Will iOS 5 take advantage of Apple’s purchase of Siri virtual assistant?

Apple bought some very cool “virtual assistant” technology  — Siri’s speech-to-text system — back in early 2010. This technology allowed users to ask for places to eat using normal spoken words and receive recommendations within a very short time.

But …

Mobile game discovery isn’t ready for primetime

Even high-quality games are still getting lost amid the thousands of apps on the various mobile app stores.

Getting your app discovered is still a lot harder to do on a mobile platform than it is on a social game …

Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games

Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed.

As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was all about the wide-open battle for control of the emerging mobile gaming market. …