Mobile Industry News 12/9/09

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

EA, Gameloft Dominate The App Store's Best-Selling Games Of '09
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Choosing the “best” iPhone games of 2009 is a subjective a task—the definition of “fun,” “great graphics” or “cool” functionality varies from one player to another. But there’s no disputing the winners when it comes to sales, and despite the App Store being a huge equalizer in terms of exposure for both indie developers and big game publishers—two big publishers dominated the best-selling ranks: EA and Gameloft (EPA: GFT).
 
Online Media Daily: Turner Broadcasting's Device Agnostic Approach To Mobile
MediaPost | Online Media News
In the mobile marketing space, Turner Broadcasting's David Bronson said there is important competition among device makers to facilitate email and mobile video. BlackBerry may have led the way, but now the iPhone and Droid are "raising the bar."
 
VeriFone Punches Square, Launches iPhone-based Card Reader
GigaOM
Ever since I wrote about Square, the new electronic payments startup co-founded by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey, I’ve been getting calls from folks expressing a wide range of opinions as to the likely success (or failure) of the young company. In my post I singled out VeriFone and Symbol Technologies as two companies that will be especially disrupted by the rise of the iPhone (and iPod touch) as they shake up the enterprise mobility market.
 
Cox Goes Mobile in 3 Test Markets
GigaOM
Cox Communications today inched closer to a full-blown deployment of wireless offerings by launching its mobile phone and high-speed Internet services in the test markets of Hampton Roads, Va., Omaha, Neb. and Orange County, Calif. But the company has yet to disclose pricing or any other details that will help determine whether the longtime cable operator can compete in the world of mobile.
 
Verizon: LTE will bring 5-12 Mbps download speeds
FierceWireless
Verizon Wireless disclosed that its forthcoming LTE network will provide average data speeds of 5-12 Mbps for downloads and 2-5 Mbps for uploads, according to a website the carrier has set up touting its next-generation wireless service.
 
Skyfire 1.5 mobile browser outruns Firefox — for now
VentureBeat
Mobile browsers are replaying the browser wars of the 1990s.With no clear better-than-the-rest winner, phone owners are trying everything available. Opera, Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox for mobile (codenamed Fennec until its formal release) and several others have a fighting chance. Even on the iPhone, indie browser iNetDual one-ups the phone’s built-in Safari browser by adding split-screen capability so you can see two Web pages at once.