Angry Birds beats Samsung in viral marketing as mobile interest surged in 2012
This past year has shown us how effective leading smartphone and mobile app companies have become at leveraging viral videos. In Ad Age’s top-10 viral videos …
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RIM-ditching government agency decides to give BlackBerry 10 a chance
Good news for RIM (RIMM): It may win back a big government client that decided weeks ago to switch to the iPhone. The United States Immigration …
Apple found guilty of infringing three patents in court battle with patent troll
What goes around, comes around. Apple (AAPL) on Thursday was found guilty of infringing three patents held by patent troll Mobilemedia, which is owned jointly by …
McNamee: Using Android is like ‘having a motor scooter at the Indianapolis 500’
It looks like Microsoft’s (MSFT) new Windows 8 platform isn’t the only OS under fire. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Elevation Partners co-founder Roger …
Amazon Instant Video streaming app finally debuts on the iPhone and iPod touch
Amazon (AMZN) on Thursday updated its Instant Video streaming application to support both the iPhone and iPod touch. The app, which grants Amazon Prime members …
Samsung’s president says company will shed its ‘copycat’ image – but he still uses Apple products at home
All eyes were on Samsung (005930) in 2012 as the company continued to field patent attacks from Apple (AAPL) while still managing to grow at …
Welcome back, Google Maps [hands-on]
That’s right, iPhone owners — you can finally drop Apple’s (AAPL) awful iOS Maps application in the junk folder on your last app page. Google (GOOG) …
Samsung Galaxy Note III with 6.3-inch display rumored for 2013 launch
Ridiculous sizes aside, oversized smartphones (“phablets”) that border on tablet territory are here to stay. By next year, the crop of smartphones with 5-inch displays will …
Sprint offers $2.1 billion in Clearwire takeover bid
A number of reports on Wednesday claimed that Sprint (S) was cooking up an offer to acquire the remaining shares of wireless broadband wholesaler Clearwire, …
iPad mini deemed a ‘game changer,’ outgrew Kindle Fire by nearly 50%
Smaller tablets in the 7-inch range have been on the market for more than two years now, but it looks like it took Apple (AAPL) …
Fed up with BitTorrent-related lawsuits, Verizon takes the fight to the copyright cops
Telecom companies apparently do have limits on how far they’re willing to go to appease copyright holders. TorrentFreak reports that Verizon (VZ) is remaining steadfast …
$19 unlimited smartphone service goes live as Republic Wireless starts shipping phones
As small mobile virtual network operators continue to look for ways to steal subscribers from major nationwide wireless carriers, low-cost unlimited plans are often the …
FCC gives Dish’s proposed LTE network a thumbs up
The Federal Communications Commission this week took a big step toward expanding competition in the wireless market by granting Dish Network (DISH) a license to use a 40MHz …
New Flickr iPhone app to compete with Instagram and Twitter with 16 filters
Hot on the heels of its email redesign, Yahoo (YHOO) announced on Wednesday that it has completely redesigned the Flickr iPhone app. The new app borrows heavily …
Google Maps finally comes to iOS. Again. [updated]
Apple has had quite a bumpy car ride so far with its mapping product. That all ends in just a couple hours, however, because late Wednesday evening …
2012’s top Google searches: ‘Whitney Houston,’ ‘Gangnam Style’ and ‘Hurricane Sandy’
The death of a pop music icon, the rise of a South Korean rapper and a deadly hurricane were what Google (GOOG) users were most …
New app brings Google Now functionality to the iPhone
2012 was a huge year for the smartphone industry and while a number of exciting new devices and services were introduced over the past 12 …
Apple’s plan to improve its Maps application may include buying TomTom
What better way to quickly improve Apple (AAPL) Maps than by buying a company that’s already built a popular mobile navigation platform? Bloomberg reports that Rabobank International …
Google says it won’t build apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone until people start using them
In what can be considered a major dig at Microsoft (MSFT), Clay Bavor, product management director at Google (GOOG) Apps told V3 that the company is not bringing native …
Facebook could ruin Instagram’s appeal by placing ads next to photos one day
The beauty of Instagram is its simplicity and lack of advertisements. But if comments made by Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s (FB) vice president of global marketing …
2013 dubbed ‘the year of mobile malware’ for Android users
The old phrase often credited to the late P.T. Barnum, “there’s a sucker born every minute,” can definitely be used to describe some aspects of …
Samsung’s marketing team has killed it this year, even making NFC seem hip
Samsung (005930) spends a ridiculous amount on marketing every year, but you can’t deny that they’ve gotten some truly high-quality ads in return. Case in …
Samsung again touts its phones’ ability to share sex videos, this time between Santa and Mrs. Claus [video]
Samsung (005930) seems really determined to corner the market on people who like to share sex videos with their spouses. In a new ad released …
Google is ‘trying to decide where to expand next’ with Google Fiber
Google (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt at The New York Times’ Dealbook conference on Wednesday was asked about the future of the company’s Google Fiber broadband …
Analyst claims iPad mini cannibalizing iPad 4 sales, raises iPhone 5 sales forecast
Apple (AAPL) is finally catching up to the overwhelming demand for its latest iPhone 5 according to analyst Shaw Wu from Sterne Agee. Wu says production …
Nokia Lumia sales reportedly nowhere near as strong as rumors suggest
At a time when Nokia (NOK) needs a solid quarter to prove to investors that it can stage a comeback, a new analysis suggests Lumia …
Facebook to introduce better privacy controls, force everyone to be included in searches
Facebook (FB) is planning another round of privacy changes with a focus on making it easier to control what’s shared and what’s not, according to The …
Samsung pounces on Apple Maps app after it strands Australian tourists
There was simply no way that Samsung (005930) could resist pouncing on Apple’s (AAPL) latest Maps disaster that left several Australians stranded in the middle of a …
Google Nexus 7 shipments expected to top 1 million this month
Despite Apple’s (AAPL) attempts to single out the Nexus 7 as an inferior tablet to its iPad mini, Google’s (GOOG) 7-inch slate continues to sell very well, especially now …
Where is Apple’s ‘next big thing’?
Bad news for Apple (AAPL): The company needs to launch the “next big thing” in order to reverse investors’ soured sentiment according to Barclays Capital analyst …
