, T-Mobile tell FCC to put brakes on Verizon spectrum deal
Verizon's proposed spectrum deal with major cable companies came under more criticism today as a broad...

Nokia’s Windows Phone bet: The first smartphones unveiled

Nokia has revealed the smartphones that it hopes will lead to the company's resurrection as the world's leading mobile vendor. Last February, under the leadership of a new CEO who hailed from Microsoft, Nokia gave up its losing strategy of creating its own mobile operating system to compete with Apple's iOS and Google's Android and said it would instead adopt Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's late entry into the mobile market. The decision was controversial, as the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system garnered poor reviews when it debuted in fall 2010 and has not gained more than a few percentage points of market share since. [...]

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Nokia unveils first Windows phones
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Nokia confident about first Windows Phone arriving in Q4
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India’s Bharti, Softbank form mobile Internet joint venture

India's Bharti Enterprises has set up a joint venture with Japan's Softbank to focus on social media, gaming, and e-commerce for India's booming mobile market, it said Thursday. [...]

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India arrests top executive of Etisalat joint venture
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the vice-chairman of Etisalat DB Telecom,...
Lenovo, NEC form PC joint venture in Japan
Lenovo and NEC on Thursday announced a joint venture to sell PCs in Japan....
China’s Alibaba expects India joint venture this year
Top Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.com aims to announce an Indian joint venture this year as the company...
Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and others to set up LTE chip joint venture
NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and two other Japanese...

Q&A: Hitachi GST CEO says hard drive future hangs in cloud

Before the proposed buyout by Western Digital is complete, Hitachi GSTs CEO said the future of its hard drive business rests squarely in the cloud and mobile market. [...]

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With Hitachi buy, Western Digital moves further ahead of rivals
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Hard drive manufacturers embrace new storage tech
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G-Technology announces support for Hitachi 2TB hard drives
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Western Digital closes Hitachi GST acquisition, to operate separate subsidiaries
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Google ‘power move’ bets on future of mobile

Google executives see a great future in mobility, both for computing and for the company, and they’re willing to pay a lot for the power they think that will bring them in the mobile market. [...]

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Future of IT Is Multiplatform and Mobile, Dell Says
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