Recent Posts Tagged With 'mobile comm'

• Droid anti-iPhone ad mocks “clueless” girls, praises Iraqi missile

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 17:13 in Top Stories, venturebeat, mobile comm

  The new 30-second ad for the Google / Verizon / Motorola-built Droid phone is a must-see clip, and not in a good way. Watch it in YouTube HD format below. I’m pretty sure the ad was made by agency mcgarrybowen, but I haven’t confirmed tha...

• New bill challenges mobile early-termination fees

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 14:45 in venturebeat, mobile comm

  Love rarely lasts forever. This is particularly true with cell phones. When a network gets overwhelmed and service slows down or a new phone comes out on another carrier, many customers will see the opportunity for a better life with that certain oth...

• 5 O’Clock Roundup: Crunchpad killed, Googlephone sighted, Kindles counted

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 21:00 in venturebeat, business and technology, mobile comm

  Here’s the latest action: The Googlephone, on the 0ther hand, seems likely to ship — Gizmodo has no spy photos, but they claim a reliable insider has seen a Google-branded smartphone that the company seriously plans to sell in the near fu...

• Join VentureBeat & DEMO for holiday party in SF, this Wednesday

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 15:08 in venturebeat, mobile comm, digitalbeat

  If you’re an entrepreneur, or even just a regular reader of VentureBeat considering launching your own company, you should join us at our DEMO/VentureBeat holiday party and jam session in San Francisco this Wednesday, Dec. 2. We’re meetin...

• Fring launches video VoIP for mobile

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 16:50 in venturebeat, mobile comm

  Fring, which started out offering a VoIP client for mobile phones has added the ability to make and receive video calls from mobile phones, letting you see your friends as you talk to them — for free. As with the VoIP client, you have to be a F...

• PlayMesh brings farming to the iPhone with iFarm

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 23:01 in venturebeat, mobile comm, gamesbeat

  PlayMesh became famous on the iPhone when it launched its iMafia game in January. Now it has scored big again with iFarm, currently the No. 1 free app on the iPhone. In less than 24 hours, iFarm has jumped into the top 25 ranks on the iPhone AppStore...

• Twitter’s stalled growth could spell bad news for Twitter ecosystem

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:29 in venturebeat, mobile comm

  October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly. According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8% from from September 20...

• New speakers, sponsors for DiscoveryBeat; today is last day for early-bird discount

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 15:28 in venturebeat, mobile comm, gamesbeat

  We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise. One of our newest speakers is Randy Breen, chief operating offi...

• LaDiDa brings reverse karaoke to your iPhone

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 14:55 in venturebeat, mobile comm, digitalbeat, co:khu.sh

  There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store. There have been other reverse karaoke products, most notably Microsoft Songsmit...

• French game maker Gameloft ditches the Android platform

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 14:36 in venturebeat, mobile comm, gamesbeat

  [Updated] French mobile phone games publisher Gameloft said it is giving up on the Google Android platform. The company said it is cutting back investment in making games and other apps for Android-based cell phones, even though Android has won a lot...

• FunMail livens up your iPhone messages

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 08:00 in venturebeat, mobile comm, digitalbeat

  FunMobility, the developer of a bunch of social mobile applications, is releasing a new iPhone app that chief executive Adam Lavine says will finally convince people to use their phones’ multimedia messaging (MMS) capabilities. It is called Fun...

• ARM sets up Android gadget development effort

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 02:01 in chips, venturebeat, mobile comm

  Google’s Android mobile operating system is picking up steam. The latest evidence is a move by ARM, the low-power chip design company, to create an Android Solutions Center that will make it easier for companies to build Android-based gadgets. ...

• Voxeo raises $9M for voice communications business

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 02:46 in venturebeat, mobile comm

  Voxeo said today it has raised $9 million in funding for its voice communications business. The Orlando, Fla.-based company is focused on making open platforms based on what it calls “unlocked communications,” such as voice-over-Internet-...

• Vega unveiled as first in home Android device

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 16:03 in venturebeat, mobile comm, digitalbeat

  For some time now Google’s been talking about having their Android operating system run on multiple devices, not just phones. In August, T-Mobile even suggested that Android would be appearing on a home phone and a tablet computer early next ...

• Which phone is better: Droid or the Eris? Go with the Droid!

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 14:35 in Top Stories, Feature, venturebeat, business and technology, mobile comm

  We’ve been hearing about the Droid for weeks, getting screen shots and teasers, reviews and comparisons. Finally, it’s come out to play! While many have spent countless hours fantasizing about the joys and uses of such a phone (or maybe t...

• Happy Droid Day!

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 13:45 in venturebeat, co:google, mobile comm, co:verizon, co:motorola

  After weeks of speculation, followed by a real announcement, followed by more waiting, Motorola and Verizon have finally released the Droid, the supposed iPhone-killer which is the first device using version 2.0 of Google’s Android operating sy...

• Skype is finally free — eBay settles with Skype co-founders, clearing way for buyout

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 11:01 in skype, venturebeat, mobile comm, joltid, people:janus-friis, people:niklas-zennstrom, digitalbeat, inv:andreessen-horowitz, inv:canada pension plan investment borad, inv:silver-lake-partners

  EBay has settled with the founders of Skype, clearing up some nasty lawsuits that had stood in the way of a  Skype acquisition. Now the Internet phone company to be sold to a consortium of investors that includes Skype’s co-founders. Private e...

• Funambol acquires Zapatec for an age of “sync and push” mobile apps

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 02:01 in Feature, venturebeat, business and technology, mobile comm

  In hopes of creating a new kind of mobile business, Funambol is announcing today that it has acquired Zapatec, a maker of web-based application technology. The combined companies hope to launch what they call a new generation of “sync and push&...