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Samsung expected to unveil next-gen Galaxy S III at May 3 event
Fox News
Reuters Samsung on May 3 is expected to unveil the next-generation Galaxy S III, the latest iteration of a blockbuster device that has helped the South Korean company overtake Apple as the world's largest smartphone maker. “A whole new world will soon ...

Apple vs. Samsung: Who's the king of the smartphones?
CNET
Apple is still the top smartphone maker in the US, according to NPD Group, outshining Samsung during the first quarter. by Lance Whitney May 2, 2012 7:35 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit In this corner Apple; in that corner Samsung. Who's the smartphone champ?

Samsung Quickly Grows to Become a Dominant Android Provider
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Port Washington, NY (PRWEB) May 02, 2012 According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, Samsung has become a dominant manufacturer of Android smartphones in the US Samsung's share of the smartphone market grew 140 percent in the first ...

Spotify for iOS goes universal; gets iPad love
ZDNet (blog)
Spotify for iPad has arrived in the form of a universal iOS app that was released today. I've been pretty vocal in my criticism of the Spotify iOS app, chiefly about its lack of a universal version that worked on the iPad. Well all that is water under ...

Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany
BBC News
Motorola Mobility has been granted an injunction against the distribution of key Microsoft products in Germany. The sales ban covers the Xbox 360 games console, Windows 7 system software, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player.

BBC News

Motorola Awarded Injunction Against Xbox, Windows 7
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius A German judge today granted Motorola an injunction against the Xbox 360 and Windows 7 in its patent battle with Microsoft. According to patent blogger Florian Mueller, Judge Dr. Holger Kircher of the Mannheim Regional Court awarded ...

Motorola wins injunction against Windows 7, Xbox 360 in Germany
CNET
The company also was awarded an injunction against IE and Windows Media player, but the judgment does not give Motorola power to enforce the bans. by Don Reisinger May 2, 2012 5:11 AM PDT Motorola Mobility has scored another patent victory over ...

Verizon Promoting LTE as Home Broadband Alternative
PCWorld
By Brad Reed, NetworkWorld If you've ever dreamed of using Verizon's LTE network as your home broadband connection, now you can. Verizon today is launching a new HomeFusionBroadband service that lets consumers use an LTE router in their homes to ...

German Court Backs Motorola Injunction Against Microsoft
Wall Street Journal
(Adds Motorola Mobility and Microsoft comment. Adds Nokia patent suits against HTC, RIM, ViewSonic in final grafs.) By Friedrich Geiger and Harriet Torry Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MANNHEIM, Germany (Dow Jones)--A German court Wednesday granted Motorola ...

HTC One X Smartphone May Help Android Supporter Regain Its Footing
eWeek
By Michelle Maisto on 2012-05-02 The Android-running HTC One X is HTC's newest flagship smartphone, and the faltering phone maker has pulled out all the stops: Android 4.0, known as Ice Cream Sandwich; version 4.0 of its Sense user interface; ...

eWeek

Android, iOS Mobile Market Share Growing: comScore
eWeek
Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating system continue to expand their dominance amongsmartphone owners in the United States. Google Android continued to grow its share in the USsmartphone market, accounting for 51 percent of smartphone ...

RIM Launches BlackBerry 10; Facebook Organ Donation; Apple iPad '4G' Woes
PC Magazine
Motorola Phone Shipments Slip as Loss Widens: Motorola Mobility reported a net loss for the first quarter of 2012 that widened compared to a quarter ago, and the number of mobile devices the company sold shrank. Google Rolling Out Automatic Message ...

Samsung Galaxy S III Event: What To Expect
PCWorld
By Ian Paul, PCWorld May 2, 2012 9:26 AM Samsung on Thursday will take the wraps of its newest flagship smartphone, widely expected to be called the Galaxy S III, at an event in London starting at 2 pm ET. Very few details are known about the device ...

German court grants Motorola an injunction against Windows 7 and Xbox
Computerworld
By Loek Essers IDG News Service - Motorola Mobility won an injunction on Wednesday preventing distribution of Microsoft products including Windows 7 and the Xbox in Germany, but it can't enforce the injunction yet. Microsoft will appeal the case and is ...

Motorola Mobility Wins German Ruling on Windows, Xbox
BusinessWeek
By Karin Matussek on May 02, 2012 Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) (MMI) won a patent ruling allowing it to ban Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) (MSFT) from selling its Windows 7, Internet Explorer and Media Player software and Xbox gaming systems in ...

Analyst: Apple, Samsung Own the Smartphone Market
The Mac Observer
Apple and Samsung combined control 99 percent of the smartphone market's profits, and that isn't likely to change any time soon. Canaccord Genuity's Michael Walkley said his research backs that up, and that some 73 percent of those profits went just to ...

HTC One X: AT&T's newest phone is stylish and speedy
Washington Post
... and this newcomer is a definite contender for the best Android smartphone on the market. The phone, available for $200 with a two-year contract, has all the bases covered: it looks great, has the latest version of Android, runs on AT&T's 4G LTE ...

Comcast Profit Exceeds Estimates on Broadband Additions
Bloomberg
(CMCSA), the largest US cable company, topped profit and sales estimates in the first quarter after gains in broadband customers helped mitigate the 20th consecutive loss in video subscribers. Net income rose 30 percent to $1.22 billion,...

Bloomberg

LTE BlackBerry PlayBook Coming This Year, Says RIM CEO
TechCrunch
While speaking at a BlackBerry World breakfast with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins stated the company plans to launch an LTE-enabled PlayBook by the end of the year. However, the CEO didn't detail the projected release date, price or available wireless carrier ...

TechCrunch

RIM CEO Bets on BlackBerry Without Keyboard to Challenge Apple
San Francisco Chronicle
At the BlackBerry World expo in Orlando, Florida, he showed off a sleek touch-screen device that more closely resembled an iPhone or Android smartphone than the keypad-equipped BlackBerrys of old. While RIM still plans to produce models with keyboards, ...

HTC One X (AT&T)
PC Magazine
Runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) out of the box. Stunning high-definition screen. Powerful camera and camcorder. Blistering LTE data speeds. Excellent voice quality. May be too large for some hands. No voice dialing over Bluetooth.

Motorola secures injunction against Windows 7, Xbox in Germany
ZDNet (blog)
Motorola won an injunction against Microsoft's Windows 7 and Xbox consoles, but it won't be enforced immediately. Motorola has won an injunction against Windows 7 — including Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player — and the Xbox games console in ...

ZDNet (blog)

In Microsoft-Motorola Patent Fight, German Court Bans Xbox, Windows 7
Huffington Post
By Harro Ten Wolde MANNHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - A court in Mannheim ruled on Wednesday that Microsoft infringed Motorola Mobility's patents and ordered Microsoft to remove its popular Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system software ...

Verizon's LTE-powered in-home broadband goes national
CNET
by Jessica Dolcourt May 2, 2012 8:17 AM PDT Follow @jdolcourt While Sprint and T-Mobile are struggling to launch their 4G LTE networks, Verizon apparently has enough LTE to power your devices at home. Starting Thursday, Verizon's HomeFusion Broadband ...

Comcast Profit Rises 30%
Wall Street Journal
s first-quarter profit gained 30% as the cable- and television-network operator benefited from the Super Bowl broadcast on NBCUniversal and continued broadband growth. The Philadelphia-based company continued to shed video subscribers but said the rate ...

HomeFusion Broadband From Verizon Now Available Nationwide on America's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BASKING RIDGE, NJ, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Verizon Wireless today announced that HomeFusion Broadband(SM), a service that provides high-speed in-home Internet access leveraging the power and speed of the nation's largest 4G LTE network, ...

Research In Motion Not Ditching Keyboards, BlackBerry 10 Still A Work In Progress
Forbes
The new guy: RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins took over the struggling smartphone vendor in January. (Image credit: Getty Images North America via @daylife) New Research In Motion Chief Executive Thorstein Heins wants to clear a few things up.

Comcast profit beats expectations on NBC results, broadband
USA TODAY
By PETER SVENSSON, AP NEW YORK – Comcast (CMCSA), the country's largest cable company and majority owner of NBC Universal, reported a 30% profit increase in the first quarter, beating expectations on the strength of Super Bowl advertising and broadband ...

USA TODAY

Galaxy Nexus for Verizon Wireless receives Android 4.0.4 update ...
By Zachary Lutz
Nonetheless, the 39.8MB download carries a build number IMM76K and similarly brings an update to the baseband software -- which is reason to hope that the (resolved) connectivity issues reported by Android 4.0.4 users of the HSPA+ and Sprint variants will be a ... TypeSmartphone; Operating system Android (Ice Cream Sandwich [4.0]); Screen size 4.65 inches; Internal memory 16 GB; Camera 5 megapixels; Dimensions 5.33 x 2.67 x 0.37 in; Weight 5.29 oz; Released 2011-11- 17 ...
Engadget

HTC One X: Today's Best Android Smartphone
By Dan Rowinski
Best-in-Class Android. This, storm troopers, is the Android you are looking for. It's a 4.7-inch screen, dual-core 1.5 GHz sleek beauty running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense 4 on AT&T's 4G LTE network. Fast, powerful, functional, simple. Android fans ... With the appropriate television (DLNA-enabled), users can send photos and video from the smartphonewirelessly to the big screen - it is like Apple's AirPlay for iOS without the need to buy an Apple TV. If your TV is ...
ReadWriteWeb

Android Overload: Target To Stop Selling Kindle Fires Over Conflict ...
By Chris Chavez
After a long day's work, it looks like you've made it into the Android Overload and for that -- I am glad. ... Android Overload: Target To Stop Selling Kindle Fires Over Conflict of Interest, B&N Sticking With Android For Nook Tablet and More ...
Android Phone Fans

Galaxy S III size and shape revealed by Korean screen protector ...
By Cory Gunther
Hmmmm. I'm really glad to see an android phone gain this much hype. I'm tired of ... The HTC Evo LTE will be the best phone available when it launches hardware wise but without a network to support its 4G it is good as a crap iPhone 4S…
Android Community

Apple investigated over iPad 4G claims
By Dan Graziano
Apple's U.K. website still offers consumers the chance to buy a “Wi-Fi + 4G” iPad, however, and it only offers a small footnote explaining that “4G LTE” is supported only on certain networks in the United States and Canada. Read. Tags: 4G LTE ...
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

iOS Apps with Dropbox Integration Running Afoul of Apple's App ...
By Eric Slivka
The Next Web points to a recent thread in the Dropbox support forums revealing that a number of developers have been seeing their iOS apps with Dropbox integration being rejected by Apple. The apps have been rejected because users ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Early iOS free-to-play title Eliminate shutting down this month ...
By Mike Schramm
Here's a weird signpost for iOS gaming. Eliminate was one of the first big free-to-play titles oniOS: It was a core title for Ngmoco when first announced a few weeks after in-app purchases were allowed and helped pave the way to the current ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Android 4 share soars
By Joe Wilcox
From the perspective of availability to today, Android 4.x's showing is abysmal. Most iOS and Windows Phone users get immediate access to major updates. The Android Army sits on its behind waiting and waiting and waiting. This situation is ...
BetaNews

Original iOS 'Rock Band' Shutting Down at the End of May | Touch ...
By Jared Nelson
Original iOS 'Rock Band' Shutting Down at the End of May:We just learned this week that one of the pioneering forces of both the freemium pay model as well as real-time online multiplayer, Eliminate, will be closing up shop later this month.
Touch Arcade

Best Android apps for staying healthy
By Carl Parker
And the best LTE smartphone is... ps2 and android ... Utilizing the GPS features of your device, this app tracks, measures, and improves your fitness by using your Android device's GPS to track your activities. It measures distance, time, pace, ...
Android Authority

Research in Motion unveils BlackBerry 10 smartphone prototype ...
By IBNLive.com editor@ibnlive.com
Research In Motion's new chief executive unveiled a newly-designed BlackBerry smartphoneprototype powered by a re-imagined operating system -the very software the company has pinned its future on.
IBN Top Headlines

What Motorola's German win over Microsoft really means ...
By David Meyer
That's when Judge Holger Kircher of the Mannheim district court granted Motorola a permanent injunction against those specific Microsoft products because they infringed on two video compression patents that Motorola owns. But the ban ...
GigaOM

Motorola Mobility Announces First Quarter Financial Results - Press ...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – May 1, 2012 – Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) ... Launched RAZR™ MAXX, the longest-lasting 4G LTE smartphone, allowing ...
mediacenter.motorola.com/.../Motorola-Mobility-Announces-...

Android Ported to C# – Xamarin
Last July when Xamarin was getting started, we got our team together in Boston to plan the evolution of Mono on iOS and Android. After a day of kayaking in the ...
blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/

Kindle Fire now #1 Android tablet, Google control over Android ...
The next most popular Android tablet product line is Samsung's Galaxy Tab ... Amazon is using its own application store and a fork of the Android operating ...
arstechnica.com/.../amazons-kindle-fire-now-the-1-android-ta...

Pocket: Applications: Android
User created Applications. These are applications created by users, sorted by user popularity. Dolphin Browser HD Android App · Twicca Android App Plug-in ...
getpocket.com/apps/android

Motorola Mobility Posts Wider Loss - Greg Bensinger - Mobile ...
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. on Tuesday posted a wider first-quarter loss after selling 4.3 percent fewer mobile devices compared with the year-earlier period.
allthingsd.com/20120501/motorola-mobility-posts-wider-loss/

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