Mobile

Speaking at a mobile event in Facebook’s Palo Alto Headquarters today, Zuckerberg fielded a question from an unfortunate Mashable Apple fanboy about when the social networking firm would come out with an iPad app, only to be told “The iPad is not mobile…next question.”

With the recent launch of Facebook Questions, however, the social network may prove to become a larger and more valuable information resource to mobile users than Google, its top mobile rival.

Americans are even less tolerant of travel agent trouble when it comes via mobile according to a new survey.
Travel research firm PhoCusWright polled 792 Americans traveling for pleasure rather than business over the past year and found many of them rather unforgiving of any mobile mishaps.

A panel discussion including representatives from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and mobile tech developer Motricity, at CommunicAsia in Singapore touched on why the mobile internet was so important and what the various firms are doing to make sure they don’t miss the mobile boat.

Skype believes we are all living in a web of connected devices in an app centric world where phones are no longer phones, but little computers in our pockets.

Big shows are all about emerging industry trends and CommunicAsia in Singapore this week is no exception, with a number of mobile and wireless fads and fashions on the horizon. Of all the hype, however, no trend is so great or prevalent as the mobile video phenomenon, taking Asia and the world by storm.

Separating work from personal life is certainly something most people would advocate, but when it comes to one’s mobile phone, it isn’t always easy to make the break.

Tawkon, an innovative Israeli firm which has come up with an app of the same name to monitor and analyze cell radiation so users can “talk on” as usual and receive smart prompts to avoid radiation just when they need to.

For the majority of us, the only thing more irritating than listening to someone yap away on their mobile phone on public transport is the realisation that we ourselves don’t have reception to facilitate our rant.

Mobile operator Orange and unfortunately named GotWind have teamed up to create a pair of cell phone charging and rather funky wellington boots for the UK’s Glastonbury music festival.

As telecom technology advances, enabling users to access information and communicate more quickly across multiple platforms, the age that children begin using their own mobile phones seems to be lowering.

China Telecom, the Chinese telecommunications operator, launched its first 3G tablet on Monday, un-originally dubbed the LifePad.