There is nothing we like more here in the Valley than a cat fight, and with two tech tigers currently at each other’s throats over who can best serve up your email, this is one bloodbath you don’t want to …
Google’s Android operating system now makes up a whopping 39 percent of the U.S. smartphone market according to a new report from market research outfit Nielson. Google, claims the report, has seen its mobile operating system take an extra three …
Google has long existed under the mantra “Don’t be evil” but it’s latest ad campaign targeting Microsoft’s Hotmail is just that – evil. Well, perhaps not evil, but it’s certainly a little mean, calling its rival an “embarrassingly out of …
Texan patent troll Lodsys has slammed Apple with an opposition to the Cupertino company’s motion to intervene in a massive patent infringement lawsuit, threatening Angry Birds maker Rovio, Atari, EA, Take-Two Interactive and other game app developers. In a 22 …
Samsung seems to be getting ahead of itself in the smartphone race, with talk of the Samsung Galaxy S 3 before the Galaxy S 2 has even been officially released in the US.
Smartphone sales may be set to top 420 million units in 2011, but some handset makers are poised to do far better than others when it comes to high-end devices IMS Research has revealed. Though smartphones currently make up 28% …
Google has begun experimenting with a more tablet hugging search page, according to reports. The search engine giant apparently realizes that when it comes to serving up content on a slew of different devices, one size definitely does not fit …
As a mobile news site which thrives on rumor and gossip, we love it when the industry springs a leak and spews out information not quite ready to be released, and today was just such a day.
Japanese carrier KDDI has teamed up with Microsoft and Toshiba-Fujitsu today to unveil the world’s first Windows Phone 7.5 – Mango – device, the IS12T.
Apple is looking to cut slices out of its iPad 4 bill of materials (BOM) by looking to cheaper Taiwanese integrated circuit designers according to local source DigiTimes. According to the Taiwanese tech daily, Apple is weighing up its options …
HTC has told Reuters it is willing to negotiate with Apple to clear up the pair’s legal battle, but has emphasized the terms of any settlement should be “fair and reasonable.” In an interview with the news wire, HTC’s Winston …
Mobile marketing platform company Upstream says it will be opening new offices in Redwood City, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley. The firm, whose MCS marketing technology platform boasts over one billion interactions every year to more than 500 …
Mountain View based Intuit Inc., maker of the popular TurboTax program, has announced the availability of its QuickBooks invoicing app for Android, following up its iOS app for Apple iPhone users. The firm says this should make using QuickBooks easier on …
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has snapped up assets from Sunnyvale based GestureTek, which specializes in gesture recognition technology, for integration into its Snapdragon processors. Gesture recognition, once the preserve of science fiction films like Minority Report, is slowly making its …
Crowded House said it best back in 1987 with the hit single “Always take the weather with you,” and now comScore can confirm, taking the weather with them in their pocket is what most mobile users love above all else. …
Wireless giant Qualcomm has kicked off a fitness challenge for its employees, in a bid to raise awareness of its wireless health initiatives and the development of new medical technologies
Market research firm comScore has released figures which claim Google + has shot past the 20 million visitor mark in just three weeks since its launch, seeing a whopping 82% visitor increase over last week and 561% over two weeks …
Even after publicly declaring on several occasions that it had no interest in facial recognition, Google has gone out and bought itself a –yes – facial recognition software company by the name of PittPatt. Pittsburgh based PittPatt, which emerged from …
Angry Birds creator Rovio has been catapulted into the middle of an ugly patent war started by a Texas-based patent licensing company, Lodsys.
Last Friday, HTC was dealt a massive blow when the US International Trade Commission (ITC) took Apple’s side and found the Taiwanese phonemaker guilty of infringing two iPhone patents. But HTC’s CEO is not taking the decision lying down and …
Motorola Solutions Venture Capital has led a $1 million round of financing for Menlo Park based Nearbuy Systems which specializes in indoor “micro-location.” Motorola Solutions joined Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, and Metamorphic Ventures to raise the cash which should help …
We’ve all heard of the dangers of privacy invasion on the internet, but what about an invasion of our personal space from inside the home, from those very loved ones you think you can trust? A recent study from Retrevo …
Google has saddened early adopter everywhere today with its decision to shut down Google Labs, its incubator for newly conceived, half-baked products, which sometimes evolved into tasty new offerings from the software firm. Bill Coughran, Google’s SVP for Research and …
San Francisco based startup Stampt today unleashed its digital loyalty reward card program across the US. The service, which aims to swap out paper coupons of the “buy-10-get-1-free” variety with a smarter, digital version has been running trials of its …
Despite another strong quarter for chipmaker Intel in terms of revenue, the chipmaking giant couldn’t help but be disappointed by its continued failures to break into the mobile market and the decline of its low powered Atom chipset. Intel posted …
