If you haven't noticed, the world of mobile computing is going through a massive change. According to CTIA, wireless providers reported handling 2.1 trillion text messages in 2010 for the United States alone. This is up significantly from the 81 billion reported in...
As I sat listening to a series of presentations by successful entrepreneurs at the University of Texas’s AT&T Conference Center in Austin for Texas Venture Week today, it became increasingly obvious that one particular factor was key to their success....
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) has released an update to its Playbook tablet software which includes support for video chatting between PlayBooks, a new Facebook app optimized for its 7" screen and an improved browser that’s “more compatible with...
Verizon Wireless has a new exclusive for its Android-device toting customers. Coinciding with the upcoming theatrical debut of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," the carrier is now offering The Pirate Discovery App, the official mobile app for the film.The app has exclusive...
Tech 24 | April 21, 2011 | Eric Olander
With almost 700 million users, Facebook would have the world's third largest population if it was a country. Now the social networking site is heading south to find even more “friends”. This week on ‘Tech 24’,...
Tech 24 | April 21, 2011 | Eric Olander
With almost 700 million users, Facebook would have the world's third largest population if it was a country. Now the social networking site is heading south to find even more “friends”. This week on ‘Tech 24’,...
The challenge with mobile applications remains that while every brand wants one, consumers are constantly using new platforms to communicate. Thus, applications are going beyond smart phones and tablets to connected TVs and automobiles, noted Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution.The 10-year-old Kirkland, Wash.-based company...
Facebook is joining the crowded marketplace of companies offering deals, by launching the appropriately named, “Deals.” The social network will attempt to break into five test markets today and will try to pull users from Groupon and LivingSocial. The five...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Forget about chutzpah … the tech sector in Israel has two advantages – a skilled...
It always raises a wry smile when well-intentioned customer relations moves result in a user backlash, which is why we smiled with more than a hint of wryness when Motorola's "Let's engage our users!" Facebook activity saw fans of the manufacturer voting with their feet and demanding an end to locked bootloaders.
Lawmakers stepped in to ask operating system companies how they are tracking, using, storing and sharing location information on smartphones after media reports that Apple Inc. (AAPL) automatically tracks and stores location data. While privacy issues have always been a concern in the mobile...
One might think that Austin-based mobile check-in and social networking company GoWalla would be happy that one of their competitors is now gone, but the story is more complicated. Groupon acquired Pelago, the parent company of local discovery app Whrrl, which is a similar...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
At the end of 2010, China had 457 million Internet users and 303 million mobile...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.At the end of 2010, China had 457 million Internet users and 303 million mobile...
Economic Times | April 18, 2011
NEW DELHI: Telecom major Bharti airtel today said it has partnered with photo service firm Zoomin.com to allow its broadband customers to store unlimited number of photos.
Powered by Zoomin.com, the 'Airtel Photo Service' enables users to import photo albums from...
Looking to expand its reach beyond traditional wireless voice calls, T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) unveiled its Bobsled service that will allow users to make free calls using a Voice over Internet Protocol application.The service is initially being launched as a Facebook application, which will...
Walmart may be trying to get into your pocket – through social media that is – after purchasing silicon valley based Kosmix for an undisclosed sum, according to Reuters.
The shopping chain giant is apparently attempting to cash in on more tech savvy shoppers by...
Jews across the globe will be starting the celebration of passover tonight, as they have done for the last couple of thousand years. But why is this year different from other years? Well, it has a really superbly made video telling the entire passover story with a slightly modern mobile twist.
More than 1 billion electronic products with embedded wireless technology will ship this year, and more than 2 billion will ship in 2015, as consumers start to demand that all of their devices have Internet connectivity, according to research from IHS iSuppli.“In today's world...
Pacnet announced that it has signed agreements with Bharti Airtel Limited to deliver a new high-speed network connecting Chennai to the US. The US$120 million network, created through the synergy of Bharti Airtel’s i2i cable system and its domestic network in India, together with...
It seems to be a sad fact of business life that if you suddenly make a ton of money, people will crawl out of the woodwork trying to take that money away through various forms of litigation. Facebook's famously meteoric rise seems to have stirred more than its fair share of lawyered-up pretenders to the Zuckerberg crown, most notably the Winklevoss twins
Yonhap News Agency | April 11, 2011 | Lee Youkyung
SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) -- Kakao Corp., the developer of the fastest growing mobile messenger service in South Korea, said Monday that it plans to set up subsidiaries in the United States and Japan this...
The Winklevoss twins, along with Divya Narendra, portrayed in the hit film The Social Network as angry men who claim Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social networking monolith, were denied more compensation from the company after a...
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 and wireless transition to an iOS or Android device, including...
