Travelers would pick smartphone over toothbrush, deodorant or driver’s license, Expedia study finds Imagine your perfect travel companion. Is it your partner? Your best friend? Someone out of the latest Sports Illustrated? Well,… Read More
Growth in mobile usage slows, but media consumption explodes with increased phablet use From shopping to gaming, the use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is obviously the future. And while mobile… Read More
Facebook announces its picks for best games of 2015 As 2015 wraps up, Facebook has published a list of its favorite games of the year. Here are the titles that made… Read More
How the geeks behind the U.S. Open website track every player and every shot UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Chambers Bay is a massive property, spanning some 950 acres and challenging players with the longest golf… Read More
App of the Week: Fenix is a beautifully designed Twitter app for Android Finding a Twitter app on Android is not difficult. Searching “Twitter” on the Google Play Store will inundate you with hundreds of… Read More
Verizon scolds John Legere for potty talk, says T-Mobile boss simply wrong about spectrum On Thursday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere went on an epic rant about the upcoming FCC spectrum auction, claiming that there… Read More
Mobile carriers prep for U.S. Open as smartphones now allowed inside the ropes Now that golf fans can finally carry their smartphones on U.S. Open grounds, mobile carriers are ramping up their network capacity.… Read More
Nokia Networks agrees to buy Eden Rock Communications Eden Rock Communications, an 8-year-old Bothell maker of wireless network technologies, has agreed to be acquired by Nokia Networks. Terms… Read More
Why ‘phablets’ are dominating the smartphone market Huge cell phones are HUGE. And you’d better get used to them. Awkwardly-named “phablets” — a sort of phone/tablet combo… Read More
This sports franchise may be the first to broadcast a game via Twitter’s new video app Periscope Twitter’s newly-launched Periscope application allows just about anyone to broadcast live video via the social network. Now, a Seattle sports franchise… Read More
A changing mobile landscape: 3 things every developer should know It used to be that the GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) revolved around devices and carriers. This year, however, the… Read More
Mobile startup Urban Airship lands $9 million, names new execs Urban Airship, the Portland startup that helps companies like Red Bull, Alaska Airlines, TMZ and Rhapsody deliver push notifications to… Read More
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer: Mobile is now a quarter of company’s revenue SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is betting big on mobile as the company tries to revitalize itself and compete with Google… Read More
Fast-growing mobile marketing analytics startup Tune scores $27M, plans to hire 100 employees Tune, which bootstrapped its way to success during its first four years, continues to reel in outside financing to fuel… Read More
Mobile marketing startup Tune tops $40M in 2014 revenue, makes two mystery acquisitions Seattle mobile marketing startup Tune just finished quite a year, topping 250 employees and doubling revenue to more than $40… Read More
AT&T tries to one-up Verizon with new ‘store of the future’ in Bellevue Verizon debuted a fancy, futuristic retail store last month in Seattle. Now, AT&T is trying to one up the competition with its… Read More
How Amazon wants to use sensors to make device notifications smarter Are you sitting on the couch looking at your tablet, or walking with your phone in your pocket? The answer… Read More
BlackBerry kicking it old school with launch of $449 Classic smartphone, complete with QWERTY keyboard If you’ve been communicating via smartphone over the last decade, you probably had a BlackBerry at one time. And now… Read More
Iowa innovation: Midwest state may be first to have smartphone double as driver’s license Iowa, that little center of the Heartland that is not Idaho, is not particularly known for innovation. But sometimes that… Read More
Meet Boomio, the new app for music sharing that has the record industry’s support In this day and age, artists who want to promote their music have a mammoth task ahead of them. Listeners… Read More
