TS2R Wireless News for March 1, 2011.
Sidekick Danger RIP - T-Mobile and Microsoft will "kill" the Sidekick Danger email/web/data service on May 31. The Sidekick was one the first email-enabled phones introduced in 2002. T-Mobile is offering Sidekick users special offers, ways to transfer files to the cloud on t-mobile.com, as well as a tool to copy data to the Sidekicks memory card. Read T-Mobile notice.
Samsung Tabulous News: New Samsung Galaxy Tab @ CTIA - Samsung will be announcing a new Samsung Galaxy Tab at CTIA on March 22. The press has received invitations to an event. A 8.9-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, sized between the seven Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy Tab 10.1, is suspected to be shown. The processor could be a NVIDIA Tegra 2 and it may have 3G/4G access from carriers.
BlackBerry PlayBook to Play Android? - Recent reports suggest that an app exists that allows BlackBerry smartphones to use Android apps. ShopSavvy on its blog showed that ShopSavvy for Android was running on a BlackBerry 8300 8600 and 8520.
Mergers and Acquisitons
iHeart Radio Gets Thumbplay Music Cloud - Clear Channel Radio announced an agreement with digital music company
Thumbplay to acquire its cloud-based music
service, platform and team of mobile technology, product and
marketing experts. Over the coming months, Clear Channel will incorporate Thumbplay's custom 'radio station' service into its iHeartRadio.
Mark Your Calendars
App Developers Conference - the App Developers Conference will be held October 26-27, 2011 in Santa Clara. ADC addresses the broad implications of app development, marketing and distribution from a developer's perspective.