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In a follow-up post to the one I wrote about entering the competition itself (here), Smaato (a leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company) has announced the winners of the Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards 2009: •    Overall iPhone category winner: Waze •    Overall Mobile web category winner: Flirtomatic •    Overall Apps category winner: Aloqa •    Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) Phone category winner: SPB TV •    Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Android category winner: Aloqa But more interesting for me were the trends that were distilled from the entrants in to the awards: 1)    Location, location, location With success seen from location-based apps from Smaato Award Finalists such as Waze, Aloqa, Lucky Magazine (NearbyNow) and Yoose, the app enthused public is demonstrating that they are curious about socializing with other people using the same app, in the same geographic region.

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Smaato Mobile Advertising Award winners 2009 announced – and key trends emerge too

The HTC is ANOTHER new Android device that has just come to market (seems to be an Android onslaught at the moment, what with the likes of the Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) DEXT and Samsung i7500 too). It’s a mid-ranger in my view, with specs that aren’t quite as impressive as the Hero – but one thing it does do is wrap up all that Android niceness in a ‘cute’ hardware ID – yes, I said cute! Anyhow, eXpansys have been in contact to let me know they are doing the device for £294.99, with a £20 eXpansys voucher included – to spend on whatever else you heart might desire in their store: The  HTC Tattoo is an Android-based phone that brings broad personalisation to the masses. With its distinct design and ability to personalise all aspects of the phone, from its hardware to its applications and content, people are able to express themselves and create their own individual mobile experience

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HTC Tattoo with £20 eXpansys Vouchers

Yep, today was/is the day when the Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) pre goes live in the UK, and you can get your grubby/clean (I don’t know what your personal hygiene is like, do I?) mitts on one. I figured it might be interesting to go take a wander to the local O2 ( NYSE: TEF ) shop in Staines at lunchtime, to see how much the Promo effort was in full swing – and what I actually was confronted with was Samsung Genio posters in the shop window – harrumph! On looking around a bit more, I managed to find two videos promotions running on PDPs at the back of the store – not exactly ‘front of house’! A nice comparison is what happened when the iPhone 3GS launched – they had posters everywhere, in all O2 shops… so this tells me that either O2 aren’t expecting as much interest, or who knows – maybe they spent all of their print media budget and can’t make any more posters On a marginally more serious note, it’s good to finally see Europe getting the Palm Pre – now if only Palm’s PR company in the UK would respond to our emails and give us a device or two to trial… (hint hint Palm PR!)

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Palm Pre goes live in the UK – less promo than iPhone had

The Samsung Omnia II seems to pop up every now and again , but we have yet to see or hear any details of the touchscreen smartphone coming to the US. But, if a new tip from one of PhoneArena’s readers pans out, we’ll be seeing the Omnia II going live in less than a month! The Omnia II boasts an eye-popping 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, 5-megapixel camera (auto-focus and dual-LED flash), GPS, WiFi and hefty on-board memory stores, so you can see why we’re excited.

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Verizon to drop Samsung Omnia II i920 on November 1?

Now that the dust has settled from the initial announcement that Rock Band is headed to the iPhone , it’s time for EA Mobile to keep this hype train going.  What better way than to offer a teaser trailer. As is customary with almost all “teaser trailers”, you’ll see very little  gameplay footage here.  For the most part, you’ll be watching a video of four people who are stuck in a boardroom fantasizing about performing in front of an audience in some club.  I’m curious as to what kind of office allows a woman to dress the way she does in the video and for a black gentleman to be sitting in on a meeting while holding drumsticks.

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Rock Band iPhone Teaser Trailer Bringing Fun To BORED-room Meetings

I’ve been busy teaching our eldest little to talk, and daily she’s picking up new words Fortunately, I’m not just sticking to the tried and tested method of data-input to said little ‘un via the medium of books; I’ve also implemented tech solutions too! One of these is the download of some Apps to the iPhone – namely the First Words series! There are three Apps you can get, each costing £1.19: First Words: Animals First Words: Vehicles First Words: At Home The concept is very simple as you can see from the screenshot below: The idea is to slide the letters in to place to form the word – each letter is pronounced as you touch it, and then the whole word is spelled AND pronounced once you have completed the block-moving.

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First Words series of Apps for iPhone are excellent!

The crippling financial crisis is encouraging thousands of users to consider cheap cell phones with no service plan or contract . Contract cell phones are great but the tough economic atmosphere makes them a burden for a large number of consumers. A lot of people are looking for cheap alternative to wireless services such as cheap cell phones with no service plan or contract because money is hard to come y during a recession.

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Cheap Cell Phones with No Service Plan or Contract

You may or may not recall that a couple weeks ago, Acer’s ION-powered AspireRevo nettop showed up on Newegg.com for the low, low price of $199. While the machine featured some relatively-impressive specs (Atom N230 CPU, NVIDIA ION, XP Home, etc.), there’s now a new entrant to the AspireRevo line that bumps the CPU up to dual-core status, doubles the RAM, and adds Windows 7 Home Premium as well as a wireless connection.

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Acer AspireRevo nettop gets Windows 7, dual-core CPU, more memory

Apple on Thursday made a subtle-yet-major revision to its App Store policy, enabling extra content to be sold through free iPhone apps. It’s a move that immediately impacts the publishing industry, and it could pay even bigger dividends if the Cupertino, California, company indeed delivers its highly anticipated touchscreen tablet. While the most obvious beneficiaries would be app developers, a market segment that can also benefit from the new in-app commerce model are people and companies that create content and need to set up shop in a way that doesn’t, in effect, charge someone for just walking in — like media publishers.

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In-App Sales and iTablet: The Killer Combo to Save Publishing?

A group of researchers in France just recommended that we all limit our exposure to wireless devices, including mobile phones, Wi-Fi, and microwaves, because we really don’t understand how prolonged exposure to them can affect us. That’s particularly true with mobile phones, since they’ve really only been around for, what, 10 years? (Obviously there were available for longer than that, but Joe Public didn’t buy his first phone till a little bit later.) You can’t categorically say, based on 10 years of sometimes spotty data, that “phones are bad!” or “phones are good!” We simply don’t know

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French health agency: Try to limit your exposure to mobile phones if only because we don’t have enough data to say otherwise

Fudzilla is reporting that Intel’s new Atom N450 chipset – codenamed Pine Trail ( see previous coverage here ) — will officially launch on January 3rd. Previous reports suggested that the chipset will be made available to manufacturers sometime this month, to which I speculated that we’d see Pine Trail-equipped netbooks around the holidays. If Fudzilla’s report is true, though — and the site makes no reference to any sources, so take the information with a grain of salt — then it appears these new netbooks would make an appearance just in time for CES.

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Rumor: Intel Atom N450 (Pine Trail) to launch on January 3rd?

I’ve purposely avoided watching much more about the Balloon Boy, Falcon Heene, simply because the story is so ludicrous on its face. When you boil it down, you have an odd family who built what amounts to a weather balloon in their back yard and then believed – and convinced the rest of the world – that their son flew off in said balloon, over the green vales of Denver, and risked mortal harm. It was Baby Jessica in near-space, a Thursday afternoon knuckle-ball that reminded me of watching Sully land a plane in the Hudson just a few months ago So when I heard that the kid was hiding in the attic the whole time I felt a vague sense of disappointment, which I know is wrong

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Tom Swift and the Silver Space Balloon or A Father’s Lament

The Laptop Deck from Tallyn’s is an oversized tripod head and flat panel onto which you can fix a laptop, or a really, really big camera. It has a ball-and socket head and is adjustable to fit computers of up to 17” in size, and at $85 is dirt cheap in comparison to most photographic kit. The idea is that photographers shooting tethered to their laptops will have somewhere safe to put the computer.

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Tripod Mounted Laptop Stand For Photographers and Mobile Workers

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Comes with Music, an idea I’ve been shitting on since the day it was announced, is a scheme thought up by executives in Finland to offer devices for around 110 EUR more than they should cost and in return you get one year of unlimited DRM infected downloads. The whole concept seemed as if it was built to attract those people who were too dumb to do any comparison shopping, or for parents who are having the living shit scared out of them by the ever increasing media coverage on people who have committed acts of piracy and are now facing huge fines. For a service that has been out for over a year now, to get only 107,227 users as of July, is pretty weak.

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Nokia Comes with Music only has 107,227 users after being operational for one year

During Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Q3 conference call ( see my live blog here ) the company alluded to some changes in management. They didn’t exactly specify what was going to change, that is until this morning when they issued this press release : Nokia today announced some changes in the roles of its Group Executive Board members. Rick Simonson, currently Nokia Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed to head of the Mobile Phones entity within the Devices unit as of November 1, 2009 .

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Nokia’s Executive game of musical chairs: CFO Rick Simonson to head Devices Unit on November 1st

Samsung has launched a new version of its highly popular F480 all-touchscreen handset. The so called Samsung TouchWiz F488i comes with an upgraded “3x TouchWiz User Interface,” which includes Shortcut Pages and Extended Desktop, offering more widgets (MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr), Feature Tab Page View and Photo Contacts.

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Samsung TouchWiz F488i adds updated TouchWiz UI on top of the original F480

TimeBridge, the web service that helps folks run meetings more efficiently, is going iPhone. As a result, users of the Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) iPhone and iPod Touch, who at the same time rely on TimeBridge for their meetings will be able to do all the coordination work while on the go. Key features of the iPhone app include: Access all TimeBridge meeting information – who, what, when, and where; Ping late attendees and send them late messages via SMS and/or email; Join TimeBridge conference calls; Access online agenda and track time spent on each topic; View real-time availability of contacts; and Reply to TimeBridge meeting invitations

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TimeBridge iPhone-izes its meeting service

3GVision has launched its i-nigma 1D/2D Barcode app for the iPhone, which includes an easy to use point-and-scan feature enabling users to get instant access to information behind the barcode with zero clicks. I’m not sure I understand much about it, except that it is used for scanning barcodes, hence here’s an excerpt from the press release: The i-nigma 2D barcode application for iPhone supports QR (Quick Response), Data Matrix and 1D EAN13 as well as multiple barcode colors and backgrounds. Moreover, the iPhone application exhibits extremely high immunity to angles, enabling 360° reading tilt angle, auto focus and scan mode which makes accessing the mobile internet extremely fast and easy.

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3GVision brings its i-nigma 2D Barcode app to the AppStore

I’m not about to knock myself out for noting the 800th iMac rumor of the past few weeks, so here’s the deal: people “close” to Apple now aren’t sure whether or not Blu-ray will wind up on the next iMac revision. Blu-ray may be on Mac Pros, and maybe then only as a build-to-order option, but that’s enough “maybes” to bore a slug.

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Maybe, maybe not: New doubts on Blu-ray being part of the next iMac revision

Federal judge Denise Cote has dealt a blow to the music industry’s American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) with a new ruling that ringtones are not considered public performances and therefore aren’t subject to music royalty fees. Yes, that means the ASCAP was seeking to collect a royalty fee every time a musical ringtone went off in some pocket or purse

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Judge Curbs Music Industry Greed, Shoots Down Ringtone Royalties

Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) and T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) have come out with assurances that most ( probably all ) Sidekick data has been recovered and will soon be restored to affected Sidekicks. You’d think that announcement alone would be enough to preempt any class-action lawsuits against T-Mobile or Microsoft (which owns Danger, the company responsible for maintaining Sidekick data). And, you’d be wrong.

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T-Mobile gets class-action sued over Sidekick snafu

If you’re a Windows 7 Launch Party host like me, you’ve probably gone through a wave of emotion. First you were probably stoked that you were chosen , you then probably had fun with everyone else over the awful launch party videos and hand-outs, and then last week, you probably got the sweet party kit that contains a special version of Windows 7 Ultimate. But are you now dreading the damn party next week

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Windows 7 Launch Party hosts: Are you planning on actually having the party?