Ina Fried in Mobile on December 11, 2012 at 9:01 pm PT
Start-up Jibe hopes to transform video chat from being its own separate program to being a feature within lots of other apps.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 29, 2011 at 5:13 pm PT
Not only were people flocking to Twitter and Facebook to gab about the marriage of that prince and the English woman, but they were also sending a lot of text messages.
Mobilized has just one message, and it applies to anything happening at 2 a.m., and it is this: Do Not Disturb.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 11, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
According to a a new report, China is the biggest spot for the mobile Internet, with 73 percent of Chinese youths age 15 to 24 citing mobile Internet usage as among the things they used their cell phones for in the past month. That compares to less than half of American and British young people and less than a quarter of those in the rest of Europe.
Meanwhile, young women in most countries were more likely than males to send text or picture messages, although the opposite was true in India, China and Brazil.
Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on May 4, 2010 at 9:03 pm PT
Finally, after years of churning out corporate-centric smartphones, Microsoft has designed a homegrown, cool and truly consumer-focused mobile device. Katie reviews the Kin.
John Paczkowski in News on March 3, 2010 at 8:00 am PT
AT&T executives were no doubt grinning into their cornflakes this morning over a cock-up at rival Verizon that left many of that company’s customers in the eastern half of the U.S. without access to data services early Wednesday. The network outage was resolved relatively quickly, but not before Verizon got a little taste of some of the grief AT&T has been suffering for the past year.
John Paczkowski in News on December 28, 2009 at 9:42 am PT
In addition to four calling birds, today–the fourth day of Christmas–will bring the latest point release of Palm’s webOS operating system. Judging from Palm’s version notes, webOS 1.3.5 is a relatively minor update, featurewise. It promises to give the Pre and Pixi improved battery life “in marginal coverage areas” and addresses some media-related MMS issues. One media-related issue the update does
not address: iTunes compatibility.
John Paczkowski in News on November 4, 2009 at 5:48 am PT
When it launched on July 10, 2008, Apple’s iTunes App Store held just 552 apps. Today, Apple tells us, it boasts more than 100,000. Astonishing, really, when you think about it. The App Store isn’t even two years old yet. Nor is the iPhone SDK.
Drake Martinet in News on September 26, 2009 at 12:20 pm PT
Kara was half James Bond, half Indiana Jones in the cities and jungles of BoomTown this week. She jet-setted, jet-lagged and still managed to report on a genuine cougar fight.
John Paczkowski in News on September 24, 2009 at 11:24 am PT
AT&T has finally completed the very important “internal system upgrades” that prevented it from supporting multimedia messaging service on Apple’s iPhone. And at some point late tomorrow morning, the carrier will release an update enabling MMS.