Mobile Industry News 11/23/09

Quattro Wireless' daily take on interesting and important news for the mobile industry. See something today that we missed? Post it in the comments or send it our way on twitter @intheq

What's the Future of Apps? Weigh in on our Semi-Annual APPS Survey
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What's the future of APPS? Is Android on the rise? Is Facebook still the king? DM2PRO.com is launching our semi-annual apps survey in collaboration with Quattro Wireless. We'll be sharing the results at digiday:APPS LA Dec. 10
 
Spotify's S60 App Gives It A Greater Shot At Carrier Deals
mocoNews
Spotify already previewed its in-development Symbian S60 app in September. Now it’s ready, giving the music service a much wider mobile footprint (Symbian runs half the world’s smartphones). Premium users can download the app themselves from m.spotify.com, but the real potential for Spotify is in carrier relationships. Pretty much all of them carry Nokia phones, and consumers - at least, in Europe - are still pretty likely to pick one of those over rivals.
 
Apple's Contract With AT&T Is Done In June -- Analyst
Silicon Alley Insider
Here's another big believer in the iPhone-to-Verizon hype. Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall was on Bloomberg Friday night, talking about why Apple will join Verizon.
 
WinBuyer Raises $6.9 Million For Online Retail App
Paid Content
WinBuyer an Israeli startup which makes a comparative pricing app for online retailers, has raised $6.9 million in a first round of funding. The round was led by Pitango Venture Capital. Giza Venture Capital also participated. With WinBuyer’s app, online retailers can show directly on product pages what the same item costs at other online outlets. The startup says consumers are more likely to go ahead and make a purchase if they can quickly see how an item’s pricing compares; if they do in fact head to another site, the merchant gets a referral fee.
 
Giving the gift of wireless: a look at holiday handsets for 2009
Fierce Wireless
The official start of the holiday shopping season begins Friday, and all of the major U.S. carriers are rolling out their shiny new wares. Indeed, Verizon Wireless today rounded out its lineup with the launch of the Samsung Omnia II. The following guide is a look at the major handsets the Tier 1 operators are pushing this season, and includes each device's main features as well as its positioning in the market.

Media Phone Plus Selects Dilithium
Mobile Marketing Magazine
Dilithium, which provides mobile video infrastructure solutions, has revealed that the Kuwait operator, Media Phone Plus, has selected the company to expand its 3G mobile Value Added Service (VAS) offering, with the launch of a suite of multimedia services, providing fast, mobile access to rich video content such as Jukebox, Live TV and Video on Demand. The Dilithium solution combines DTG Multimedia Gateways with the ViVAS service creation and delivery platform.

Apple Re-Sellers Seeing Increasing iPhone Sales For Business
Silicon Alley Insider
Apple re-sellers are seeing the iPhone gain momentum for business use, says FTN Equity Capital in its monthly Apple Consumer Reseller Survey.
This supports findings by TBI Research that iPhones are slowly starting to gain share of the enterprise market over RIM and Windows Mobile.