Apple set its sights on education this morning when it announced a slew of new apps and services for students and teachers.
Among them was iBooks 2, an updated version of the company’s iPad e-reading app that adds support for …
Startup iSwifter said that its Rover Browser for education has seen a quick start in downloads and rapid adoption among schools and teachers who want to use it to provide access to Flash-based internet content for classrooms. Since its introduction …
Booyah, the maker of real-world social and mobile games, announced its newest game today, Pet Town. It is another step in the company’s reinvention of itself.
San Francisco-based Booyah was founded in 2008 with early money for mobile games from …
Zynga confirmed the names of four mobile game companies that it has acquired in recent months, according to Reuters.
The company did not disclose the sums paid for those companies, which make smartphone and tablet games. In an interview with …
AT&T has raised the cost of its data plans for smartphones and tablets and given a slight bump to data plan caps, with the new rates going into effect Sunday Jan. 22.
AT&T and chief rival Verizon Wireless used to …
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The International Consumer Electronics Show is a huge festival of gadgetry, but there’s no better place to get a bead on where technology is going in the coming year.
Among the 153,000 attendees at the show in Las Vegas last …
After conspicuously losing its bid to acquire T-Mobile, AT&T is still out in the cold when it comes to wireless spectrum. But a new report says the telecom company could now buy Dish Network at a considerable premium to obtain …
Apple’s iPhone 4S is incredibly popular with consumers — so much so that it’s eating heavily into Android’s market share among those who’ve purchased smartphones within the past three months.
Apple’s market share among recent smartphone buyers in the U.S. …
More than any other time in the history of the Consumer Electronics Show, car manufacturers showed up in full force to last week’s show in Las Vegas — a major sign that cars are going high tech this year.
While …
Everspin Technologies has been trying to carve out a niche for its magnetic RAM — a new kind of memory chip — for some time. So it’s encouraging that the company is reporting today that it grew its MRAM shipments …
Who says gift cards aren’t cool? After landing $5.5 million in a first round of funding last November, social gifting service Wrapp, which lets you easily send gift cards to friends through Facebook, today announced that it’s received an additional …
Chegg’s digital textbook reader is the “nice guy:” comfortable, treats you right, but doesn’t come with many exciting twists.
“[E-readers] are built for reading purposes, not studying purposes,” said Brent Tworetzky, product leader for Chegg, in an interview with VentureBeat. …
Apple has once again gone after Samsung in Germany, filing suits to ban sales of the Galaxy S Plus and the S II.
The latest in a string of patent suits takes aim at 10 smartphone models. The suit was …
Imagine you’re a Samsung executive. You’ve just emerged from yet another Consumer Electronics Show, where your products and press conference were among the hottest tickets at an otherwise dull affair. Your televisions and phones have consumers drooling — hell, even …
That was quick. Just days after its introduction on the U.S. market, Nokia’s least-expensive Windows Phone, the Lumia 710, is being sold for free with a 2-year contract at Walmart stores.
Nokia and Microsoft made a huge push last week …
Mig33, which operates mobile social networks in emerging markets, is launching a new Twitter-like social communication service called the “Mig33 miniblog.”
The move represents a major shift in focus for the Singapore-based mobile community, which will use the miniblog service …
Airbnb, the website that lets you turn your house into a nightly hotel, introduced its Android application today, along with a new mobile website.
Airbnb lets people list their homes online for short-time renting. The company says that nearly 10 …
Continuing its quest for dominance in the photo arena, online editing suite Aviary announced version 2.0 of its photo editor today, bringing with it a slew of updated features and something enticing for developers: instant monetization for photo apps.
With …
Samsung Group announced today it would invest $41.4 billion in new technologies, more than the company has ever invested in previous years.
The investments will encompass efforts in research and development, mergers and acquisitions, and building new facilities, Samsung reps …
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, everybody wanted to talk. And when they talked on their mobile phones, they put a great deal of stress on the mobile phone carriers. We tried to figure out who handled the …
