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Payfone Gets with Rovio In-App Payments Provider as Feature Comes Under Fire
Payfone, a leading mobile payment processing service, and Fortumo, a leading provider of mobile payments, today announced that Fortumo has selected Payfone to power the direct billing option for its in-app purchasing SDK. This direct billing mobile payment method offers better reliability and higher security, as well as better payouts for developers. Through the partnership, ...
Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5B, Gains Patent Traction
Google Inc., acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in a business transaction both agreed upon by both parties. This joint venture will be beneficial for Google and Motorola, as Google is set on acquiring patents along with talent buys, and Motorola Mobility is set on making their company more competitive, especially with Apple breathing down both ...
The Virtual Dilema of Working from Home: Infographic
Who would have ever thought that working a legit job from home is actually possible? It’s all because of technology that the dream job (as in working in your PJs) actually came to fruition when mobile productivity was conceptualized way back in 1949. Since then, mobile productivity has come a long way. But are work-at-home ...
Samsung Galaxy S II in the US: August 29th is the Big Day
Samsung is bathing in the limelight with both good and bad publicity, but that doesn’t really matter for the mobile manufacturer. After the European injunction, their India launch of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the supposed leak of the Nexus Prime to possibly run the latest version of Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Samsung’s sent out ...
Console Game Sales Decline: the Google, Facebook Takeover
The recently released Q2 S.M.A.R.T. report by Millennial Media stated that more people are using their smartphones at home to log in to their social network sites or to just browse, with 59% of the respondents saying that they go online using their smartphones at home and 72% explore mobile apps at home with their smartphones. ...
The Android Ice Cream Sandwich Leak: Is It All Just A Hoax?
Earlier this year, Google announced that it will merge Honeycomb and Gingerbread to create a new OS to be called Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Details have been rolling out slowly since the May announcement, but today there’s a few leaked images offering more information on the upcoming update to ICS, published by RootzWiki and the ...
FTC’s Google Probe Hones in on Android
The Federal Trade Commission is focusing its probe into Google regarding allegations that the company is killing of the competition by manipulating available services on the Android. “We understand that with success comes scrutiny,” said a Google spokeswoman. “We’re happy to answer any questions they have about our business.” FTC’s main focus is to whether ...
RIM’s BlackBerry OS 7 Already Out, BBM Banned in UK
After its recent launch of the BBM 6, the revamped free messaging service exclusive for BlackBerry owners, RIM has now released three new smartphones powered by the new BlackBerry OS7. “While not game-changing (evolutionary UI, design) and reviews expected mixed, BlackBerry 7 handsets offer competitive processors, touchscreens, some with 4G (HSPA+), and may stimulate an ...
Text 911! Are We Ready For This?
You wake up in the middle of the night, you here unfamiliar voices coming from downstairs, you hear them rummaging through your things, you reach for the phone but it’s dead. You get your mobile phone but then you think, “What if they hear me talking? They might kill me!” So you wish you ...
Sony-LG Dispute Ends in Cross-licensing Agreement
The Sony-LG dispute started when Sony file patent infringement lawsuits against LG over smartphone patents in which the latter claimed that Sony violated patent rights over TVs, PCs and cameras. But the dispute has finally been resolved, as the two companies agreed on cross-licensing, wherein they both grant rights for their patents. Both Sony and ...