Apple announced that 13-year-old Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Connecticut won its billion App countdown contest, receiving a MacBook Pro, $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod Touch, and a Time Capsule. The App he downloaded to win was Bump, by Bump Technologies, which allows users to bump their iPhones together in order to exchange contact information.
- The winner of Apple’s
billion App countdown contest is a 13-year-old from Weston, Connecticut, who
downloaded Bump, an application that lets users bump their iPhones together in
order to exchange contact information.

Winner Connor
Mulcahey will receive a MacBook Pro, a $10,000 iTunes gift …

NEWS ANALYSIS: For Apple’s iPhone to truly be a world-class smartphone, it needs to be everywhere in the world. But the iPhone isnt officially distributed where it needs to be most: China, the worlds largest cell phone market. Recent noise about possible future iPhone deals with U.S. carriers shouldnt drown out the silence about China.
- Last week, bloggers chattered about AT amp;Ts exclusive iPhone contract
expiring in 2010 and Verizons desire to carry Apples smartphone in 2011. It
was a silly discussion because Apples bigger problem is China.
The company desperately needs a carrier distribution deal in the worlds
largest cell …

NEWS ANALYSIS: Nokias dramatic first-quarter profit decline is more about inventory than sales. Those people thinking Nokias plight is opportunity for Apple should think again. The iPhones market share is tiny compared with Nokia devices. Apple has a long, long, long way to go before even remotely challenging its Finnish rival.
- Some Apple iPhone supporters are rejoicing over Nokia’s
April 16 earnings announcement. Nokia reported a stunning 90 percent
year-over-year decline in profits for first quarter and a first-ever pretax
loss.
The world’s largest handset maker, along with Research In Motion, stands
between iPhone…

Research group Piper Jaffray counted sales of Apple iPhones, Macs and iPods in various retail locations and offers some interesting numbers, along with predictions for Apple sales going forward. In flagship stores, Apple sells about 90 iPhones each day, compared with the 16 sold each day in its retail stores.
- Apple sells an average of 90 iPhone 3G handsets, 123 Macs and 240 iPods per day in its New York Fifth Avenue location and other flagship stores though in an average retail store, those numbers drop to 16 iPhones, 20 Macs and 27 iPods.

These numbers were compiled in an April 15 research note fr…

Apple is close to hitting 1 billion downloads from its App Store and plans on a prize giveaway for whoever downloads the billionth application that includes a MacBook Pro and an iPod Touch. In the free apps category, Facebook and Google Earth have been the most popular downloads. In the paid apps category, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D tops that particular chart.
- Apple
has placed a counter on its Web site showing the number of downloaded apps,
which is approaching the 1 billion mark. The company plans on giving away a
MacBook Pro, an iPod Touch and other products to the individual who downloads
the 1 billionth application.
At around 2:30 p.m. on April 1…

For iPhone and iPod Touch baseball fans, the addition of live game day radio streaming to MLB.com’s popular At Bat app seemed a natural. However, the rookie app is struggling in the big leagues.
- STRIKE ONE: quot;Crash after crash. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. quot;

STRIKE TWO: quot;The audio drops about once per inning and stays dropped for quite some time. quot;

STRIKE THREE: quot;I’ve got hundreds of apps…and this is by far the worst. All in all, this app is…

ABI Research finds that nearly half of the 40- to 59-year-olds it surveyed expected to find a touch-screen on a $50 phone, which may not be so outlandish after all. What hardly any respondents cared about were in-phone stereo loudspeakers and turn-by-turn directions.
- Are older people out of touch?

When a survey by ABI Research asked 1,015 U.S.
mobile phone users which features they expected to find on a $50 phone, nearly
half of the respondents in the 40 to 59 age bracket said they expected a touch-screen.

The survey, conducted in February, aimed to disc…

Research in Motion posted strong numbers for the fourth quarter of 2009, found a way to cut costs and hinted toward more diversity in its portfolio, especially when it comes to more consumer-specific handsets. But can the BlackBerry maker stay strong against the soon-to-arrive Palm Pre, as well as competition from Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG and a gearing-up-to-attack Nokia?
- Research
in Motion saw profits of $3.46 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal
year 2009, the BlackBerry makers very pleased co-CEO Jim Balsillie announced
April 2.
The companys quarter ended Feb. 28, and RIMs revenue shot up
from $2.78 billion the previous quarter which was an impressive …

Mobile and wireless device maker Research In Motion posts surprisingly strong quarterly earnings and offers a rosy outlook that signals further growth despite the global economic slowdown as consumers embrace the newest RIM BlackBerry smartphones. RIM now has a total of about 25 million BlackBerry subscribers. These results send the company’s shares about 21 percent higher in after-hours trade.
- TORONTO (Reuters) Research In Motion posted surprisingly strong quarterly
earnings on Thursday and offered a rosy outlook that signaled further growth
despite the global economic slowdown as consumers embrace its newest BlackBerry
smartphones.
The results, which also revealed RIM now has a total…

Promising faster Internet speeds than existing 3G networks, Clearwire rolls out a 4G WiMax portable router that can wirelessly connect to up eight devices, including the Apple iPhone, some BlackBerry devices, some Windows Mobile phones, the Android-powered G1 and the upcoming Palm Pre. In addition, the Clear WiMax hot-spot router will work with gaming and music devices, digital and video cameras, and WiMax-embedded laptops.
- WiMax provider Clearwire said March 31 it plans to begin offering a Wi-Fi
device that allows users of Apple’s iPhone and other Wi-Fi-enabled devices to
tap into Clearwire’s 4G mobile WiMax network. Clearwire claims its WiMax
technology will deliver wireless Internet speeds several times faster th…

During Dell’s recent Efficient Enterprise announcement, executives said while Dell used to be viewed as a hardware provider, it is now much more. Dell is also making forays into the smartphone market, and one analyst predicted that Dell is likely to make an acquisition soon, while another suggested Palm could be a good catch. However, a third analyst said Dell may have lost its moment for an acquisition due to the potential success of the upcoming Palm Pre.
- CEO Michael Dell, speaking at a
conference in Tokyo March 24, did
little to curb speculations that Dell is considering an acquisition. Some
are now suggesting that Palm,
which is about to release its Pre smartphone, could be a good match for a
company that wants to be more
than a computer make…

BSquare is looking to bring full Adobe Flash technology to the Google Android operating system. If this happens and the company does manage to port Flash to Android, it would give the new mobile OS a leg up on Microsoft Windows Mobile and the Apple iPhone.
- BSquare has announced it will port Adobes Flash technology onto the Google
Android mobile operating system for a global Tier 1 carrier.

Adobe Flash technology currently ships on more than 800 million devices, and is
used to build video and rich-media applications. If full Flash technology doe…