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While Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel Corp. has no phones on sale that use its processors, whispers are hinting that the chip maker may be trying to break into the smartphone …

Eye-Fi Inc., makers of memory cards with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities, is introducing “direct mode,” which allows the transfer of photos from a camera with an Eye-Fi card for a direct …

Feeling some serious buyer’s regret, Cisco Systems Inc. today announced plans to give up its $590 million purchase of Pure Digital Technologies and eliminate its Flip business unit.

What Twitter brought to text-based communications online, San Francisco, Calif.-based Tout is now bringing to video through a community of people instantly updating their Facebook friends and Twitter followers with …

Amazon.com Inc. appears to have a penchant for jumping into untested markets recently, for example with the launch of their Cloud Player, which has attracted more than a cursory glance from the music industry. Now the online retail giant is looking to shake things up again by offering a new, cheaper Kindle with build-in ads.

We get it – application stores are cool. With the two biggest games in town, Apple Inc.’s App Store and Google Inc.’s Android’s Market both running in to several hundred thousand apps and making developers millions of dollars, it only seems natural that others would want to irk the successful formula.

Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced a partnership with Japan’s Fuji Electric Systems Company Ltd. to create an insulated-gate bipolar transistor and other offerings for electric cars. Customer feedback will drive …

Austin is in line to grow with AT&T Inc., as the company will lease a 72,000 square feet space for its new mobility technology lab  in the northwest side of …

All the big brands know mobile gaming is hot right now, but it seems like no one is entirely sure how to leverage the appeal of these games into mobile advertising dollars.  …

Funny things, analyst forecasts. The short-term ones tend to be fairly accurate, but the long-term predictions often fall entirely flat. That’s not the fault of the analysts, it’s due to the inherent unpredictability of mobile and technology markets. Nobody saw Android’s success coming, just as nobody thought poor old Nokia Corp. would be in the sorry state they are today ten years ago.

Economic Times | April 8, 2011 | Deepali Gupta MUMBAI: Vodafone’s $5-billion deal to buy out Essar in India’s third-largest mobile phone company may run into trouble with the local …

RIM has just launched BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, an app it hopes will take at least some of the pain out of conference calls.

Nokia has not only left Symbian out in the cold, it has also closed the door to its once beloved operating system, officially ending its days as an open-source platform and taking down online distributions of it.