Where Bert Danner falters in his analysis is in assuming that the mobile platform battle will play out like desktop computing, where network effects yielded near monopoly-level dominance to Microsoft.
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Britain is setting the pace in creating mobile, battle-ready forces, while Italy's army is still dominated by conscripts who use the experience to learn proper Italian (and to escape their families) but are not exactly bursting to fight in foreign wars.
And Omaha-based SkyVu Entertainment encourages volunteers to test its mobile game franchise Battle Bears.
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In the meantime, the battle for mobile subscribers has resulted in more good advertising.
One of the most critical-yet-largely-untold issues surrounding mobile wallets and mobile commerce is the battle to manage the data.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said publically that Google and Apple are engaged in the defining battle for mobile.
When iPad appeared in 2010, it plugged right into that system, quickly earning 100, 000 apps, and we all started talking about the battle of the mobile ecosystems.
The battle for supremacy in the mobile industry has only just begun.
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The battle to make China more mobile has barely begun.
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The smartphone battle is fierce enough that most mobile industry executives keep their opinions about rival manufacturers and operating systems to themselves.
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This battle represents the new phase in mobile market differentiation.
Apple and Samsung are in a heated battle for market share in the new mobile computing landscape.
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But with Apple and Google's Android system grabbing the attention and market share in the mobile world, Microsoft appears to have an uphill battle.
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We use the term "buy" here loosely, since mobile Firefox will be free just like every other version of Firefox out there -- a key selling point (again, forgive our nomenclature) against rival Opera in the battle for the hearts and minds of the mobile internet warriors running WinMo -- and that's what's got carriers so intrigued.
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Mobile games, in particular, are locked in a fierce battle for customers and are constantly being eclipsed by new offerings from behemoths like Electronics Arts Inc.
Mobile games, in particular, are locked in a fierce battle for customers and are constantly being eclipsed by new offerings from behemoths like Electronic Arts Inc.
These are boom times for intellectual property lawyers, as every major player in the mobile phone industry decides that patents are important weapons in the battle for supremacy in the smartphone market.
Facebook's work on a hashtag is a sign of the heightening battle between Facebook and Twitter, as both compete for mobile users and fight for advertising dollars.
On 24 August, a US court ruled that Samsung had infringed Apple patents for mobile devices in one of the most significant rulings in a global intellectual property battle.
The rivalry has escalated of late with Korean mobile-phone maker Samsung, with which Apple has been embroiled in a legal battle.
With the strong support of his board and an another supposedly positive earnings call coming later today, it's hard to call Steve's position as "shaky" at the company, but with whispers of infighting, a symbolic battle with Apple over market capitalization, and a do-or-die mobile launch coming up, it's clear that he's under a lot of pressure to deliver.
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But this digital Battle of Verdun is not the only challenge for Google as Mozilla is also launching its mobile operating system: FirefoxOS. To make a long story short, FirefoxOS is the equivalent of ChromeOS for smartphones: a light-weight mobile operating system where the user interface and all applications are web-based.
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