Big things have been happening for Skype lately and the world’s best known VOiP app is only getting bigger and better, even more so since being acquired by Microsoft.  An updated version of Skype just appeared on the Android Market sporting a crucial improvement: it now supports two-way video calling on a widened range of ...

Google Voice is going global, in a round-about way.  Google confirms that if you’re outside the USA and you set your language to US English in Gmail, this feature may become available to you. Google voice, the popular calling service that allows users to redirect calls to their cell phones, landlines and Gmail, is finally available outside ...

There’s been rapid growth in global sales from Huawei’s devices division, which sells consumer products such as smartphones, mobile phones, tablets and wireless cards. China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, one of the world’s top network equipment makers, launched its cloud computing smartphones today, looking to ride a mobile industry boom that drove a 64 percent sales ...

Shortly after Qualcomm releases its AR SDK kit for iOS, Layar, the open platform for mobile augmented reality (AR), unleashes Layar Vision. Layar Vision enables the mobile phone to recognize real world objects, and shows digital content on top of them. When holding their phone over posters, magazines and newspapers, users are able to view and ...

American Express and Verizon Mobile announced today that they will integrate Serve, a next-generation digital payment and commerce platform, on many Verizon mobile phones and tablets.  The two companies will collaborate to source, distribute and simplify the redemption of online and mobile offers with participating merchants through the use of the Serve account. Moreover, Payfone’s ...

The battle between Oracle and Google is a sordid saga, with each side making its own appeal to the court system.  This last week has been especially thrilling, with emerging emails that make Google look horrible, written support of Android’s Java use by Sun’s CEO, and Google’s latest acquisition of IBM patents to help its ...

Google announced on Thursday that it had acquired a group of patents from IBM, even as growing interest in intellectual property suggests a coming legal face-off between Oracle, Apple, Microsoft and Google.  The 1,030 patents acquired cover a broad range of technologies, including memory and microprocessor chip fabrication/architecture, server and router design, and software programming ...

Sprint Nextel Corp. reported a wider loss in the second quarter, but saw its lowest turnover rate ever in terms contract customers as the wireless carrier also confirmed a 15-year agreement with privately held LightSquared Inc. to build and operate a high-speed wireless network. Sprint is racing to get its business back in shape as it ...

HTC is going to appeal the ruling by a U.S. trade body which found the mobile phone manufacturer guilty for the infringement of two patents held by Apple Inc. Last year, Apple filed a complaint against HTC with the US International Trade Commission accusing it of violating ten patents related to the iPhone’s design and ...

Taiwan-based HTC is willing to do negotiations with the Apple over its patent infringement case, after both sides scored victories at the U.S. International Trade Commission. “We have to sit down and figure it out,” Winston Yung, chief financial officer of the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company, said by phone today. “We’re open to having discussions.” “We are ...