BROWSING: Mobile Minute

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Mobile networks are set for another increase in video traffic. Today Twitter said it is buying SnappyTV, a startup that allows marketers to share TV video clips on social media. "Together, we’ve worked with the biggest...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. BlackBerry says that the upcoming version of its mobile operating system will include direct access to the roughly 200,000 Android apps available in Amazon's app store. The deal is meant to close some of the "app...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Amazon may be trying to create an iPhone-like buzz around its new smartphone by giving the device exclusively to AT&T. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the expected Amazon smartphone will be available only...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Amazon is expected to bring a new dimension to the smartphone market this week with an Amazon-branded phone that will track the user's eyes and create a 3D image of the object of interest. Could...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Powermat has reportedly won a mega-deal with Starbucks that will eventually put the wireless charging system into Starbucks stores nationwide. Starbucks customers will be able to place their mobile devices onto tables and charge them...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. When it comes to wearables, one size may not fit all. Salesforce.com is hoping to capitalize on the idea that businesses can find unique ways to leverage connectivity. Today the software giant launched Salesforce Wear...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. T-Mobile US has won millions of new customers by encouraging mobile subscribers to ditch their contracts and get the devices they really want. But the carrier has paid dearly for those customers, and now it's...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Conversations on Vodafone's mobile network are routinely listened to by government agencies, according to a report out today from The Guardian. The European telecom giant decided to speak out because it wanted people to understand...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. The price of mobile data has definitely been falling in the U.S., but the amounts Americans pay for data plans are still far beyond the means of many would-be smartphone users in emerging markets. Now...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Apple has launched iOS 8, the newest version of its mobile operating system. iOS 8 includes photo sharing and iTunes content sharing across devices, and it will let users add voice and video to iMessages....

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Mobile app acquisitions are making headlines, with two new deals announced this week and a third hitting a possible snag. Intuit is buying mobile app Check for $360 million, or about 18 times expected 2014 revenue....

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. BlackBerry is imagining a world where contact lenses measure blood sugar levels for diabetics, and cows are connected to the Internet so that we know more about the quality of our milk and meat. It can...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T wants to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion, and the carrier is doing all it can to encourage regulators to approve the deal. It has promised to abide by the FCC's 2010 net neutrality rules for...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. For now, mobile network operators are not subject to the same net neutrality rules that affect wireline operators, but the FCC is seeking public comment on this stance, just as it is on its other net...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. More details today about the next generation of the iPhone, expected to launch later this year. 9-to-5 Mac is reporting that Apple will triple the base resolution on displays for the upcoming iPhone, and will keep...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. In the blink of an eye, the mobile app that delivers self-destructing messages has self-destructed by selling out to Yahoo. Yahoo has bought Blink for an undisclosed amount, and will soon pull the app from iTunes...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Motorola is making a play for feature phone users who are finally ready to upgrade to a smartphone. It's ad campaign points out that smart phones have not always come at smart prices, and says that...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Pinterest joins the list of social media sites that will use advertising to try to make money from its millions of visitors. Pinterest announced "promoted pins" several months ago, and now the company has shared the...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. One of the creators of the Uber app is bringing the same idea to healthcare, with an application that lets New Yorkers summon a doctor when they need one. Pager is a new app that will...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Mobile service providers are preparing to support text-to-911, for situations in which a victim cannot or will not speak. Texting to 911 could become more and more common as the younger generation comes of age. Verizon...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Google has announced a major upgrade to its Google Maps app for iOS and Android. The app will now suggest alternate routes to you while you're navigating, and will even tell you when you need to...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. The Twitter hashtag #AmazonCart marks the social media giant's latest foray into the world of e-commerce. If you include the hashtag when replying to a tweet that includes a link to a product on Amazon, that...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. The White House wants to limit the way companies can use big data. Obama Administration advisor John Podesta is calling for a digital "bill of rights" for consumers so that people will understand how their data...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T may be taking a direct approach to video with a plan to purchase DirecTV. The Wall Street Journal reports that AT&T has approached the nation's second-largest satellite TV provider (after Dish Network) about the possibility...