Everyone wants to Siri, but not everyone wants an iPhone 4S. For this reason, you throw a search in Android Market for “Siri” and you’ll get a few dozen hits. But none of these work quite like Siri, deeply integrated into the phone, as Fandroid’s seek workarounds until Android offers something truly comparable to the ...

How could Apple easily earn $7 million per day? According to Kevin Rivette, managing parter at 3LP Advisors, specializing in intellectual property, Apple would be better off negotiating licensing agreements with Android manufacturers rather than sue them. What will Apple get in return?  Up to $10 in royalties on every Android device sold. In an ...

Santa and his elves ere busy this year fulfilling the millions of requests for new smartphones and tablets, a mobile trend that’s helped to drive the digital publishing industry in 2011. The market was flooded with more animated and enriched e-readers in 2011. Digital book publishers are taking advantage of consumers’ taste for e-books by ...

2011 saw some significant mobile developments from Facebook.  When it comes to people, 2011 was the year that Facebook claimed 800 million active users around the world, and with mobile promising to be a key area in the coming year, we look at a few mobile highlights from Facebook as the year comes to an ...

The death of Steve Jobs, the visionary genius of Apple shocked the world, but he was not the only tech innovator we lost this year: ​​in 2011, other big names in technology have disappeared – and without the work of some of them, you may never have come to know who Steve Jobs was. Paul ...

For those who travel often, it’s increasingly common to find decals on aircrafts indicating Wi-Fi internet.  Most of those decals likely belong to GoGo Inc. The wireless internet provider has positioned itself well in the airline industry, brokering deals for internet access on airplanes and in airports.  GoGo decided to go public on Friday, revealing in ...

Apple is having a very good week. After their victory over HTC on allegations identifying some HTC Android smartphones to have infringed Apple’s patents, Apple went on to win a patent for starting, and switching applications during phone calls. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) gave Apple a cozy Christmas gift by awarding the ...

Earlier last week we looked at some of the most common search engine queries that Google published through Google Zeitgeist. Now, the Google-owned video-streaming platform YouTube has announced the world’s biggest hits over the past 12 months. Some of these may surprise you … some maybe not. You can see the full figures and stats ...

The sky’s gotten even darker for RIM. The BlackBerry manufacturer is accumulating bad news and sinking even further in the stock market. After the network failure that affected global users for several days and the lost trial over the BBX brand, the Canadian company must revise its forecast moving forward. RIM was hoping to regain ...

The world’s third largest PC manufacturer is pulling back on the manufacturing of netbooks.  Dell said it would stop selling the Inspiron Mini netbook lineup just two weeks after dropping the Dell Streak tablet line as well.  It looks like Dell’s focusing on thin and powerful machines (Ultrabooks), which is the only category of mobile ...