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| Amazon Launches Kindle Apps in China and Two Other Stories You Need to Know | | Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Amazon Launches Kindle Apps and E-Bookstore in China Amazon has launched its Kindle apps for iOS and Android, as well as a Kindle e-bookstore in China.
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| Android is Beating Apple in Mobile War, Says Google's Eric Schmidt | | Google chairman Eric Schmidt has declared Android the winner in its mobile war with Apple. In an interview with Bloomberg, Schmidt said Google's mobile platform is widening its lead over Apple in the mobile-software market. He compared its success to the way Microsoft dominated the iPhone maker in the desktop business two decades ago. "This is a huge platform change; this is of the scale of 20 years ago -- Microsoft versus Apple," he said.
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| Google Maps for iOS Returns, Available for Download Now | | 12:01:52 AM | Christina Warren |
| Google Maps for iOS is back! The app appeared in the App Store late Wednesday evening, providing joy and comfort to disgruntled Apple Maps users everywhere. Rumors of the app's impending release appeared earlier this evening by way of AllThingsD. Google Maps for iOS [iTunes link] looks and functions more similarly to its Android counterpart than it does to the version that used to be bundled with iOS.
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| Google Maps App for iOS May Launch Tonight | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:53 PM | Zoe Fox |
| The days of Apple Maps are about to be over. If a report saying a Google Maps app for iOS will become available Wednesday night is correct, all iPhone users who have complained about the buggy Apple Maps can go back to their preferred mobile maps app. A source familiar with the matter told AllThingsD the Google Maps app will again become available for iPhone users.
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| Jet-Engine Tech Makes Super-Thin and Quiet Ultrabooks a Reality | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:00 PM | Charlie White |
| Laptops are getting even more powerful. Even though their processors are steadily becoming more efficient and running cooler, most of them still need at least one noisy fan to keep a machine's innards from melting into a useless heap of parts. Now there's a tiny bellows-like innovation that solves that cooling problem, using miniaturized technology that was first employed in jet engines.
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| YotaPhone Has LCD Front, E-Ink Back, Coolness All Over | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:44 PM | Charlie White |
| How would you like to have a smartphone with two screens, one on the front and one on the back? That's the innovation behind the YotaPhone, an Android smartphone with a 4.3-inch LCD display on the front and an E-Ink screen on the back. Having two screens on a smartphone could be a handy innovation.
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| Is it Worth it to Build an NFC App Right Now? | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:18 PM | Lauren Hockenson |
| The jury is still out on the true relevance of near-field communication (NFC) -- is it a technology before its time, or just a dud?
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| Dish Network's Cellular LTE Plans Get the Green Light | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:53 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Dish Network, the company you're most likely familiar with as a provider of satellite television, has been trying for years to get government approval for its plans to build a nationwide LTE network. After extensive negotiations, the company's LTE plans got the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission late Tuesday night.
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| Mac Computers Get Malicious Fake-Installer Trojan for First Time | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:27 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| Mac users don't typically have to worry about malicious trojans making their way onto their computers. However, according to researchers at Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web, Apple machines are now the target of a fake installer that tacks hidden fees onto mobile phone account bills.
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| Why Smartphone-Obsessed Generation Y Can't Put Down Their Phones | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:59 AM | Kate Freeman |
| The smartphone: man's new best friend -- at least for Generation Y. Wireless devices have changed the way we communicate, work and entertain ourselves. For many people in Gen Y, the last thing we do before we go to bed is check our smartphones, and it's often the first thing we reach for in the morning. It's basically an extension of ourselves.
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