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“Phone stacking,” a game that forces people to interact with their companions, and not their devices, is gaining stream around dinner tables in the U.S. The game, which originated on the Tumblr blog of Brian Perez, requires all people eating dinner together to put their device in the center of the table. The first person [...]
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Apple Gains on Android with IPhone 4S
January 18th, 2012 
admin Strong iPhone 4S sales narrowed the gap between Apple and Google in the heated smartphone market. More than half of people buying a new smartphone last fall chose Android devices, research firm Nielsen revealed Wednesday. However, in a month-by-month breakdown, researchers showed Android’s overall market share among recent buyers dropped by nearly 12 percent in [...]
Google Gains Advantage Over Oracle in Patent Battle
January 17th, 2012 admin The presiding judge pushed back the upcoming Google-Oracle trial indefinitely, shifting the advantage to Google in the longstanding patent battle. U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who has presided over the trial for several months, cancelled the upcoming March trial date and refuses to reschedule it until Oracle lowers the amount it seeks in damages. The [...]
NUTS: Samsung Gains on Apple, Microsoft Ramps Up for Windows Phones
December 17th, 2011 admin Samsung gained ground on Apple with historic sales numbers, while Microsoft ramped up its marketing push prior to the launch of Nokia’s Windows phones. News Under the Sun is a weekly column rounding up all the events on in the mobile industry. Want the news but don’t want it every day? Subscribe to our weekly [...]
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No Comments »Sprint Gains on Low-Income Subscribers in Troubled Economy
November 11th, 2011 admin Sprint is gaining customers thanks to a subsidized wireless program for low-income Americans, as the carrier seeks innovative ways to boost subscriber numbers. The federally-subsidized Lifeline program provides millions of low-income Americans with 250 free monthly cell phone minutes, and pays carriers such as Sprint as much as $10 per month per customer to offer [...]
AT&T Gains Union Support for T-Mobile Merger
November 9th, 2011 admin Communications Workers of America, or CWA, said AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile would create nearly 100,000 jobs, showing support for a deal that has rivals like Sprint worried. AT&T is embroiled in lawsuits with the Department of Justice, Sprint, and regional carrier C Spire, all of whom seek to block the proposed merger amid fears [...]
Sprint Gains on IPhone 4S, Network Improvements
October 26th, 2011 admin Sprint reported a less drastic third-quarter loss than last year and an uptick in new customers, signaling the carrier may be poised for a turnaround driven by the iPhone 4S and network upgrades. The company posted a third-quarter loss of more than $300 million, significantly narrower than its $900 million-plus loss of one year ago. [...]
AT&T Gains Subscribers, But Not From IPhone
October 21st, 2011 admin AT&T may be less dependent on the iPhone this year than usual, posting a profit despite activating far fewer iPhones in the third quarter of this year than it did the year before. Customers may have been reluctant to buy new iPhone handsets while waiting for the iPhone 4S to be released, resulting in AT&T [...]
Windows Phone Gains, Makes Up One-Third of HTC Sales
September 29th, 2011 admin HTC said Windows Phone devices make up 30 percent of its sales, as Microsoft begins gaining ground in the mobile market. The Taiwanese phone maker is betting Microsoft’s platform will be a big part of its future plans and expect the number of Windows phones sold to go up. “We believe that Windows Phone 7 [...]
Google+ Gains on Facebook
September 23rd, 2011 admin Google+ picking up speed alongside social network giant Facebook as it attracts a large flood of traffic to its service, which opened up to the general public this week. Google+ recorded just over 2.5 million web visits in the U.S. with Tuesday’s open launch, according to data from Experian Hitwise, up seven times from the [...]
