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Apple follows Google into the mobile advertising business

Last year Google bought AdMob for $750 million. This year Apple has bought Quattro Wireless, with a figure of $270 million being discussed by commentators (although no official confirmation).

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Take a look back at 2009 in this week's mobile industry podcast

Our first podcast of 2010 takes a look back at 2009. We discuss the personalities, products, companies and technology that defined the year for the mobile phone industry – and there’s also time for our regular review of all the current news stories as well.

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f u cn rd ths thn wts th prblm?

Iain Graham writes:

Text language. Why do they do it?  What an interesting question!  Normally asked by people who have never ever sent a text, believing it to be the invention of the devil!! "Texters are vandals, doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours eight hundred years ago" asserted Jhn (sorry) John Humphrys of Radio Four fame writing in the Daily Mail. The new 'text language' has been blamed for many things including...

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Is Google’s new mobile phone distribution model really a big deal for the UK?

Mark Bridge writes:

“Google offers New Model for Consumers to buy a Mobile Phone”. Not my words but those of Vodafone as it announced it was the first operator to bring the new Google phone offer to Europe.

There’s a lot of talk about Google’s online ordering process for its Nexus One smartphone… or ‘superphone’ as the company described it at yesterday’s launch.

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Podcast - 6th January 2010

Happy New Year! We're back from our Christmas break with a quick look at the new Google Nexus One, a browse through all the other top mobile industry headlines and a review of 2009.

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