February 25, 2011
Now that the Motorola (MMI) Xoom is available, the first of many Google (GOOG) Honeycomb tablets is poised to battle Apple's (AAPL) iPad for consumer dollars and ...
January 26, 2011
Samsung Electronics (005930:KS) wants to become the biggest U.S. large-household-appliance brand by making refrigerators smarter. Fridges, washers, dryers, ...
January 25, 2011
(Bloomberg) Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director ...
January 14, 2011
The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase that draws about 50,000 people to Park City, Utah—all toting cell phones, tablets, and computers, and all expecting to ...
January 4, 2011
Google (GOOG) is considering building a payment and advertising service that would let users buy milk and bread by tapping or waving their mobile phones against a ...
January 4, 2011
Wells Fargo (WFC) is again trying to make mobile payments at restaurants and retailers mainstream, three years after an earlier attempt lost steam. Peter Ho, product ...
December 31, 2010
(Bloomberg) Clearwire Corp., a company creating a nationwide high-speed wireless network using WiMax technology, said Chairman Craig McCaw will step down ...
December 30, 2010
(Bloomberg) Skype Technology SA, the biggest provider of international calls, introduced video calling for Apple Inc.'s wireless devices, a move that may ...
December 21, 2010
When I first met Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in the 20th century, my first impressions about them included phrases like super-smart, engineer's engineers, and ...
December 20, 2010
The "commercial disagreement" between Comcast (CMCSK) and Level 3 (LVLT) is still ongoing, and while many (including the cable company) portray it as a simple peering ...
December 19, 2010
Research In Motion (RIMM) on Dec. 16 reported strong smartphone sales, shipping 14.2 million BlackBerry devices in the quarter, which helped boost revenues to $5.5 ...
December 7, 2010
Tech jobs are coming back after hitting bottom early this year, according to economy tracker Moody's Analytics (MCO). The U.S. economy has added 47,000 technology jobs...
December 7, 2010
Rogers Communications, a Canadian cable TV and wireless communications provider, said on Friday that it will allow customers to share existing mobile broadband plans ...
December 3, 2010
Google, owner of the world's most popular search engine, will widen its lead in the $877 million U.S. market for mobile advertising, ending the year with a 59 percent ...
November 22, 2010
Of the $447 billion in predicted U.S. holiday spending this season, $127 billion of it, or 28 percent, will be touched by some form of mobile commerce or social ...
November 18, 2010
Last December, engineers at General Motors' (GM) OnStar unit hunkered down in a dingy basement conference room plastered with whiteboards. Their mission: to reimagine ...
November 16, 2010
(Bloomberg) Mary Meeker will predict a $50 billion online advertising boom in an address at the annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. The Morgan ...
November 7, 2010
Demand for wireless data around the globe will double each year through 2014 as the population turns to smartphones and data devices for instant information ...
November 4, 2010
Do you use a location-based app or service such as Foursquare or Gowalla? Then you are a member of a tiny minority of Internet users, according to a new report by the ...
November 1, 2010
IBM engineer William Bodin needed a way to communicate easily with a team of developers halfway around the world. So he turned to an application, created by ...
October 31, 2010
It might not be selling iPads in its stores like rivals AT&T and Verizon, but Sprint is benefiting from brisk demand for Apple's hot new device regardless.Dan Hesse, ...
October 28, 2010
(This story was updated to include other companies working with AT&T)AT&T (T) is in the early stages of a plan to turn mobile phones into credit cards. The carrier ...
October 25, 2010
(Clarifies relationship of companies in fourth paragraph.) Lauren Azulay wants to help her customers flirt faster. Azulay is head of billing and payments for ...
October 21, 2010
Technology companies are running up against a dearth of qualified developers to create applications for mobile devices, according to a survey by online job board Dice ...
September 23, 2010
In January 2009, I got my first glimpse of a new device from Novatel Wireless (NVTL) called a MiFi. The MiFi, with its credit-card-sized footprint, uses a wireless 3G ...