Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: AdamLambert, AmericanIdol, Android Developer Challenge, Arkansas, AT&T, Google, Kris Allen, Text messaging
AT&T, one of the biggest sponsors of “American Idol,” might have influenced the outcome of this year’s competition by providing phones for free text-messaging services at parties organized by fans of Kris Allen, the Arkansas singer who won. Fox officials decline to comment. (Iwantmedia 5/27, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/business/media/27idol.html 5/26)
In an effort to continue fostering the Android development community, Google has announced the second round of its Android Developer Challenge class=”snap_preview_icon”> – a competition that rewards some of the platform’s best applications with large cash grants. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/27/google-kicks-off-android-developer-challenge-part-deux 5/27)
Mobile music will bring in $5.5 billion by 2013, compared with $2.5 billion today, according to a new Juniper Research report that pointed to a wide array of new streaming and downloading services in the pipeline. MediaPost Communications/OnlineMediaDaily (5/26)
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