With data and messaging quickly overtaking voice as the prime means of communications over mobile devices, one would think that any company looking to do anything voice-related was crazy. Well, let me introduce you to OneTok, a start-up looking to add a touch of voice to everyday data and messaging communications. The company, which is [...]

While AT&T customers are celebrating more cellular access to FaceTime, Imagination Technologies is marketing a competing video service to carriers — video chat via Facebook. The company says its carrier customers are eager to upsell their customers with new communication apps. “There are a lot of non-realtime applications like geo location and file transfer, image [...]

About 2.8 million patients were remotely monitored worldwide at the end of 2012, using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity, according to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight. The number of monitored patients is higher than nearly 2.2 million monitored patients at the end of 2011. Some [...]

40 billion apps, 7 billion dollars and a quarter of a million different apps for iOS — those are the numbers Apple is touting this week. The company says that users have downloaded 40 billion iOS apps to date, with almost half of those downloads occurring last year, and 2 billion happening in December alone. [...]

Verizon Wireless’ attempt at cashing in on the “app store” craze appears set to come to an end as the operator said it plans to shutter the storefront by March 27, 2013. The carrier noted that most of the applications available through its branded offerings are already available through competing storefronts for the Android and [...]

Nokia is licensing its map application to corporate customers through an alliance with Oracle.

ESPN’s Michael Bayle spends as much time looking at Nielsen ratings as some of his customers spend looking at sports scores. Bayle is the general manager of ESPN Mobile, and today he addressed CEOs of many of the nation’s wireless service providers at the Competitive Carriers’ Association’s Annual Convention. As he rattled off Nielsen ratings [...]

A new free app allows users to receive and answer texts from the comfort of their own computer keyboard — no matter what type of computer, operating system or mobile phone they have. Using a cloud-based account, the app dubbed Mysms can synchronize texts among a wide range of mobile, Web and desktop platforms. Developed [...]

How many mobile wallets do you need? Many of us might say none, thank you very much, our credit cards work just fine. But service providers see a revenue opportunity in loading those cards into smartphones, and banks are paying them to do it. By tying mobile wallets to retailers’ loyalty programs and discounts, service [...]

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – It’s a good thing a 15-hour buffer separated Day 1 and Day 2 of Gluecon, as many attendees noted brain rest was much needed after a packed first-day agenda. The second day kicked off with veteran database architect Max Schireson of 10gen, who also spent many years with Oracle, opening with a [...]