BARCELONA, Spain — Lumia lives! Microsoft will continue the Nokia and Lumia brands when it takes over Nokia’s phone business, although the company is sending out mixed messages on the details of the transition. I chatted about the future of Nokia today with Greg Sullivan, Director of Windows Phone, at industry shindig Mobile World Congress. …

Some have feared that Lenovo buying Motorola from Google meant the end to the company’s popular low-cost phones, such as Moto X and Moto G. But it appears the Moto X will stay the same at least for a while longer. During this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Motorola held a Q&A on Twitter letting people ask what’s …

BARCELONA, Spain — In the smallest meeting room at Mobile World Congress — hidden up some stairs behind the Ericsson stand — James Atkins is planning a scrappy insurgency against the “oil tankers” of the smartphone business. It’s his first MWC as Chief Marketing Officer of Kazam, the London-based phone maker he started with fellow HTC alumnus Michael Coombes in …

BARCELONA, Spain — Infraware, a Korean software developer and creator of the Polaris Office suite for mobile devices, is showing off how easy it is to convert Android apps to Tizen OS at the Smart Content Korea booth here at Mobile World Congress. With a simple click, the Polaris App Generator software is able to wrap an Android APK and …

HTC is definitely not going to play the role of “quietly” brilliant for its next flagship smartphone. Related stories: HTC One 2: What we expect Three things I hope to see at HTC’s March 25 event Nokia and HTC mock Samsung Galaxy S5 launch (badly) A new “Technical Translations” video posted on HTC’s YouTube account this week highlights the HTC …

BARCELONA, Spain — Ford’s smartening up its new cars with an app that helps you find a parking space. Parkopedia lets you search among 15 million spaces across Europe, showing which car parks have free spaces and listing how much they cost. It covers 3,000 towns and cities in 20 countries across the continent. The carmaker’s AppLink system, which is …

BARCELONA, Spain — The Galaxy S5 was announced at an event in Mobile World Congress on Monday, but Samsung surprised those expecting a radical design change by unveiling a phone that looks almost identical to its predecessors, the S3 and S4. I sat down with Samsung’s vice president for brand, Stephen Taylor, to ask why. “I don’t think that people need …

There’s a flood of wearable tech arriving early 2014, and it feels unavoidable. Look around and spit, and there’s a product in the works. Samsung, Sony, LG, Huawei, Pebble, Garmin. They’re all coming sooner or later, be it by wrist or glass. January, February, March, April: most of the wearable gear we’ve seen at CES and Mobile World Congress will …

BARCELONA, Spain — Blippar, a visual discovery/augmented reality company that has worked with brands like Coca-Cola, Disney, Sony and Nike, has delivered a live demo at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that shows Google Glass delivering real-time object recognition augmented reality (AR) for the first time. Ambarish Mitra, founder and CEO of Blippar, signaled his desire to see AR move …

BARCELONA, Spain — John Chen was at a recent charity event when an announcer unexpectedly called out his name and introduced him as the man who was taking over BlackBerry. Almost immediately, several attendees pulled their BlackBerry Bolds and began holding them up. At that point, he realized he couldn’t keep sitting, and stood up and said a few words …

Thanks to Mobile World Congress, the Galaxy S5 cat is out of the bag. How does it stack up to flagship rivals like the iPhone 5S and the LG G Pro 2? The copper Galaxy S5 taken with the S5’s own camera. (Credit: Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) On the surface, Samsung’s Galaxy S5 looks a hell of a lot like it’s predecessor. …

Like at any technology show, the biggest product releases of Mobile World Congress dropped in the first couple of days. But the latter days of an event remain just as interesting. You actually have time (well, a few minutes anyway) to roam the show floor to find hidden gems and underdog products, and you can dig up a few juicy …

Mobile World Congress is on its last day and the avalanche of new smartphones, tablets, wearable tech, and wireless technology is beginning to slow. Honestly, so much stuff has come out of Barcelona, Spain, (some of which will even go on sale) that’s it’s difficult to sort through it all. And that’s why we did it for you. Scroll down …

BARCELONA, Spain — Are you curious why everyone is talking about the Internet of everything? Cisco CEO John Chambers gives 19 trillion really good reasons. Chambers believes the Internet of everything, also known as the Internet of things, will create $19 trillion (yes, that’s with a “t”) in economic benefit and value over the next decade. The Internet of things …

BARCELONA, Spain — Samsung on Wednesday introduced tools that will allow developers to create apps for the company’s new wearables and flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone. The company, speaking at a developer day at Mobile World Congress, released a software development kit for its Gear 2 smartwatch, which is based on the Tizen operating system, and an SDK for its S Health application. …