Atlanta-based non-profit wireless association, The Wireless Technology Forum announced winners of its 2011 Wireless and Mobile Media Awards at a ceremony last night. This year’s winners included:
--McKesson for best business and vertical industry solutions application.
--Rovio for best game application with “Angry Birds.”
--Starbucks for best...
It's payback time for beleaguered BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion. RIM said it will let its subscribers download more than $100 worth of free apps from BlackBerry App World, starting Wednesday. The offering is an effort to make amends with customers after a service outage...
The devices we carry in our pockets today have little in common with those of just a few years ago. Incremental upgrades to components and the widespread adoption of touchscreens have prompted significant changes to designs and form factors. While device design and function...
Voice recognition and superfast keyboarding both fit the definition of "killer apps" for smartphones, and now Nuance (NASDQAQ NUAN) will have both these technologies. The app maker is spending $102.5 million to acquire Seattle's Swype, Inc., creator of an app that lets users type...
LONDON – According to a report from the Mobile Marketing Association, smartphone penetration in Europe’s five largest economies (the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain) is growing between 30% and 40% per year.
The study found that the Symian platform continues to...
While Facebook users were busy posting and tweeting about its new look and new features, mobile content developers were absorbing the latest news about Facebook Mobile – the service now has 350 million active monthly users, up 100 million in the last six months. According...
If you grew up on the West Coast, you may or may not have heard the term "hurricane party" before – it's a multi-day party held during a hurricane, where guests bring sleeping bags, radios, food and other hurricane supplies. Of course in the chaos...
Touchscreen keyboard firm Swype said it’s goal is to be on a billion devices and become ubiquitous across phones, tablets and even TVs, despite a stinginess on the OEM side to invest in native apps.
Speaking at the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley’s TC3 event...
Verizon Wireless has teamed up with Intuit Inc. to provide a mobile credit card payment system to small businesses using an app and pocket-sized credit card reader.
The card reader can be plugged into either a mobile phone of tablet via the audio jack, allowing credit and...
Ryan Wuerch’s run as CEO at Motricity Inc. (MOTR) has come to an end less than two weeks after the embattled company reported a $4.3 million loss in the last quarter.The Bellevue, Wash.-based company named Jim Smith as interim CEO and he could become...
Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN) said it will pay $75.5 million to aquire Loquendo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia in order to enhance its voice-enabled solutions. Loquendo provides speech technology in 32 languages with 76 voices and its solutions are embedded in...
Qualcomm’s executive vice president, Steve Mollenkopf, has said the mobile app space will change computing forever.
Speaking at an event marking the opening of Verizon Wireless’ Application Innovation Center in San Francisco Wednesday, Mollenkopf spoke of his firm’s “rich history of innovation” and collaboration with...
Verizon Wireless officially opened its Application Innovation Center in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, in an event attended by the firm’s top executives, including CEO Dan Mead.
"Innovation is at the very core of what Verizon does, and what we stand for," Mead told assembled press,...
Security continues to be a moving target in the mobile space with consumers facing an array of third-party choices for security apps and other measures. While third-party apps flourish on their won, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and AT&T Inc. (T) have tapped McAfee Inc....
An Indonesian wireless operator is the first to deploy Smith Micro Software Inc.'s (SMSI) new Experience Manager platform, which enables end users to manage all of their wireless connections and data plans across their devices and networks.The Experience Manager platform also enables operators...
Job figures in the telecommunications space remained steady in Silicon Valley last month, according to new statistics released by the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Preliminary figures showed telecommunication jobs for the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area at 5.9 thousand, marginally up from last month’s 5.8....
Reuters | August 3, 2011 | Alice Baghdijan
Frankenstein, Oliver Twist and Robinson Crusoe could all be lurking on your iPad if you download a new application launched by the British Library this week which provides access to over 45,000 historical and antiquarian titles.
Read the...
Google has expanded its VoIP calling service beyond the US market, launching its service in 38 languages with payment options in four currencies.
The software giant had launched a rather limited VoIP service last year, but has now taken a giant leap forward, allowing people...
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 to make some sort of “deal” breaker into the industry, and how better than to...
Texan patent troll Lodsys has slammed Apple with an opposition to the Cupertino company’s motion to intervene in a massive patent infringement lawsuit, threatening Angry Birds maker Rovio, Atari, EA, Take-Two Interactive and other game app developers.
In a 22 page document, Lodsys argued that...
Mountain View based Intuit Inc., maker of the popular TurboTax program, has announced the availability of its QuickBooks invoicing app for Android, following up its iOS app for Apple iPhone users.
The firm says this should make using QuickBooks easier on the fly for the firm’s...
Even after publicly declaring on several occasions that it had no interest in facial recognition, Google has gone out and bought itself a –yes - facial recognition software company by the name of PittPatt.
Pittsburgh based PittPatt, which emerged from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute,...
Motorola Solutions Venture Capital has led a $1 million round of financing for Menlo Park based Nearbuy Systems which specializes in indoor "micro-location."
Motorola Solutions joined Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, and Metamorphic Ventures to raise the cash which should help Nearbuy Systems deploy its software...
Google has saddened early adopter everywhere today with its decision to shut down Google Labs, its incubator for newly conceived, half-baked products, which sometimes evolved into tasty new offerings from the software firm.
Bill Coughran, Google’s SVP for Research and Systems Infrastructure announced the news...
