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Most Top Banks Have an App for That

The era of being afraid to bank on mobile phones seems over–at least from the banks’ point of view. A report conducted by Corporate Insight found that all but one of the banks it tracks offer account...

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Start-Up Watch: Smoopa Android App Helps Electronics Shoppers Compare Prices

Smoopa, a new comparison shopping start-up with a pretty silly name, this week introduced its first app, which allows Android users to scan bar codes of electronics, movies and games, and find out...

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Motorola Goes After Apple's iPad in Super Bowl Teaser Spot for Xoom Tablet

In its iconic “1984″ Super Bowl ad for the Macintosh, Apple went after IBM, pitching itself as an alternative to a monoculture of cookie-cutter computers. Fast-forward 27 years and Motorola is trying...

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Exclusive: Google's Android Design Expert Outlines the Vision Behind Honeycomb

Although the immediate focus of Honeycomb was to get Android ready for tablets, the operating system is really designed to enable Google’s software to power all manner of mobile devices. “Tablet was...

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'With This App, I Thee Wed…'

Brides- and grooms-to-be take comfort in the tangible, whether its bridal magazines that seem to weigh five pounds each, reception venue floor plans or photos of dream cakes. But keeping these...

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New Digg CEO Calls Previous Launch "a Tragedy," Commits to Community

Matt Williams was named CEO of Digg late last summer, just a week after the social news service pushed a long-awaited relaunch that went terribly wrong, taking its site down and upsetting users (and...

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Mobilized Gets Hands-On With Google's Honeycomb (Video)

After Google finished putting Honeycomb through its paces, the throngs of reporters were turned loose into a packed and quite small demo area to get our hot little hands on some Motorola tablets...

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iPad 2 Spotted at Daily Launch?

The future of journalism wasn’t the only thing on display at News Corp.’s launch event for the Daily today. The future of the iPad was as well. A “Reuters eyewitness”claims to have seen the next...

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Drippings from the Honeycomb: Google's Barra on the iPad, Android In-App...

While Google had lots of nice things to say during its presentation on Honeycomb on Wednesday, there were also lots of questions that got raised but were not necessarily answered. Following the...

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ATT's Chief Marketing Officer on How the Company Has Found (Android) Religion

Although AT&T has dabbled with Android in the past, the carrier is now dead serious about making sure that it has a range of products running Google’s operating system. While many will observe that...

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Rejoice! The Kindle Coughs Up Page Numbers

Even people who love their Kindles complain about one weird flaw in Amazon’s e-reader: It won’t tell you what page of the book you’re reading. I’ve always assumed this had to do with the fact that the...

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App Way to Gripe (or Praise) About Service

Call it a flair for the dramatic or a love of telling and hearing juicy stories. Whatever the reason, people have a tendency to talk more about their bad customer-service experiences than the good...

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Ripples in Microsoft's Cloud as Amitabh Srivastava Leaves

The ripple effects at Microsoft in the wake of the pending departure of Microsoft Server and Tools head Bob Muglia continued today. First Satya Nadella, as reported by BoomTown’s Kara Swisher, was...

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INQ Mobile Decides to Friend Facebook and Spotify for New Android Phone (Video)

It’s not the Facebook phone, but it is a phone with a whole lot of Facebook. INQ Mobile on Wednesday is announcing its new Cloud line–Android phones that have Facebook features deeply integrated into...

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Exclusive: Motorola Mobility to Acquire Ex-Googlers' Stealthy...

Motorola Mobility plans to announce later on Monday the acquisition of 3LM, a tiny 10-person Mountain View start-up with the little goal of making Android a secure platform for the enterprise. The...

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Qualcomm Aims to Heat Up Phone Chip Race with Dual-Core, Quad-Core Chips

While Nvidia scored a lot of tablet and smartphone design wins at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, Qualcomm is hoping to get back into the act, announcing a new series of single-core and dual-core...

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Cooliris Raises $9.6M, Gets Social With Mobile Photo-Sharing App

Cooliris, which makes tools to help people consume media on the Web and various devices, is changing focus with a new flagship product that’s about sharing photos rather than browsing through them. The...

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Microsoft to Add Multitasking, Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone Later...

Microsoft announced on Monday plans to fill in some of the key gaps from the initial Windows Phone 7 release with two updates due out this year. The more interesting of the updates is the second one–a...

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HTC Shows Off First Tablet, Android Phone With Facebook Button and More

HTC on Tuesday became the latest cellphone maker to “friend” Facebook in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the social network. At a press conference due to start any minute, the Taiwanese...

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HTC's One-Button Facebook Phones Headed to ATT

AT&T said on Tuesday it will have HTC phones later this year that include the Facebook button the Taiwanese cellphone maker showed off here in Barcelona. The phones may not be the exact Cha Cha and...

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