The World Bank has been in the news rather a lot recently, and not always for the most salubrious of reasons, but the global financial institution seems to want to clean up its image and make itself more transparent to …
Jumbuck, an Australian VAS firm, is trying to translate the love affair people have with their phones into real life social relationships. “The mobile phone is a device that has a wonderful intimate relationship with the users,” said David Gibbs, …
The City of San Francisco will on Thursday hold a vote on whether to implement a controversial law which would make it mandatory for phone retailers to warn people about cellular radiation. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors already won …
When you were a child how did you imagine supermarkets would be in the future? Maybe you thought it would no longer even be necessary to go into a physical store. Or that, if we had to go, the experience …
Though this month’s job figures for tech employees in Silicon Valley remained fairly constant, a new report claims the area is in for a whopping 15% employment surge over the next couple of years, though mainly for high skilled jobs. …
HP has given full exclusivity of its TouchPad tablet 4G to AT&T just in time for the back to school shopping spree, the company has revealed. The tab, which runs on a 1.5-GHz processor, boasts 32 GB of internal storage, …
Migrant workers throughout Asia, who own cell phones but not necessarily bank accounts, are the main driver for mobile money in Asia according to Sybase’s director of business development Tarik Husain. Villagers who travel from villages and farming areas into …
Mobile video is the future of mobile value added services (VAS) according to Eamonn Kearns, VP of sales at Canadian communications firm Dialogic. “Video is the new voice,” said Kearns speaking to RCR Wireless News in Singapore recently. The deployment …
The Cisco jobcuts will be more extensive than analysts expected, it was revealed on Tuesday, with 11.500 jobs set to be culled, as the firm also announced the sale of its factory in Mexico to Taiwanese firm Hon Hai Precision …
For those who’ve long dreamed of an iPhone but just can’t afford the steep price, or don’t want to commit to a lengthy, restrictive contract, you may soon be in luck. Word on the silicon street is that a cheaper …
Another day another iPad 3 rumor, and this latest one has Samsung and LG competing for main supplier of the high-res displays for Apple’s next generation tablet according to Mac Rumors. With Apple and Samsung at each other’s legal throats, however, …
If you are a Brazilian or Argentinian soccer fan, you may be licking your wounds right now, what with both teams suffering humiliating defeat in Copa America – the American soccer cup – last weekend. However, if you are simply …
Fairchild Semiconductor today announced the availability of its long vaunted mobile speaker amplifier, the FAB1200 stereo as well as the FAB2200 audio subsystem with stereo Class-G headphone amplifier and 1.2W Class-D mono speaker amplifier. The little device features a charge pump which generates …
NVIDIA’s upcoming Kal El mobile processor may be the only 40nm quad core on the market according to sources in the know. According to Fudzilla, NVIDIA will be the only chip firm to attempt a quad core build on ARM’s A9 …
Apple may dump Samsung and move to Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC for production of its A6 chip, it has been claimed. According to ComputerWorld, the 28nm chip will be fabbed in Taiwan, rather than Korea, after a spate of legal …
The Google Plus Social Network has already managed to rope over 10 million members into its circles, Google CEO Larry Page said Thursday. Despite launching only two weeks ago on June 28, by invitation only, the service – which is …
Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has announced a partnership with Canada’s Manitoba NetSet Ltd at the Global WiMAX & LTE Development Forum in San Francisco on Thursday. Manitoba NetSet – a consortium of the most prominent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in …
PayPal demonstrated its new NFC capabilities for the first time this week at the Mobile Beat 2011 conference in San Francisco. Senior director of PayPal Mobile, Laura Chambers, gave the audience a demo of the new service by tapping two …
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its mobile following. “We haven’t started the process, we haven’t chosen …
Despite being hacked and having to pull its network down for around six weeks, affecting 77 million customers, Sony says it was “pleasantly surprised” by the results of the experience, claiming all its clients came back and that network performance …
Despite being hacked and having to pull its network down for around six weeks, affecting 77 million customers, Sony says it was “pleasantly surprised” by the results of the experience, claiming all its clients came back and that network performance …
A shocking new survey has revealed that “more than half of parents snoop on their children’s online activity.”
Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility have sunk $24 million in funding into Santa Clara based mobile payment firm ViVOtech, along with Singapore’s EDBI, Citi Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Draper Fisher Jurveston and SingTel Innov8. ViVOtech an NFC software and systems firm with …
Facebook has ‘friended’ yet another Googler by hiring Tom Stocky, the Mountain View firm’s director of product management for search, client and infrastructure products. “I work at Facebook, where I serve as a director of product,” Stocky announced on his …
Cisco is planning to fire 7000 workers by the end of August, with an additional 3000 taking voluntary resignation according to Bloomberg News. The massive cuts – representing around 14% of the firm’s entire workforce – follow Cisco’s catastrophic quarterly …
