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Today’s mobile news roundup: Motorola acquires Viewdle; Apple Geniuses to fix Maps kerfuffle; and Samsung Galaxy SIII sales not affected by court ruling or iPhone 5. Motorola acquires Viewdle Motorola Mobility announced that they have acquired the imaging & gesture recognition company …
Black Friday Gets an Entire Season: Early Predictions for iPads, Ultrabooks and More
Black Friday is the busiest time of year for retailers, and the savviest time for consumers. Even Microsoft’s taking strides to ready for Black Friday season (yes, it’s its own season now), prepping 8 pop-up stores ahead of their Windows 8 release. …
Nintendo Teams Up With Xoreax To Help Wii U Game Developers
Nintendo and Xoreax Software, the developer of IncrediBuild, entered a third-party Tool Agreement, that would dramatically increased the development of games for Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U gaming console. IncrediBuild provides access to a user-friendly solution for distributed code compilation for the Wii …
Buisness Study Shows Playing MMORPG Games May Aid Workplace Leadership
Gamers aren’t usually perceived as people fit for professional work since employers think of them as slackers since all they do is play games so that would mean their gaming life would interfere with work life. Which most employers interpret as minimal …
HotelTonight Expands to Eateries with PrimaTable Buy
HotelTonight, the platform that provides easy mobile booking of same-day unsold hotel inventory for last-minute hotel bookings, announced their acquisition of San Francisco-based PrimaTable, developers of last-minute perishable inventory demand forecasting and pricing tools for the restaurant industry. PrimaTable’s sophisticated platform offers …
How Oracle Helped ATD’s Supply Chain Survive the Tech Boom
As part of our ongoing coverage of Oracle OpenWorld 2012 we have Dave Vellante, Wikibon Co-founder on theCube. He sat down with Tony Vaden, Vice President and CIO of American Tire Distributors, who discussed their relationship with Oracle. Vaden stated that Oracle …
Apps as Ads Appeals to Auto Makers, Entertainment Hubs: REPORT
There’s no denying the popularity of smartphones these days. Smartphone ownership worldwide is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 37 percent until 2016, and by that time one-third of the world’s population will already be smartphone users, according to a recent …
iPad Mini in Production, Hits Stores November 2
Today’s mobile news roundup: iPad Mini in mass production; Samsung to release Galaxy SIII; and PlayStation Mobile goes live. iPad Mini already in mass production The Wall Street Journal reports that South Korea’s LG Display Co. and Taiwan’s AU Optronics Corp began …
Intel CEO Hasn’t Damaged Microsoft Deal with Wayward Comments
During an internal meeting in Taiwan, Intel CEO Paul Otellini allegedly stated that Microsoft is prematurely releasing Windows 8, as improvements are still needed before it can deployed. But he also mentioned that it may be the right move, as many products …
Millennial Media Beefs Up Executive Board, Hires Yahoo CMO
Millennial Media, a leading independent mobile advertising platform, has made some executive-level changes this week, announcing the appointment of Mollie Spilman as the company’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Spilman will be responsible for leading the company’s worldwide …