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With Appealing Media, YuMe gets an impressive client list, including ESPN, IPC Media, Bauer Media and Universal McCann. For these and other clients, Appealing Media has executed campaigns across native apps, touch Web and mobile Web properties.

Nokia has thrown in the towel in the smartphone operating system race, choosing Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform to power the majority of its new handsets in a partnership that could significantly accelerate the growth of the newly launched platform.  

Whether Facebook actually introduces its own branded smartphone in 2011 or not, mobile is likely to be a growing focus for the company next year. With more than 200 million people already connecting to Facebook via mobile in some fashion, the audience obviously is already there.

Stressing over how to prepare the Thanksgiving turkey? There’s an app for that: CHOW Thanksgiving Dinner Coach, from CBS Interactive’s CHOW, which is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, free-of-charge.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the thinnest, lightest Mac laptop yet with features borrowed from iPhones and iPads, hoping to grab more market share from Microsoft's Windows PCs. It is designed to replicate the versatility of popular devices like the iPhone and iPad on its venerable computer line, and will incorporate Facetime video chats and an apps store.

Software giant Microsoft already provides systems for Ford, Kia and Fiat, and now it wants to improve in-car connectivity with Windows Embedded Automotive 7. The new system can control the car's stereo, connect music players via Bluetooth and sync with smartphones to access phone contacts and calendars.

For football spectators, a device called FanVision might be nirvana - or it might turn them into stadium versions of zombies who stumble down streets staring mesmerized at their BlackBerrys.