Smartphones and apps have changed the way people live. On top of the convenience and reliability they provide, they’re also key to rebuilding the job economy. Since the advent of iPhone and the App Store in 2007 and 2008 respectively, the app economy has created 466,000 jobs across all available mobile platforms.

PaymentOne today announced rebranding and will henceforth be called PayOne. Along with it, they launched a new look, a new websites and a new simplified One-Click mobile payments platform. The company invented “no credit card required” carrier billing for digital more than 12 years ago. Today, it’s network has expanded to as far as 1,000 ...

Redwood cuts the price of Azure storage as you go service and some of its compute offerings. It happened Friday which is only a few days following Amazon Web Services storage price slash. The decrease is pretty fast that it may not be too long before it pars electricity rates.

People have different reactions of the new iPad. Some are impressed, some are disappointed, and some are just downright confused. Apple has yet to announce the name of the new device and just went on addressing it as “the new iPad”. There are not any radical technology upgrades either.

Big data plays a major role in analyzing past and current data to calculate future probabilities. With this in mind, let’s take a look at the status of women’s health.

AppMobi today announced the public beta of the much-awaited new directCanvas HTML5 Acceleration SDK for Android OS at the 2012 Game Developers Conference (“GDC12”) at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. It will accelerate screen refresh rates by more than 10 times, supporting Android version 2.2 (Froyo) through the current version (Ice Cream Sandwich) ...

IBM has been making efforts to put Watson to work, and this time, it has grabbed a big client from Wall Street. Citigroup, the third largest lender in the US, marks the first financial services client for Watson, analyzing customer needs and process financial, economic and client data for it digital banking. Watson can understand ...

Everybody’s been making a huge fuss about the upcoming iPad 3. Starting with the moniker, people have been debating whether it’ll be called iPad 3 or iPad HD. Whatever it is, we’re sure that the iPad is the only tablet that’s ever been successful since it set the trend. Nothing has come close, not Kindle ...

We have Wikileaks to thank for the salvo of confidential documents that shed light to the malpractices of the government. One of the recent documents they released confirms that the US really has been paying a great deal of cash to private corporations to spy on citizens, hactivists, groups and individuals. But the real bummer ...

One of the biggest conference dedicated to big data kicked off yesterday and we at SiliconAngle are here to give you the highlights of the events. Last year’s conference focused heavily on Hadoop, and it still does this year, and more on data mining and predictive models.