Mobile posts

Every day we see more people using their smartphones to make payments whether through apps directly on them or by using them to pay for purchases at stores. The rise of mobile payment types is only being outpaced by adoption which is accelerating at a breakneck pace. This infographic by Mobile Payments Infographic comes to us from Long Beach Honda and breaks down what the future of mobile payments may look like. Click to enlarge. Related articles Mobile Payments Infographic Shows a Jackpot for Business The mobile payments wars [Infographic] Lois Hamblet, CEO of Ziptip, a Mobile Payments Solution…

As per Carphone Warehouse, Galaxy S3 by Samsung is the fastest-selling pre-order smart phone of this year. This certainly means that people of all ages, right from children to the elderly, will be soon using this new Galaxy delight. But as every coin has two sides, even this newest Samsung Smartphone has two sides: use and misuse. Therefore, many parents who have already booked this phone for their kids must be proactively looking for some way via which they can keep an eye on their kid’s phone irrespective of where the device or parents will be. It is obvious that with such a feature-rich phone,…

Verizon has had its share of foibles over the last few months over how their customers interact with their cellular plans. On June 28th, they debut their “Share Everything” plans which will allow up to 10 devices within a family to pull from a common pool of data coverage while enjoying unlimited minutes and messages. “Customers asked, and today Verizon Wireless delivered an industry first,” said Tami Erwin, VP and CMO for Verizon Wireless. “Share Everything Plans are the new standard for wireless service. They are simple; customers no longer have to think about their voice and message…

If you’re a smart phone owner you use apps, it’s as simple as that. You might use some more than others (Facebook – cough, cough), but regardless they are an integral part of your smartphone experience. More importantly though – where are you getting these apps? Of course there is the ever-popular Apple store, but it looks like Android is stepping up as a contender in the app match-up. With over 300 million Android smartphones across the globe and 850,000 daily Android activations, Android seems to have taken the mobile world by storm. Besides making the users happy, Android provides a better…

Technology has made it easier for our generation to stay connected to each other in a variety of ways. We can give thanks to the rise of social media which allows us to stay in contact with all of our friends at the click of a button. Spotify is a good example of a company that uses social media to its advantage to allow you to see the music that you’re friends are listening to in real-time. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="96" caption="(Photo credit: Wikipedia)"][/caption] In an effort to connect music and love, Spotify recently partnered with two match-making application companies…

Anyone who owns a smartphone, be it a sleek Apple iPhone or a fully customizable Android device, knows that mobile applications are what brings the “cool” factor to these devices. From small applications that tell the weather or current stock prices, to highly addictive gaming experiences which can suck up hours of your social life, apps are all the rage with smartphone users. This app experience is not just a passing fad, but has become a powerful revenue generating machine for Apple and Google with app downloads crossing the 25 billion and 10 billion mark for these companies, respectively….

The fourth generation of mobile communications, to nobody’s surprise, offers extremely high downlink rates and in the case of Long Term Evolution (LTE), this can theoretically reach 100 MB per second. The question is; what is LTE technology all about?   Enter 4G with LTE LTE is a bundle of improvements to the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) being worked on by the third Generation Mobile Communications standards, one notch higher than the second generation (2G) of mobile communications. Usually, it is speed that determines the generation any technology falls in….

It was probably pretty cool to you the first time you ever tried it on a smartphone or tablet, but the days of being impressed with such things are behind us. Today, if a phone doesn’t automatically adjust orientation when we turn it, the thing has to be broken, right? Remember back, for a moment, to the first few times you saw your iPhone or other device do it. Remember wondering how it worked? The technology behind it is extremely impressive and a lot more complex than we probably know. The technique required to mold the silicon combined with the precision it takes to work with something so small is mind-blowing….

Incessant gossip surrounding iPad/iPhone releases and future features is the only thing more persistent in the tech rumor mill than the mythical Facebook phone. It’s coming, then it dies, then it’s in production, then it was never even considered; the information coming out of Menlo Park (and Palo Alto when they were there) as well as reliable sources do more flip flops about the Facebook phone than most politicians. Most. Now, it appears that the rumors may have some real weight to them. The project which was reported scrapped last year may have been up and running the whole time. Code-named…

Here’s how it all breaks down: It doesn’t take an astute observer to realize that RIM is dying. It takes even less knowledge of the mobile industry to know that Microsoft desperately wants to compete and excel in phone and tablets. Both companies have problems that are best represented by two companies: Apple and Google. Why doesn’t Research In Motion simply sell at any cost to Microsoft? They are losing executives and cutting employees. No measure of restructuring can save their plummeting market share or improve their dismal outlook. They need help in a big way. Microsoft needs to make some moves….