Not a week goes by where there isn’t a new sync solution announced for personal digital content such as photos, music, videos and files. Sync is about making things the same – replicating content across multiple locations (devices). But, not all “sync” is created equal as the lines between backup, sync and restore are becoming increasingly blurred as users expect their lifelong digital content to be secure and accessible from any device, anywhere and at any time.

Touchscreen keyboard firm Swype said it’s goal is to be on a billion devices and become ubiquitous across phones, tablets and even TVs, despite a stinginess on the OEM side to invest in native apps. Speaking at the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley’s TC3 event in Mountain View on Thursday, Swype CEO Mike McSherry said [...]

Reuters | September 12, 2011 | Natasha Baker For people who have stood at a monument or scanned a landscape — the Great Wall of China, for instance, or the U.S. Grand Canyon — and wondered how it looked 100 or more years ago, there is now an app for you. Read the full article [...]

Appconomy’s Steve Guengerich is not from Austin, but he says he got here as quickly as he could. He came in the 1990’s, moving his company from Houston when it was ready to go public. Now his latest venture puts him at the center of the mobile apps economy – which he has christened the appconomy. Appconomy builds [...]

Nokia | August 31, 2011 | Press Release Nokia announced today plans to collaborate with Vision+, an independently-run investment fund, focused on financing innovative products.  Vision+ introduces a new funding model for venture investments where investments are made into product development projects with a clear target for market entry and commercialization. Nokia also plans to [...]

Verizon Wireless has teamed up with Intuit Inc.  to provide a mobile credit card payment system to small businesses using an app and pocket-sized credit card reader. The card reader can be plugged into either a mobile phone of tablet via the audio jack, allowing credit and debit cards to be swiped, or have their info entered [...]

Qualcomm’s executive vice president, Steve Mollenkopf, has said the mobile app space will change computing forever. Speaking at an event marking the opening of Verizon Wireless’ Application Innovation Center in San Francisco Wednesday, Mollenkopf spoke of his firm’s “rich history of innovation” and collaboration with the carrier. “Most people would have under-called the [mobile] market [...]

Verizon Wireless officially opened its Application Innovation Center in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, in an event attended by the firm’s top executives, including CEO Dan Mead. “Innovation is at the very core of what Verizon does, and what we stand for,” Mead told assembled press, adding that LTE was the “signature technology” which would push [...]

Job figures in the telecommunications space remained steady in Silicon Valley last month, according to new statistics released by the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics. Preliminary figures showed telecommunication jobs for the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area at 5.9 thousand, marginally up from last month’s 5.8. The number of telecom employees in the area has remained [...]

Reuters | August 3, 2011 | Alice Baghdijan Frankenstein, Oliver Twist and Robinson Crusoe could all be lurking on your iPad if you download a new application launched by the British Library this week which provides access to over 45,000 historical and antiquarian titles. Read the full article here via Reuters