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Mobile phone network 3 has released details of iPad data plans ahead of the device’s UK launch on Friday. Customers will be able to pay £7.50 per month for up to 1GB of data use, or £15 for up to 10GB of data use per month. Users will not have to sign up to a [...]

Research predicts 19% end-user spending increase The popularity of smartphones and app stores, growing accessibility in emerging markets and improved device interfaces are contributing to the double-digit growth of the worldwide mobile gaming market, according toGartner. The research firm estimates end-users around the world will spend $5.6 billion on mobile gaming this year, up 19% [...]

Video: 60 Minutes: Marty Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone By Stefan Constantinescu on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 6:44 AM PST In Devices If you’ve got 13 minutes to kill, then tune into this 60 minutes interview that profiles Marty Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, and how he lives his life, how [...]

This is a really good presentation by Createwithcontext.com,  this is their research on how users really use the iPhone.  It looks at the user journey across all elements of the iPhone from search to applications and so on.  It nicely summarises the 8 rules of thumb when developing true applications and the more common widget [...]

In brief: Loads going on at AdMob. On Friday the Federal Trade Commission gives the Google-AdMob deal the green light; earlier this month AdMob marks a new milestone (200 billion ads served);and we learn AdMob’s testing geo-targeted ad serving technology with a U.K. dating service. In an exclusive interview Russell Buckley, AdMob Vice President Global Alliances, discusses the nets & bolts of AdMob targeting, the significance of iPad, the positive outlook for mobile coupons and the future of mobile advertising.

US watchdog the Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation of Google’s proposed acquisition of mobile advertising network AdMob, concluding that the deal is unlikely to harm competition in the nascent mobile advertising market.

Will design, build and manage a mobile internet site for the CBS’s tech news publication

Posted By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor @ The Telegraph The war of words between Google andApple – in public at least – has never raged more fiercely. On stage, as the search company announced the new generation of its Android mobile phone operating system, Vice President Vic Gundotra repeatedly referred disparagingly to the closed ecosystem that [...]

Posted by Tomi T Ahonen  communities-dominate I suggested 2010 would be a big year for smartphones. I suggested the market would be volatile. I suggested we’d see new players enter the already-heated race. And I suggested it would turn into a bloodbath. Well, the blood is already being spilled. Palm is the first to be killed. I [...]