Mobile

Google has snapped up 1000 patents from IBM ranging from those touching on web based querying to design and production of memory and microprocessing chips, and even some relating to …

Even after publicly declaring on several occasions that it had no interest in facial recognition, Google has gone out and bought itself a –yes – facial recognition software company by …

Jumbuck, an Australian VAS firm, is trying to translate the love affair people have with their phones into real life social relationships. “The mobile phone is a device that has …

The City of San Francisco will on Thursday hold a vote on whether to implement a controversial law which would make it mandatory for phone retailers to warn people about …

Mobile video is the future of mobile value added services (VAS) according to Eamonn Kearns, VP of sales at Canadian communications firm Dialogic. “Video is the new voice,” said Kearns …

Ericsson | July 14, 2011 | Press Release Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today announced the company has partnered with T-Mobile USA, Inc. to expand portions of the company’s 4G (HSPA+) mobile broadband …

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its …

PCWorld | July 13, 2011 | Mark Sullivan PayPal this morning announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users tap their phones together to exchange money. Read …

Reuters | July 11, 2011 | Isabel Reynolds Japanese mobile social gaming firm DeNA will seek to expand by buying more game developers, its new chief executive, Isao Moriyasu, said …

I recently had a chance to attend the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC), billed as the world’s largest hospitality technology conference, which recently concluded in Austin, Texas and …

It looks as if those reports announcing the end of the iPad era may have been a little premature after all. A study released yesterday by research firm comScore shows that Apple’s best-selling iPad accounts for no less than 97.3% of tablet browsing in the US.

While antiquity is something many museums strive to preserve, there’s no reason to do so when it comes to guiding equipment, according to Irish startup ZolkC.

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.

OP-ED: The Greater Austin area, stretching from Round Rock to San Marcos, is a small market when it comes to big companies headquartered here. You can count the number of …

Eponymous video streaming website YouTube is today celebrating its sixth birthday, while mobile advertising platform AdMob is marking one year as a Google property. In separate blog posts today both the YouTube and AdMob teams shared some impressive numbers showing how the two services continue to grow.