The writing was probably on the wall, but no one’s paying close enough attention to what Boost Mobile’s doing to even notice. phonescoop has it that the company famous for pushing its services with giant sized humans uttering one liners …
A war of words has broken out between Apple and Palm over unspecified legal threats over iPhone technology.
Barclays has become the first UK high street bank to offer free security software to its mobile banking customers, in a deal with anti-malware vendor Kaspersky Lab.
A New York congressman has introduced a bill that would force US phone manufacturers to program an audible tone that plays every time the cellphone’s camera is used, in an effort to stem the voyeuristic tide of revealing, unauthorized photography.
Weakening sales and restructuring charges kept Tellabs Inc.’s earnings under pressure in the fourth quarter, the Naperville maker of telecommunications products said Tuesday, but an income-tax benefit helped the company report a profit increase. For the quarter ended Jan. 2, …
A war of words has broken out between Apple and Palm over unspecified legal threats over iPhone technology. In last week’s Apple’s acting chief executive Tim Cook made a number of comments about the company’s intellectual property and its willingness …
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.From an outsider’s point of view, it’s easy to say mobile applications should …
British Airways to Launch Text- and Data-Only Cellphone Usage on London-NYC Flights By John Mahoney , 10:00 AM on Tue Jan 27 2009, 480 views Hey, this makes sense.
Chris Franey, a Channelweb.com 2008 Top 25 Channel Executive who took the helm of the Kensington computer accessories business in December, spoke with Channelweb.com’s Steven Burke about Kensington’s strategy to recruit new partners.
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. The concept of open wireless networks is not new. In fact, an …
Trust the rogue programmers and Cydia–the independent equivalent to the iTunes App Store–to bring you one of the most awaited features ever for the iPhone: Bluetooth file transfer.
AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are weathering the recession better than most U.S. companies, but both phone giants could show some nicks and cuts in the coming days as they report quarterly results. Already, wireless phone makers Nokia Corp., …
Never one to be silent when its dominance is threatened, Microsoft is now suggesting that new U.S. President Barack Obama should use a Windows Mobile device to avoid letting those unscrupulous Canadians get hold of his supersecret e-mails. I’m all …
I’m all for bashing the competition (and Canadians), but this borders on the absurd. Besides the fact that the data stream can easily stay within the United States, Microsoft should have been able to come up with a better potential …
One of the coolest apps on the iPhone isn’t Pandora or Facebook: It’s recipes and shopping lists for Kraft singles, Jell-O gelatin and Minute Rice. Yes, enough Kraft Food devotees are actually paying to be marketed to on their beloved …
Now here’s a recipe for success: Take a brand that your parent company’s been on the verge of abandoning for the last four years. Slap it on a new music download store for mobile phones. Encrust all the tracks with …
Despite large writedowns, major investors in the Sprint/Clearwire WiMAX venture like Google are sticking with WiMAX for now.
HTC spends a lot of time updating devices with a new feature here and there to get it right and reminds me a lot of what Sony did with the CLIE line several years ago.
Now that the novelty of iPhone applications has worn off a bit, I’ve been evaluating which apps are useful and which are just sapping resources from my device.
A Canadian company, Mine Clearing Corp ( MCC ) has acquired licensing to the latest in radiometry technology; technology so sensitive it can pick out the tiny electromagnetic reflections emitted by buried objects from as high as 200 feet in …
By the time final numbers are crunched, President Barack Obama’s inauguration likely will have been watched by more people and on more platforms than virtually any other televised event in U.S. history – including the Super Bowl. This year’s biggest …
Our friend Mr. Blurrycam has come through once again, this time with a handful of Helio Ocean 2 snapshots.
Research In Motion is opening its doors to would-be Blackberry application developers. The company on Tuesday announced that it is now accepting submissions for its upcoming Blackberry application store. RIM announced its intent to create the software service in October.
Can you hear me now? The most appropriate answer in the nation’s capital on Tuesday appears to be “sometimes.” “I had to stand in the same place for 20 minutes just to have a conversation with my mother,” said Christian …
Pandora’s free Internet streaming radio service just got a little less free. Well, it still doesn’t cost you anything, but it is no longer commercial free. Pandora made the following announcements on its Twitter feed today:
