mobile search

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or service from the user’s point of view, with the goal of …

The start-up’s tech works like Google’s PageRank for Web sites, but it aims to tap your friendships to spread “social banner” display ads.

Local mobile search services are growing in popularity, and nearly 1.3 billion mobile-phone users are expected to use local mobile search services by 2013, according to a new report from …

Most employees know their bosses are usually within their rights snooping on workers’ e-mail, but text messaging has been in murkier territory.

Google Inc. is still the player to beat in mobile search, according to new figures from Nielsen Mobile.The Internet giant accounted for a dominating 61% of all mobile Internet searches …

ATLANTA – Innovation has to become institutionalized if wireless content is going to be successful, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega last week told attendees at the GSM Association’s …

We all love the concept of mobile search. For today’s busy mobile professional, it is reassuring and convenient to have all the information the Internet can hold just a few …

Visual voice mail management service YouMail launches a new feature to tailor its account interface for use on smartphones.

The business reviews site is working on an application for Apple’s iPhone that will let “Yelpers” find out what’s nearby and whether it sucks or not, representatives tell CNET News.com.

Voice-based mobile search services from Microsoft and Yahoo! are imperfect but promising

When they use their mobile phones to go online, Americans flock to different sites than when they surf from their computers. Meet the mobile Web

If you expect a growth in sales for your mobile operating system over the coming years, it follows that you make sure your sites render well on mobile browsers.

Qualcomm Inc.’s annual BREW developer’s conference got underway this morning, and the obligatory stream of news from the company’s home base in San Diego has kicked into high gear:–Qualcomm and …

Tracking FidoZoombak L.L.C. announced its GPS location application for dogs is now available at PetSmart stores nationwide. The Zoombak Advanced GPS Dog Locator uses cellular networks and GPS satellites to …

Mobile Web surfers in the US spend more time on classified-ad site Craigslist than on any other Web site, and they spent nearly twice as much time browsing as their …

Earlier this month, India surpassed US as the second largest mobile market (by subscriber count) in the world.

Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing …

It seems Google Inc. has no plans to be a silent partner in the forthcoming Sprint Nextel Corp./Clearwire Corp. business.The Internet giant said it will become the default search provider …

AdMob joined the mobile analytics field, unveiling a free tool that allows advertisers and publishers to track traffic and measure the effectiveness of wireless ad campaigns.The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup …

Microsoft Corp. subsidiary TellMe said it added a GPS location feature to its voice portal to give BlackBerry users information about businesses, movies, traffic, weather, maps and driving directions. The …

Anyone looking for more talk of interplanetary colonization during the Day Two keynote surely was disappointed. Wednesday’s speakers eschewed Richard Branson’s April Fools’ Day hijinks in favor of a more …

Marco Boerries is the executive VP of Yahoo Inc.’s Connected Life Division, which encompasses the company’s mobile, digital home, PC client and broadband teams around the world, including Yahoo Go …

Sprint Nextel Corp. last week rolled out an updated Web browser designed to deliver “a PC-like experience” on mobile phones. But not everyone is impressed.The carrier announced plans to launch …

It’s no secret that trying to find content or information on a mobile phone is a daunting task for most consumers.Carrier deck layers can seem like concentric circles of hell, …

While Opera Software ASA continues to attract attention with its mobile browsers and a host of startups go directly to consumers with their transcoding technology, InfoGin is quietly making headway …