Kif is a staff writer at Gigaom based in New York covering mobile technology. Previously, he was an editorial fellow for Wired and blogged at Gizmodo. He graduated from Oberlin College in 2012, where he also played NCAA Division III lacrosse for the perennially winless Yeomen. He changed his own legal name to Kif when he was a child for better search engine optimization.
Under Armour, a Baltimore-based performance apparel brand, has been making aggressive investments in mobile fitness technology recently, and its latest purchase is a big one: The sportswear company announced on Wednesday that… Read more »
Microsoft’s been buying up mobile app startups recently to go along with CEO Satya Nadella’s “mobile-first, mobile everywhere” mantra, and its latest purchase is calendar maker Sunrise for “north of $100… Read more »
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A new report from Kantar Worldpanel tracking smartphone sales in the United States indicated that phones running Apple’s iOS operating system may have passed those running Android in terms of market share… Read more »
The latest version of Android, 5.0 Lollipop, may only be on 1.6 percent of devices, but Android 5.1 is already starting to show up on new phones. On Tuesday, Google announced… Read more »
Nearly every single smartphone sold last year uses a processor originally designed by ARM. On Tuesday, the British company announced new processor designs that will likely end up in devices in 2016… Read more »
Lenovo reported its earnings for the past quarter on Tuesday. During the quarter, the company officially completed its $2.91 billion acquisition of Motorola from Google. Lenovo announced its smartphone brand sold over 10 million… Read more »
In December, it looked like Google had phased out last year’s Nexus phone in favor of the bigger, newer, and more expensive Nexus 6. The Nexus 5 was then listed as out… Read more »
On Monday, Microsoft introduced a new lock screen app on to Google Play called Picturesque. Yet another sign that Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella is a proudly cross-platform company, Picturesque isn’t Microsoft’s first… Read more »
Qualcomm is feeling the heat regarding its latest flagship mobile chip, the Snapdragon 810. The chip reportedly has thermal issues, and Samsung is apparently dropping it for its own processors, which led… Read more »