Kno, a device maker, wants to reinvent the college textbook experience by marrying books, services, micro-content and apps to a dual-screen networked device and an e-platform for higher education. In doing so, Kno is taking on Apple and Amazon. Good news: It has deep-pocketed backers. Read More »
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As the cellular smart grid grows up and proves there’s good money to be made, naturally the cell phone companies want in. Verizon Wireless today is touting its smart grid network product for utilities — which compete with those offered by AT&T. Read More »
Adobe has launched a “digital publishing platform” that it says will allow other magazine publishers to produce flashy interactive iPad apps just like Conde Nast did with Wired magazine. But is that really what publishers need as they try to move into a multi-platform digital world? Read More »
Google, Nokia, Microsoft and others are all fighting for outdoor navigation prominence, but what about indoors? Aren’t there opportunities for consumers who want locations and indoor directories? One company thinks so and it provides navigation in malls and airports, with more venues to follow soon. Read More »
Beyond just connecting us through voice and text, our mobile phone numbers are quickly becoming our identities and our wallets. Now they can also receive physical gifts! Well kind of — Giiv, a newly funded year-old startup, allows users to send each other virtual gift cards. Read More »
Employers in the UK and in Latin America can expect their workers to miss significant amounts of man hours over the month-long 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament, unless those employees can find ways to watch the games at work. Read More »
China Telecom is going forward with a plan to upgrade its existing mobile network to EVDO Rev. B. With 56 million subscribers on the China Telecom network, Qualcomm’s 3G royalty stream will keep earning checks for now, just as the COO had hoped last year. Read More »
The Computex show will get underway in Taipei soon and we expect to see a lot of tablets at the show. Taiji is already showing a Windows 7 tablet with a new twist — a detachable Bluetooth keyboard that fits into the back of the slate. Read More »
Opera says the iPhone is the most used device for its Opera Mini browser in the U.S. But the monthly page view numbers don’t support that data. Weigh in on our poll so we can see how many of you are really using Opera Mini. Read More »
Apple’s iPhone production is ramping up to levels that suggest it’s “increasingly becoming carrier-agnostic” and could mean we’ll see a Verizon iPhone sooner than expected, according to one analyst. If such a deal is inked by year’s end, he sees quarterly sales rising to 17 million. Read More »
The mobile VoIP market is seen growing to 100 million users by 2012, according to the latest research from UK-based Juniper Research. Which means incumbent phone companies will soon be looking to buy their way into the space — good news for VoIP startups. Read More »
Mobile payments are an incredibly promising phenomenon, so much so that the top venture capital firms are lining up against each other for a fight. Now, the teams are basically complete, with newcomer VC firm Andreessen Horowitz taking its spot next to San Francisco-based Boku. Read More »
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