Mellisa Tolentino
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Galaxy Tab Update Follows TouchPad, Battles iPad Worldwide
After being blocked by Apple in their Australian release of their Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung pushed for their New Zealand release. The company believes that the injunction filed against them in Australia has no effects on their New Zealand release of their tablet. “[Apple’s] injunction application only relates to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the ...
Yahoo! Free E-mail Outage and other Unfortunate Events in the Cloud
Do you still remember what happened September last year on Facebook when it shut down shut operation for 2.5 hours to prevent data loss? What about last April when Amazon’s AWS services including the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Relational Database service experienced some technical difficulties that caused API errors, volume latencies and delayed ...
Cloud, Mobile Trends Drive Social Network Platform Strategies: Google+, Twitter, Facebook
Everyone uses social networks to let the world know what they’ve been up to, but what about the networks themselves? There’s a growing importance around social networks as they establish their platforms, APIs and mobile reach. When it comes to emerging trends around search, the cloud and mobility, all your favorite socnets have had some ...
Security Influences Browser Features, Updates and Adoption
Here’s the question; what is your default browser? Is it Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera or something else? Browser behavior is a shifting segment right now as more entrants come onto the playing field, and mobile introduces new forms of web browsing. Currently, IE and Firefox are still on top with 52.81% and 22.48% ...
Freemium, In-App Purchases Bring Profit to Glu Mobile
Glu Mobile, publisher of 3D social mobile games for smartphone and tablet devices, held their Q2 2011 earnings call yesterday, with revenues on the rise. Q2 marks a turning point for the mobile gaming platform, rising alongside growing trends across the industry. Highlights of the earnings call: Total installs of Glu Mobile games on smartphone ...
Who’s Listening In On Your Mobile Calls? Android Trojans Get Creepier
As mentioned in a recent SA article, Android devices are being compared to the popularity of Windows at a rather inopportune time in the mobile industry’s evolution, making them targets for malicious malware attacks. Now, Android is facing a grave situation as they now power over 50% of devices out in the market. This over-saturation ...
HTML5 Gains Investor Appeal, InMobi Takes in Sprout
InMobi announced the acquisition of Sprout, whose HTML5 rich media creative platform helps agencies and brands reduce the complexity of rich media mobile ad creation and distribution. InMobi’s global presence, combined with Sprout’s rich media technology, will help the mobile advertising industry easily build and distribute engaging rich media ads to consumers everywhere. Ad creation ...
HP TouchPad Update Falls Flat, but Shows Dedication to Tablet Market
A month after its release, HP’s TouchPad has been getting bad reviews. And now, to appease the angry mob, they have launched the webOS 3.02.68, an update to its current software. But is it enough to survive in a highly competitive market? “We’re focused on ensuring an excellent experience on TouchPad, and we’re addressing as ...
HTC Preps 8 New Handsets as Apple War Lands in UK
Apple is really popular, especially in courtrooms. After reaching an agreement with Samsung regarding the patent infringement case, Samsung agreed to postpone release of their Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia and Apple agreed to pay for damages if Apple loses, but Apple is still under retaliatory fire. HTC vowed to appeal their case after the court sided ...
iCloud Out for Developers, Skype Pulls “Premature” iPad App
Aside from being busy with court appearances, Apple has launched its iCloud for developers. Its cloud-based service hat stores your files and pushes your data across your Apple devices automatically, but it’s only accessible for developer members of MobileMe for now. And if all goes well with Steve Jobs’ plan, iCloud will replace MobileMe by next year. ...
