Best Buy is joining Amazon, Google, and Apple in offering customers a cloud-based storage and streaming service for digital music. Using its "PlayAnywhere" technology, the Best Buy Music Cloud will let users upload their songs to the cloud, then stream the music across multiple devices, including Blackberry, Android and iOS....
I think I could live quite happily without the "phone" part of my mobile phone. Other than taking press briefings and calling my parents, I rarely use my iPhone for actual calls. I'd rather text or IM. But according to survey results released today, it looks like my preferred methods...
Rumors have surfaced in the past 24 hours that premium content video provider Hulu has been fielding unsolicited offers to buy the platform. The question, of course: who in their right mind would want to buy Hulu?Yahoo is the name that has emerged. The Los Angeles Times and Wall Street...
This morning, another new startup launched a mobile social networking application where location is the primary feature and friends comes second. Banjo, which shows you all the people nearby upon first launch, is one of many similar services now arriving to fill a void in the social networking space. These...
Google is making a push to be the de facto leader in real-time communications on the Web. The search giant hopes that by developing a new open source Web standard for video and audio communications it can be on the forefront of the next generation of Internet networking.Google is doing...
The stereotypical video game player: he is young (under 20) and male; he plays for hours on his console, all from his parents' basement. But that stereotype is becoming increasingly difficult to justify as study after study has shown that gaming population to be comprised of a very different demographic....
According to a new report from network management and video optimization firm Bytemobile, mobile video now accounts for between 40% to 60% of the total mobile data traffic on operators' networks. Half of the video consumed comes from laptop computers, iPhones, iPads and Android devices, the company found.But here's an...
Oracle announced today that it will acquire FatWire. Financial details were not disclosed. FatWire bills itself as customer experience management company and provides tools for content management, community forums, analytics, digital asset management, etc. It sounds very much like what Adobe is doing with its Digital Enterprise Platform (formerly LiveCycle),...
I had one of those terrible and all-too-typical experiences yesterday. I had to call a customer service number. I called, struggling with the voice-activated answering system, cursing vociferously in hopes of triggering some sort of special mechanism to connect me directly to a real person. Finally my turn in the...
At Nokia's Connection event in Singapore, the handset manufacturer unveiled its first (and last) MeeGo-based phones, the N9 and its developer counterpart, the N950. The N9, once representative of Nokia's vision for its smartphone future, the heir apparent to Nokia's Symbian, is now just a model of "what could have...
Thereviewsarein. Windows Phone "Mango" is a hit with gadget bloggers. "Mango," the code-name for Microsoft's upcoming release of its mobile operating system Windows Phone, is a big leap forward with a total of around 500 new features. Many of those are addressing real pain points for current users. With Mango,...
According to mobile security company Lookout, there is a new version of Android malware in the wild and this one is a little bit different from what has come before.Known as GGTracker, the application can be downloaded from the mobile browser through an advertisement that brings users to a page...
As many thought Nokia in Singapore today Announced the Nokia N9, a brilliant looking smartphone with a simple intuitive interface. Its all about Swiping ... Swipes from the outside of the screen. ... use apps, get notifications and switch between different activities. Navigating the UI is done with a simple...
What would you do if Flickr shut down some day? Do you think that photo services like Instagram might be just the beginning of what could be possible in terms of social photo innovation? Is Facebook Photos just a place the share and forget, leaving a big demand remaining for...
On the heels of last week's less-than-stellar quarterly earnings report, there's more bad news for Blackberry and RIM today. Seesmic has just announced that, effective June 30, it will no longer support its popular Twitter client on Blackberry.The words of Seesmic's announcement make the company's rationale clear: the company is...
A Microsoft-approved "jailbreaking" solution for Windows Phone is on its way soon, promises a recent blog post from the creators of ChevronWP7 Labs, a new site for Windows Phone enthusiasts and developers. The service will be provided by longtime Microsoft fans Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh and Long Zheng in partnership...
NFC, short for near field communications, is a short-range wireless technology that's forming the backbone of new mobile payments and mobile wallet services like Google Wallet or Visa's digital wallet. With an NFC phone, you can pay for purchases at any contactless payments-enabled point-of-sale location with just a tap or...
LongJump today unveiled two new services, Javelin and Relay. Relay provides a social interface to business apps, and with Javelin, turns these custom apps into standalone mobile apps - both with no coding skills required. This enters an increasingly crowded market (see our story here on Rover as one example....
Today Adobe released an update to its Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software which now allows developers to build cross-platform applications for Android, iOS and the QNX-based BlackBerry PlayBook. This extends the functionality of the Adobe framework, released back in April. At launch, the software only supported Android, with...
Want to do a better job of working together but don't want to run some desktop-oriented software? Then consider a new suite of mobile social apps available for your smartphone from DoubleDutch Software called HYVE Enterprise Suite. The suite includes seven different mobile social apps intended to be used by...
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