On Adobe’s earnings call last week, chief executive Shantanu Naraye said his company will introduce version 10 of its Flash multimedia player for Android this October at Adobe MAX 2009. This comes on the heals of handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson’s …
Skype’s iPhone application, which lets users make cheap or free calls over their phone data plans, is a raging success. Barely a week after its release at the end of March, 2 million users had downloaded the application, representing almost …
Two days ago T-Mobile sent an email to Engadget to invite them to an press event on April 21st. Billed as a “private launch event,” it has tech blogs wondering what the news will be: Will the company be announcing …
It seems like a report comes out every week with new statistics on the Apple App Store phenomenon. And the story is almost always the same: The App Store is huge and getting bigger.
Today, comScore released the newest such …
Worried that someone could steal your online identity, financial assets or data when you sign into accounts on the iPhone? Then Verisign‘s free VIP Access app may be just what you’re looking for.
VIP Access, now available in the Apple …
Mobile developer Kinoma announced that its Kinoma Play mobile media browser will be available in Nokia’s Ovi Store and the Windows Marketplace (which will be included on all phones based on Windows Mobile 6.5 this fall). Microsoft has signed Kinoma …
Apple’s MobileMe and Microsoft’s recently announced MyPhone services focus on giving mobile users more seamless access to internet data services and the mobile address book. Conveneer, launching later this year, wants to help other carriers and manufacturers do the same …
MySpace has seen some impressive traffic growth for its mobile web site and its mobile applications over the last year. And the social network is capitalizing on it by developing new revenue streams and new ways to get its users’ …
MySpace has seen impressive growth in its mobile services over the last six months, especially outside the U.S. At the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, I recently caught up with John Faith, the vice president and general manager for the …
At last year’s Mobile World Congress I learned something: Given the amount of rumors leading up to the event, you usually don’t know what the conference is actually about until it’s over. That’s why I thought I’d share what I’m …
At last year’s Mobile World Congress, everyone wanted Yahoo’s ice cream. You see, no one had a legitimate application store yet, the iPhone wasn’t 3G and Android didn’t even exist. Yahoo’s oneConnect was one of the most buzzed-about parts of …
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The judges have just finished awarding the Mobile Peer Awards here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
I wrote earlier about the competition. As mentioned, I was on the jury of the early stage startups (with a …
Some 50,000 members of the mobile industry will be visiting the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this coming week. It’s the industry’s largest event. And one of the show’s highlights is the Mobile Peer Awards, for which 12 young
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Basic Thinking, the recently sold “German TechCrunch” quotes an O2 product manager saying that “we want to get out 6 to 8 Android devices this year.” (the post is in German). The quote was made yesterday at an official press …
I’m here at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, which has become one of the high-end meetups for the European business crowd — and I’m prowling for stories, which I’ll share if I get them.
DLD stands for “Digital, Life, …
Since our post yesterday about Google’s Android platform running on netbooks, we’ve been asked a lot of questions. Here are the most frequent questions, along with our answers.
Do you think Android could run on laptops or PCs?
The simple …
The UK carrier O2 UK will launch a developer platform called Litmus tomorrow, giving international developers potential access to O2 UK’s 18 million subscribers.
Developers can upload their applications into an app store to get user feedback and sales from …
The Goliath of the mobile world, Nokia, is holding an event for its partners today, that will likely further outline the action plan for its phone operating system, Symbian, for the near future.
The Symbian Partner Event, as it’s called, …
In recent weeks, we’ve been hearing rumors that companies are canceling their mobile display advertising budgets. But when we looked into it, we found that overall demand for mobile display advertising is actually increasing.
What we’ve started seeing over the …
Remember when consumers picked their network carrier first and their phone second? When mobile phone makers competed based on what functions they’d built into their devices — screen size, battery life, camera, and handy carrier-selected applications? Well, those days are …
