The Associated Press Google gets China OK for Motorola dealThe Associated PressBut Chinese regulators attached a big condition: That Google's Android operating system for mobile devices remain available to all at no cost for the next five years. The approval brings the Internet search giant closer to sealing its biggest …China Clears Google's Motorola Mobility [...]
KDDI au will release the HTC J in Japan on May 25, 2012. The smartphone features a fast 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, which is combined with the Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, HTC Sense 4, an 8-megapixel camera, an IR port and Beats Audio. The HTC J also supports [...]
VentureBeat Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app KarmaComputerworldBy Cameron Scott IDG News Service – The mobile gift-giving app Karma announced Friday it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.Facebook Buys Mobile Gifting Firm KarmaWall Street JournalFacebook acquires mobile social gifting startup [...]
Facebook has just acquired mobile commerce startup Karma, which makes apps for gifting friends and family. The terms of the deal are undisclosed but 16 employees of the startup will be joining Facebook. The purchase will help Facebook build up monetization prowess on mobile platforms — an area that it had said it’s admittedly weak [...]
AFP How Facebook's Mobile Strategy Might Create Future Revenue StreamsReadWriteWebAs Facebook barrels into its much-anticipated initial public offering today, the question for investors and analysts will be: How does Facebook start making money from its huge mobile presence? While it may seem like Facebook has completely dropped the …Mobile: Huge Risk and Opportunity for FacebookVision [...]
How timely. After launching a year ago at Disrupt NYC 2011, Tracks is today releasing one of its biggest updates to date. The service is much like Color, but without the creepy factor as any and all members of a specific photo-sharing group must be invited. I like to think of it as the place [...]
There have been a few delays in the shipping of the first stock of the Sony Smart Wireless Headset Pro, but the good news is that we now have a date of the 25th May for the first stock! That is just a week away. This universal accessory has lots of great features from being [...]
SlashGear T-Mobile Introduces New No Annual Contract Mobile Broadband Service PassesMarketWatch (press release)BELLEVUE, Wash., May 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that its new, flexible and worry-free No Annual Contract mobile broadband service passes will debut May 20, making it easier for customers to enjoy access to high-speed …T-Mobile offers no-contract [...]
T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm noted during their last earning call that their prepaid users helped make up for the loss of 510,000 postpaid subscribers, and now it seems that they’ve got another bone to throw to the their legions of contract-averse customers. Starting on May 20, T-Mobile will be rolling out a slew of new, [...]
Verizon Wireless has been working on bringing shared data plans to market for months now, but it turns out not everyone may enjoy making that transition. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said at an investor conference earlier today that users on those wonderful old grandfathered unlimited data plans will soon have to give them up if [...]
