Apple is breaking up with Quattro Wireless!

Apple is not accepting anymore mobile ad campaigns and are closing down current ad campaigns through the Quattro Wireless ad network. Back in January, Apple purchased Quattro Wireless for a cool $275 million and it seems like they are already over the ad network after 8 months.  With so much money invested into their new [...]

Palm WebOS Designer Goes to Google Android

If there is one thing that all Palm WebOS user’s can agree on, its that the user experience is flawless. The OS is easy to navigate, intuitive and clean. These are all characteristics that Android users have complained about – even with Android Froyo 2.2.

Android users will be pleased to hear that Matias Duarte, [...]

Adobe Flashes Past Palm … onto Google

So I am sure you have all heard of the heated debate regarding Adobe Flash for mobile phones by now (see Apple’s homepage for Steve Job’s jabs at Flash). I think it is safe to say we won’t see Flash on the iPhone anytime soon…

But, forget about the iPhone – what about everyone else!? [...]

Google Smoogle…

This is going to be a ‘rant’ filled blog about how much I hate Google Maps.  So, if you like Google Maps, sorry, bottom line it’s unreliable, and for god sake, blue dot? Come ON!

So, here is my tale… my co-work Karla and I are driving down Bristol in Costa Mesa because we were trying [...]

Google’s got App Developers Crazy

Yes, you read that right.  Not app crazy or crazy for apps, but just plain old crazy.  With the latest Android release, Google now has at least 4 different versions of the Android in the wild.  With a variety of versions must come a variety of app releases.  With each version, developers have to change/modify/adjust [...]

Apple… Do you feel threatened on your monopoly?

Ok… Before anyone hoots and hollers about how awesome Apple is… I want to set the record straight that I am a Mac owner! So please, no comments that Justin Long rules.

The news that Apple sued HTC is no big surprise. After all, HTC is a huge player in manufacturing high end android-based mobile devices. [...]

$21 million for traditional and $0 for mobile

Is this really the ‘year of mobile’ when you have a premiere brand like Kaplan set to spend over $21 million dollars this first quarter on Online, Print and TV – yet $0 on mobile? Did Kaplan think that Google and Apple dropped over 1 Billion dollars in one week in mobile because they had [...]

Android needs QT – Quality Control (… and Quality Time)

As of recent, it seems as though nearly every mobile phone manufacturer is coming out with Google Android enabled phone: HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG, etc.  There is no end in sight.  The tech-community thinks that Android will be “taking over” as the most widely used OS on mobile phones very soon.  Though this may be [...]

Gotta Get Me Those Goggles!

Have you seen Google’s Goggles?

Mobile Visual Search Technology.  Wow.  We tried it out on Kang’s Andriod yesterday and let say for the record that it works just like you see in the video above and it’s outstandingly cool.  This blue line scans the image, finds relevant data to use in its search, and displays its [...]

Mobile News Round-up – 11/11/2009

It’s only Thursday and it’s already been a big week in mobile news.  Check out some of the latest and greatest stories.  Feel free to share any news that you stumble upon with us – hit me up at evan [at] textopoly [dot] com or throw it in the comments.

Great, just what we need – [...]