BARCELONA, Spain–When Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley talks about recycling data, he isn’t talking about being green. Crowley is referring to the wealth of data that comes in through its Foursquare mobile check-in app, which can be turned into a recommendation engine for consumers looking for new places to explore. “We’re enabling people to …
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29 February
Protesters hobble Mobile World Congress traffic
BARCELONA, Spain–University students reportedly protesting education spending cuts held a rally in front of Mobile World Congress today, choking traffic to and from the venue. A large row of students stood in the roundabout in front of the Fira Barcelona, the event space for Mobile World Congress. Between the protesters and the Fira was a two-deep row of policemen decked …
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29 February
Ericsson CEO: Your city is the network’s biggest hurdle
BARCELONA, Spain–Today at Mobile World Congress, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestbeg, saunters over to a bicycle on the far edge of his keynote stage and touched a spoke. Instead of hopping on the bike, like many in the audience undoubtedly hoped he would, the leader of the Swedish network equipment giant announced that this particular bike is a connected device. The …
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29 February
New Apple TV tipped to launch alongside iPad 3
Whoa there — the iPad 3 is launching next week, we know that much, but a new Apple TV could be coming too. Unfortunately it won’t be the fabled TV set Apple is said to be working on, but rather its dinky set-top box. But still, should be quite a day. 9to5Mac quotes reliable sources as saying the new box …
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29 February
Panasonic TVs will be good listeners
Soon LG and Samsung won’t be the only TV makers to offer the ability to control your TV by talking to it. Yesterday Nuance Communications announced that its Dragon TV voice control platform would be shipping with some Panasonic TVs in Europe this year. Plans for a US introduction were not announced, and a Panasonic representative I spoke to didn’t …
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29 February
ABC TV audio
Lost among the kerfuffle of Kevin versus Julia last week was an announcement that will gladden the hearts of those suffering from blindness: the ABC will begin a trial audio-description TV service in the middle of 2012. The trial will run for roughly 14 hours per week during primetime viewing hours on ABC1. The trial will last for 13 weeks, …
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28 February
Samsung admits it’s “not doing very well” in tablets
Samsung’s tablet size bingo continues, with its latest effort being a 10-inch Galaxy Note. But the company’s tablets aren’t faring too well, one executive has revealed at Mobile World Congress. “Honestly, we’re not doing very well in the tablet market,” Hankil Yoon, product strategy executive for Samsung, told reporters, including CNET News’ Roger Cheng. Ouch. So how’s it going to …
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28 February
Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G a good fit all around (hands on)
Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G (T-Mobile) 1:01 BARCELONA, Spain–Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G: try saying it five times fast. Or better yet, just call it the “Blaze” like I do, and appreciate the simple pleasures of what is by today’s standards your regular upper-mid smartphone. T-Mobile and Samsung first announced the Blaze 4G at an intimate …
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28 February
Apple iPad 3: What to expect
The iPad 3 is unlikely to look much different from an iPad 2. Apple This isn’t our first rodeo. The wild, often contradictory rumors that precede an Apple product unveiling would have you thinking that the iPad 3 could take just about any form or shape. But really, so long as you don’t get hung up on the specifics, it’s …
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28 February
Telcos see future in the cloud
BARCELONA, Spain–Where do the largest telecommunications companies in the world want to be in in the future? In the cloud. John Chambers, Cisco Systems’ CEO, talks about cloud services at Mobile World Congress 2012. Marguerite Reardon/CNET We’ve all heard this schtick before: Carriers don’t want to be the purveyors of dumb pipes. Their equipment suppliers–namely, Cisco Systems and Alcatel-Lucent–also don’t …
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