Tag: mobile
Apps for Finding New Tunes, with a Little Help from Your Friends
- By Rachel Metz
- 05/01/2013
Twitter #music, EQuala, and Piki help you share and discover new music with friends, but they’re not all winners.
A Simple Way to Turn Any LCD into a Touch Screen
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/24/2013
Electromagnetic interference can turn a plain LCD into a touch screen on the cheap.
Safe Texting While Walking? Soon, There May Be an App for That
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/15/2013
CrashAlert, created by University of Manitoba researchers, could make it easier to walk and text without smacking into things.
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Disappearing Messages Are Everywhere
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/04/2013
Smartphone apps that send disappearing messages are gaining in popularity.
Nuance Thinks Voice Ads Could Be a Mobile Hit
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/01/2013
Nuance hopes its voice-recognition tech can produce mobile ads that you actually want to have a conversation with.
Predictive Smartphone Assistant Gives You a Heads-Up
- By Rachel Metz
- 03/25/2013
Startup Sherpa’s predictive intelligence offers valuable insights when and where you need them.
Five Opportunities for Mobile Computing
- By Rachel Metz
- 03/22/2013
Thousands of startup companies see mobile computing as their chance to strike it big. We picked five.
How Facebook Slew the Mobile Monster
- By Robert D. Hof
- 03/06/2013
The fortunes of the world’s largest social network depend on how much it can earn from mobile advertisements.
Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started
- By Antonio Regalado
- 03/01/2013
Smartphones, tablets, and wireless data plans are already a trillion-dollar business. It’s just the beginning.
PayPal, Lenovo Launch New Campaign to Kill the Password
- By Tom Simonite
- 02/12/2013
A new standard that gives phones and PCs a bigger role in authentication could disarm attacks that rely on stealing passwords.
The New Smartphone Incrementalism
- By David Talbot
- 09/07/2012
- 1 Comment
Tiny advances are loudly proclaimed as the industry battles over fractions of an ever-vaster global mobile market.
Making "Dumb" Phones Smarter and Faster
- By Rachel Metz
- 08/23/2012
Australian startup biNu uses cloud computing to help basic-phone users access the Web on slower networks.
A Banking Giant Makes a Mobile Payment Bet
- By Jessica Leber
- 07/11/2012
Backing from JPMorgan Chase will speed a startup's rise in a crowded field.
Startup Sends More than Music through Speakers
- By Rachel Metz
- 05/09/2012
Sonic Notify uses sound waves to let your smart phone pull up everything from coupons to music videos.
New Apps for the Bottom Billion
- By David Talbot
- 05/07/2012
Low-tech phone technology allows images to be sent as bitmaps in text messages, opening up applications for the world's poorest.
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