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Nokia to Apple: From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 29, 2011 at 8:55 am PT

Nokia’s obsession with Apple has officially crossed over into the Ahabian. Aghast at the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling on its first complaint against Apple, Nokia has filed a second, accusing Apple of infringing its patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets, and computers.”

HTC Shows Off First Tablet, Android Phone With Facebook Button and More

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 12:55 am PT

HTC became the latest company to “friend” Facebook, showing off a pair of Android phones that have a button for connecting directly to the social network. It also used Mobile World Congress to show off its first tablet and other Android devices.

A Lot of iSales: Apple Sold 7.3 Million iPads, 16.2 Million iPhones in December Quarter

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 18, 2011 at 1:32 pm PT

Apple’s quarterly sales included more than 4 million Macs and 16 million iPhones, along with 19.45 million iPods and 7.33 million iPads.

Windows Phone 7 Prices Quietly Dropping

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 9, 2010 at 7:45 am PT

Although the official prices of the initial Windows Phone 7 devices remain the same, various promotions are heavily discounting the month-old models, with Amazon offering three AT&T models for just a penny.

With Goopon Stealing the Spotlight, Tippr Says Don't Forget About No. 3 (Or Its Patents)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 2, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

Tippr CEO Martin Tobias hopes that between Google’s potential big-ticket purchase of Groupon and Amazon’s rumored investment in LivingSocial, consolidation in the group-buying space will accelerate as others scramble for a partner.

IPad Sales Begin at Verizon and AT&T

John Paczkowski in News on October 28, 2010 at 8:01 am PT

The iPad officially went on sale today at the two largest wireless carriers in the U.S.–AT&T and Verizon. AT&T is selling all three iPad Wi-Fi + 3G models at their standard prices, while Verizon is peddling the Wi-Fi-only versions paired with a MiFi 2200 mobile hotspot.

One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air

Beth Callaghan in News on October 20, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” today at Apple’s Town Hall event was the new MacBook Air, or, as he put it, “what would happen if a MacBook hooked up with an iPad.” The quick details: Complete unibody construction, all solid state storage, and there are two models, each with two configurations: an 11.6-inch model with either 64 gb or 128 gb of storage for $999 or $1199, respectively, and a 13.3-inch model with either 128 or 256 gb of storage for $1299 or $1599, respectively.

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NBC Invests in Targeted TV Ads Business

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 5, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

A company that delivers targeted ads to television sets has scored another endorsement. NBC Universal plans to announce Tuesday an investment in Invidi Technologies Corp., according to the companies. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. A NBC Universal spokeswoman called the investment “small.”

30 Million Windows Phone 7 Units in 2011? Sure You Didn’t Mean Windows Mobile OS Phones?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 28, 2010 at 10:58 am PT

According to a Microsoft presentation made at ReMIX France, Redmond hopes to sell 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices by the end of 2011. And it cites some IDC data to back that goal up. One problem: That data refer to all versions of the Windows mobile OS, not just Windows Phone 7.

HTC to Apple: We Built a Touchscreen Phone Before You Did

John Paczkowski in News on March 18, 2010 at 6:05 am PT

The surprise HTC expressed earlier this month at being sued by Apple has finally turned into something a bit more substantial: “strong disagreement.” The company issued a statement this morning denying Apple’s allegations and vowed to fight the suit. The gist: HTC has been making phones far longer than Apple, including a touchscreen device called the XDA that predates the iPhone by about five years.