Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday pitched his Internet-for-everyone initiative to skeptics and carriers alike, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as a type of 911-like help line for people without a connection to broadband. Established in August of 2013, Internet.org is a coalition of mobile technology companies, spearheaded by Facebook, that are …
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SAN DIEGO — The man least likely to root for a Microsoft rally is now the company’s biggest cheerleader. Esteemed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told the developer audience at Qualcomm’s Uplinq conference here that the entire technology industry should be rooting for Microsoft’s success in the smartphone wars. Earlier this week, Microsoft purchased Nokia’s phone business in a $7.2 billion …
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When Erez Pilosof told me his iPhone app Ping makes e-mail fun, I didn’t believe him. You probably won’t either — until you get your hands on the app. Ping, launching later this month, is meant to be e-mail’s hipper younger sister. With color themes, photo-sharing, funky audio alerts, doodles, real-time and voice messaging, and even video chat, the app …
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SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm is pushing forward its notion of the “Internet of everything” with a new media-streaming platform called AllPlay designed to allow people to wirelessly stream music from mobile apps to multiple speakers in their home. AllPlay, announced by Qualcomm CEO and Chairman Paul Jacobs at the company’s Uplinq developer conference Wednesday, is targeted at developers who can …
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Though still cloaked in mystery, BlackBerry’s next anticipated flagship phone, the all-touchscreen A10, has seemingly surfaced for the first time in video form in a YouTube clip from smartphone accessory maker Vivix. The short video shows what appears to be an unreleased BlackBerry device matching the description of the rumored A10 “Aristo,” which is said to have a 5-inch touchscreen, …
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Starbucks has worked with Apple to expand its Pick of the Week program and finally allow for application and book downloads through its iOS application and in-store Wi-Fi network, the coffee company shared exclusively with CNET. The announcement makes the retailer’s Pick of the Week program, initially launched in 2008 to provide customers with digital content freebies, more accessible to …
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