If all this talk of new and improved operating systems for Windows Phone 7, Android, and iOS is making your head spin and your stomach growl, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are organizations full of people like us whose job it is to stay on top of these things. Mango is Microsoft’s updated operating system for its line of Windows Phone 7 devices. As Joe Belfiore, Windows Phone Corporate VP, discusses in the video below,… Read more »

NFC technology remains center stage in the mobile world, as Google prepares to partner with MasterCard and Citigroup to bring NFC to the Android, and speculation regarding the potential marriage of NFC and the iPhone 5 runs wild. According to an article published today in the Wall Street Journal, Google is working on an Android app that would allow consumers with Citibank credit or debit cards to make payments with their mobile devices. Google has… Read more »

IDC, a technology research company, says Google will be crowned king of mobile internet display ads in 2011. Today, Google has a market share of 59% of the total spending, which includes display and search advertising; Apple sits at second place with an 8% market share. Needless to say, Google is the dominant force in mobile search advertising (with an ad revenue market share of over 90%). When singling out mobile Internet display ads, Google and… Read more »

An October 2010 study by Nielsen found that less than 30% of mobile users in the US own smartphones. Feature phones are still a major force in the marketplace, which means we can expect the smartphone wars to heat up even more in the coming years as the device-makers of the world try to convert the remaining 70% of mobile users over to their respective platforms. The study found that, to date, RIM’s Blackberry and… Read more »