If you haven't been to the App Store lately, you may be surprised to see that an application named iFart Mobile has populated the Top Paid Apps slot for the last week.
"Service traffic" was running normally again tonight after a power failure at an AT&T facility in Michigan resulted in intermittent mobile service outages for customers in some Midwest states, the company said.
Samsung Electronics is expanding its portfolio of silicon for cellphones with basebands for Long Term Evolution and WiMax and media accelerators at a time when its handset division is tapping a broader set of chip vendors.
LG Electronics plans to debut a wristwatch-style 3G phone at the Consumer Electronics Show next month, it said Sunday. The LG-GD910 phone will go on sale first in Europe and builds on a prototype shown at CES 2008.
Opportunities for collaboration present themselves with cloud computing. Since files are stored remotely, and because with the right software they could be accessible by more than one person, it's possible to share your work with multiple authors.
Network limitations somewhat stymie what the iPhone and iPod touch can do with video, but that hasn’t prevented developers from trying to harness the power of moving pictures on the devices.
Vermont has been one state that has been left out of the iPhone craze, given AT&T didn't operate there. But given the recent asset swap we mentioned earlier this week , it looks like AT&T has acquired Vermont networks formerly operating under the Unicel...
MacRumors has uncovered a nifty new patent application that discusses swipe gestures for touch-based, onscreen keyboards. The idea is that, instead of being limited to touches of specific keys, that the iPhone could detect a general swipe movement and interpret it.
When mobile-phone carriers advertise to consumers or lobby policymakers, they speak unabashedly in the most glowing terms about their services and products. Sometimes they go overboard and get their wrists slapped by advertising watchdogs, or worse get hit with class-action lawsuits. Politicians are no...
Research In Motion Ltd. and Motorola Inc. continue to squabble in court regarding the future of employees that Motorola has already terminated or plans to fire, according to court records.RIM, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone line, filed a complaint Tuesday in state...
Google Inc. is helping giddy kids keep on eye on Santa with its mobile mapping application.The Internet giant has integrated Google Maps for mobile with the annual Santa-tracking offering from NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), allowing users to launch the app and search...
Mozilla is targeting developers with an upgraded alpha version of its mobile browser.Fennec - which takes its name from a small desert fox - is a zooming browser that features bookmarks, a smart URL bar, popup blocker and tabbed browsing. The Mountain View, Calif.-based...
THERE SEEM TO BE DOZENS OF STARTUPS aiming to build a business with voice and messaging services that leave carriers out of the revenue chain. But nobody seems to be a real threat to wireless network operators. Yet.Talkster is the latest player in the...
Forty percent of new network digital display platform installations will make use of SMS technology for interactivity by 2012, up from just 5% last year, according to a new report from MultiMedia Intelligence.The simplicity of SMS messaging and the ubiquity of wireless handsets will...
The handset market is one big sale this season, if you conveniently ignore the service contract gambit that recoups a carrier's investment in the subsidy that makes mobile phones artificially cheap. Just last week, one analyst noted that the new $200 price ceiling for...
There's a chill in the air, the malls are packed and my daughters are taking Christmas ornaments off the tree and breaking them like there's money inside. So in the spirit of the season - and in light of the predictable, holiday-related news vacuum...
Paying bribes for business didn't pay off for Siemens AG, as the company has agreed to pay $1.6 billion in fines to U.S. and European authorities. The settlement, announced Dec. 15, takes care of criminal charges filed by the U.S. Department of Justice and...
During the next decade, the Internet will migrate from personal computers to mobile devices, according to new research from Berg Insight."There is only one Internet and its users do not accept boundaries imposed by devices or networks," said Sabine Ehlers, associate analyst at Berg...
Social networking applications that take advantage of location information could become a key driver for growing the location-based services market, according to a new report from ABI Research.The firm predicts the market for fully mobile location-based social networking sites will support more than 82...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors--Oppenheimer increased its estimates on Research In Motion after the company reported results in line with its pre-announcement. The new estimates are...
The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice have approved wireless asset swaps between AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless.AT&T Inc. announced today that the divestiture requirements related to AT&T Mobility's acquisition of Dobson Communications Corp. is now complete. AT&T Mobility purchased Dobson at...
It's no secret that numerous companies have joined the Open Handset Alliance, which promotes Google's Android handset platform.Specifics are harder to come by. But it appeared this week, from various media reports, that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Garmin are working on Android-based handsets....
