Known for its online video search engine, Blinkx is now trying to wend its way into the mobile market. The video search provider announced Wednesday a beta of a new Web site designed to let people find and play videos through their mobile devices. The new mobile site is geared toward any phone that has [...]
Facebook’s new mobile site, dubbed 0.facebook.com, is promising quick and data-charge-free access, though it’s only accessible through certain mobile carriers. The popular social-networking site already offers a mobile site designed to display on smartphones and other portable gadgets. But the new 0.facebook.com is being targeted toward mobile users in specific countries who normally face data [...]
Mobile phone and smartphone sales are on a roll, according to figures released Wednesday by market researcher Gartner. In the first quarter, customers worldwide bought 314.7 million mobile phones, a 17 percent increase year over year. Smartphones sales specifically jumped 48.7 percent from the year-ago quarter, as 54.3 million units flew off the shelves. Demand [...]
HTML5 developer tool Even as opposition mounts against Adobe Systems’ Flash technology, the company is showing Wednesday it’s working hard to ensure it’s not the only arrow in its Web programming quiver. At the Google I/O conference, Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch is expected to announce the release of an HTML5 update to Adobe’s [...]
It was horrible to imagine. A Belgian man, uncommunicative since a car accident left him paralyzed in 1983, suddenly seemed to have a message to convey last November with the help of a speech therapist. He was not unconscious, he indicated. He was trapped. Now, neurologist Steven Laureys, one of Rom Houben’s doctors who diagnosed [...]
BARCELONA, Spain–Mobile operators at the GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress here this week are happy to offer subscribers access to as many application stores as they can. But they still want some say in the apps offered on their networks, and they want a cut of the action. Instead of creating and distributing mobile applications [...]
Two days after a New York Times report linked two Chinese schools to hack attacks on Google and other Silicon Valley companies, both schools are denying those claims. Security experts traced the attacks to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School, The New York Times reported Thursday. But on Saturday, according to the [...]
Pay-TV juggernaut HBO has officially announced the launch of HBO Go, a video-streaming service. Unless you are one of the 38 million cable subscribers who gets HBO or sister service Cinemax, HBO Go won’t be offered to you, the company has said. HBO Go provides subscribers Web access to the same movies HBO screens on [...]
Google may have reached the limits of what it can learn from dog food. Ask almost any technology company what products and services they use within their own organizations, and most will enthusiastically admit to “dog-fooding” their own products. It’s both a show of support for their own technology and an opportunity to test those [...]
Marketing the iPad Steve Jobs insists on calling the iPad “magical” and “revolutionary,” but it’s a device whose purpose has mystified many so far. So how will Apple explain the touch-screen e-reader/Web tablet that’s being described, and in some cases derided, as “an iPod Touch on steroids,” albeit one that will cost between $499 and [...]