At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, Orange announced it will introduce its first NFC-enabled smartphone in the second quarter of this year to select European markets, with others soon to follow. The phone is a mid-tier Samsung Wave 578, which runs the Samsung bada operating system. As it...
At this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a task force consisting of a group of international mobile operators announced it will submit its plans for an embedded SIM solution to telecommunication standards body ETSI for consideration by month-end. The standard would allow for an embedded (as opposed to removable)...
Just prior to the start of this week's annual Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Microsoft and Nokia shook up the mobile industry with the announcement that Nokia would abandon work on its MeeGo smartphone operating system (OS) and would begin shipping handsets running Windows Phone 7 starting sometime this...
Earlier this week, thanks to the iPad, Apple overtook HP as the biggest vendor of mobile computers. Challenging HP, one of the largest vendors of both consumer and enterprise technology, is quite a feat. Expect this trend to continue. Recent surveys show increasing support for tablets in the enterprise, and...
Earlier this week, thanks to the iPad, Apple overtook HP as the biggest vendor of mobile computers. Challenging HP, one of the largest vendors of both consumer and enterprise technology, is quite a feat. Expect this trend to continue. Recent surveys show increasing support for tablets in the enterprise, and...
For almost four years, since the Facebook Platform was launched, I have been involved in delivering Facebook apps for top brands such as CBS, NBC, Lifetime, Universal Music, Visa and more. Here's what we have learned doesn't work, and more importantly, what does work.First, deep campaigns don't work. Digital agencies...
For almost four years, since the Facebook Platform was launched, I have been involved in delivering Facebook apps for top brands such as CBS, NBC, Lifetime, Universal Music, Visa and more. Here's what we have learned doesn't work, and more importantly, what does work.First, deep campaigns don't work. Digital agencies...
I'm a "good news first" kinda guy, so here it goes: The good news is, manufacturers were showing off Netflix on Android devices this past week at the Mobile World Congress and it looks as good as you would expect. What's the bad news, then?If you already own an Android...
At this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google's former CEO, now Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt delivered a keynote address where he revealed the future of the Android mobile operating system. Currently, there are two distinct versions of Android: Android 2.3, code-named "Gingerbread" for smartphones and a newer, tablet-optimized version...
Sony joins a number of music streaming services today with its launch of "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity." The service has been available in parts of Europe since last year, and arrives in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand today.Membership will start at $3.99 a month, with a $9.99 per...
Everyone is pondering how MeeGo will gain Traction in this new everchanging market and today MeeGo began that journey. Intel provided over 300 Developers brand new ExoPC tablets loaded with a pre-alpha release of MeeGo Tablet edition at the Application Lab sessions at Mobile World Congress(MWC) We will go into...
The open data service Factual has just updated some of its datasets and has also released a new iPhone SDK. The Los Angeles-based startup describes the move as another step towards its goal of "comprehensive, accurate, and accessible local data."Factual is an open platform for developers and publishers to build...
There's very little gray area on this one: You're either completely excited by the potential for built-in facial recognition combined with smartphones and social networks, or your entirely creeped out and afraid for the future of the planet.The future is nearly here and I, for one, welcome our new overlords,...
The struggle between legal and illegal music online is over. Legal music has won. The major music labels have struck deals with ad and subscription supported streaming music services like MOG, Rhapsody, Spotify, Rdio and others that put a world of music at your fingertips - faster, easier, and more...
We've all been there: You're making the last purchase of a long day of shopping and the clerk tells you that your card has been declined. Only hours later (and perhaps after embarrassingly arguing with the clerk that you surely have money in your account) do you find out that...
"The world is shifting from a battle of devices to a battle of ecosystems," Nokia CEO Stephen Elop stated during his keynote speech at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. What he means is that it's no longer going to be about what manufacturer's device or model you use...
Sony joins a number of music streaming services today with its launch of "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity." The service has been available in parts of Europe since last year, and arrives in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand today.Membership will start at $3.99 a month, with a $9.99 per...
One of the superior apps on the Android phone has long been Google Maps, with its turn-by-turn and voice-guided navigation missing from the iPhone version. So on the surface, MapQuest has a difficult sell to Android users with the launch of its free app today.The MapQuest app also offers the...
Apple this morning announced a new subscription service for all publishers of content-based apps. It's the same one we saw with recently-released iPad app "The Daily," but it's the previously untold details that are getting people riled up. And riled up they are. Like most things Apple does, today's announcement...
If you're a TV actor, you have the Emmy Awards. If you're a journalist, you have the Pulitzer Prize. But if you're a citizen reporter, what do you have? Nothing, until now.CNN announced today that it was launching the CNN iReport Awards "to honor the best examples of participatory journalism...
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