One such elusive item is a phone running software from Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) new Android mobile-software platform.
Many who live in North America wouldn't put Hyundai at the forefront of in-car technology, but the Korean au hoping to change that reputation by 2014 with a more internet- and mobile-savvy platform.
Mojiva, a mobile-first global advertising display company offering both a mobile ad network (Mojiva), and a mobile ad-serving platform (Mocean Mobile), is a company that has not one or two, but seven female executives at the helm.
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But a new study published by mobile-retail marketing platform provider Swirl suggests that the bigger opportunity lies in using mobile to enhance the in-store experience rather than simply enabling consumers to click to shop via their smartphones.
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MeetMe is a mostly mobile-based social platform that aims to connect people within games and apps.
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The name isn't terribly important, but the concept is critical -- every mobile platform of consequence is moving in the direction of intelligent, on-the-go app management, and with the Pre, Palm can't afford to be any different in that regard.
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In the future, Facebook should launch new services like Graph Search on mobile first and desktop second, says Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob, a cloud-based mobile platform for developers.
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One of the surprising factoids to come out of Mobile World Congress this year was the number of carrier networks supporting Firefox OS, the forthcoming web-based mobile platform from Mozilla.
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Last week, Smart Media Devices, a year-old venture that provides advertisers with scalable and targeted access to high-quality mobile-accessible content, merged with Crisp Media, a pioneering platform for rich-media mobile ad creation.
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The Sony PlayStation Mobile platform is already pre-calibrated to play on the Tegra platform, which is a great advantage for using Tegra.
Geeksphone has already shipped more than 10, 000 devices tailored to run Firefox OS, the new web-based mobile phone platform coded by Mozilla, to developers.
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The free software community today unveiled the two phones it will ship to developers who want to make apps for its forthcoming open-source mobile platform.
On a scale of usability, it falls just beneath Windows Phone 8 - the third-place mobile platform it has no choice to but to parry with.
Enforcing a single-platform mobile strategy is both quixotic and wrong.
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"Now the fastest-growing mobile platform, many of the new Android devices are great for eReading and we're excited to deliver Kobo to the millions of Android users around the world, " said Kobo CEO, Michael Serbinis.
As Apple stalls, Samsung is pushing Tizen as an alternative to Android, which means the mobile OS and cross-platform advertising could shape up very differently by the end of 2013 than it did at the end of 2012, all of which means the time is now right for a supercharged ads platform.
Relying largely on a cross-platform mobile strategy and mobile advertising, TV Guide Digital has seen very positive results since it launched its iPhone app in October 2009--more than 1 million downloads of the app within six months of launch, and a total of 3.5 million downloads so far across iPhone, iPad and Android.
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As we previously reported, the specs on their production quad-band S101 model leave little to be desired as folding smartphones go, with 128MB of RAM, 64MB of ROM, a 2-megapixel shooter, 400MHz of the XScale PXA263 variety, and Qtopia's mobile Linux platform in a 210-gram package.
The four-pronged announcement includes a mobile app, a revamped money-planner platform that allows a CFP to co-view your money-center (think Google Docs for your bank account) and the news that the company has registered as an investment adviser with the SEC (RIA).
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Recently it added a new product, Pokki, which is a platform for mobile-style apps on desktop PCs.
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It also announced it would open its Mobile Developer Platform to third-party applications, mirroring an earlier announcement from Google.
Weaving in their experiences with Team Rubicon, POS REP is also a universal mobile platform for non-profit, government and private sector organizations that support veteran reintegration.
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Myspace also launches the mobile platform in mid-November, accessible from any mobile browser, as well as an iPhone and Android app to follow later in the year.
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Worklight is a privately held company based in Tel Aviv and New York that provides an open-standards based mobile application platform that helps companies build and iterate mobile apps quickly.
Seamless integration of voice, video and navigation experiences are still not where they need to be as a whole and no other company in the world owns the in-car and mobile device platform in the way that BlackBerry does.
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This agreement is a key pillar in JiWire's mobile audience and location data platform that combines both Wi-Fi and mobile media.
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Facebook-like Kaixin001, mobile advertising platform Domob Ads, and Chinese wonton restaurant chain operator YPX Food.
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Google Glass may be a fun experiment in building another mobile platform to attract as-yet-unimagined revenue streams.
MoPub is an ad-serving platform for mobile applications that allows publishers to manage their ad inventory on iOS and Android.
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So based on these numbers here and just how disastrous ads can be, maybe the best mobile platform focuses on e-commerce.
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