Stan Jones Santa Fe Real Estate Launches Free Mobole Santa Fe Real Estate Application For All Mobile Platforms Santa Fe, NM – February 21, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Stan Jones Santa Fe Real Estate/ Sotheby’s International Realty in Santa Fe, NM today announced the launch of a free mobile application and mobile web search that [Read More]

eBay Lands First Mobile Pre-Load Deal With Telefonica’s O2 UK Phones (Source: TechCrunch) eBay’s mobile reach in Europe is about to expand exponentially. The e-commerce giant has just announced it first ever mobile pre-load deal with Telefonica, which will equip most smartphones and feature phones sold by the Telefonica via its O2 brand with [Read More]

Facebook Will Be Baked Into Dozens Of Mobile Devices This Year (Source: TechCrunch) Late last year there was a news about the upcoming Facebook Phone project, which sparked a media frenzy as the social network claimed this to be wrong, only to later admit that it did exist (the explanation being that there was no [Read More]

Deloitte: Text Messaging Still Far More Popular Than Mobile Twitter, Other Social Networks (Source: TechCrunch) Don’t tell Twitter’s Dick Costolo, but it seems everyday users are completely content with the ability to SMS their friends. So says a recent Deloitte study , which found that 90 percent of smartphone users send at least one text [Read More]

Maxroam teams up with Ryanair to offer free EU roaming to 78 million passengers (Source: TechCrunch) Maxroam, the mobile company out to disrupt mobile cell roaming, has signed a significant deal with Ryanair, Europe’s biggest low-cost airline which carries 78 million passengers annually. The deal is to create the world’s first free mobile [Read More]

Opera Browser Heading for iPad (Source: Mashable) The Opera browser is on its way to the iPad. Opera Software says the iPad version will show up first at the Mobile World Congress being held next week in Barcelona. Although the Opera Mini browser has been available for the iPhone since last April, we haven’t seen [Read More]

Google Adds Extra Layer of Security to User Accounts (Source: Mashable) For those worried about the threat of being hacked — and these days, who isn’t? — Google is here to help. The company is rolling out an optional extra layer of security for all Google accounts, mostly to boost the confidence of Gmail and [Read More]

Groundcrew Offers a Platform to Help You Mobilize Your Team of Do-Gooders (Source: TechCrunch) Last week, there was the launch of the Collaborative Fund, angel investor Craig Shapiro’s new seed fund aimed at supporting for-profit startups with a social mission. Specifically, Collaborative Fund is investing in companies that apply emerging [Read More]

comScore: Android Passes iOS For Overall US Smartphone Subscribers (Source: TechCrunch) comScore’s monthly smartphone data is in and it looks like for the first time Android OS has surpassed Apple’s iOS in terms of U.S. smartphone subscribers share. The data, which measured smartphone usage from September until December of 2010, showed that [Read More]

Another AdMob Exec Leaves Google; Kevin Scott Joins LinkedIn As VP Of Engineering (Source: TechCrunch) Back in 2007,  Google engineering manager Kevin Scott moved to mobile ad network AdMob. Back then AdMob was just a fledgling startup. Of course, two years later AdMob was acquired by Google for $750 million and Scott joined his previous [Read More]

Qualcomm And CAA Back Creative Mobile Labs To Make Entertainment Apps (Source: TechCrunch) Hollywood looks at mobile apps like Angry Birds and Pull The Rope, and sees franchises built around characters and a new form of story telling. It is a little bit threatening, but it is also a little bit exciting. Telling stories is [Read More]

Antenna Acquires Mobile Internet Software Company Volantis (Source: TechCrunch) Antenna Software is the leading on-demand mobility solutions company. They extend run-the-business data, processes, and applications in real-time to any mobile device over any network, worldwide. Mobile applications developer Antenna Software announced it has acquired [Read More]

Skype’s VP Of Consumer Products On Mobile Video; The Cloud And Monetization (Source: TechCrunch) For Skype, 2011 is undoubtedly going to be a pivotal year. The VoIP giant is preparing to go public, and armed with a new CEO, Skype is looking to add new products for both its consumer and enterprise businesses and boost [Read More]

Facebook Career Postings and Jobs: Real Estate Counsel, Policy, Asia, Mobile, Strategy and More Some more clues about Facebook’s plans for Facebook’s future plans appeared in job posts from the Facebook Careers Page, as well as in new postings from LinkedIn. Everything from Real Estate Counsel to Mobile engineers in Asia to more Washington, [Read More]

For InMobi, Apple And Android Are Eating Up Global Mobile Ad Share (Source: TechCrunch) InMobi is the world’s largest independent mobile ad network with operations in Bangalore, Mumbai, London, San Francisco, Singapore and Tokyo Global mobile ad network InMobi is making a big push to gain smartphone ad share. Back in June, it announced a [Read More]

Zynga Brings Newtoy’s Crossword Game ‘Words With Friends’ To Android Phones (Source: TechCrunch) Zynga (English pronunciation: /ˈzɪŋɡə/) is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social [Read More]

Deals Juggernaut Next Jump Hires a CFO, Looks To Add 100 Engineers In San Francisco (Source: TechCrunch) Groupon gets all the attention, but another deal juggernaut that should be on your radar is New York City-based Next Jump. The company runs group discount shopping programs for 90,000 corporations and organizations, and powers MasterCard’s [Read More]

Blekko Takes Curated Search Mobile With iPhone And Android Apps (Source: TechCrunch) Blekko, the search engine that is fighting the good fight against web spam with human editors, is joining biggies Google and Bing in the mobile search arena today with an Android and iPhone application double whammy. Says Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta, “In a [Read More]

StackMob Is ‘Heroku For Mobile’ And Proud Of It And Potentially Just As Huge (Source: TechCrunch) Exactly two years ago , the Y Combinator startup was little more than a good idea: ease the development and deployment process a lot of other startups face by putting it in the cloud. Last month, Salesforce bought them [Read More]

The 10 Best Upcoming Cell Phone (s) Sure, you want a new phone right now, but carriers and manufacturers have promised some truly spectacular, knock-your-socks-off phones coming to U.S. shelves between now and June. With 4G right around the corner and mobile hardware and software getting better and better, you should take a look at [Read More]

Sony Ericsson Announces Integration Of Facebook’s ‘Single Sign On’ Across All Android Phones (Source: TechCrunch) In an industry first, Sony Ericsson Strategic Business Developer Martin Essl just announced that Sony Ericsson will integrate Facebook’s Single Sign On system across all its Android phones in the next couple of months. Launched [Read More]

Transform your Phone into a Mobile Remote, Thanks to the Partnership of Griffin and Dijit (Source: GeekieGadgets) Geeks like you sure have the latest mobile phones. Perhaps, you also take pride in having a modern home entertainment system that includes a universal remote control. Do you know that even without its remote control, you now [Read More]

Dell Streak 7 – Better and Faster with T-Mobile 4G (Source: GreekieGadgets) Dell continues their series of lucky streaks with their latest addition to their tablet family – the new Dell Streak 7. If the hybrid combination of tablet and smartphone of the previous generation of Streak didn’t get your attention, the collaboration of Dell [Read More]

Google’s earnings get a boost from E-commerce (Source: NDTV Gadgets) Google’s strong fourth-quarter earnings proved that it is now firmly ensconced in e-commerce, and also showed that, with its Android operating system and related apps, it is smoothly transitioning to the mobile world. But that news, reported on Thursday, was quickly [Read More]

Grapple Mobile Wants You To Know They Did Not Raise $10 Million (Source: TechCrunch) A day in the life of a famous tech blogger (citation needed): I was pitched a story yesterday, an exclusive no less, on an ‘interesting announcement’ from Grapple Mobile, which provides technology and services for cross-platform mobile app development. Turns [Read More]

ARM & IBM Partner on New Mobile Chipsets (Source:Mashable & igyaan) IBM Partners with ARM to deliver next level of Mobile processors IBM and ARM have announced that the two companies will be partnering on advanced semiconductor technologies designed to power the next generation of mobile gadgets. The goal is to create 14nm chips that [Read More]

Facebook Brings Mobile App to Feature Phones Facebook users who want to access the social-networking service on the go, but don’t have smartphones, now have an app of their own in some countries. On Wednesday, Facebook introduced a mobile app for feature phones, the less-expensive, Internet-capable phones that far outnumber smartphones in [Read More]

Asian Power: China Mobile, NTT Docomo And KT Form Business Alliance (Source: MobileCrunch) It can’t get bigger than this in Asia’s mobile industry, and in fact, it’s a business alliance with the potential to shake things up on a global level. Today, the world’s biggest mobile carrier China Mobile, Japan’s No. 1 player NTT Docomo [Read More]

In The Race To 10 Billion Downloads, Apple Uncovers The Top All-Time Apps (Source: TechCrunch) As they countdown to 10 billion total app downloads, Apple has unveiled a page within the iTunes Store that shows the top app downloads of all time.These are broken in to four categories: Top Free iPhone Apps, Top Paid iPhones [Read More]

Verizon iPhone Launching on February 10th The Verizon iPhone launch date has been announced. Pre-orders start February 3rd and the dream phone will be available on February 10th in Apple and Verizon Stores. This does not come as a surprise as we have had rumors floating since very long. This is a welcome news for [Read More]