After 219 developers signed a petition asking for more information about Android 's progress, Google offered a two-sentence reply saying, in essence, "thanks."
The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan. The organization is a leading proponent of an open-source, Linux OS for handsets, and said that its latest members represented...
Battery life, security issues could affect custom business apps. After three weeks of testing and reviewing Apple Inc. 's new iPhone 2 .0 firmware and an iPhone 3G for use in large businesses, analyst firm Gartner Inc.
Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to putting some of the money to use in India and China.
Yesterday, a $10 application from Nullriver appeared in the iPhone Apps Store that allowed you to use the iPhone to access the Internet via 3G and share that connection through its Wi-Fi radio. It didn't last long, however, before the powers that be at...
Apple suffered a case of the hiccups last week with the launch of the iPhone 3G and MobileMe, but Google is struggling with a serious developers' revolt months ahead of Android's scheduled launch.Android developers began getting antsy a few weeks ago due to 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 launch of the 3G iPhone, there has been an incredible amount of media attention on...
Hands-On Mobile Inc. launched a new version of the hit Guitar Hero franchise.The San Francisco-based publisher unveiled Guitar Hero II: Backstage Pass, a mobile title that places gamers in the role of rock stars who must promote their band, create demo tapes, sign record...
Following a plea to mobile service providers that fell on deaf ears, the European Commission is hoping to mandate lower prices for SMS roaming.The commission said it hopes to end "bill shocks" by proposing legislation to the European Parliament to regulate charges for text-messaging...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up a significant chunk of time at Apple Inc.'s WorldWide Developers Conference, Scott Forstall, senior VP of iPhone software, introduced 11 developers and handed over the stage as they demonstrated applications built for the iPhone.
Through the iPhone software development kit...
The most compelling things about all those third-party iPhone apps that are coming to market? The way you're going to buy them - and, maybe, how much you're going to pay.Apple earlier this year unveiled plans to launch an iTunes-like store, dubbed App Store,...
Forum Nokia is teaming with Mobile Complete Inc. to help developers to test and deploy applications across Series 40 and S60 handsets.Nokia Corp.'s developer program launched a Virtual Developer Lab that uses Mobile Complete's DeviceAnywhere service, allowing developers to access real handsets over the...
What shouldn't be overlooked with the launch of Apple's new 3G iPhone tomorrow (here's everything you need to know about that ) is today's launch of its iPhone application store --that's where the real story is, says BBC News' Rory Cellan-Jones . It's a...
PALO ALTO, California : When Apple opens its online App Store for iPhone software Friday, Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, will be making an attempt to dominate the next generation of computing as it moves toward Internet-connected mobiledevices.
No one likes to lose out to the little guy, which is why Ion Geophysical, developer of high-end seismic data systems for the oil and gas industry, snapped up low-end systems company Aram Systems on Wednesday.
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Security appliance developer eSoft has updated its email gateway with the ability for users to spam-file or whitelist emails from any device, including a BlackBerry or smartphone. Previously, only Outlook users could train the gateway's Bayesian spam-filter.
MimoOn GmbH (Duisberg, Germany), a developer of software-defined radio technology, has recruited research team from Nokia Research in Bochum, Germany and Helsinki, Finland.
Two big mobile players made headlines in the past few days, but they seem to be headed in very different directions.Apple once again displayed its marketing chops, grabbing headlines in both the mainstream media and the trade press as it showcased the latest version...
HELSINKI - Finland's Movial unveiled a Linux-based toolkit which enables software developers to use web-based technologies to program mobile user interfaces, aiming to cut development times.
