Despite my complaints, I remain optimistic about Android. Problems aside, diversity and openness breed innovation and, over time, I expect there to emerge a more harmonious Android ecosystem. But I got tired of waiting, which is why I bought that iPhone 4S.
The oversaturated space of app monetization clearly needs some out-of-the-box thinking, and StartApp definitely brings a unique angle here.
Tawkon continuously measures the user's exposure to mobile radiation. It then notifies the user how to avoid increased radiation, in real time. All this, so the user can "talk on."
The "feckless infatuation" of magazine publishers in creating closed-garden Apps to rep...
The world thinks about the online world in terms of a network layer (The Internet) and a software layer (The Web). It's no longer so simple. I propose that we refer to the new network layer -- the sum of the wired Internet and the mobile data infrastructure for cellular and Wi-Fi -- as the Hypernet.
The recent revelations that some iPhone and Android apps are uploading and storing users' phone address books without permission not only violates the privacy of the person using the phone but, potentially, everyone in that person's address book.
Your chances of actually losing your life in the nation's capital have gone down. Murders are at an all-time low, according to D.C. crime statistics. But cellphone robberies are on the rise.
The new Samsung Galaxy Note builds on the success of the Galaxy SII, the best smartphone released in 2011, and comes with some significant improvements, like the addition of the S-Pen stored conveniently in the bottom of the phone.
This wasn't your standard gathering of the nerds. The fundamental frustration of this mobile device extravaganza: which app's for me?
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon do so many bad, annoying and anti-consumer things that it's almost impossible to document it all.
I'm not sure what the problem is. Could Amazon release a glorious $399 Kindle Fire Plus, with more storage space, external volume control and a faster processor? Of course. But is that what the market seeks?
At the end of last week Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, made a major move in totally distancing his company from the Carrier IQ software installed by American mobile phone operators on its Android devices.
When there's a need for something to be available on a mobile phone, Fred and Paul Jacobs will be there to come up with the way to do it.
In a new editorial angle, TINC Magazine is excited to provide coverage of Chicago innovation by letting the innovators speak for themselves! Kicking o...
After years of being mostly an Android user, I just switched to the iPhone 4S. The main reason is Siri, Apple's revolutionary new voice-driven personal assistant that makes the iPhone useful, even while driving a car.
You know how when you plan a dinner party you put as much thought into the guest list as you do the menu? You think about who knows whom, who's in nee...