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.

American homes have more Internet-connected devices than people

Internet connected devices surpass 500 million and the average U.S. home has 5.7 Internet-connected 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.

Microsoft newsdump includes tablets, translation, and $2.1B in fines

Microsoft had six pieces of news come out today, including the Surface worldwide expansion, Yammer's new translation service, and getting slapped with regulatory fines from the EU.

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.

Exploratorium’s new iPad app reveals ‘magic of existing phenomena’

San Francisco's Exploratorium releases Sounds Uncovered, an exploration of auditory illusions and acoustic phenomena.

Microsoft Surface Pros out-of-stock, within hours of going on-sale

The U.S. Microsoft online store has sold out of the Surface Pro tablets, which went on sale today.

Yes, you can run Linux on your Microsoft Surface Pro

Microsoft has obviously decided that the "Pro" part of "Surface Pro" is actually meaningful, not just a marketing designation, and has provided the ability for enthusiasts to fiddle, potentially damage or even brick, but ultimately customize their devices exactly how they see fit.

How Apple’s 6 billion-dollar businesses stack up

Revenue from digital media is now almost worth more to Apple -- top-line revenue -- than all its iMac, MacBook and other Mac hardware sales.

AppSurfer adds tablet apps to web-based try-before-you-buy Android app demos

While a couple of bucks for an app may not be a big deal, no one wants to waste money. So try-before-you-buy is a great idea, especially for those apps that you can't full evaluate within the 15-minute Google Play refund period.

Tactus demos ‘morphing tactile surface’ tablet at CES: A marriage of touchscreen and real buttons

Want to have your digital cake and eat it too? Soon you'll be able to, with new touchable technology that Tactus is demoing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Acer may launch $99 Android tablet in early 2013

Acer is planning to launch a $99 tablet in the beginning of next year, according to anonymous sources for the Wall Street Journal.

The 7-inch device will run the Android operating system (version 4.1, aka Jelly Bean) and will …

No Google Maps on Kindle Fire? No problem: Skobbler launches OpenStreetMap-based ForeverMap 2

What a shock: Google Maps is not going to be available on Amazon's Kindle Fire. Instead, Skobbler is launching ForeverMap2 on Kindle Fire -- and Nook - to take its place.