These transparent solar cells provide 50% more battery life for your phone — and ‘infinite’ standby time

"We intend to double our efficiency next year and the year after as well," Debroca said. "Going from 20 percent more battery life to 50 percent is a rational objective."

Sir Jony Ive’s new iOS7: ‘black, white, and flat’

That's a massive change from the original colorful, shiny, semi-transparent iOS development language, which tries hard to make virtual controls and objects look and feel and act like real controls and objects.

The Jolla ‘Other Half’ is the Nokia version of an Android smartphone. Sort of

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a Finish mobile company was working on a ground-breaking game-changing world-shaking new smartphone operating system based on Linux rising from the ashes of Intel's Moblin and its own Maemo projects.

Chinese growth and Chinese competition could drive Apple stock to $888, analyst says

China's fast growth in fast mobile subscriptions -- and increasing mobile competition among the giant Chinese mobile carriers -- will be key factors in driving Apple's moldering stock price to unseen heights of over $800, one analyst says today.

MightyText reveals its true goal: Everything on your phone should be everywhere all the time

"Everything on your phone should be everywhere all the time," MightyText cofounder Maneesh Arora says. "No-one raves about iCloud, and we feel there's an opportunity. There will soon be billions of Android devices, and no-one's making it easy."

Why 75 cents of every dollar spent on mobile advertising is spent on iPhone and iPad

There's a reason that even though Android has almost caught up to iOS in downloads, it's still way behind in monetization.

Apple, lord of the iRings? Apple 60″ HDTV, mini second-screen iTV, and magic controller ring rumors

According to White, "the 'iTV' ecosystem represents a major innovation for the $100 billion LCD TV industry that will revolutionize the TV experience forever."

Report: ‘Digital omnivore’ population grew 160 percent last year

Deloitte released the seventh edition of its “State of the Media Democracy" survey yesterday, and its findings suggest there is even less hope for the human attention span than previously thought.

Health app makers to feds: Dithering on regulation is stifling innovation

Congress is conducting a three-day series of hearings to decide how to regulate the explosion of health apps on smartphone and tablet devices.

Apple will take 65% of the global $25 billion app economy in 2013, analyst says

The global app economy will reach $25 billion this year, according to new data from ABI Research. Thirty-five percent of that, or $8.8 billion, will be tablet apps, and 65 percent -- 16.4 billion -- will be smartphone apps.

Google patents your useless four fingers

When you're holding your mobile phone in one hand, you generally have a thumb on the front for scrolling, typing, and tapping, and four fingers clamped more or less uselessly around the edge. But perhaps not for long.

Apple owns enterprise: 5 of the top 5 devices activated last quarter are iPhones and iPads

77 percent of all new smartphones and tablets activated in the enterprise last quarter were Apple devices, according to a new report from Good Technology.

800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December 2013, study says

By the end of this current year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use. 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple's iOS, and 45 million will run Windows Phone.

Year-old iPhone 4S spontaneously combusts and oozes acid, but Apple refuses to replace it, woman claims

New York marketing manager Shibani Bhujle says her iPhone spontaneously combusted, burning her fingers, and then oozed acid when she tried to remove the battery.

Toopher funding gives location-based two factor authentication a boost

Toopher, which "authenticates" your identity by looking at your phone's location, got $2 million in funding and admittance to an Austin tech incubator.