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I think this is stupid.

This could make business users and businesses even more receptive to smartphones. Opens up corporate smartphones.

Oh shit, son! Group messaging space just got more serious? serious-er? If RIM is willing to unlink more services from their hardware, they could become more influential in the mobile b2b/security space.

Update from Nielsen on U.S. smartphones. Android - 29% iPhone - 27% BlackBerry - 27% WP7 (surprisingly?) - 10%

Another mobile social game deep dive/case study. Zombie Farm generating revenue in the "double digit millions" from in-app purchases. Looking to expand to Android and include ads.

Fast Society is another group texting app.

Most surprising part of this is the share the iPod has relative to Android.

Windows Phone is the highest performing platform for advertisers, based on CTR.

Apple's performance in the market continues to be stellar, but its performance in the smartphone patent wars-which it had a hand in starting-continues to be mixed, at best. This week, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had another setback, when the full International Trade Commission ruled that Kodak was found to not be infringing Apple's patents. Apple's loss against Kodak comes on the heels of Apple's first real victory in the smartphone battles-a ruling late last week that Android-powered HTC phones infringe two Apple patents.

mozilla created an api that allows developers to give apps offline capabilities

Future of tablets

first Visa positioned itself as a PayPal competitor with P2P payments, and now AmEx is following suit with its "Serve" service. accounts are accessible via apps for iphone and android & through facebook

Gilt boasts 1.3 million downloads of its app for iPad, iPhone and Android. Our iPad app actually gets longer time per visit than our Web site does! We are also seeing that more that 15 percent of our total revenue coming from mobile devices and we continue to drive third screen exposure for the brands we sell on Gilt.

More group video chat ishhhhh.

meego in talks with LG- car integration, but is LG looking to integrate in smartphones too?

9500 filters!

spotify is launching free syncing of music to ipod, iphone and android and launching new music store

Interesting, hack-y approach to Social TV recommendations

Android vs Chrome

Looks like we have again reached a tipping point of sorts in the mobile market in the U.S. The analysts at Nielsen report that in May, smartphones for the first time started to outsell feature phones, at a ratio of 55 percent to 45 percent. And although all the talk for the last several months has been about the rise of Android, Nielsen says that Apple's iPhone was driving the trend.