Verizon, the No.1 U.S. wireless service provider, said it would buy Carl Icahn-owned XO Communications' fiber-optic network business for about $1.8 billion. | Continue reading
Google is partnering with a myriad of mobile operators in a move to expedite the rollout of Rich Communication Services (RCS) on Android. The partnership sees the Internet giant team up with a number of global and regional carriers, including América Móvil, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Deu … | Continue reading
U.S. telecoms giant AT&T is partnering with chip maker Intel to test and optimize how drones perform on LTE connections beyond line-of-sight, at higher altitudes, or when faced with external interference. Intel is demoing an LTE-connected drone at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in B … | Continue reading
BARCELONA ( By Eric Auchard, Reuters) – Ericsson and Amazon’s web services division (AWS) said on Monday they have agreed a deal that allows Ericsson, the world’s leading maker of mobile network gear, to act as a bridge for its telecom operator customers to use public cloud servi … | Continue reading
Imagination Technologies has taken the wraps off a new generation of PowerVR graphics chips that will be targeted at high-performance, low-power, and low-cost consumer devices. The graphics processing units (GPUs) will be aimed at low-cost portable devices to 4K televisions. The … | Continue reading
Casting a spotlight on the immense challenges confronting the mobile industry, a new report shows that a range of security and privacy issues have dramatically eroded consumer confidence. According to the study released at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by Syniverse, a mo … | Continue reading
At the 2015 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona today, Facebook announced the formation of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an effort that resembles the Open Compute Project (OCP) that Facebook kicked off five years ago but is narrowly focused on development of new tele … | Continue reading
NXP Semiconductors has unveiled what it calls the world’s smallest and lowest-power 64-bit ARM processor for the Internet of Things (IoT). The tiny QorIQ LS1012A delivers networking-grade security and performance acceleration to battery-powered, space-constrained applications. Th … | Continue reading
PayPal wants to us to celebrate this notion of “New Money” in which technology reimagines how we can safely and affordably manage, move, and spend our money. At this year’s Mobile World Congress, the digital payment processor has revealed new carrier partnerships and market expan … | Continue reading
Some victims of the San Bernardino attack will file a legal brief in support of the U.S. government's attempt to force Apple Inc to unlock the encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the shooters, a lawyer representing the victims said on Sunday. | Continue reading
It’s changed days for Nokia as the former mobile phone giant used Mobile World Congress (MWC) to announce not a sexy new range of smartphones, but a trio of tidbits centering on 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), and security. Nokia had teased “something big” in the build up to MW … | Continue reading
GUEST: Facebook’s recent quarterly earnings showed just how important mobile has become to the company, with mobile advertising making up a significant chunk of the company’s 52 percent jump in revenue. Facebook is clearly investing in improving the mobile ad experience, and Canv … | Continue reading
GUEST: Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a major shift as enterprises embrace cloud-based SaaS. It’s now customary for large enterprises to rely daily on dozens of outside services to function. While some of these services are provided by large behemoths like Salesforce and Orac … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered a much-needed shot of adrenaline to Samsung’s Unpacked press conference by making an unannounced appearance on stage to talk virtual reality and to praise his South Korean partner. “VR is the next platform, where anyone ca … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced a few updates for its virtual reality (VR) efforts. The company said it has established a formal Social VR team that will build on the achievements of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Of course, the new team will collaborate with the Facebook … | Continue reading
Samsung is back with two more additions to its Galaxy smartphone lineup. As expected, the phone manufacturer has introduced its Galaxy S7 and S7 edge at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The devices, while not exactly the most closely guarded secret, have been touted by the comp … | Continue reading
Samsung says it’s in the business of finding the next big thing by asking: “How do you affect the lives of people and make [them] better?” As part of its focus on the creative process, Samsung today introduced the Samsung Gear 360 camera. With this standalone device, you’re able … | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona today, Lenovo unveiled a slew of new products. The Chinese company announced two Windows 10 laptops, a Windows 10 tablet, three Android tablets, two Android smartphones, and a global wireless roaming service called Lenovo Connect. Lenovo … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — In a few minutes, Samsung will be huffing and puffing about its new Galaxy smartphones at its annual Unpacked press conference on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2016. But upon entering this city’s convention center (which apparently is largely unknown to most … | Continue reading
GUEST: The difficulty in identifying the next hot startup has lead many venture firms to employ a wasteful “spray and pray” strategy, sometimes making more than 1,000 investments in the hope of getting lucky with a wildly successful startup that more than pays off their other sun … | Continue reading
Bethesda Game Studios shipped more than 12 million copies of the post-apocalypse video game Fallout 4 during the holiday season — a stellar achievement that . But Fallout Shelter, the mobile game released last June during a fan event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, managed … | Continue reading
HP today unveiled the Elite x3, a Windows 10 Mobile phone launching sometime this summer with Continuum, a catalog of “virtualized apps,” and two docks, one designed to replace your desktop and another made to feel like a laptop. The x3 ships with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 proces … | Continue reading
GUEST: Some scenarios are impossible to realistically recreate in training. A trainee surgeon can read all of the books he likes on medicine and observe other surgeons performing procedures, but neither will give him a true feel for what it’s like in the operating room. Hazardous … | Continue reading
During its Play Begins event at Mobile World Congress 2016 today, LG unveiled the LG G5. This is the phone LG hopes will take on Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and Apple’s iPhone 7. The G5 represents a massive shift in strategy for LG’s flagship smartphone. After the G2’s success, the South … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: For almost nine years, the mobile industry has had a gale-force wind at its back. What had been a breeze for many years turned into a hurricane with the release of the first iPhone in the summer of 2007. Since then, across device makers and across geographies, almost ev … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: BARCELONA, Spain — While thousands of companies are about to descend on this seaside city for Mobile World Congress, arguably none has more at stake than LG Electronics. The South Korean electronics maker plans to unveil its new premium phone, the Android-based G5, at t … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Sharp plans to choose between rival rescue offers as soon as Thursday, as a favored bid from Taiwan’s Foxconn continues to be challenged by a Japanese state-backed investment fund, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The board of the ailing electronics ma … | Continue reading
GUEST: The last few years have been fantastic for European tech. We’ve seen more world-class entrepreneurs emerging from our vibrant tech communities than ever before. Not only are we seeing continued momentum in traditional tech hubs like London, Stockholm, Berlin, and Paris, we … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: HTC and Valve are planning to disclose on Monday that the consumer edition of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset will be available for preorder on Feb. 29, GamesBeat has learned. The system will be available in early April. The two companies — which will make the ann … | Continue reading
TCL-owned Alcatel introduced the fourth-generation of its Android-powered Idol lineup today at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. Consisting of the 5.2-inch Idol 4 and 5.5-inch Idol 4S, this generation will be the first to sport the company’s new simplified branding, … | Continue reading
GUEST: Over the last decade, drones have advanced from multimillion-dollar military machines to being small and affordable enough to be used recreationally and commercially. Now they are revolutionizing a wide range of industries and saving time, money, and potentially lives in t … | Continue reading
OPINION: I’ve returned from another pilgrimage to the DICE Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas. I’ve never missed one of these gatherings in 16 years, even during times when I paid for the trip out of my own pocket. I go because I love writing about the video game … | Continue reading
GUEST: Over the past year, the fintech industry has transformed from a hypothetical hotspot to an actual one. Fintech’s obituary has been written many times, but it’s thriving. In 2012, the sector was simply called “financial innovation” or “financial online services” and only in … | Continue reading
GUEST: 2015 marked the first time in history that more than half of the U.S. population were mobile phone gamers. Even as game investments and acquisitions fell sharply, 2015 was a great year for the mobile game market, with revenues up nearly 20 percent. And yet despite this gro … | Continue reading
Sid Meier is the legendary designer behind many different computer games in a wide variety of genres, and he’s perhaps the only video game designer who can sell more copies by putting his name into the title of the game. Of all of his games, none has been as memorable and success … | Continue reading
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has officially unveiled its new SpaceshipTwo, a space plane designed to take commercial customers into suborbital space. Unveiled at a packed event in Mojave, California, Professor Stephen Hawking officially named the new vehicle Virgin Spaceship … | Continue reading
The Apple vs. FBI controversy going on right now is quite a techno-political drama. At the core of it is a topic that isn’t so simple — encryption — and it’s all unfolding very rapidly, from so many corners of the Internet. Some people have come up with a snarky shorthand for the … | Continue reading
Google is working on a feature that would recommend articles directly in its browser. The suggestions would appear on the new tab page in Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Google confirmed it is still testing the feature. “We’re always experimenting with new featu … | Continue reading
Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Samsung has announced that its mobile payment service Samsung Pay has been used by more than 5 million “registered users”, with many of them coming from South Korea and the United States. In the first six months since its release, the service has p … | Continue reading
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today to match the Windows 10 Mobile release yesterday. The latest build includes improvements to Cortana’s music feature and the Edge browser. Officially, Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 10 Mobile to existing Windows Phone u … | Continue reading
Salesforce has acquired PredictionIO, a startup with general-purpose open-source machine learning software, Simon Chan, the startup’s cofounder and chief executive, announced today. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “Over the past few years, we’ve been on a mission to scale an … | Continue reading
Constant Contact announced today that it will be shutting down NutshellMail, the social media inbox service it acquired nearly six years ago. The company decided that now was the time because it wanted to “move on to other projects.” NutshellMail will no longer be operational aft … | Continue reading
Donald Trump today called for a boycott of Apple following the company’s refusal to help the FBI unlock data from the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Speaking at a rally in South Carolina, the Republican presidential candidate declared, “I think what you ought to do is boycott A … | Continue reading