In the last quarter of 2010, T-Mobile lost 318,000 customers after reports indicating a previous loss of 60,000 customers in the precedent quarter, overcoming competitors like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint in terms of churn rates. The company is aware of the fact that it loses ground and immediate measures need to be taken: “High contract ...

Google introduced in its webstore the Google Books Android app , an app available to the US market only for the moment. There are rumors that Google will extend the Android Marketplace offer from e-books to movies and music.  Two months ago Google launched its e-Bookstore and ever since has been making efforts to improve ...

Smartphones are gaining increasing popularity and this translates into more and more mobile phone users opening the mobile browser to surf the internet. iCrossing released an infographic on the use of mobile browsers around the world and it appears that in  Western Europe, Apple is the leader in mobile browsers, in the UK, France and ...

Google announced an important change in its search algorithm, a measure aimed at removing low-quality sites from its search results, thus responding to users’ demands in the past regarding this issue. Until now, Google referred to low-quality sites as content farms; “sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that ...

Although the Mobile World Congress 2011 and the impressions left by the event were covered two weeks ago, the mobile sector got another volt, thanks to the tablet world and Google’s ceaseless updates. The most popular player in the mobile market seems to be Android. Verizon Wireless refurbished its V Cast music app, now offering full sync ...

Apps are finding more and more ways to fit into our lives and Room 77, a 2-year old start-up, developed an app for the purpose of enriching the travel experience. The novelty behind Room 77 is that it ranks hotel rooms by parsing Google Earth data with latitude, longitude and altitude parameters to simulate actual ...

Hewlett-Packard announced its earnings for the first quarter of 2011 earlier this week. The net revenue of $32.3 billion was up 4% from the prior-year period both as reported and in constant currency, yet things might need improvement given a 12% fall in sales in consumer PCs. CEO Leo Apotheker indicated that a possible explanation ...

In 2009 Google started offering Google Street View services for Switzerland, and ever since various arguments have been brought forth between Google officials and Switzerland’s Federal Data Protection Commissioner Hanspeter Thuer. Just as in previous disagreements with Google and Germany, the main concern was privacy. Israel also deemed Google should withdraw the service from its ...

Mobile apps mark a distinct era in consumerization, noting a sharp shift for companies heading into the software distribution business.  The global app marketplace is becoming more and more populated by apps encompassing various domains, from health (fitness and diet apps), money (like Mint.com) and entertainment (digital pets and games) to media, education (learning tools of all ...

Rumors say that Google’s pipeline for the Chrome browser might involve the removal of the address bar from the Chrome interface, currently used by over 120 million users, saying the URL bar occupies too much space. The search bar, mashed into the address bar in Chrome’s current Omnibox setup, would be separated into its own ...