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  1. Google the Shopkeeper

    · · Research

    The Nexus One is an HTC branded and developed phone. The only thing that Google is doing (beside the software) is acting as retailer. Still don’t see what the point is as a Web page does not make a very good retail…

  2. Apple Quattro

    · · Research

    As I said, Apple will launch an ad platform for the iPhone. http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100104/exclusive-apple-to-buy-quattro-wireless-for-275-million/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker

  3. Mobile Ads

    · · Research

    I think it’s a certainty that Apple will introduce an ad serving platform for the iPhone (and any tablet) in 2010. This will amount to a checkbox that developers will check when submitting their app to the store. Doing…

  4. Is Android Disruptive?

    · · Research

    The common thread among the Android fans is that Google is the agent of disruption of a hated operator business model. Since disruption is well understood (though not by many) it is fairly easy to evaluate this…

  5. L'iPhone, le smartphone préféré des Français

    · · Research

    More than half of the 3.5 million smartphones shipping to France this year should be iPhone variant, while Apple should account for about 20 percent of the entire cellphone market’s revenue. The company’s popularity will…

  6. Android Device Dashboard

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    A Google spokesperson confirmed for eWEEK that there are 16,000 Android free and paid apps, not 20,000 as others previously reported. (iTunes App store is around 120k now with over 130k apps having been “seen”). A few…

  7. Windows Marketplace for Mobile

    · · Research

    One observer has posted that WMM (Microsoft’s answer to iTunes App Store) has 520 apps in it now. The store launched in Nov 1 with 281 apps. That means there will be about 300 apps added in the first two months. The…

  8. Smartphone Penetration in the US

    · · Research

    This is active users in the US only. iPhone now tops WinMo and is second only to RIM. The only line that is going down is the dumbphone category which lost 10 million users. Those users were mostly switched to RIM and…