Hey, Dish Network: Merge with T-Mobile and launch LTE already 
Colin Gibbs- Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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AT&T appears to be making a play for Dish Network's prized spectrum. But rather than selling the airwaves or going it alone in mobile, Dish should partner with T-Mobile to launch an LTE service packaged with pay TV and high-speed broadband. Subscribe now or sign in to view this Weekly Update »
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Motorola’s patent winning against Apple ends in Germany
Florian Mueller once again provides a truckload of information for those trying to keep up with the dizzying patent battle between Motorola and Apple in Germany.
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Will Google be vulnerable in mobile search?
I believe it will be, although we haven't seen a lot of evidence of that yet. But if I'm Apple I'm seriously considering building my own mobile search engine.
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Google Wallet falls open after casual hack
This is to be expected in the early days of the mobile wallet, and we're sure to see more of these kinds of things. But the headlines won't do anything to assuage the consumer concerns that are sure to slow uptake.
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Apple rushes to finalize apps for onstage iPad 3 demos and commercials
Apple has set the bar so high for itself when it comes to this stuff that even a small stumble will raise eyebrows. So, uh, no pressure.
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7MHz of spectrum that T-Mobile will receive from AT&T, thanks to the breakup fee
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Analyst Carlos Kirjner is predicting that mobile devices will account for most searches by 2016, as All Things D points out in this post — and that doesn’t include tablets. And while Google is dominating the mobile search space in these early days, mobile is a very different kind of platform than PCs when it comes to search: While PCs are often used to learn more about a broad range of topics — think Wikipedia — mobile searches lean much more heavily toward finding a brick-and-mortar location near where users are at the time. So we’ll see mobile search evolve tremendously in the coming months as search providers try to make it easier to perform those kinds of searches. That’s why I agree with Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett, who believes Google may be more vulnerable in mobile search than many people think.
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I don't know anything about bada, or Tizen, and I'm a relatively decent mobile phone geek. It will be a remarkable feat for Samsung to convince US consumers that a Tizen/bada based phone is more than a passing curiosity (see above-mentioned webOS, and potentially Windows Phone) or niche OS.
—justinkramp on Why Samsung and Tizen could take on Apple and Google
