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.
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 the firm’s desktop operating system OS X, and iOS, its mobile sibling.
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SAN DIEGO — Fourth-generation networks and the smartphones and devices that take advantage of that new technology are going to “supercharge” consumers' experience with mobility, Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corp., said in his keynote at Uplinq.Smartphones will increasingly become digital wallets for consumers...
SAN DIEGO — Until Nokia Corp. (NOK) releases some actual equipment running on Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows Phone operating system, signaling a return to better days and some semblance of longevity in the smartphone space, the Finnish company is going to be on the...
Nokia Corp.'s (NOK) stock hit a 13-year low today after the Finnish handset maker "substantially" cut its forecasts for devices and services in the current quarter.The company said today that sales from devices and services will be "substantially" less than the low end of...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced today that it will reveal a sneak peek of the next generation of mobile device and Mac operating systems, including the buzz concerning the iCloud service.In a press release, Apple said that CEO Steve Jobs, who sent stocks in...
DALLAS—AT&T Inc. is connecting a great TV experience with a great wireless experience to drive growth in its U-verse product, said Jeff Weber, VP of video services, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. The company recently introduced some updates to its U-verse product to make...
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Developers need to take the user experience into account when they are deciding whether to build their application to be native or wrapped for their mobile experience, said Guilhem Ensuque, director of product marketing at OpenPlug, a company acquired by Alcatel-Lucent...
Verizon Wireless' (VZ) relative silence in regards to AT&T Inc.'s (T) proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc. has been in stark contrast to the rancor offered by a number of smaller players in the mobile space that see the proposed transaction as...
Google just wrapped up its Chrome keynote at I/O 2011, during which SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai and Co. revealed some of the details surrounding the long-overdue launch of Chrome OS, including some pretty attractive pricing for enterprise and education users.
Around this time yesterday we were just starting to hear rumblings about what the launch of Google Music would entail - and they were spot on. The service was debuted as predicted, with all the rumoured features and functionality. We point this out because, 24 hours later, another interesting, and completely plausible, rumour has surfaced courtesy of a story in Forbes.
Following a beta launch and subsequent expansion to 12 cities all on self funding, HotelTonight has closed it first round of funding, snatching $3.25 million. The round was led by Battery Ventures, including participation from Accel Partners, First Round Capital and travel industry veterans...
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,...
The worldwide smartphone market saw resounding growth year over year in the first quarter of 2011 with market research firm IDC reporting 79.7% growth, which it credits to lower prices, release of highly anticipated models, wide availability of older models and continued smartphone demand....
Two weeks after it first came to light that Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhones were potentially tracking users whereabouts in a hidden log file, Apple has released an iOS update aimed at addressing the problem and allying consumer and legislators' concerns.In the details that came...
Almost half of the latest smartphones have a 1 GHz processor or faster according to a new report by Strategy Analytics.The report, which tracks key features and specs on handsets in the market, said 48% of the latest smartphone models featured a 1 GHz...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) made slight gains in market share last quarter, however more remarkably it's earning $1 out of every $2 in operating profits raked in by the eight largest device makers in the industry.While the iPhone maker increased its global mobile handset market...
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) has released an update to its Playbook tablet software which includes support for video chatting between PlayBooks, a new Facebook app optimized for its 7" screen and an improved browser that’s “more compatible 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.Several companies provided earnings and further guidance last week. Interestingly enough, all of these earnings results were...
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has somewhat of an app problem. Windows Phone 7 development is not as prolific as that of the major competing operating systems like Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iOS and Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android, but it is relatively newer as well.To help widen...
It would seem now the war of words between Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) over which company is activating the most devices daily has come to an end with Android the victor, Google and its hardware partners are looking to put some...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) said it is making its OpenPlug Studio toolkit available for free to application developers as the network vendor tries to flesh out the ecosystem for more enterprise end users. The toolkit allows developers to write applications for a variety of...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) shed some launch light on a pair of handsets that both expect to begin offering over the coming days and weeks.Verizon Wireless said it will begin offering the HTC Corp. Droid Incredible 2 on April 28...
Lawmakers stepped in to ask operating system companies how they are tracking, using, storing and sharing location information on smartphones after media reports that Apple Inc. (AAPL) automatically tracks and stores location data. While privacy issues have always been a concern in the mobile...
