Google Android users annoyed with different versions on mobile devices
Google Android has become one of the most exciting mobile platforms in the industry today.
The product is available for no cost to companies aiming to develop new phones.
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Updated: Apple said Tuesday that it is suing HTC for infringing on 20 patents related to the iPhone and pursuing a permanent cease and desist order that could derail a wide range of Android devices.
Specifically, Apple is suing HTC in a Delaware district court and the U.S. International Trade Commission for violating patents related to “the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.” Apple didn’t detail the specific patents involved.
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said:
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
[via ZDNet]
Android has been a pretty popular mobile OS for Google, and it’s been a hit with customers, developers and cell manufacturers, too. However, it’s hard to imagine that it’s this popular. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, giving a keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, mentioned that Google and their OEM partners are shipping 60,000 Android phones a day.
We were lucky enough to get our hands on Best Buy Mobile’s entire Holiday Playbook and after combing through it, there’s a couple little nice nuggets of information. Really more confirmations than anything else, but hey, we aren’t ones to turn down info. Before we get to handsets specifically, it seems Best Buy has some pretty hard statistics on sales opportunities — check this out:
They’ve really got it locked down, huh? Smart, smart, smart. Hit the break for some other juicy information we gathered!
In terms of hot upcoming products from now until the end of the year, here’s what Best Buy Mobile is pitching their sales staff to be ready for:
The rest of the playbook just outlines what stores should do for key dates and Holiday sales planning, other merchandising information and what not.
The Yahoo Search Marketing Blog announced that your search ads will now automatically be displayed on iPhone & Android mobile phones. Yes, Yahoo said, this is an automatic opt in for all advertisers. Yahoo said, “As of today, your ads should begin appearing immediately on these devices for relevant searches, if they have not already.” Yahoo boasted, if you didn’t have your ads on mobile devices, then “we’ve done it for you.” I assume there is an easy way to opt out, if you specifically do not want to show your ads on these devices?
Here is a picture of the ads:
Yahoo Search Mobile Ads There are also ads at the bottom of the search results. For more information about mobile search ads from Yahoo go to searchmarketing.yahoo.com/mobile.
by Barry Schwartz
[via search engine land]
