T-Mobile Rolls Out ‘Data Stash’ Plan
T-Mobile has announced a monthly data rollover plan for consumers and business customers called “Data Stash,” but the plan still will not allow workers to share their data with others in a work group....
View ArticleWill The Apple iWatch Be A Dud?
Why would that be Sherlock? The longer Apple leaves it the more it will be out of date?
View ArticleZTE To Offer 6-inch Prepaid Phone On Cricket Wireless
ZTE envisions big opportunities in the U.S. prepaid handset market, and is releasing a 6-inch smartphone with high-end specs, all for $200 when bought without a contract. The company’s latest...
View ArticleWhatsApp Announces That It Has More Than 700M Users Now
Mobile messaging platform WhatsApp has amassed more than 700 million monthly active users and appears to be on track to reach 1 billion in about a year, a target Facebook set when it acquired the...
View ArticleHacker Forum Working To On Evolving Malware
"Once this is gained hackers then have the ability to move laterally in the organisation and start looking for crown jewels or simply advertise that a point of presence has been created in a...
View ArticleFlip-Phones Oddly Increasing In Popularity In Japan
Japanese shipments of traditional flip-phones picked up pace in 2014 for the first time in seven years while smartphone shipments dropped, highlighting Japanese consumers’ tenacious attachment to the...
View ArticleSony To Release Smart Glasses For $840
While Google is moving away from a consumer release of Glass, Sony is moving forward with sales to developers of its augmented reality SmartEyeglass. The struggling Japanese manufacturer said it will...
View ArticleInternet.org Aims To Provide Free Services To 100 Countries By Next Year
Internet.org, which is already offering free Internet service in six countries, has a rather aggressive goal to connect to 100 countries in the next year. “We like big, ambitious goals at Facebook,”...
View ArticleMicrosoft Files Suit Against Kyocera Over Mobile Phones
Microsoft Corp has filed a lawsuit against Kyocera Corp for patent infringement last Friday, alleging the Japanese company’s Duraforce, Hydro and Brigadier cell phone lines violate seven Microsoft...
View ArticleFacebook To Open Messenger App To Third-Party Developers
Facebook’s Messenger app mostly been used for keeping in touch with friends. Now people can also use it to send each other money. In the future, it could become a platform which other apps could use,...
View ArticlePhone Movements, Gestures May Be Key To Fighting Mobile Malware
Mobile malware is a growing problem, but researchers from University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have developed a new way of detecting when suspicious mobile apps start trouble, such as trying to...
View ArticleInstagram Helps Out Apple Watch App Developers
With the Apple Watch slated for release on April 24, third-party application developers are rushing to write extensions that can run on the device. Now Instagram is sharing some code it wrote for its...
View ArticleU.S. Widens Lead In Worldwide Mobile Patents
The U.S. increased its lead in mobile patents last year and IBM took the top spot in new patents granted in that space, according to a report that reviewed data from both the U.S. and Europe. While the...
View ArticleText-to-911 Still Has Very Low Adoption Rate, Research Finds
Only 5% of the nation’s 6,500 emergency dispatch centers are capable of receiving and responding to emergency text-to-911 messages. That’s not good enough for more than 41,000 signers of a Change.org...
View ArticleFCC Looks To Tighten Rules On Robocalls, Texting Spam
The top U.S. telecommunications regulator wants to make it more difficult for telemarketers and other businesses to robocall and text messages consumers under changes to autodialing rules being...
View ArticleApple Watch Expected To Dominate Smartwatch Market
The Apple Watch is expected to capture nearly two-thirds of the smartwatch market for all of 2015, according to a new forecast from market research firm IDC. IDC had said two weeks ago that Apple will...
View ArticleT-Mobile Touts Continental Phone Plan For All Of North America
T-Mobile announced that there would be no additional fees for its U.S.-based Simple Choice customers when they call, text or use data to Mexico and Canada or when traveling there. The move, which...
View ArticleWill Wearable Devices Ever Take Off?
The problem appears to be that while everyone is saying "wearables" no one has really come up with a good product yet, or one that attracts anyone's attention. If Apple could not market up a storm,...
View ArticleHP Goes After Security In Smartwatches
The best practice if a zombie has bitten your arm and infected you with a virus, for example, would be to chop it off. Your arm, that is.
View ArticleYahoo Unveils Livetext Mobile Messaging App
Yahoo unveiled a mobile messaging app that combines texting with live one-on-one video. The app, named Livetext, is video calling with a twist: there’s no audio. To communicate, users type texts and...
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