At MIX10, Matchbox helped to highlight the power of Microsoft’s new Smartphone platform.
Posted by admin in Company News on March 22nd, 2010
At MIX10, Matchbox helped to highlight the power of Microsoft’s new Smartphone platform.
Posted by admin in Industry News on March 18th, 2010
Microsoft just dropped its first press release of MIX10 on us, and in addition to detailing the Sliverlight and XNA-based Windows Phone 7 Series development situation, we’ve also got a list of launch software partners and some screenshots of apps in action. There’s some heavy hitters here, and everything from games to enterprise apps are represented — notables include the Associated Press, Citrix, EA Mobile, Foursquare, Namco, Pangeonce, Pandora, Seesmic, Shazam, and Sling. We’ve seen a handful of this new software in action, so check out the full list and details after the break.
Posted by admin in Industry News on March 18th, 2010
Verizon’s CTO Anthony Melone has identified next summer as the carrier’s release window for its first LTE handset, which should be preceded by the 4G service being rolled out by the end of this year. If you’re wondering what you’ll be using on that “faster than 3G” network while waiting for the vanguard handset, we saw plenty of LTE-equipped gear at CES and let’s not forget about that 1080p-decodin’ NVIDIA tablet that was teased during the show. The one bit of bogus news from Melone was the statement that contracts with “as much data as you can consume is the big issue that has to change.” Verizon seems resolutely set on introducing some type of tiered or metered price plans, which is unfortunately the same path AT&T is headed down. The message from the networks is therefore clear: with great (downloading) power comes great (bill-paying) responsibility.
Posted by admin in Industry News on March 8th, 2010
It is now only a matter of time before users have to accept the death of all-you-can-eat deals, and AT&T and Verizon Wireless are both readying usage-based pricing schemes for this year. Both will try to pull off the difficult marketing trick of presenting these as premium quality services for high end users, rather than price rises, which will depend on associating the fees with new device formats like tablets, or networks like LTE. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was focusing on the iPad and other emerging data-driven gadgets as he outlined usage-based plans during an investor conference run by Morgan Stanley this week.
Posted by admin in Industry News on March 8th, 2010
Apple’s legal action against HTC may have “wider implications” for all phone makers using Google’s Android operating system, an analyst has warned.
Ian Fogg of Forrester Research said that the case against HTC, in which Apple alleges infringement of 20 of its patents, could be the first of many. Although Apple has not named Google in the suits, many of the named patents relate to operating system processes.