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Adobe Admits It Is Saying Buh-Bye to Flash for Mobile Devices

Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Looks like Apple’s Steve Jobs was right (as usual).

Will RIM Not Disappoint Again This Quarter?

Kara Swisher in Mobile on September 15, 2011 at 11:43 am PT

Research in Motion reports its earnings later today and many are hopeful that the results won’t be as awful as previous quarters.

Motoogle: BOOM! The Mobile Business Just Got Completely Blown Up

Kara Swisher in Mobile on August 15, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Things that make you go “Boom!!!”: Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of handset maker Motorola.

Exclusive: Kno Student Tablet Start-Up in Talks to Sell Off Tablet Part of Its Business

Kara Swisher in News on February 21, 2011 at 12:16 am PT

Kno–the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students–is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks with two major consumer electronics manufacturers to do so, according to sources close to the situation. But, if a deal is struck, the move would be a dramatic shift for the company, which has yet to ship significant numbers of the touchscreen device as it has long touted.

Apple App Happy Sonos Also Goes Android

Kara Swisher in News on February 10, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Sonos–the maker of innovative wireless music systems that has been boosted by its Apple iPhone and iPad Controller app–is set to roll out one for Google’s Android mobile operating system. The Sonos Controller for Android will officially introduce the app at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, although the Santa Barbara, Calif., company is announcing it today.

Counting Tablets, Apple Is Third in Global PC Sales

John Paczkowski in News on January 26, 2011 at 8:44 am PT

Stats on PC sales haven’t been including the iPad and other tablets, but research outfit Canalys says that’s old thinking and doesn’t accurately reflect Apple’s clout.

In Less Than One Month, CityVille Beats FarmVille to Become Zynga's Biggest Game

Liz Gannes in Social on December 24, 2010 at 1:10 am PT

Looks like I’m far from the only one addicted to CityVille. The newest Zynga game has done what no game maker, not even Zynga itself, has done in recent memory: Beat FarmVille’s number of active users.

Palm Boss Jon Rubinstein: We Still Have a Chance to be a Major Player

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 7, 2010 at 2:50 pm PT

When Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein last appeared on the D stage in 2009 he was bringing the Pre to market in a bet-the-company move to recover the handset maker’s long-lost glory. Palm’s new operating system webOS had been well received at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier in the year and the company’s share price had ascended from $3 to $10 on its promise. Two years later Palm no longer has a share price, having been acquired by Hewlett-Packard, and Rubinstein, no longer its CEO, runs HP’s new mobile devices unit. But with the iconic Silicon Valley company backing it and “doubling down on webOS” and a new tablet based on the OS headed to market, its future is perhaps equally as promising, if not more so.

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Here's How That $65 Apple iPad DODOcase Is Made (Plus a Look at the New Kindle Cover)

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on November 18, 2010 at 12:55 pm PT

Owners of the Apple iPad are usually looking for a case with a certain analog aesthetic–and, as it turns out, they are willing to pay for it.