Amazon has just launched a suite of music products that allow users to store their tracks online and them stream them over the Web or to any Android device courtesy of the Amazon MP3 mobile application. The launch has the tech world abuzz, not only because Amazon beat Apple and...
At this week's CTIA conference in Orlando, Florida a contest was held to determine the best in mobile applications, mobile consumer electronics, enterprise and vertical markets and network infrastructure. The contest, called the E-Tech Awards, was judged by media and industry analysts. The criteria for determining the winners included innovation,...
Our top story this week was about "zippy cloud machines," which are not, as I first hoped, personal flying machines. Instead Marshall Kirkpatrick looked at the Jolicloud operating system, which you can now run on computers as old as 10 years. Turning a Dell that's older than your kids into...
NFC is a term you're going to start hearing a lot more of this year, but many out there don't know what it means or only have a vague idea. Some equate the term only with mobile payments and mobile wallet initiatives, thinking that NFC is just for making purchases...
An advertisement from Best Buy appears to show the highly anticipated Google Android 3.0-based tablet, the Motorola Xoom, with a starting price of $799.99 - or $300 more than the least expensive iPad on the market today. What's worse, the ad also says that it requires the purchase of a...
At last week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) in Las Vegas, if there was any obvious industry trend, it was this: Android is everywhere. From smartphones to tablets and even TVs, the mobile operating system was present in a number of the devices being showcased at this gadget-filled event....
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer officially confirmed the timeframe for the series of planned updates to the company's mobile phone platform Windows Phone 7 during his keynote address at this week's Consumer Electronics Shows (CES 2011) in Las Vegas. No, he didn't give an exact launch date for the updates -...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer officially confirmed the timeframe for the series of planned updates to the company's mobile phone platform Windows Phone 7 during his keynote address at this week's Consumer Electronics Shows (CES 2011) in Las Vegas. No, he didn't give an exact launch date for the updates -...
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is almost upon us, and this time, it appears the general theme is "evolution" not "revolution." Like 2010's event, there will be e-books and tablets and newer and better TVs. There will be more 3D and Web-connected devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top...
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is almost upon us, and this time, it appears the general theme is "evolution" not "revolution." Like 2010's event, there will be e-books and tablets and newer and better TVs. There will be more 3D and Web-connected devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top...
One of the great promises of Internet TV is the ability to facilitate real-time conversations about what we're watching right alongside the show itself. Social media apps help connect TV viewers with a larger audience, well beyond the living room, so to speak. By checking in and talking to other...
Today, Visa and Visa Europe have announced the commercial availability of In2Pay, a microSD solution for mobile payments. The service, enabled by Texas-based DeviceFidelity, has been in testing for the past 18 months with financial institutions across the U.S., Europe and Asia.The new service works with several smartphone models, says...
The NFC Forum has developed the "N-Mark," a trademark which will allow consumers to easily identify NFC (near field communications)-enabled devices. Today, the Forum started a certification program for device manufacturers which will allow them to establish their products as being in compliance with the NFC Forum's technical specifications. Only...
The rumored "Nexus S," also once referred to as the "Nexus 2," has now been officially confirmed by Google. This flagship Android device is the successor to the original "Nexus One," the ground-breaking smartphone which featured a clean installation of the Android operating system. Like the first Nexus phone, the...
Who will win the smartphone race and how will they get there? Who will end up controlling the user experience on the device - the manufacturers or the operating system makers? These were the sort of questions being discussed on a panel at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco...
For the first time ever, Android has tied with Apple's iOS platform in terms of mobile ad impressions on Millennial Media's mobile advertising network, according to its latest monthly report. Android's mobile operating system has seen rapid gains over the course of 2010, and has increased its ad requests by...
Watching TV is becoming a more interactive experience - at least that's what a number of companies building interactive TVs and media center products are hoping. From Apple CEO Steve Jobs' "hobby" project, Apple TV, to media center startups like Boxee, there are new ways to "watch" TV that involve...
It's pretty common for our live blogging of Apple events to be the top story of the week, but this week Microsoft finally had its day with Frederic Lardinois' coverage of the PDC Keynote event. In Internet of Things news, Richard MacManus explained how to connect your car to the...
Apple is believed to be working with SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto to develop a SIM card built into the iPhone, making it easy for phone owners to use a carrier of their choice. Gemalto is the company that sued Google, Motorola, HTC and Samsung on Monday over alleged patent infringement in...
Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems, Inc., is coming to the TV screen, the company announced today at its developer conference Adobe MAX 2010. With the launch of Adobe AIR 2.5, the software, already supported on various smartphone, tablet and desktop platforms, is being extended to...
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