Research In Motion (RIM) is highlighting the native and Android apps available on its struggling PlayBook at the Consumer Electronics Show as it prepares to launch the first major overhaul of the tablet's
Published on: January 12th, 2012 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Microsoft on Friday announced a program designed to help 10 developers or startups launch businesses around products for Kinect, the controller that senses motion and voice. Developers with Kinect applications for the Xbox
Published on: November 21st, 2011 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Research In Motion may be getting close to releasing the Android app player it promised for the PlayBook, judging from an old version of the player found on the BlackBerry.com Web site. The
Published on: July 25th, 2011 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Mobile-phone companies and aid agencies have talked for years about deploying feature phones, coupled with basic text information services about the weather and crop pricing, to empower poor people in undeveloped parts of
Published on: July 22nd, 2011 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Google on Thursday unveiled a mobile wallet platform and field tests in New York and San Francisco that will let people with special phones pay for goods in retail shops by tapping the
Published on: May 27th, 2011 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled many new features to its Windows Phone software but it left out a few that some people had hoped to see. It said it will add 500 features, many
Published on: May 24th, 2011 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
The hottest concept mobile phone right now doesn't come from Apple, Google, Motorola or HTC. It was developed by a designer in his spare time as part of a Mozilla Labs project.Seabird is
Published on: September 27th, 2010 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Even after cutting a damages award in a music file-sharing case to one-tenth the original sum, a judge said Friday the new fine was still excessive. The federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday
Published on: July 13th, 2010 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
You thought Avatar was long? James Cameron joked that his next movie may stretch to five hours. Speaking on stage at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas, the filmmaker said that the only
Published on: March 29th, 2010 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
After it has spent nearly a year on the market, analysts are reluctant to declare Android a success, but they say the platform could turn a corner in the next few months when
Published on: September 29th, 2009 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
IPhone customers who use Lotus Notes at work won't be left out anymore with a new offering from Sybase iAnywhere. Sybase iAnywhere is set to announce on Tuesday that it is adding support
Published on: March 18th, 2008 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Gwava, the developer of security software, plans to introduce on Monday a new product that lets enterprises easily track and find text messages and phone calls that BlackBerry users send and receive. The
Published on: December 18th, 2007 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Google launched a location service for mobile users on Wednesday that doesn't rely on GPS. Google Maps with My Location, currently in beta, locates users who don't have GPS-enabled phones based on their
Published on: November 28th, 2007 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
Palm Inc. introduced a smartphone with a new brand aimed at a younger audience on Thursday. The Centro phone will cost US$99.99 and initially be available exclusively from Sprint Nextel Corp. starting in
Published on: September 28th, 2007 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
The CEO of UnWired Nation Inc. thinks he's found a way to get around the challenges involved in offering a data service to mobile phone customers: use voice instead. Content providers often complain
Published on: August 2nd, 2007 Nancy Gorhing @itbusinessca
