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 and wireless transition to an iOS or Android device, including...
Twitter has won a battle with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to the effect that the firm will now be exempt from a 1.5 percent payroll tax for the next six years.
Twitter and several other firms had threatened to move their offices away...
I've been fairly critical of Rupert Murdoch's new digital newspaper The Daily, both over the ludicrously large investment News Corp. has made in the property, and the subsequent missteps in terms of social integration and target market.
Twitter announced through a PR tweet that Satya Patel will join Twitter as director of product management. Satya will be stepping down as partner for Battery but will remain a venture partner. Satya's prior experience includes a decade in online media and software, both...
It seems like only recently the focus shifted from our obsession with Angry Birds for mobile, to the idea of mobile for the social good. Day three of CTIA focused on how wireless technology, particularly mobile social media and overall coverage, can change the...
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.With the new year comes the parade of trade shows, including the Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas...
Wireless consumers that are really addicted to their devices are also really happy with those devices, according to the latest customer satisfaction studies conducted by J.D. Power and Associates. The studies, one focused on smart phones and one on traditional mobile phones, found that...
Sony Corp.'s legal team must be a busy bunch at the moment. On the one hand they're battling LG Electronics Co. Ltd. in a Blu-Ray patent dispute that has seen European Union Playstation imports impounded in Holland, and on the other hand they're fighting an increasingly vitriolic battle against renowned hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz, who is in hot water for cracking open the security on the companies popular console.
This week marks Twitter's fifth birthday. Since it was first launched to the public, the micro-blogging service has noticeably changed the way we broadcast, organise and digest information.
It has been rumoured since essentially the dawn of time that Google Inc. is going to launch a social network. Although many of Google's products, such as Picasa, YouTube, and Buzz include social elements, the search giant has yet to launch a full-on Facebook competitor.
Since last week's catastrophic earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown triple-threat devastated large parts of northeastern Japan, many large organisations have jumped in to aid donations that will go towards helping those affected by the crisis.
Fox News | March 8, 2011
Mexico City – The typical Mexican Twitter user is a woman living in this capital, according to a survey carried out by marketing firm Mente Digital.
Women represent 52 percent of Mexicans with Twitter accounts and they post 2.5 times more...
Fox News | March 8, 2011
Mexico City – The typical Mexican Twitter user is a woman living in this capital, according to a survey carried out by marketing firm Mente Digital.
Women represent 52 percent of Mexicans with Twitter accounts and they post 2.5 times more...
The roadmap for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry software future has tipped up online, showing two updates to BIS this year and a new version of BlackBerry OS slated for the end of the year.
It seems a month can't go by at the moment without some kind of viral worm weaving it's way through the Twittersphere, leaving a wake of dodgy linkbait and annoyed users behind it. This week's Twitter exploit, TweetViewer, once again plays on the insecurity and gullibility of the average Twitter user, and purportedly allows people to find out who has been viewing their Twitter profiles.
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Well here's something to annoy all those Blackberry users out there - Twitter has today suspended the platform's most popular Twitter client, UberTwitter, as well as Android client Twidroyd and iPhone App UberCurrent.
As you may (or may not) have heard, the United Kingdom has recently seen a series of protests aimed at reversing the government's controversial spending cuts, which have lopped a massive £7 billion from the budget of public services across the country.
In case you've been living in a cave somewhere, the proverbial excrement is hitting the fan in Egypt at the moment. Spurred on by similar protests across Tunisia, Egyptians have taken to the streets in ever-increasing numbers to demand the resignation of despot-in-chief Hosni Mubarak.
Seven Networks introduced a wireless traffic optimization tool that it says can cut down data consumption on the network by up to 70% as it reduces the number of times the device and handset talk to each other, in a way that still allows...
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,...
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,...
SAN FRANCISCO — “We’re turning life into a game” and trying to “make the world a little more interesting to explore,” Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley said this morning here at the Open Mobile Summit.The company, which is less than two years old now has...
Today is the Super Bowl of politics — in a way. Election Day 2010.Every major event like this presents brilliant minds with an opportunity to come up with something truly awesome that takes mobile to the next level. And I always come away wanting...
