Mobile News Archive

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The iPad is everywhere, Android tablets not so much

James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 16, 2014 -- 10:55 GMT (03:55 PDT). Follow @jkendrick. SHARE: SUBSCRIBE TO: Mobility.

Samsung Galaxy S5 Review of News: Great Sales, Expensive, Breaks-Less & More Carriers

Samsung Galaxy S5 Review of News: Great Sales, Expensive, Breaks Less & More The Samsung Galaxy S5 went officially on sale on April 11 and...

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Print Publishers Net Several Webby Award Nominations

BuzzFeed is the only non-legacy brand to crack into best Mobile News (site), the rest of the nominees include The New Yorker, The Guardian, The...

Facebook Promoting Publishers With \'Get Interesting News\' Posts In News Feed

Facebook appears to be testing what amounts to a free mobile ad unit for publishers, with posts in users\' mobile News Feeds that closely resemble...

Google\'s flat-look icons from Android 4.5 apparently leak out

It appears that Google is planning to make the look of its app and service icons more coherent across the web and Android. A set of icons shown in a...

China\'s top procuratorate launches official WeChat account

The Supreme People\'s Procuratorate (SPP) also launched its mobile news portal run by sohu.com, after opening official microblog accounts on three...

Top 5 mobile news-tracking apps for April 2014

Here we have compiled a list of the top 5 mobile news tracking apps for the month that will enable you to keep updated with the latest happenings...

Brightcove Video Cloud to power Le Figaro mobile entertainment channel

France\'s first national newspaper, Le Figaro, has selected the Brightcove Video Cloud online video platform to power the mobile version of its news...

Get a new tablet for work, check your data usage

James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 15, 2014 -- 10:55 GMT (03:55 PDT). Follow @jkendrick. SHARE: SUBSCRIBE TO: Mobility.

Verizon Drops Prices for Cheaper Edge, Monthly & Pre-Owned Deals

Verizon Wireless Verizon Drops Prices for Cheaper Edge, Monthly & Pre Owned Deals has dropped the price of its plans starting April 17. It is for...

Verizon Powerful Answers Awards Open for Devs $1M Grand Prize

Verizon Powerful Answers Awards Open for Devs $1M Grand Prize Verizon announced its 2014 Powerful Answers Award competition is open for...

Monday, April 14, 2014

LogMeIn patches Heartbleed: What you need to do

James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 14, 2014 -- 20:41 GMT (13:41 PDT). Follow @jkendrick. SHARE: SUBSCRIBE TO: Mobility.

Apple Apple iPhone 5S vs. iPhone 6

There is a massive improvement in the size and resolution of iPhone 6 and it is definitely bigger than iPhone 5S. The screen size could be anywhere...

MSNBC And NowThis News Team Up For New Series,

Following an announcement in January that NBCUniversal News Group had made a strategic investment in mobile news startup NowThis News, the...

LG looking to take on Moto 360 this summer with smartwatch

With most of the high end smartphones taking up the mobile news lately, the smartwatches have been almost silently released over the last few...

HetNet News: Comcast claims 1M hotspots

Review: Yoga 2, 11-inch flexible Windows hybrid

James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 14, 2014 -- 10:55 GMT (03:55 PDT). Follow @jkendrick. SHARE: SUBSCRIBE TO: Mobility.

Exertis Micro-P inks airtime deal with O2 UK

UK B2B distributor Exertis Micro-P has signed an airtime agreement with O2 UK, effective 1 April, Mobile News reported. All of the distributor\'s \'Conect\'...

Amazon smartphone expected in June (RCR Mobile Minute)

T-Mobile US\' most compelling announcement was a further push into the tablet market that allows customers to add a tablet device to a current...

Sohu.com to Report First Quarter 2014 Financial Results on April 28, 2014

Sohu also provides multiple news and information service on mobile platforms, including Sohu News App and mobile news portal WAP.Sohu.com.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Weekly round up: What has this week brought in the mobile world?

It\'s been a busy week in the smartphone world, what with the launch of the latest Samsung flagship model, which will go head-to-head with its...

Television: From Watch with Mother to watch with mobile

Television viewing habits have changed enormously since the days when people would crowd around their television screens, eager to find out \'Who...

Friday, April 11, 2014

CNNx App Lets You Watch Only The News You Care About

CNN is making the jump to the next generation of mobile news with the new CNNx application. Initially available as an iPad app, its intended for other...

Google gives strong signal a Chrome tablet is indeed on the way

James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 11, 2014 -- 10:55 GMT (03:55 PDT). Follow @jkendrick. SHARE: SUBSCRIBE TO: Mobility.

LTE Innovation Summit: The promise, challenges of LTE

Long Term Evolution is indeed turning out to be a technology with a long lifespan, and the telecom industry is only in the early stages of mining the...

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Facebook squeezes brands, promotes publishers for free

This is the new Facebook reality: Brands\' organic reach is decreasing, but publishers are having their content promoted for free. Facebook has been...

SevOne strengthens data analytics offering with acquisition

After closing on a $150 million round of financing from Bain Capital last year, SevOne is putting some of its cash to use. The company said today that it...

ZTE shifting from low-cost strategies

ZTE is signaling a shift in strategy that could be good news for its competitors. The Chinese maker of network infrastructure and smartphones said...

Reviveaphone\'s boss gets Dragons\' Den cash boost

Murphy, who last month collected a Mobile News Award for Most Innovative Product, said the impact of the show, which saw him relinquish a 25 per...

Frequentis UK comes to Essex fire brigade\'s rescue

... so if you\'re calling, the line, number and location are identified,

Welcomm Comms on acquisition trail

The firm\'s chairman Chris Stanton (pictured) told Mobile News it is keen to add to that number, targeting businesses in mobile and fixed line

Carphone Warehouse opens 9 Samsung stores for Galaxy S5 launch

The outlets, which Mobile News reports stock Samsung\'s full range of mobiles, tablets, laptops and wearable devices, are the result of a partnership...

Ten cool tablet accessories, most under $10

James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 10, 2014 -- 10:55 GMT (03:55 PDT). Follow @jkendrick. SHARE: SUBSCRIBE TO: Mobility.

Report: Infrastructure, including telecom, shapes real estate investment

A new report from the Urban Land Institute and EY says that telecommunications infrastructure is one of the top factors that influence decisions on real...

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

TS2R: T-Mobile Cheaper Simple Plan, Galaxy S4 Wi-Fi, New DropBox Apps & AT&T in NYC Subway

of spring break most of the wireless and mobile news today was just too short to report surrounding a new T-Mobile plan, Sprint update, DropBox and...

T-Mobile\'s new $40 \'Simple Starter\' plan promises no data overages

Ready for a stream of T-Mobile news? If not, you\'d better prepare yourself, because T-Mo says that it\'s got three big announcements coming in the next...

Facebook Goes Big With Right-Hand Rail Ad Redesign

The rail costs about 20 cents every thousand impressions, and the mobile News Feed costs $5.72, according to new data from Facebook marketing...

Sky News mobile apps pass ten million downloads

Sky News mobile applications have hit a major milestone, surpassing ten million downloads this week. The satellite broadcaster reached the landmark...

Review: Fantastical 2 for the iPad to organize your busy schedule

James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 9, 2014 -- 10:55 GMT (03:55 PDT). Follow @jkendrick. SHARE: SUBSCRIBE TO: Mobility.

Yahoo launches news app for Taiwanese users

Yahoo Taiwan Holdings launched a mobile news application Monday that includes web-based features such as a viewer rating system for each news...

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

EXFO acquires software company ByteSphere

EXFO Inc. has purchased the assets of privately-held software company ByteSphere LLC, which focuses on global IT management and network...

Ofcom to compare 3G and 4G coverage of big four operators

In a statement seen by Mobile News, the national regulator said it would be using off-the-shelf, consumer hardware to check how EE, Three, O2 and...

Radisys, Broadcom collaborate on small cells

Radisys Corp. and Broadcom have worked together on an integrated software and chip solution FDD and TDD-LTE small cells, and the technology...

Qualcomm raises the bar with new Snapdragon chipsets

In mobile chip news this week, Qualcomm has unveiled its newest Snapdragon chipset, Broadcom has teamed up with Amazon, and Freescale has...

Transatel looks to beef-up UK MVNO partnerships

Its founder and chief executive officer Jacques Bonifay (pictured) told Mobile News, Transatel is looking to bolster MVNO partnerships in the EU by...

The uphill battle facing the Chrome tablet

James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 8, 2014 -- 10:55 GMT (03:55 PDT). Follow @jkendrick. SHARE: SUBSCRIBE TO: Mobility.

Yahoo launches news app for Chinese-speaking users

TAIPEI -- Yahoo Taiwan Holdings launched a mobile news application Monday that combines its popular Web-based features such as a viewer rating...