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• 10 things Apple did right in 2009

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Apple’s 2009 execution was nothing short of spectacular, given the sour economy and CEO Steve Jobs’ medical leave. Apple executives handled both circumstances, which might have sunk another company, with finesse and subtle but direct aggressiveness. I had a difficult time narrowing the ...
  15 hours ago

• FCC calls Verizon’s logic for increased termination fees "troubling," says inquiry will continue

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Tim Conneally , Betanews Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission launched an inquiry into Verizon Wireless’ early termination fee for “advanced devices,” which was increased to 0 in November. Verizon responded to the inquiry last Friday, with a letter that cited various ways that ...
  15 hours ago

• Microsoft loses i4i appeal, faces Word injunction in three weeks

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews The US Circuit Court of Appeals in DC has today denied Microsoft’s appeal to overturn a court injunction preventing it from selling copies of Microsoft Word (or Office with Word). Those copies contain a feature that a jury last May found infringed upon patents held by i4i, ...
  2 days ago

• The once and future king: Test build of Opera crushes Chrome on Windows 7

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Download Opera 10.5 “Pre-alpha” for Windows from Fileforum now. How’s this for a Christmas miracle: We’ve been saying that if Opera wants to get back in the game — if it truly wants to earn a place among the Top 5 positions on Europe’s forthcoming ...
  2 days ago

• Statistics: Firefox 3.5 surpassed IE7 in global usage share last week

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews At some time during the middle of last week — quite possibly, on the very day that Microsoft announced its settlement with the European Commission — Web analytics firm StatCounter registered more Web site hits coming from Web browsers announcing themselves as Mozilla ...
  3 days ago

• ‘Operation Chokehold’ shows the social media mob has influence

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews “ Operation Chokehold ” has come and gone, with no sign it even put AT&T in a headlock. But with so many people complaining of service already so spotty, could anyone really tell the difference short of network failure? For AT&T, there is little victory in surviving the ...
  6 days ago

• Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 moves ahead, but more work to be done

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 for Windows from Fileforum now. Betanews tests with the latest Beta 5 release of Mozilla Firefox 3.6 show some respectable performance improvements, in the race to catch-up to Google Chrome. One of those improvements — the full ...
  6 days ago

• Verizon: Even with higher termination fees, we still lose money

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Tim Conneally , Betanews Verizon has filed its response to a December 4 Federal Communications Commission probe which examined the carrier’s recent increase to early termination fees for subscribers with “advanced devices” such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android and Palm handsets. The FCC asked why ...
  6 days ago

• 10 Things you shouldn’t give Steve Ballmer for Christmas

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is a man who has pretty much everything. That makes him a difficult person to buy holiday gifts for. God forbid, if you’re the Microsoft employee who picks Ballmer’s name to be his secret Santa. Just because Ballmer might have everything, doesn’t mean you ...
  1 week ago

• Ask Santa for one of these compact digicams for Christmas

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Are you shopping for or asking Santa for a compact digital camera this holiday? Sure, it seems like everyone who is anyone wants a digital SLR for their Christmas stocking. But compacts have their place — and a newer crop are closer to digital SLRs in performance and photo quality. But ...
  1 week ago

• Google URL shortening not ready for prime time in Firefox

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Download Google Toolbar for Firefox version 7.0.2009.1214Wb1 from Fileforum now. You know the global domain name system is not the perfect solution for today’s modern Internet when an entire cottage industry evolves around masking it, removing the dot-com and making ...
  1 week ago

• Grey market devices boost declining 2009 mobile phone sales

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Worldwide Mobile phone sales will nudge down in 2009 compared to 2008 rather than sharply decline. In forecast data released by Gartner today, global handset sales will reach 1.214 billion units, down 0.67 percent from 2008. Three months earlier, Gartner forecast a 3.7 percent ...
  1 week ago

• Google Nexus One phone rumors show the power of buzz

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Rumors and scattered confirmations that Google would sell its own, branded Android-powered phone are seemingly everywhere this weekend. The noise is so loud as to essentially quiet persistent rumors about an Apple tablet. That alone is some feat. The buzz reminds me of the rumors before ...
  1 week ago

• If the Obama Justice Department guns for Google, is Microsoft Safe?

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Microsoft reached a surprising milestone this week. In a routine court filing , the U.S. Justice Department and handful of attorneys generals asserted that Microsoft’s communications protocol disclosure is “ substantially complete .” Finally . The Microsoft that once beat Netscape ...
  1 week ago

• PlayStation 3 has almost stopped being a money loser, says iSuppli

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Tim Conneally , Betanews After Sony debuted the slimmer, cheaper PlayStation 3 in September, the formerly “too expensive” home video game console enjoyed an explosion in sales. At the 9 price point, it quickly went from the slowest-selling console to the fastest. NPD Group statistics are now showing ...
  1 week ago

• Apple countersues Nokia, says N900, E71, S60, Carbide C++ violate patents

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Tim Conneally , Betanews In October, Finnish mobile phone leader Nokia sued Apple , claiming that the iPhone infringed on ten of Nokia’s wireless technology patents, and that Apple refused to agree to appropriate licensing terms for Nokia’s intellectual property. “Apple is attempting to get a free ride ...
  1 week ago

• Google, Facebook, and our privacy: We’re all in denial

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews What does it mean to have a “right to privacy?” We have a right to vote, and too few of us use it. I heard it explained to me once, a human right is like a vegetable garden. You have to nurture it, take care of it, and harvest it. Otherwise you have a plot of dirt. The ...
  1 week ago

• iPhone Brings Back the DOS Dilemma

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Apple’s iPhone is supposed to be about the cool, new mobile Internet future . But using the smartphone reminds me too much of the past. The beautiful, ergonomically-designed iPhone has two related flaws: Fixed battery and prohibited background applications. Apple wrongly chose to put ...
  2 weeks ago

• What does AT&T’s ‘Mark the Spot’ app say about service quality?

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Do you have AT&T as wireless carrier? Are you happy with the network service quality? I encourage Betanews readers to respond in comments to these questions, which are suddenly surreal now that AT&T has released the “ Mark the Spot ” app for iPhone. There’s something comical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nokia, can you please stop kicking yourself in the head?

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Nokia has long been one of my favorite tech companies, but recently I started to lose faith in its future. When an enthusiast/fan says something like that, a company either has a serious public image crisis or serious problems. Both situations are about equally bad. I want to believe in ...
  2 weeks ago

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