Mobile News – Page 49 of 60

Microsoft unleashes year-end flurry of apps for iPhone, Windows Phone and Android

Who says Microsoft doesn’t ship products quickly enough? It has actually been tough keeping up with the company lately …… Read More

Pirq raises $1.9 million to dish up more mobile restaurant deals

Seattle entrepreneur James Sun traveled to Silicon Valley to raise cash for his new startup, the mobile coupon site Pirq.… Read More

Nokia’s first U.S. Windows Phone, Jan. 11 from T-Mobile

Nokia will return to the U.S. smartphone market starting Jan. 11 with a Nokia Lumia 710 Windows Phone — a… Read More

Poll: Are you still talking and texting behind the wheel?

The problem of talking and texting while driving was put back into the spotlight yesterday as the National Transportation Safety… Read More

Sprint becomes NBA sponsor as T-Mobile shifts to sidelines

Sprint today announced a “sweeping multiyear marketing partnership” with the NBA as the league’s official wireless sponsor, filling a role… Read More

AT&T considers next move amid messy bid for T-Mobile

AT&T today issued a statement on its bid for T-Mobile, saying that it has asked the court to stay the… Read More

Microsoft’s latest iPhone app: Kinectimals game now on iOS

Microsoft this morning took another step to expand the world of Xbox 360 games to Apple iOS devices, releasing a… Read More

Apple slapped with patent suit by Seattle maker of mobile caller ID products

Cequint, the maker of caller ID products for mobile phones, has sued Apple for patent infringement. The Seattle company, which… Read More

Washington state’s largest credit union hits snag with BlackBerry and Android apps

BECU, the largest credit union in Washington state, has notified customers that its mobile banking applications for Android and BlackBerry… Read More

As mobile payments spread, Avalara uses geolocation data to pinpoint tax boundaries

At a holiday gift sale I attended last weekend, a few of the vendors were using the new mobile payment… Read More

Microsoft Tag adding support for QR codes and NFC, says it sees room for alternatives

Microsoft is updating the mobile reader apps for its Microsoft Tag barcodes to also scan Quick Response (QR) codes and… Read More

Microsoft’s Ballmer shakes up Windows Phone leadership

Andy Lees, the longtime Microsoft executive who oversaw the company’s transition to the new Windows Phone platform, is being replaced… Read More

Urbanspoon’s Dineline tracks your restaurant history

Have you ever wanted to remember that great sushi place in Seattle or the crab bisque you ate at a… Read More

Poll: What do you think of Twitter’s new look?

We’re pretty heavy Twitter users around the GeekWire offices, so when the company rolled out a new redesign yesterday we… Read More

DOJ wants delay of AT&T case

U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said today she is considering a request by the DOJ to dismiss or postpone… Read More

Ask Andru: Apple iMessage Follow-Up

The first ever Ask Andru column featured a question about Apple’s iMessage, a proprietary method the company uses to allow… Read More

Zipline releases WolfToss on iOS, Android and Chrome

The significance of WolfToss isn’t necessarily the game itself — though Zipline Games co-founder Todd Hooper admits that he spent… Read More

Gaming vet Jordan Weisman unveils educational mobile app for 2-5 year-old kids

Early in his career, Seattle video game designer Jordan Weisman developed titles such as BattleTech and MechWarrior. But his latest… Read More

Video: T-Mobile stages holiday musical in middle of a mall

T-Mobile USA recently staged this surprise performance at the Woodfield mall near Chicago, directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who has several episodes… Read More

Retail association pissed about Amazon.com’s Price Check app

The Retail Industry Leaders Association isn’t too happy about Amazon.com’s Price Check app and a new promotion that the Seattle… Read More

PopCap rejiggers Bejeweled lineup with its first freemium game

PopCap’s Bejeweled is the No. 2 mobile game franchise of all time — with nearly 40 million units sold, second… Read More

Amazon will offer $5 discounts to shoppers who use its Price Check app

Americans are spending more time price comparing goods while browsing the aisles at brick-and-mortar retail stores, using their smartphones to… Read More

How do you pay for your lattes? Starbucks says customers increasingly use mobile phones

Starbucks customers are increasingly paying for their coffee drinks and snacks with their mobile phones. The Seattle coffee retailer said… Read More

Clearwire to raise up to $345 million in stock offering

Clearwire just announced plans to raise up to $345 million by selling additional shares of stock, part of the mobile… Read More

GlobalScape buys file sharing startup TappIn for up to $17 million

In the past few months, file sharing and cloud storage startups Box and Dropbox have raised massive amounts of cash… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Z2Live CEO David Bluhm builds a mobile games powerhouse

Z2Live CEO David Bluhm — a veteran Seattle entrepreneur and gaming executive — likes to say that his company batted… Read More

Comcast and Time Warner to end wholesale deals with Clearwire

Comcast and Time Warner will end their wholesale agreements with Clearwire, part of a deal that the cable companies struck… Read More

Survey: iPhone 4S owners love Siri, and hate the short battery life

The vast majority of iPhone 4S owners are “very satisfied” with the new device, and they especially love the Siri… Read More

FCC: AT&T buy of T-Mobile would cost jobs, lessen competition

A 157-page report from the Federal Communications Commission indicates that AT&T’s proposed $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile would drastically reduce… Read More

Video: Nokia lights up a tower for Windows Phone launch

Nokia promised some attention-grabbing stunts to promote its new Windows Phone lineup, and apparently it wasn’t kidding. Here’s how the… Read More