Smartphones News & Articles

If you're not satisfied with your existing cloud storage facility, then why not give the beta of Cubby a go. Billed as "one giant leap for your stuff", it offers a mix of local or 5GB of cloud storage and access from browsers, iPads and other devices for easy collaboration.

All those mobile photos now belong to Facebook as the social networking giant snaps up its rapidly expanding rival, which started as a touch-up and share service, and became a social network in its own right.

Google is now offering the world a peek at its wearable glass displays, which will be being tested by employees out in the real world in the months to come. If popularized, they will open up a whole new world of local information, marketing and content opportunities.

As widely rumored, Yahoo has just announced 2,000 redundancies spread across many of its units, as the company aims to slim down, focus on core profitable areas and return to looking after users and advertisers.

The Web is moving away from static displays and web pages, and even advertising companies are warming up to the trend of using rich media in their campaigns. A recent study by MediaMind gives credence to the need to spend more effort in building rich media displays, as these attract more web views and user actions than static ad displays by more than 600%.

The BlackBerry and PlayBook maker will return its focus to the enterprise after reporting sizeable losses and seeing its former CEO leave the board. Will the new boss's brutal honesty help the company turn things around? 

Finnish mobile maker Nokia has launched its latest Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh smartphone in China, and is looking to make a possible comeback in the smartphone business through this market. With about 1 billion mobile users, the world's biggest mobile phone-using population has much untapped potential, and Nokia wants to bank on the smartphone craze here, in the hopes of regaining its dominance in this industry -- or, at least, additional market share.

Cisco is upping its game in the collaboration and unified communications market, bringing its Jabber video and TelePresence offerings to new platforms and broadening users mobility and connectivity options to encourage wider enterprise adoption.

Competition in the smartphone and tablet market is getting tougher between Apple and Google. Apple is reportedly reducing its dependence on Google in various online and mobile services, and with recent reports that Baidu will soon be a default search engine for iOS mobile devices in China, Google might just lose its already weak hold in this market.

The last session I attended at the Adobe Summit today was all about mobile marketing. Here's a look at the trends, the best practices and technologies driving mobile marketing in 2012 from those in the field living it.

Goodbye, Android Market. Hello Google Play. As Google gets serious in the competition to dominate the app and content landscape, the search giant is revamping Android Market and will be consolidating its application, music, movie and books under one service called Google Play.

mBlox announced a cloud-based mobile marketing solution that delivers personalized content to customers while also collecting user analytics.

It’s the morning after. Regardless of who you were cheering for in last night’s Super Bowl or what you think about the commercials shown during the game, it’s clear that media is changing how advertisers are marketing and to whom they market. 

Most of us probably don't have any type of security 1.0 for our collection of mobile devices. But the threat of attack is growing as hackers and scammers look to get at our data or compromise our details from our phones.

If you are one of the faithful legion of Apple adopters that was hoping the latest update, iOS 5.0.1, would stop your phone from gobbling up battery life like left over Halloween candy -- sorry you’re going to have to wait a bit longer.