Mobile News – Page 38 of 60

Facebook’s iPhone and iPad app goes native to boost speed

Facebook today rolled out new versions of its iPhone and iPad apps, moving away from web-centric HTML5 code and instead… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Womple makes it easy to convert Web sites to mobile

With technology advancing quickly, it’s hard for small businesses to keep up with growing trends. Do I manage my Yelp… Read More

Butter finger blues: The states where people most likely will break their iPhones and iPads

There’s a survey for just about everything these days, and this one certainly grabbed our attention. Warranty provider SquareTrade has… Read More

Nordstrom debuts iPad app with virtual ‘dressing room’

Nordstrom is extending its reach to the iPad with a free app that lets customers browse and buy clothes and… Read More

Windows Phone team fixes bug, resumes app publishing

Microsoft says it has fixed the digital certificate problem that prompted the company to temporarily stop publishing new apps to… Read More

Big Fish now a whale in mobile casino land, launches real-money gambling app in the UK

Seattle may not be Vegas (no offense, Tulalip Casino), but a new gaming app that allows players to use real… Read More

Battle of the mobile wallet: Target, Wal-Mart and others team up against Google

It sounds like such a simply great idea, a mobile wallet in your smartphone, right? Major retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target,… Read More

RIM to shut down contact manager Gist on September 15

RIM is planning to shut down Gist, the personal contact management service that it acquired in February 2011. The service… Read More

Microsoft puts Windows Phone apps on hold after ‘hiccups’ in marketplace upgrade

Microsoft is already behind the proverbial eight ball in mobile. And, given that its smartphone market share is stuck below… Read More

Samsung gains smartphone market share as Apple preps for latest iPhone launch

Samsung continues to dominate the smartphone market, but Apple could see a resurgence with the introduction of its new iPhone… Read More

Discount time: Nook, iPhone join Kindle in price cuts

Summer must be ending soon. Not only are the daylight hours shrinking, but so are the prices on many soon-to-be-out-of-date… Read More

Report: RIM looking to offload NewBay after 10 months

Well, that certainly didn’t last too long. Just 10 months after purchasing NewBay Software for $100 million, Research in Motion… Read More

App of the Week: FlightTrack goes free with useful little app

Lots of frequent flyers are familiar with the premium FlightTrack apps, which offer a bunch of advanced features, such as… Read More

Meet the startups that just got accepted into TechStars Seattle

TechStars Seattle just accepted its latest batch of companies, choosing 10 young upstarts from around the world to participate in the… Read More

Beamit changes name to Remitly

Beamit Mobile, the TechStars Seattle grad that’s developing technologies to allow customers to easily transfer money from the U.S. to the Philippines,… Read More

‘Wordplay’ app for iPhone puts new twist on familiar game

A Seattle startup founded by two former Microsoft engineers is jumping into the ultra-competitive market for turn-based social games, but… Read More

New data: Windows Phone closes gap vs. BlackBerry

Microsoft’s share of the worldwide smartphone operating system market climbed to 3.5 percent in the second quarter, up from 2.3… Read More

Starbucks teams with Square for payments, invests $25M

Starbucks is partnering with Square to process transactions in its stores, and investing $25 million in the mobile payments company —… Read More

Zipline Games rolls dice on new Slots Tycoon app

Slot machine giant International Game Technology last month indicated that it planned to push its newly-acquired Double Down Interactive unit deeper… Read More

AT&T sets Aug. 23 launch for new shared data plans

AT&T’s new shared data plans will launch on Aug. 23, the company announced this morning, attempting to nudge its customers… Read More

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: Another push for the pen

Is pen-based computing finally poised to go mainstream? That’s one of the more intriguing questions raised by Samsung’s new Galaxy… Read More

Point Inside lands $3.2 million to help retailers sell more stuff in brick-and-mortar stores

Point Inside CEO Josh Marti can’t quite keep up with the momentum right now. His Bellevue mobile shopping analytics and… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff: ‘We monetize on mobile’

There’s been a lot of chatter about companies like Facebook and Zynga having challenges unlocking the mysteries of monetization on… Read More

Attention geeks: Your government needs you (and it’s offering $75,000 for new apps)

Ready, set, develop. The City of Seattle, King County and Washington State officially kicked off the first-ever Evergreen Apps Challenge today, a… Read More

T-Mobile reportedly selling cell towers for up to $2B

T-Mobile is certainly a company in transition, especially following AT&T’s failed $39 billion bid for the country’s fourth largest wireless… Read More

PayByPhone coming to Seattle: Refill the parking meter without leaving the office or movie

It has happened to all of us at one point or another. You’re sitting in a meeting, a restaurant or… Read More

Microsoft still lags in critical smartphone race with just 3.8% of U.S. subscribers

Microsoft still has a long, long way to go to regain any sort of foothold in the mobile industry. That’s… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-drugstore.com CFO lands at UIEvolution

Tracy Wright Knox, the former chief financial officer at drugstore.com, has taken a new CFO position at Bellevue-based UIEvolution. In… Read More

Chart: Samsung tops Apple in smartphone shipments

Apple’s iPhone may be synonymous with the smartphone revolution. But Samsung still holds the lead in terms of worldwide shipments, showing… Read More

Solavei raises $3.6M, touts $49 per month mobile service that rewards you with cash for signing on others

Multi-level marketing companies have gained popularity (and notoriety) in industries as diverse as cosmetics, vitamins and cleaning products. Now, a… Read More