Facebook says its new mobile interface is all about shifting devices away from apps and tasks, and towards friends and people. Today the company shared the specifics about its new Facebook Home, showing off a user interface that is completely focused on photos, friends,...
Facebook will unveil what it calls its "new home on Android" at a Thursday press event. Today 9TO5 Google is reporting that Facebook is planning a new HTC device that will feature its own version of the Android operating system. "Facebook Home," is reportedly...
While AT&T customers are celebrating more cellular access to FaceTime, Imagination Technologies is marketing a competing video service to carriers -- video chat via Facebook. The company says its carrier customers are eager to upsell their customers with new communication apps.
"There are...
Facebook,which recently announced it had reached 1 billion users worldwide, is counting on mobile devices to reach the next billion users. “The first experience with Facebook for many people will be through mobile devices, especially in many emerging countries where you can see this...
More and more mobile device users are accessing Facebook from smartphones and tablets, and that's a mixed blessing for the social media giant. The company says that more than half a billion people accessed Facebook from a mobile device in June, and that almost 19% of those relied exclusively on smartphones or tablets to connect with friends through the site. That means those people never saw the ads Facebook serves up to personal computer users, who are of course looking at larger screens with more room for advertising.
The VC business can be a strange game sometimes. That was typified for me this week courtesy of two lines in my WSJ reader (see below). While the "Larry the Bird" makeover took top billing on my screen, the two entries surrounded in...
For the third time in as many years, reports of a Facebook smartphone have surfaced, and this time they are accompanied by quotes from engineers who are said to be working on the device. The New York Times reported Sunday that the newly public...
AUSTIN, Texas - Open source computing is a job growth engine with potential to create world-class developers while enabling the mobile economy, according to a panel of executives who spoke on the topic at the Austin Technology Council's CEO Summit.
The panel focused on OpenStack,...
While thousands of people around the world were lined up to buy the new iPad, and Apple's stock price (AAPL) was soaring to new highs, a small group of lawyers was busy poking a small hole in Apple's balloon. Claiming that " a number...
An IPO, an acquisition and a move to independence boosted three mobile content stocks Friday. Yelp (NASDAQ: YELP), the ad-supported site which shares user reviews of businesses, priced its IPO at $15/share Thursday night, and this morning the stock surged 60% to $24. <a...
The increasing use of IP-based social messaging services by consumers on their smartphones cost telecom operators $8.7 billion lost SMS revenues in 2010 and $13.9 billion in 2011, according to a new report by Ovum.
Brazilians like to communicate. Recently, RCR Wireless News reported that Brazil was the leading country in growth of Facebook users and during 2011 among the top 30 countries by number of active users, according to researcher Nick Burcher, who has been collating Facebook usage...
2011 was another year of diversity for the mobile industry. With a raft of new smart devices, tablets, applications, services and new pricing plans, consumers and enterprises alike have had more choice than ever when making use of the mobile device.
As mobile data matures in developed markets, we expect several significant evolutions in 2012. The biggest for subscribers will be pricing plan innovations, providing new personalized service and cost options. In addition, we forecast rapid cloud service adoption, new content business models and new device segmentation.
Brazil was the leading country in growth in Facebook users during 2011 among the top 30 countries by number of active users, according to researcher Nick Burcher, who has been collating Facebook usage statistics by country for a few years now. He noted that...
With technology having become ubiquitous, consumerized, cheaper and more equally available to all, the second half of the Information Age will be focused on the exploitation of technology and the information it processes. During this period, the great fortunes are being made by companies...
India's minister of information technology and communications, Kapil Sibal, is under fire for asking Internet companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo to prescreen user-generated content posted from India.
GENBAND is offering its customers a lot more than switches these days. The private Dallas-based company says it's the nation's leading maker of fixed switching solutions, but CEO Charlie Vogt realizes that carriers need more than good IP infrastructure to help them compete with...
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...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In less than 200 words, CEO Steve Jobs rocked the tech world with a sudden yet not...
VoIP firm Skype has reportedly paid $85 million for smartphone group text messaging service GroupMe, to put itself on competitive footing with rival messaging services from RIM, Apple and others.
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Facebook announced the opening of its office in Brazil, under the leadership of Alexandre Hohagen, who formerly was Google Inc.’s (GOOG) country manager for Latin America. Located in São Paulo, the office will support local businesses and organizations in Latam, helping them to be...
