2011

Reuters | July 28, 2011 | Ben Gruber South Korea is pushing forward with a plan to completely digitize its classrooms by 2015. Video via Reuters

Two top social apps are apparently joining forces, with news Groupon and Foursquare are teaming up with a daily deal partnership. Location based social app Foursquare has long been trying …

The European Parliamentary Assembly (EPA) has been making much ado about nothing when it comes to the dangers of cellphones on children, according to a new report which found no …

Google has snapped up 1000 patents from IBM ranging from those touching on web based querying to design and production of memory and microprocessing chips, and even some relating to …

There is nothing we like more here in the Valley than a cat fight, and with two tech tigers currently at each other’s throats over who can best serve up …

Marvel Digital has released a video of its Mercury tablet, an affordable 7-inch device running Android 2.3.1 (Gingerbread). A YouTube video shows the tablet being put through its paces, with …

The Palo Alto-based company develops biofeedback apps for smartphones, including its Instant Heart Rate, which lets users monitor their heart rate by holding their finger over a phone’s camera for …

Stratos continues selling BOW shipboard GSM services under new brand GSM Oceanwide …

Canvas, which provides a mobile business application service that makes it easy to find, customize and publish business apps for mobile devices, today announced it has closed the first $1.2 …

First 900 MHz Project 25 (P25) system will help university offer higher level of campus services …

A massive public safety communication system in Los Angeles just hit the skids. Three years after the county and numerous independent cities launched the project, which is expected to cost …

Corticon’s “No-Coding” Rules Engine Simplifies and Automates Complex Wireless Purchase Process …

EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading IP infrastructure and services company, today announced that two senior sales executives have joined the company’s leadership team to run its newly established Premier …

Vringo, Inc. (NYSE Amex: VRNG) (“Vringo” or the “Company”), a provider of software platforms for mobile social and video applications, announced today that it has closed a private placement of …

The LTE equipment market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 81% during the next five years, according to a new study by Dell’Oro Group. The …

The growth of smartphones is indeed an international phenomenon as highlighted by Japan’s largest carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM) reporting a surge in net profits it attributed to the device …

Epocrates has won over nearly half of the nation’s doctors for its free smartphone apps that lets them look up information on drug dosing, interactions and insurance coverage while seeing …

Since Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) first ventured into cyberspace 15 years ago, the Bentonville (Ark.) company has struggled online. …

Almost everything is up at Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) except for profits. The company swung to a $56 million loss in the last quarter, after recording $80 million in …

While it’s no surprise that Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPad came in first place in a U.S. customer-satisfaction survey from IHS Inc., the fact that China’s Shenzhen Zenithink Technologies Co. Ltd. …

The Boston charity boxing match put on by Haymakers for Hope in June raised $200,000 for Dana Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund, which finances pediatric cancer research. But rather than …

So, now what for Sprint Nextel Corp.? Just after releasing second quarter results that showed improvements in customer metrics at the cost of subsidizing the growing fascination with smartphones, and a spectrum hosting deal that could pay the carrier $9 billion over an 11-year period, the carrier’s stock got hammered by investors.

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

Buying a mobile device these days can be a traumatic experience, even for those of us who think they have experience. When asked about the phone buying experience I have generally told people to go through a company-owned retail outlet as that way they are dealing most directly with the carrier and those salespeople are most focused on the devices and services sold by that operator.