The first model of smartphone to carry a dedicated Facebook button on the keypad is launching this week from AT&T Mobility (T), which is taking pre-orders for the Android Honeycomb-powered HTC Status and marketing the device as the inaugural phone to be integrated with...
The first model of smartphone to carry a dedicated Facebook button on the keypad is launching this week from AT&T Mobility (T), which is taking pre-orders for the Android Honeycomb-powered HTC Status and billing the device as the inaugural phone to be integrated with...
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.This week’s article deals with a hot topic – bandwidth buckets, or, as Craig Moffett from Sanford...
Facebook has ‘friended’ yet another Googler by hiring Tom Stocky, the Mountain View firm’s director of product management for search, client and infrastructure products.
“I work at Facebook, where I serve as a director of product,” Stocky announced on his newly updated online profile, though...
San Francisco based social gaming firm Zynga has snapped up Canadian app developer Five Mobile with plans to extend its reach beyond the confines of Facebook.
Five Mobile’s team will be integrated into Zynga’s new Toronto office, which doubles as a development center.
With tablets becoming...
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,...
Over here in the UK a long-running investigation has been taking place into the actions of the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid the News of the World. Around two years ago it was discovered that the paper had hired private investigators to hack the phones of celebrities in order to extract salacious gossip - however in the past 72 hours the spat has exploded into a full-blown national emergency.
Since Google launched it's new project, Google+, there have been many claims that it is a Facebook killer. The idea seems to be that Google+ is so much better than Facebook that surely the Mountain View giant's offering will win out. Surely Facebook's days...
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.Hello from the nation's heartland and home of Google Broadband – Kansas City. The last week of...
Google's latest attempt stab at a social network, Google+, has proved to be quite the hit amongst the tech elite and casual users alike - so much so that Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has joined to check out the competition, and is currently the most-followed user.
Independence Day is almost here, and in addition to firing up sizzling grills and popping off fireworks, Austin-based Phunware Inc. would like users to download a free app launched today to celebrate the occasion. The company’s new “Our America” app is available for free...
Two published reports claim that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating communications between Twitter and Ubermedia, a company that develops applications to help users commiserate and follow each other using the online messaging service. The question at hand is whether or not...
Many of you have probably already heard about the exciting new Google+ service. It seems to be very much an attempt to target Facebook users in the same way that Buzz was an a attempt to draw Twitter users further into the Googleverse.
Unlike Buzz,...
San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., which creates online games for mobile devices and sites such as Facebook, plans to file an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expected to be as early as today, reports CNBC.Some of Zynga's most...
With all the buzz (pun intended) around Google+ and people vying for invites left right and center, Google has had to close the flood gates, for one night at least, as it attempts to keep up with the "insane" demand for the new social networking service.
San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., which creates online games for mobile devices and sites such as Facebook, plans to file an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expected to be as early as today, reports...
With 138 million mobile users in Indonesia, the market presents a huge opportunity to operators and service providers alike. Bakrie telecom, one of the leading CDMA brands in Indonesia, is one of those carriers cashing in on the country’s mobile hype.Bakrie boasts that...
There is no lack of headlines and stories that focus on that disparate group of organizations which we collectively refer to as the Mobile Internet ecosystem. End users, content providers, advertisers, developers, device vendors, mobile operators and of course, Internet companies in theory all...
SINGAPORE – RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak reports on top stories from around the globe, including the CommunicAsia2011 trade show; Global Foundries' decision to cut its top management team; Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIM) disappointing quarterly results and a long-rumored Facebook iPad application...
Google may not be the media darling it once was, having lost mindshare to social upstarts such as Facebook and Twitter in recent years, but when it comes to raw traffic the search giant is still top of the pile. Research firm ComScore estimates that last month Google's family of web properties notched up one billion unique visitors.
SINGAPORE - Huawei finally unveiled its mysterious MediaPad on Monday, one day before the start of the CommunicAsia telecoms show in Singapore.The tablet, previously teased in online ads, was revealed to be a 7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb, running on Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor.The...
Macheen Inc., an Austin-based mobile broadband service provider for retailers and device makers, announced that the company raised $10 million to put into product innovation, sales and marketing. Founded in 2009, Macheen has now raised a total $12.75 million to support expansion of the...
Amidst months of rumors, Facebook Inc. decided to hire former Oracle Corp. (ORCL) chief spokesman Joe Lockhart as VP of global communications.
Lockhart is also well known in political circles after serving as Bill Clinton’s former secretary and most recently worked as founding partner and...
Google, Microsoft and Facebook Rank as Most-Visited Internet Properties in Peru
Portal Sites Account for One-Third of Internet Users’ Time Online
Lima, Peru, June 15, 2011 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its first public study of Internet...
