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Lee / The Flash Blog:
Adobe announces Flash Player and AIR for Android — Right about now at Mobile World Congress, Adobe is officially announcing Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR for Android. I truly believe these technologies will redefine the mobile experience. Kevin Hoyt recorded a great video overview showing …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AIR For Android, And Adobe's Plan To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices — The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile.
Tim Stevens / Engadget:Comsys joins GSM and WiMAX into holy matrimony under Android as ComMAX CM1125
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series — New phones designed for life in motion to debut at holiday 2010. — Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows® Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win — Windows Phone 7 Series. Get used to the name, because it's now a part of the smartphone vernacular... however verbose it may seem. Today Microsoft launches one of its most ambitious (if not most ambitious) projects: the rebranding of Windows Mobile.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 Series hands-on and impressions — Forget everything you know about Windows Mobile. Seriously, throw the whole OS concept in a garbage bin or incinerator or something. Microsoft has done what would have been unthinkable for the company just a few years ago: started from scratch.
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
First Impressions: Windows Mobile 7, now known as Windows Phone — We're not allowed to say much about it, so we'll leave it at this: I got a bit of hands-on time with Windows Phone (the official name for what was previously known as Windows Mobile 7) prior to its announcement.
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Two Dozen Carriers Worldwide Unite Against Apple's App Store — Two dozen of the world's largest mobile-phone companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T (NYSE: T), NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), China Mobile and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), are teaming up to create an …
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James Ashton / Times of London:Mobile phone operators' war on Apple apps
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel, Nokia join Linux efforts for ‘smart’ devices — Intel and Nokia are combining their respective Linux operating environments to power future smartphones and tablets, another step in a technology tie-up launched last year. — The technology merger will fuse Intel's Moblin …
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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
Local TV for Devices on the Move — Who has time to sit on the couch and watch TV anymore? In the last 10 years, broadcasters have lost 25 percent of their audience. So to win back some viewers, the industry has a plan to grab their attention while they are on the move.
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Apple Bans iPhone Hackers Apple ID from App Store — Well it looks like Apple has started banning iPhone hackers from the iTunes App Store. Sherif Hashim, the iPhone developer and hacker who recently found an exploit in the latest iPhone OS 3.1.3, which could enable the unlock on 05.12.01 baseband …
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Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
Facebook directs more online users than Google — A big part of the Facebook experience is how friends and family share Web links to interesting news stories, photos, videos and Internet sites. — This “friend-casting” of information has helped propel Facebook into a major force in directing traffic around the Web.
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Motorola's Eighth Android Will Be Called Cliq XT in US, Quench In Europe — A follow-up from the Cliq, called the Cliq XT—or Quench, depending on where you live—has been shown off running Android 1.5 (which is a shame when most companies are looking at 2.1 now), and has MOTOBLUR.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung i8520 ‘Halo’ Android 2.1 phone with 3.7-inch Super AMOLED and pico projector (updated) — While Samsung is desperate for us and the world to focus on its very first Bada device — the Wave S8500 — we found something a bit more interesting for Google fans.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:Samsung Wave: 3.3-inch Super AMOLED, Bluetooth 3.0, and new Bada OS (updated)
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Thom Holwerda / OSNews:
Teacup, Meet Storm, pt. IV: Adobe Blocking HTML5? — There's a bit of ruckus going on at the moment in the world of HTML5. A number of people are claiming that Adobe has blocked the latest publication of the HTML5 standard. However, after diving into the actual mailing list threads …
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Sony Ericsson Announces User-Generated Content Platform And Three New Phones — While I was across town covering Samsung's big Wave launch, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) was making a splash of its own at one of the trendiest Barcelona night clubs. On the day before Mobile World Congress begins …
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