Techmeme: What Do All These Phone Apps Do? Mostly Marketing (Roy Furchgott/New York Times)

7:50 AM ET, October 5, 2009

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Tricia Duryee / paidContent:

Adobe Extends Full Flash To Just About Every Phone But The iPhone — Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has secured relationships will Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to roll out full Flash capabilities to the various smartphone platforms.

Bill Coughran / The Official Google Blog:

Teaming up with Adobe and the Open Screen Project — At Google, we've been working closely with the folks at Adobe for years. Some of our most exciting projects such as YouTube, Android, Google Site Search, Google Chrome and even Google web search require close integration with Adobe's technologies.

Discussion: Internet2Go, Technologizer, Adobe, Computerworld, PreCentral.net, Softpedia News, biskero, Mashable!, Brainstorm Tech, Unwired View, SlashGear, CNET News, Phone Arena, The Web Life, Pocket PC Thoughts.com and Phone Scoop, Thanks:dineshvasudevan

Adobe:
RIM joins Open Screen Project

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Softpedia News: Google Half-Heartedly Joins Adobe's Open Screen Project

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:

Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones — Did you pick up an AT&T Pure over the weekend? Yeah, then you might want to spin up Windows Marketplace on your new Windows Mobile 6.5 handset. It's live and dancing right now a full day before any of this was supposed to launch — not that we're complaining.

Discussion: SlashGear, Gearlog, WMPoweruser.com, Boy Genius Report, I4U News, SoftSailor, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Financial Times, PR News and PalmAddicts

Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:

Ad Networks On Edge As Facebook Shuts Down Developers — A number of the large ad networks have been reaching out to developers to let them know that they essentially have no idea what's going on. Facebook has taken the latest actions without giving developers any form of early notification and many ad networks feel left in the dark.

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog and broadstuff, Thanks:atul

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Vonage Releases Calling Apps for iPhone and BlackBerry — While the Google Voice application for the iPhone continues to be hung up in Apple's review process, a similar application from another company has passed with flying colors. — On Monday, Vonage, the Internet telephony company …

Discussion: Associated Press and Reuters

Om Malik / GigaOM:

T-Mobile to Launch Samsung's Google Phone — Samsung Behold II, the first an Android phone sold by the South Korean handset giant, is coming to the U.S. via T-Mobile USA, the two companies announced today. The new device will carry Samsung's TouchWiz user interface and will work with T-Mobile's high-speed 3G network.

Discussion: Gearlog, Gizmodo and IntoMobile, Thanks:atul

Arn / MacRumors:

Apple Working on Tablet Since At Least 2003 — The New York Times recaps many of the rumors and expectations about the upcoming Apple Tablet, but also introduces a few original sources of information about the tablet project within Apple. — According to former Apple engineer Joshua A. Strickland …

Discussion: New York Times, Brainstorm Tech, Gizmodo and 9 to 5 Mac

Erik Qualman / Search Engine Watch:

Is Google a Social Media Company? — Perhaps Google's stiffest competition in the immediate future isn't Bing and Yahoo, but rather it's the likes of Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook. Just as we no longer search for the news (24 of the top 25 newspapers have shown record declines in circulation) …

Rob Hof / Tech Beat:

Matt Cutts: How Google Deals With Web Spam — It's up to Matt Cutts and his team at Google to keep search results as free as possible from Web spam, those pages full of Viagra ads or even malware. A 10-year veteran of the company, he got into this online underworld after working …

Discussion: Matt Cutts, Google Operating System and Howard Lindzon, Thanks:atul

Roy Furchgott / New York Times:

What Do All These Phone Apps Do? Mostly Marketing — When Stanley Works, the hand tool maker, offered an iPhone App that turned the phone into a level, its goal was to create young loyalists to the Stanley brand. — The company does not know if the iPhone app drove a single sale or fostered any brand loyalty.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

The Speed Of Share — Facebook has a problem. One of its main goals now is to be the center for sharing everything on the web, but the key to that is to make the process as quick and easy as possible. And in that regard, its rival Twitter destroys it. That's a problem.

Thanks:atul

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Popularity of Pirated TV-Shows Still Rising — In the US streaming sites such as Hulu offer ‘legal’ platforms to watch TV-shows online. However, in the rest of the world people have to wait for weeks or months until they can watch US TV-shows. — Most TV-show downloads come from overseas …

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