At 1pm ET (10am PT) today I’ll be liveblogging Apple’s Worldwide Developer C0nference (WWDC) keynote, live from San Francisco’s Moscone West. You can join co-host Doug Aamoth and me at techland.com/wwdc12, and I hope you …
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Last Chance for Your Apple WWDC Predictions
Forty-eight hours from now, Apple’s WWDC keynote will be nearly over. I’ll be there in person at the Moscone Center, and I hope you’ll join me by attending our liveblog coverage, where I’ll report the news as fast as I possibly …
Let’s Just Say It: Nobody Has a Clue What Smartphone Market Share Will Be in 2016
Research firm IDC has released its latest estimates of current market share for major smartphone operating systems, and its forecast for what the business will look like in 2016. The new data–which says that Android and iOS will …
Google Apps, Now with the Added Goodness of Quickoffice
Some Google acquisitions aren’t surprising in the least. But I was genuinely startled to learn that it’s snapped up Quickoffice, a company that’s been making solid office suites for phones and other mobile devices for a long …
Prepaid iPhone Plan to Cost $55 for Unlimited Talk, Text and Data
Cricket Wireless is getting set to roll out a prepaid mobile plan for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S here in the U.S.
On June 22, you’ll be able to pick up a 16GB iPhone 4S for $500 or an 8GB iPhone 4 for $400, paired with a …
Next-Gen iPhone Images Leak as Tim Cook Drops a Hint
What do we have here? It’s the backside of Apple’s next iPhone, at least according to 9to5Mac’s supply chain sources.
The image shows a smaller bezel on the top and bottom of the phone, possibly to make room for that 4-inch …
Future Smartphone Tech: 6 Advancements to Watch
Over the past few years, smartphones have made some incredible leaps and bounds in terms of hardware — to the point that it’s hard to imagine how the technology will continue to impress.
Still, there are a handful of new …
Facebook Phone Rumored Again, but Fundamental Questions Remain
Facebook is working on its own smartphone — no, seriously this time.
The New York Times reports that Facebook intends to launch a phone by next year, citing unnamed Facebook employees, engineers that the company sought to …
Samsung Galaxy S III ‘Blue’ Model Delayed for Weeks
It sounds like Samsung’s having trouble manufacturing the “pebble blue” variant of its just-launched Galaxy S III smartphone, and that could wind up delaying its availability to mid or even late June. The rumor started a few days …
WebOS: Dead? Oh, Sure, Almost Certainly — But Not Definitely
In January of 2009, Palm unveiled WebOS, its next-generation mobile operating system. A lot of us got really, really excited over it. It turned out, however, that WebOS’s launch day was its first and only moment of unalloyed …
Facebook Releases New Instagram-Style Photo App for iPhone
Hey, remember when Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion? Well apparently buying the number one mobile photo app on the market isn’t stopping the freshly IPO-ed Facebook team from releasing a similar app of its …
Bump’s Newest Trick: Phone-to-PC Photo Sharing
Bump is a clever little free app that lets you exchange photos and contacts between two devices instantly and effortlessly by simply bumping them together. Until now, the two devices in question have probably been Android or …