Ina Fried in Mobile on May 7 at 8:00 am PT
Ethnic minorities that have a cellphone are also highly likely to have a smartphone, according to new Nielsen data.
News Byte
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 27 at 4:51 am PT
The long-expected version of Skype for Windows Phone has been
released as a beta at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It boasts a new user experience that’s tied in to the Windows Phone interface,
Metro.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on August 22, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
No surprises here. Android continues to extend its lead as America’s most popular smartphone operating system.
Voices
Thomas Catan, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 30, 2011 at 5:20 pm PT
The Justice Department is intensifying an investigation into whether tech giants including Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion could use a recently acquired trove of patents to unfairly hobble competing smartphones using Google’s Android software.
Kara Swisher in News on July 12, 2011 at 6:43 am PT
Whenever I know Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is going to speak at a major public event, I get two feelings at once: Excited anticipation that the chances are high that he’ll say something controversial and dread that the chances are high he will say something, well, controversial.
Ina Fried in Mobile on July 8, 2011 at 10:03 am PT
Although Microsoft has no plans for a commercial upgrade allowing older Windows Mobile 6.5 devices to move to the Mango release of Windows Phone, the company is taking a laissez-faire attitude toward the developers who have managed to cram the new release onto an older HTC phone.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 31, 2011 at 11:52 am PT
Swype, best known for its fast means of entering text on a smartphone, is also proving adept at raising cash. The Seattle-based shop has landed $3.5 million from Ignition Partners and expects to sign several other deals in the coming weeks, CEO Mike McSherry told Mobilized.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 13, 2011 at 10:48 pm PT
Motorola Mobility has snapped up 3LM, a tiny 10-person Mountain View start-up that aims to make Android a more secure platform for businesses.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 10, 2011 at 1:20 pm PT
This time it’s Tim Bray casting stones in a since-deleted tweet. However, the real problem for Nokia and Microsoft isn’t Google’s words. It’s Android and its growing share of the smartphone market.
