Police poised to expand iPhone prototype probe
Gizmodo editor Jason Chen in a video embedded in his April 19 post titled “This is Apple's next iPhone.” — The criminal probe into Apple's errant iPhone prototype is expected to broaden, a law enfor...
Nokia N8 Official, With 12MP Camera and 720p Video Recording
Well now, this is awkward. Only yesterday Mobile-Review was calling the N8 an unpolished turd, and now Nokia's gone and announced it to the world. As leaks foretold, it's got a 12MP camera with Xeno...
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American m...
Google acquires entertainment company LabPixies
Google loves to build platforms on which programs run—Android, App Engine, iGoogle, and in the biggest picture, the Web itself. But platforms are of no use, and aren't much fun, without applications ...
Google's Andy Rubin on Everything Android
Andy Rubin, a vice president of engineering at Google, leads one of the search giant's most important efforts—the development of Android, Google's open source platform for smartphones and other mobile...
Spotify Goes Social
On the back of the Facebook Connect platform Spotify has begun the integration of social media into its music service, and the implications are huge. — In its newest app update, and the biggest sinc...
Eye-Fi announces Apple-exclusive Geo X2 card, more WiFi hotspot support
In the event that none of Eye-Fi's existing 802.11n-capable offerings meet your wireless photo upload needs, take heart, because there's a new model getting shoehorned between the $49.99 Connect X2 an...
AdMob: The Original iPhone is Dead, Android Becoming Increasingly Diversified
Here at MobileCrunch, we love numbers. We especially love numbers that make good stories. And we more especially love numbers that make good stories about phones. And so we love it when AdMob packa...
Senators Want Facebook To Make “Instant Personalization” Service Opt-In
Today during a press conference, Senator Charles Schumer of New York and a number of other Democratic Senators announced that they would like Facebook to make their new “Instant Personalization” servi...
RIM shows off BlackBerry 6 on video
While RIM's WES 2010 keynote is still ongoing, the company's YouTube channel has kindly released the first teaser video for the incoming BlackBerry 6 operating system. There's a lot of movement on sc...
Netbook market may have already peaked
IDC will release figures later this week that indicate that the Netbook phenomenon may have peaked, and recent comments from Intel itself back this up. — The figures from market researcher IDC show ...
Mobile Blogger “Boy Genius” Unmasked, Acquired
You probably haven't heard of Jonathan Geller. But you may have read his site. Geller's Boy Genius Report is avidly followed by those obsessed with mobile phones and the companies who make them. — ...
Google demands neutrality (just don't apply it to them)
Google doesn't care. The FCC wants to regulate net neutrality under Title II of the Communications Act? It wants to try again under Title I? It wants to get frisky and try Title VI? Google's down ...
Salesforce And VMware Partner To Launch Enterprise Java Cloud Platform VMforce
Java developers may have good news to celebrate today. Salesforce.com and virtualization giant VMware are partnering to launch VMforce, a enterprise Java Cloud platform to enable Java developers to b...
TomTom Go Live 1000 to offer capacitive touchscreen, WebKit-based UI
TomTom has just outed its new flagship PND, the Go Live 1000, and wouldn't you know it, it's the first of the company's stable to offer a capacitive touchscreen. This comes mere days after Garmin upd...
Ground Truth raises $7M to bring insight to mobile phone usage
Just three months after emerging from stealth mode, Seattle mobile measurement startup Ground Truth has scored a substantial $7 million second round of venture capital financing. Total funding in the...
Fennec on Android
Over the last few months, we've made some great progress on bringing Firefox to Android. Michael Wu, Brad Lassey, Alex Pakhotin and I have been focusing on getting a build ready that's usable by a br...
Welcome Back, Steve: Apple CEO Jobs to Appear Onstage at D8
Apple (AAPL) CEO and Co-founder Steve Jobs will appear at the eighth D: All Things Digital, in an interview on the opening night, kicking off our tech and media conference that will also include famed...
Apple Buys Intrinsity, a Maker of Fast Chips
Apple wants the fastest chip for its mobile devices and has bought another chip maker to gain an edge over its competitors. — Apple has acquired a small Austin, Tex., company called Intrinsity, know...
Nokia N8 Official, With 12MP Camera and 720p Video Recording
Well now, this is awkward. Only yesterday Mobile-Review was calling the N8 an unpolished turd, and now Nokia's gone and announced it to the world. As leaks foretold, it's got a 12MP camera with Xeno...
Windows Live Messenger for iPhone unveiled
Remember in December 2009 we told you Microsoft were planning a Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone? Well today we can reveal a little bit more. — Today we can exclusively unveil the first offici...
Facebook: the Privacy Questions Continue
The argument over privacy on Facebook continued Tuesday as four senators sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking the company to roll back some of the features it announced last week. — ...
Zong Emerges: Facebook Deal And $15 Million In Funding
We've been tracking mobile payments provider Zong since 2008 - in a nutshell, it lets you pay for things, particularly virtual goods online, via direct billing to your mobile phone. Despite heavy com...