"Our technology is used in every mobile phone," reads a leaderboard-style ad on the home page of InterDigital, a wireless technology company that holds some 8,800 critical patents. An independent assessment last April of the relative value of communications companies' patent portfolios by equity market analysis firm Ocean Tomo LLC...
Spearhead Development has launched an all-new version of its QR Card Us product today. QR Card Us provides customers with a custom-printed business card that contains a QR (quick response) code, allowing smartphone users to quickly scan their contact information. Whereas the first version of QR Card Us displayed a...
According to new research from analytics firm Nielsen, most Android users spend more time with native mobile applications than they do on the mobile Web. The average Android user spends 56 minutes per day actively interacting with the Web and apps on their devices. Of that, nearly 67% is done...
The next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system will include an app store and offer a consistent experience across desktops, tablets and smartphones. Windows 8 is being developed in two flavors: one for desktop computers and one for tablets and phones, with consistencies across both versions. This brings Windows closer...
Google just introduced a weather layer to Google Maps, and WunderMap better watch out. It's a simple overlay of local weather icons with temperatures, and clicking them pops up more information including humidity, wind speed and a forecast. Google is not new to the weather game; Google Earth has been...
Jay Lyman, senior analyst for the 451 Group, spoke at LinuxCon North America 2011 on the changing Linux landscape. Sessions are short at LinuxCon – about 50 minutes in total, give or take. So there's not a lot of time to get deep into the nitty gritty and perform a...
A maker of iPhone games targeted to kids has settled a case brought against it just last Friday by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The case concerned use of child players' personal information without parental consent.Broken Thumbs Apps is the maker of Emily's Girl World, and a series of spinoff...
Jumptap, a mobile ad targeting company, announced new partners today that will help the company acquire off-line data about consumers. That data can help app developers target ads at users. Jumptap has partnered with Targusinfo, Polk, Acxiom and Datalogix to add data such as purchase history and vehicle and market...
Google has updated its powerful search app for iOS with a quicker way to filter results by type, as well as with support for pre-loading Instant Pages, which was recently added to the Chrome desktop browser. The update also adds a more intuitive, gesture-based help screen for figuring out the...
Internet analytics firm comScore released a report today that shows the most visited retail and auction sites on the Internet. Amazon, to no surprise, is the big winner with 282 million visitors in June. That correlates to 20.4% of the entire worldwide Internet population. Auction site eBay trailed Amazon sites...
Over the past week, there have been stirrings in the Android community about the Linux GNU General Public License (GPLv2) and whether or not original equipment manufacturers have violated the license, thus making them vulnerable to lawsuits from thousands of Linux users. The argument is that OEMs have broken the...
Encoding.com has been around for the past several years, and they have yet another turnkey video encoding service called quick catchingly, Vid.ly. The product, which has been in beta since February, was announced today and so far has had more than five million video views already. The focus on the...
Nokia partners up with Polar Mobile to launch over 300 mobile apps for major media brands over the next 12 months. The apps will be made available to Nokia devices running Symbian, MeeGo, and Windows Phone. The first 50 will be available for Symbian through the Nokia Ovi Store...
Both ReadWriteWeb COO Sean Ammirati and I are active in our respective communities' entrepreneur mentoring programs, and we always enjoy seeing how other localities help nurture their budding startups. Probably nowhere else in the world is the idea of a startup happy place more entrenched than in Silicon Valley, where...
The Genivi Alliance has confirmed the Linux Foundations MeeGo IVI solution as Genivi Compliant. MeeGo joins the other distributions namely Canonical Ubuntu IVI Remix, Mentor Embedded IVI Base Platform, MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform and Wind River Platform for Infotainment. Originally it was thought that MeeGo would be the base platform...
Asus have had a page go live on their Website for their eeepc's. Theres Talk of Windows 7 starter but also MeeGo with its features and a comparison of specifications between the MeeGo and Windows offspring. Social Networking MyZone desktop widgets make it fast, easy, and fun to view...
A new video has surfaced at Nokia Developers Forum. The video is about the Chinese social networking app Kaixin. In the video, Li Wenjing, Product manager, Kaixin Mobile Division is seen talking about the mobile version of Kaixin, now available for Nokia N9 smartphone. The mobile version of Kaixin is built...
A simple to use File Manager Application for Meego Harmattan (Nokia N9 / N950). Check out the video to see whats what :-) Also on the coming soon list for File Manager is the ability to allow you to view archives as folders and to 'mount' popular cloud storage...
A study last month by the Info-Tech Research Group found little difference by organization size in how businesses use social media, and also provided lots of practical information on how enterprises should make use of social media management tools. The report looked at the tools from a variety of vendors,...
Mobile content monetization platform TapJoy announced today that it is partnering with some of the top iOS and Android application developers to help bring ad-funded payment options to more than 10,000 apps. TapJoy's payment platform leverages virtual goods, currencies and banner ads to increase developers' app revenues.OMGPOP, Moblyng, Craneballs Studios,...
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