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UndercoverTourist.com, an Austin-based provider of online discounts for travel to Orlando, Fla.-based destinations such as Disney World, Universal Studios Orlando, SeaWorld, Richard Petty Driving Experience, and Medieval Times said that …

Nokia Corp., once king of the handset world, has been going through a tumultuous period as of late. Stephen Elop, who took over the CEO position last year after his predecessor Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was unceremoniously booted out for failing to maintain the Finnish manufacturer’s competitive edge, has made some aggressive changes.

Allen, Texas-based Privus Mobile, a provider of caller ID services and mobile apps for smart phones, said today that the company is behind the world’s first national rollout of mobile …

Nokia Corp., who all-but invented the mobile phone market back in the halcyon days of the early-90s, look set to be dropping not one but two places down to a distant third in terms of smartphone manufacturing volume by the end of this year, if a new report from research firm Nomura is to be believed.

Analyst firms are often accused of pulling figures from various places; the sky, their rear ends – basically anywhere but reality – and with the latest numbers from IDC its not difficult to see why.

Speaking at the Inspire Conference today in London, Rovio “Mighty Eagle” Peter Vesterbacka gave the audience at update on how the ubiquitous mobile game is doing, as well as the Finnish companies plans for the future

The keynote at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just wrapping up in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the company’s CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest additions to their desktop operating system OS X, and iOS, its mobile sibling.

As any BlackBerry user will know, one of the best features about RIM’s device – barring the stellar keyboard – is BlackBerry Messenger, which allows people to communicate with other BlackBerry users for free, anytime, anywhere through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Twitter is a wonderful thing, and if you’re following the right people, you can pick up the tastiest morsels on the web. With today being a bit of an Apple fest, we thought you might enjoy a bite of the following link, which outlines links to download iOS 5 for pretty much everything.

Poor PC vendors. If a new report by analyst firm IDC is to be believed, the world and his wife are conspiring to reduce PC shipment growth for the rest of 2011. At the beginning of the year IDC predicted 7.1% growth for the PC sector, however after a poor Q1 that forecast has now been revised down to just 4.2%.

Recently the Finnish company behind the seminal Angry Birds, Rovio, announced that their game had been downloaded more than 200 million times, cementing its title as the most popular game of the smartphone era, and the most popular game of all time, eclipsing Tetris by almost 2-to-1.

In an odd move for a company usually so laser-focused on 100% secrecy, Apple today issued a press release to tell the world that Steve Jobs would be announcing a slew of new products at the firm’s upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event next week in San Francisco.

Google is accelerating its march to join the mobile payment business by partnering with Citibank, Mastercard, Spring and several retailers including Macy’s, American Eagle and Subway. The company is expected …

AccessU, a unique conference focused on universal design and drawing expert trainers from around the world, recently celebrated its tenth year, with a special focus on mobile applications.
The conference is produced by Knowbility, Inc., an Austin-headquartered non-profit and recognized national leader for providing equal access to technology for people with disabilities.

According to the MobileMix 2011 report released by advertising firm Mellenial Media, Google Android has become the most used mobile advertising platform for US advertisers. The report revealed Android receives …

In News Corp.’s quarterly earnings call yesterday there was good and bad news for the media giant – although mostly bad. TV revenues grew, movie revenues were reasonable, however Murdoch’s online division, which includes the likes of MySpace and The Daily, lost a massive $165 million in the first three months of the year.

Although Apple’s iTunes is still the dominant force in digital music – so dominant as to make all its competitors look like hilarious, insignificant specks – the competition are lining up to attempt to slay the Jobsian giant.

Apple’s reclusive CEO Steve Jobs, while usually just as mysterious as the company he runs, occasionally grants the general populous an insight into his thoughts and feelings via personal replies to emails sent to his publicly-available email address ([email protected], if you want to try your luck).

The biggest news of this week was Apple’s suing of Samsung for allegedly willfully stealing the fruity firm’s designs for its own phones and tablets.

If you’ve ever wondered how you would fare as a billionaire running a business empire, you don’t need to wonder any more – there’s an app for that. Danta Entertainment, …

Spint Nextel Corp. has joined the likes of AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA to allow direct carrier billing through apps purchased on the Android Market, leaving Verizon Wireless as the …

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 …

We get it – application stores are cool. With the two biggest games in town, Apple Inc.’s App Store and Google Inc.’s Android’s Market both running in to several hundred thousand apps and making developers millions of dollars, it only seems natural that others would want to irk the successful formula.

Funny things, analyst forecasts. The short-term ones tend to be fairly accurate, but the long-term predictions often fall entirely flat. That’s not the fault of the analysts, it’s due to the inherent unpredictability of mobile and technology markets. Nobody saw Android’s success coming, just as nobody thought poor old Nokia Corp. would be in the sorry state they are today ten years ago.

In what many would see as a fairly bizarre move, Apple Inc. yesterday released a new app on the iOS App Store called iAd Gallery, the sole purpose of which is – you guessed it – to be a gallery for iAds. What purpose this app serves is completely unknown.