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- Linux-based Ubuntu to compete with Android, iOS
Canonical's Ubuntu operating system, a Linux open-source platform, entered the smartphone OS wars Wednesday with the introduction of Ubuntu for Phones, which is designed to provide handsets with the power of desktop applications. Canonical said that phones supporting the platform will surface near the end of the year. All Things D
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Samsung will market Intel's Tizen-powered smartphones: Samsung Electronics, which introduced its bada mobile operating system in 2009, is still searching for an Android alternative. The South Korean phone maker said today it will sell smartphones this year equipped with the Intel-backed Tizen platform, adding in a statement that the company will make additional Tizen phones "depending on market conditions." Bloomberg Businessweek
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- Nokia might have cash cow in monetizing patents
A disclosure that Research In Motion will pay Nokia a one-time fee of $65 million as part of a patent settlement may demonstrate that the Finnish phone maker could generate significant amounts of cash by licensing its trove of intellectual property, according to this blog post. The move could help Nokia buy more time in its efforts to rebound from a prolonged slump. Forbes/Great Speculations blog
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- AT&T CEO: How the iPhone transformed the company
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson related details about how the carrier came to partner with Apple on the iPhone, describing in an interview that the move essentially brought a makeover to the company. "It changed our capital allocation. It changed how we thought about spectrum. It changed how we thought about engineering and designing networks. Suddenly you go from thinking that 40,000 cell sites are sufficient to thinking it's going to have to be multiples of that," Stephenson told Forbes. Forbes
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- Survey offers bullish sentiments on mobile payments
The mobile wallet will finally come of age in the U.S. this year, say 200 industry executives, who also believe that consumers will look to social networks and location-based applications in large numbers, according to a Chetan Sharma Consulting survey. A panel of executives, developers and other insiders predicts banks, credit card companies and online payment outfits such as PayPal will dominate the arena. GigaOm
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- Google Maps hooks up with South Korean cars
South Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia will bring Google Maps technology to their cars by adopting Google's Send-to-Car technology to transmit applications from smartphones to the vehicles' on-board navigation systems. Kia will offer Maps and Google Places data to its 2014 Sorrento and Forte models. Hyundai did not outline when it plans to add the apps. GigaOm
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- Apple reportedly tests out TSMC's chip skills
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is reportedly getting a shot at fabricating A6 and A6X mobile processors for Apple, according to a report Wednesday in the Commercial Times, a Taiwanese newspaper. If the trial run in this quarter works out well, the silicon foundry may take over production of those processors from Samsung Electronics, it was said. Rumors that Apple may shift its foundry business from Samsung to TSMC have been circulating for nearly two years. GigaOm
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- Post-Christmas, an app explosion and Android tablet gains
Consumers reached for a record 1.76 billion iOS and Android mobile applications in the week after Christmas, a 45% increase from a year ago, according to the Flurry analytics firm's projections, which also report that users activated 50 million iOS and Android devices. The post-Christmas period also brought gains for Android-based tablets, Chitika Insights says via an analysis of Web advertising impressions. Apple's iPad slipped more than 7% in Internet use -- although the tablet dominates the market with a 79% share -- while Web traffic from Amazon, Google and Samsung Electronics devices grew during the week. Computerworld
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- AMBER Alert Program transition
CTIA, The Wireless Foundation™, The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Syniverse announced the Wireless AMBER Alert program ended operations on Dec. 31, as a part of the nation's transition to the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) program. Millions of cellphone users across the country will now receive free, automatic notifications about abducted children in their area as part of the WEA program. Unlike Wireless AMBER Alerts, the WEA AMBER Alerts use the latest technology to send messages to wireless customers with WEA-capable devices in the area where a child has been abducted, even if the wireless customer isn't from the area. The 700,000 wireless customers currently enrolled in Wireless AMBER Alerts will receive text messages about the transition and alternative sources for receiving AMBER Alerts. Learn more about the transition and the number of alternative sources for users to receive the AMBER Alerts.
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