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Swype Away – Finally Some Mobile Innovation

Finally some innovation has been brought into our midsts by Swype. An innovative new technology that aims to dramatically improve the virtual keyboard user experience.

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Palm Lowers Revenue Guidance & Increases Appeal

Today, Palm lowered their revenue guidance for Q3 and FY10 due to slower than expected consumer adoption. In other words, the Pixi was a flop and the Pre didn’t sell enough units. So what shall we make of this news.

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Apple Controls Content – Further Proof of Future As Electronic Content Distributor

Apple has removed upwwards of 5000 applications from it’s AppStore and the move is not that far fetched if you consider the possible future of Apple

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Jobs Says Apple is a Mobile Company .. I Say Media Distribution

So during his keynote speech on Jan 27, Steve Jobs took a little time before introducing the iPad to talk about some recent highlights of their business.  You can see my thoughts on the iPad here. He talked about how Apple has now sold 250 million iPods since it’s release in 2001, how they have [...]

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RIM Plans To Speed Up Network Browsing With An On-Device Proxy

A new RIM patent application suggests that by placing a proxy server on the device it could compress and transcode all network requests on the device thereby increasing speeds.  This would obviously also have the added benefits by reducing the bandwidth usage per device which is useful to both RIM and Carriers.  This would put [...]

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Next-Gen iPhone: Evolution not Revolution

So the rumours for the next generation of the iPhone are starting now.  According to PCWorld, the next generation iPhone will be dubbed iPhone 4G and will have: 5 Megapixel Camera (putting on par with the Nexus One) Updated Operating System with revamped App Store OLED Screen Video Chat Support Announced as early as May [...]

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Nexus One Customers & Developers Need Support But Can’t Find It

According to PC World, it seems that Nexus One customers are trying to find support for their phones and are having a tough time finding it.  Customers are going to point-of-sale (Google’s Phone Store) for support and that apparently has a 48 hour turnaround time, although I wasn’t able to find that guarantee on the [...]

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Rogers Trying To Help Out Its HTC Dream Customers

If you’ve been keeping up with the story, Rogers’s HTC Magic customers earlier this week got notice that they will be getting an upgrade to Android 2.1 sometime this year.  However, HTC Dream customers would not get an upgrade past Android 1.5.  This obviously sparked some outrage, but honestly, we didn’t expect the outrage to [...]

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WIND Mobile Being Challenged By Another New Mobile Company

The CBC reported today that the decision to allow Globalive (owner of the WIND brand) to operate in canada is being challenged. If you recall, back in December, Canada’s Industry Minister, Tony Clement, overruled a previous CRTC decision which blocked Globalive from operating cellphone service in Canada, allowing them to continue with their WIND mobile [...]

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Apple Acquires Quattro Wireless

Well, it’s now official.  Apple has acquired Quattro Wireless.  The news confirmed by Quattro ex-CEO now an Apple VP of Mobile Advertising.  Let’s not forget that RIM also announced an Advertising Service back in November as well. Basically, the strategy for these companies is to provide advertising capabilities to developers for their platforms.  The real hope is [...]

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