eRecyclingCorps swaps 10 million old phones for new

February 28, 2013 8:38 AM Ciara Byrne
Ciara Byrne

1.7 billion people got a new handset last year. What happens to the old ones? Seven million of them were reused and renewed by eRecyclingCorps. “If subsidies are the drugs of the mobile industry, then incentivized device recycling is the methadone,” says Dave Edmondson, CEO of eRecyclingCorps.

Exent launches Android game subscription service for TVs (exclusive)

February 25, 2013 11:00 PM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

The company is adapting its GameTanium Mobile service to smart TVs.

Mozilla makes strides with mobile-oriented Firefox OS

February 25, 2013 5:38 PM Jonathan Goldberg
Jonathan Goldberg

The Mozilla Foundation announced a greatly expanded lineup of hardware and carrier partners for its upcoming HTML-based Firefox OS yesterday at Mobile World Congress.

T-Mobile to bring Nokia’s new low-end Lumia 521 to the U.S.

February 25, 2013 5:55 AM Ciara Byrne
Ciara Byrne

T-Mobile has revealed that it will exclusively offer the Windows 8 powered Nokia 521 device on its 4G network in the U.S.  T-mobile has yet to announce availability and pricing but the 521 is expected to go on the market in late Spring or early summer.

Intel unveils a fast dual-core Atom processor for smartphones and tablets

February 24, 2013 9:01 PM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Intel's new Atom chips will have twice the computing power and three times the graphics of last year's model.

Immersion wants you to feel a new generation of touch-feedback mobile devices

February 21, 2013 6:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Can Immersion convince gadget makers to add more sense of touch to their devices?

Nvidia announces Tegra 4i with integrated LTE, enabling awesome smartphones

February 19, 2013 6:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

The Tegra 4i has 60 graphics cores, five processor cores, and an integrated LTE modem for high-performance smartphones.

Marvell targets the ‘worldphone’ with quad-core processor that works on different networks

February 19, 2013 5:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Wouldn't you like to carry around a worldphone?

4 mobile payment startups to watch

March 5, 2012 10:37 AM Alex McCracken

Guest Post

Mobile payments is a sector on the cusp of exploding. The Nilson Report recently found that 73 percent of smartphone owners have used their device while shopping, yet only 2 percent claim to have used a mobile wallet or made …

Listen up, Google: Here’s what Windows 8 can teach you about tablets

March 1, 2012 4:32 PM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Editor's Pick

Windows 8 is certain to make a huge splash with consumers — not just because it’s the next version of Windows, but because Microsoft has finally managed to crack the code for putting Windows on tablets.

But I think Windows …

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1: This is what the S Pen stylus was made for (hands-on video)

March 1, 2012 1:57 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Samsung didn’t do a good job of hiding the fact that it was going to show off a larger Galaxy Note here at Mobile World Congress (there were giant posters everywhere before the show started), but that doesn’t mean the …

Nokia’s 41MP 808 PureView wins best-in-show at Mobile World Congress

March 1, 2012 1:13 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

The 41-megapixel camera on Nokia’s 808 PureView not only wowed the audience at the Mobile World Congress this week, it also landed Nokia the “Best New Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet at Mobile World Congress 2012” award.

A panel of …

Check out Eric Schmidt’s must-see Mobile World Congress keynote

February 29, 2012 3:56 PM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s Mobile World Congress keynotes have always been interesting, but his keynote yesterday just about floored me as he put on his futurist hat with complete sincerity.

It’s not only a good watch, it’s required viewing.

Now …

Innovative mobile ads grab attention in Barcelona

February 29, 2012 9:48 AM Alex McCracken

Guest Post

Mobile advertising and marketing companies have turned out in droves this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Their large presence is telling of just how much mobile content is ad-supported. eMarketer predicts that ad-supported content will account for almost …