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Is your must-have iPhone feature included?
News A new system, built off Apple's Bonjour technology, will let devices talk to each other. However, they won't be able to build it off the iPhone's Google Maps application. Here's a recap of what was... [18 Mar 2009]
Unis rack up £1.6m saving with Google Apps switch
News UOW is now making regular use of Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar and Talk, as are staff and students at the SOAS. Two UK universities have saved hundreds of thousands of pounds by opting for hosted... [02 Mar 2009]
"Android is not open. It's a marketing label"
News When people talk about 'is Android going to be more fragmentation in this Linux handset space? If you thought the rise of open OS platforms would herald a new era of peace and harmony in the mobile industry you'd be... [23 Feb 2009]
Photos: The world's biggest mobile shindig
Photo Android co-founder and Google employee Rich Miner gave a talk on mobilising open source to an audience of developers, showing how execs at mobile OS companies treat keynotes: wear jeans with no tie and... [23 Feb 2009]
"Most customers don't know what a megabyte is"
News Despite a lot of talk about the need for companies to collaborate and build partnerships at Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona this week, underlying tensions between operators and software companies are still... [19 Feb 2009]
World's second Android phone: It's Magic
News The Magic will sport a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 3.2MP camera, GPS and a trackball for navigation; feature all the usual application suspects, including YouTube, Google Maps and Google Talk;... [17 Feb 2009]
What's on mobile's menu in Barcelona this year?
Comment So expect a lot of talk about strategies for monetising the mobile internet. With no official Apple presence at MWC there's more time and space for Google's Android - which generated truckloads of... [10 Feb 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News To Kurzweil, Singularity University is a place to problem-solve and talk about the results of the most recent iterations of the exponentially growing technologies that have shaped modern life. Among the faculty are... [03 Feb 2009]
What does Ballmer worry about? "Google, Google, Google"
Comment Ballmer sat down with silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com to talk about the lessons learned from Vista, Microsoft's move to put Office on the web, and the current economic situation. Our cash-back programme has some... [09 Jan 2009]
iPhone becomes Twittering hub
News From the week starting 12 January, all Truphone subscribers using one of Apple's handhelds will be able to use the free client for Skype, Twitter, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Truphone's users... [07 Jan 2009]
Five tech predictions for 2009
Comment With talk of the BBC opening up iPlayer to other broadcasters and potentially foreign viewers, the BBC will be set to expand the ways it can make money from its one-million-requests-per-day hit. It's not such a bad... [23 Dec 2008]
HP execs: Don't buy into the cloud hype
News According to Isherwood, HP prefers to talk about the software as a service (SaaS) model. These include Microsoft, which launched Azure, a cloud extension to its Windows franchise, Salesforce.com, Amazon and... [11 Dec 2008]
Google pledges reliability for its cloud-based Apps
News Matthew Glotzbach, director of Google Enterprise product management, said in his blog: "Today, we're announcing that we will extend the 99.9 per cent service level agreement we offer Premier Edition customers on Gmail to... [31 Oct 2008]
Symbian Foundation prepares to shock the competition
News But despite the bullish talk, Williams conceded the Symbian Foundation - which was only announced back in June - faces several large challenges, including his aim of getting a complete, integrated distribution of the... [28 Oct 2008]
What's Firefox Mobile got up its sleeve?
News There's been a lot of talk about when Mozilla will release the next alpha version of Fennec. It seems convenient enough to type in your term, than to click the engine you prefer to search with - either... [20 Oct 2008]
