While ads and visits are taking off on mobile devices, the company's latest big feature is still Web-only.
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Committed to bringing innovation to mobile devices, the company has numerous global patents around its NFC microSD technology and iPhone accessory solutions.
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Google has now become the market share leader in mobile operating systems, powering more mobile devices than any other company.
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By 2011, after the company essentially pulled out of the market due to uncompetitive technology, the company sold 3.9 million mobile devices, representing less than 1% of the company's global sales.
Nonetheless, Apple has gained some traction as a company whose mobile devices have interesting and entertaining gaming applications.
Analysts expect the company's mobile devices unit to break even at least one quarter in 2010, for the first time in years.
Motorola Mobility was created in 2011 when Motorola Inc split the company into a mobile devices unit and a government and public safety division known as Motorola Solutions.
The company is promising nifty mobile devices, sophisticated digital cameras and other gadgetry as part of its comeback effort.
Founded in 2005, Box enables people to share files and content inside and outside a company on desktop and mobile devices.
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For example, he saw that people were shifting from PCs to mobile devices so ATI acquired a mobile application company that was having trouble getting customers.
Two years ago, before Google thrust itself into distributing high-quality media content to mobile-devices users and others, the company announced it would begin taking down unauthorized copyrighted media within 24 hours of receiving a valid notice from a copyright holder.
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Shifting the ownership of mobile devices has many complex implications for how a company does business.
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Speaking at Yahoo's Sunnyvale, California headquarters, Mayer stressed the importance of personalizing Yahoo's Web services and adapting the company's products to mobile devices, AllThingsD reported.
The Samsung S4 is the first phone to integrate with technology from a company called Mobeam which allows mobile devices to beam barcodes to ordinary POS scanners.
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The company sold 8.9 million mobile devices in the quarter, including 5.1 million smartphones.
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The company capitalized on the growth of mobile devices, which has caused a spike in demand for WiFi.
In addition, the number of monthly users who now access Facebook on mobile devices jumped 54% to 751 million, the company said.
But Access' interest might not even have been the Palm OS. By acquiring PalmSource, the company gained Linux development resources for mobile devices in the U.S., France and China, including those from PalmSource's recent acquisition of China MobileSoft, a Linux software firm.
The savings would come from the fact that the company is saving on the cost of mobile devices.
Nearly a third of the company's advertising revenue came from mobile devices, a greater share than analysts had expected.
Increased adoption of mobile devices for e-commerce and payment purposes saw the company beat its own estimates for the year.
In April 2010, Hewlett-Packard made the second strategic mistake, the purchase of near-bankrupt Palm that supposed to help the company enter the fast growing market for mobile devices that began to replace PCs.
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In May, IBM and the CPSC jointly announced a recall of about 220, 000 AC adapters used with the company's ThinkPad notebooks and other mobile devices (see "IBM recalls 220, 000 ThinkPad adapters, " link below).
The company said it sold 10.5 million mobile devices in the quarter, including 5.3 million smartphones.
Apple continues to attract scrutiny from investors about its fast-growing cash stockpile as the company generates strong profit from its computers and mobile devices.
Almost every company is seeing a significant rise in traffic from mobile devices.
Meanwhile, the company is also psyched about its new push into mobile devices.
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He notes that in one case Cognizant built an app for a medical device company that allows doctors to monitor cardiac patients on mobile devices.
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The company is also promoting its NY Times app for mobile devices, through which it expects to tap new demand from the surging smartphone and tablet markets.
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