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.
Facebook is launching an instant-messaging application for smartphone users, as the social network looks to take on Blackberry maker Research In Motion. and Apple in the growing mobile communications market.
CashPlayTV has launched the first 24-hour quiz TV channel to run solely on social networks and mobile devices.
Tesco and Asda have released their food databases in an initiative created by FoodWiz as an app on mobile phones to help all those people with food intolerances, IBS and coeliac disease.
With Amazon announcing their earnings and the buzz around the Amazon tablet, Andrew Eisner, Retrevo.com Director of Community and Content, looks at the tablet market and what customers are interested in.
With Amazon announcing their earnings and the buzz around the Amazon tablet, Andrew Eisner, Retrevo.com Director of Community and Content, looks at the tablet market and what customers are interested in.
Research In Motion is to cut about 2,000 jobs, representing 11% of the Blackberry-phone maker’s workforce.
Economy Smartphones, with a retail price of $150 or lower, will account for nearly one-third of shipments in five years, helping to drive shipments to 1 billion annually, according to new research.
Google is closing down its iconic Google Labs site- the place for many of the internet giant’s experimental products, and the birthplace of popular services such as Gmail and Google Calendar.
Ethnographer Siamack Salari, has launched EthOS (Ethnographic Observation System), a mobile app that lets brand owners view how their products and services fit into the lives of consumers via video, pictures, text and audio captured using their smartphones.