Flurry and comScore have announced an alliance for mobile app stats. A new joint offering unites comScore’s mobile data with Flurry Analytics mobile application usage data to give publishers, marketers and advertisers a better look at the consumption habits of application users on iPhone, Android and Blackberry devices. The service will be available as part of comScore’s leading Mobile Media service in Q1 of 2010. Flurry Analytics will provide real-time data, such as frequency of app use, length of use, the user’s geographic location, new vs. return usage and Wi-Fi vs. carrier network usage, via comScore’s audience measurement platform.Read more

The former chip manufacturing division of Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, is set to showcase a concept design for Smartbook tablet computers at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show later this week. The design, being touted as a second generation tablet PC, plays right into the media buzz around the mythical Apple table, offering device manufacturers an integrated solution based on their version of the ARM Cortex-A8 processor chip, the i.MX515.Read more

Yelp power users will welcome the new Yelp for Android 1.2 update, which now allows you to upload photographs from your Android based smartphone to Yelp.com. The popular review site on December 7 released a somewhat crippled Android App with basic features, but lacking the iPhone Yelp App ability to add photos, write reviews and add tips. That has been somewhat remedied now with the addition of photo uploading, although review and tip writing are still missing.Read more

The One Laptop per Child (OLPC), organization has unveiled its future road map and it includes a new concept for a tablet PC for well under $100. The XO 3.0 product, planned for 2012 availability, will be an all new design with a single sheet of plastic to imitate a sheet of paper. It will be based on Marvell’s ARM processor and will run Linux and Windows systems. Images here

One Laptop per Child, a non-profit created by Nicholas Negroponte and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab has so far distributed laptops to 1.4 million children in remote, poor and rural communities in 35 countries and 25 languages.Read more

Barnes & Noble is still scrambling to deliver it’s Nook e-reader to customers before Christmas and promised that those who do not receive their Nook by Christmas Eve will receive a $100 Barnes&Noble.com Online Gift Certificate along with a humble apology. Most of those who pre-ordered the device in time for a pre-holiday estimated ship date will get their Nook on or before December 24, but there are expected to be a small percentage who will not, due to the heavy demand. Priority is being given to those who ordered before November 20, according to a statement made by B&N at the time.Read more

Three million registered players have been recruited to date for EA’s third person shooter Battlefield Heroes, it was announced today. The internet based game, that is free to download and play, relies on advertising and in-games sales for revenue. Electronic Arts also released a new map for the game, named “Sunset Showdown”, set on a desert island.Read more