Mobile News & Articles

Yahoo is bidding for Tumblr in an attempt to boost its social media credentials, but Facebook and other parties may be interested in spoiling the party. 

What do mobile consumers want? The not-so-basic answer to that basic question is the subject of a new report from digital marketing/ecommerce publisher/event producer Econsultancy. 

53% of IT and marketing directors and executives expect data, apps and technology enabled processes to impact enterprise results in a moderate way in the next 12 months.

We've witnessed the remarkable growth of technology since the beginning of the dot com era, and the digital divide we've heard mostly about has to do with those who have access to that technology and those who don't. The digital divide is as much of a social problem as it is an economic problem, but there's also a growing divide in business between the companies who best take advantage of data and those who don't, an Apigee Institute survey has found.

Voice search in Google's Chrome browser now features hands free search by saying the phrase, "Okay, Google."

Once a year, Google throws its I/O developers conference, and day one in 2013 featured plenty of updates about the company's most popular search, mobile and cloud products including a hands free voice search feature for laptops and desktops.

Google's I/0 event keynote is in full swing with announcements for developers, gadget lovers and social media users. A cross-platform Hangouts app is one of the highlights, bringing its various communications apps together. 

Sharing files in the cloud is now possible in the Salesforce Chatter Mobile app for iOS, and a new day has dawned for mobile teams using iPads and iPhones to get work done away from their offices.

It’s no surprise that most companies aren't nailing mobile marketing strategies and execution --technology moves faster than marketers can adapt.

Windows and Windows Phone 8 customers are hearing some details about Microsoft's plan for updating each system in the coming months, and it starts with a public preview of Windows Blue by the end of June.

To deliver effective customer experience in this multi-channel, data-capturing world, the top two technologies are analytics tools and web content management. Those are among the findings in a new report from Forrester on customer experience technology.

Launch a Gchat session right from an Outlook.com email message with the Google contacts integration.

Google's instant messaging service has been integrated into the Microsoft universe, at least when it comes to the Web based Outlook.com and the cloud based SkyDrive storage app.

The customer journey is never as neat as we'd like it to be.

 With its premium Z10 and Q10 models now out on the shelves, BlackBerry has to go the Nokia route and widen its portfolio to broaden appeal and affordability around the world. The company took a first step down that road today at its BlackBerry Live event. 

Finnish mobile maker Nokia is holding its London launch event and has promised a summer of major launches. First up is the Nokia Lumia 925, an aluminum-cased design, plus the arrival of Hipstamatic on Windows Phone. 

With the unveiling of the next Android OS 'Key Lime Pie' a possibility at its Google I/O event, starting tomorrow, it seems the existing flavors are doing pretty well. Analyst figures from Gartner show almost 75% of smartphones now run the OS, powered by growth in Asia.

To make life easier for Google users, the company is now unifying its storage for the likes of Gmail, Drive and so on. But will that big 15GB slice of cloud be used for anything fun at the company's IO event?