The march toward a better, voice-controlled future continues, even with Siri, Google Voice Search and newer digital assistants, such as Donna, already on the scene. The latest entrant is Sherpa, a natural language Android app that’s a top app in Spain and Latin America and today is rolling out in the U.S. — first for …

Talk about a shift in behavior — or maybe that should be text about a shift. It seemed only a matter of time, but today the Telecommunication Industry Association (TIA) said that 2012 marked the first time that U.S. wireless data spending topped voice spending. Also, according to the association’s 2013 ICT Market Review & Forecast report, there are more …

TUSCON, Ariz.– Here’s the takeaway from a panel called, “Shopping Outside the Box: The Intersection of Data and Dollars,” that took place at the Techonomy conference: For all retailers — that means brick-and-mortar giants — it’s all about the data. “Data is the weapon,” said Dan Schulman, the Group President of Enterprise Growth at American Express. And, increasingly, that data …

At Motorola’s press event going on in New York today, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt rattled off some impressive statistics, including: 1.3 million activations per day on Android, 70,000 activations on tablets, and 480 million Android users for total base.

Even the lawyers can’t stop technology. When a startup called Kik launched a mobile messaging app a year ago, the growth was explosive. More than 2 million people downloaded it in its first few weeks, turning Kik into a viral sensation on both the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. Then the trouble began. First, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion pulled the …