Google has bought Motorola Mobility, the devices arm of communications giant Motorola, for $12.5bn (£7.7bn), giving a significant technology boost to the Android platform in the increasingly competitive smartphone and tablets market.
It’s been a miserable year at Blackberry. Revenues are down, profits are down, and now RIM (the corporate operating company behind the brand) is planning job cuts to plug the gap. This isn’t a short term problem; failure to continue device innovation gives Blackberry a massive gap to fill vs Android, iPhone and newly energised … [Read more…]
Orange and Barclaycard have launched ‘Quick Tap’, a contactless mobile payment service which allows consumers to make purchases on the high street using their mobile phone for the first time.
Orange and Barclaycard have launched ‘Quick Tap’, a contactless mobile payment service which allows consumers to make purchases on the high street using their mobile phone for the first time.
Approximately one in twelve Tablet owners (8%) purchased a tablet instead of, or to replace a desktop computer, laptop or other computer, with 11% of Samsung Galaxy Tab and 7% of iPad owners doing so, according to new data.
Google is said to be considering a move into mobile phone credit card payments, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal. But can they beat Apple in this potentially lucrative new area of mobile banking? SEO firm Queryclick takes a closer look.
Connected TV and VoD agency Capablue has joined YouView’s technology and service providers’ core advisory group, to offer advice on the web TV’s development of technical processes and guidelines
This week, in Steve Ballmer’s keynote address at Mobile World Congress 2011, Microsoft announced a variety of new features coming to its Windows Phone 7 smartphone operating system.
Taiwan’s leading smartphone maker HTC is to buy a British digital multimedia company and invest in a US online gaming firm as part of a bid to expand its software business.
Google has reportedly requested some manufacturers delay the launch of TV sets based on the internet company’s software.