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Tabbedout- lets users pay for their restaurant bill with their phones

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.

"Nine seconds is still pretty short, and pretty jumbled. At the end they urge you to "Show yourself" at the website because clearly they haven't shown you squat. Each nine-second ad focuses on a different feature of the phone and a different person, though all six stories are interconnected."

Stats on console gaming as well as a look into Nintendo as a microcosm of challenges facing console makers. Nintendo isn't trying to win your living room or phone, and they are paying for that.

Stats I mentioned in editorial today.

CHARGE Anywhere is a contactless payment startup that has developed a system where merchants can use the Nexus S to accept NFC payments, hardware can attach to the phone to accept cards

"Mobile phone carriers, credit card companies, and third-party sluggers, like Google and PayPal, all gain--either through selling hardware, or through transaction fees and revenue-sharing."

"debuting its new mobile media rental-and-purchase service, HTC Watch."

Hah wow

"AT&T admited that the phone's HSUPA capability - a key feature in increasing upload speeds on the Atrix as well as the new HTC Inspire 4G smartphone - will not be enabled until a later date."

Making a case that credit cards are fine and NFC payment requires too much work to set up the infrastructure.

Retailers looking to optimize for mobile shopping.

Strangest bit: 700M people will have two cell phones on them at all times. Not counting tablets or anything like that.

31 percent of U.S. mobile consumers plan on buying an Android-based smartphone in the next year. Nielsen found that 30 percent of respondents plan to get their hands on an iPhone in the next 12 months. RIM's BlackBerry smartphones and Windows Phone 7-based devices were desired by 11 percent and 6 percent of the respondents, respectively. Surprisingly, 20 percent of those surveyed are still unsure of which smartphone they want to buy.

people charging to cell phones or landlines doubled last year

An app for creating photo/video/audio stories on the mobile phone.

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