The team behind San Francisco-based Burbn, a checkin service ala Foursquare with funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is focused on a new iPhone app, Instagram, which is likely to launch later this month. The photo editing and sharing app is in limited preview right now. Read More »
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Verizon today appointed Lowell McAdam the company’s chief operating officer in preparation for Ivan Seidenberg’s eventual retirement. The news signals a move away from landlines and toward mobile, where it has net neutrality impacts due to the tech bro-mance between McAdam and Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. Read More »
Apple, perhaps worried about competition from the Android camp, maybe looking to develop a new version of iPad: this one with a 7-inch screen and bring it to market sometime in 2011, according to an analyst. The new iPad will allegedly have both front-and-rear facing cameras. Read More »
Facebook is reportedly working on its own phone. Though the company quickly denied the report, the idea clearly has staying power, and why not? It’s a good one. Facebook should very soon start working outside its core competency and do things like make phones. Read More »
FriendCaller, a browser-based click-to-call voice calling service developed by Dortmund, Germany-based startup C2Call, is once again showing that despite Skype’s monstrous market share, the game isn’t over just yet. The company is adding thousands of new users every day. Read More »
T-Mobile USA said its new pricing for business-to-consumer text messages won’t affect companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have direct relationships with the carrier. For countless others who use messaging aggregators, though, the pricing change will go ahead as planned. Read More »
How do you know when phone companies are in panic mode? You see them hastily organize summits and build consortiums to compete with a hot technology and ride a popular trend. They’re doing it again: this time with plans to build an operating system. Read More »
ChaCha said it will stop delivering text messages to T-Mobile USA customers if the carrier moves ahead with a plan to charge businesses for texts. ChaCha probably won’t be the last company to take such a drastic step in response to the proposed toll. Read More »
AT&T today said it plans to launch its fourth-generation LTE network by mid-2011 and will cover 75 million people by the end of next year. The carrier will spend $700 million this year rolling out the faster networks, with trials set for Dallas and Baltimore. Read More »
The smartphone boom is already putting wireless networks under intense pressure. With higher speed LTE networks on the horizon, it is a matter of time before demand for networking gear and bandwidth shoots up. That’s much-needed good news for the telecom sector. Read More »
Nokia today introduced the new C3 Touch and Type handset, a relatively inexpensive S40 handset offering a touchscreen display and connectivity features often relegated to smartphones. Will cheaper competing Android devices with touchscreens and 3G arrive to challenge Nokia’s feature phone dominance? Hint: they already are. Read More »
Skyhook Wireless, the company that determines location via surrounding Wi-Fi signals, has sued Google for patent infringement and for interfering with its business. The move is part of an effort to control location data as the mobile web becomes the platform for the next generation of … Read More »
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