Details are sketchy but it appears Verizon is looking to band carriers together for a new global mobile app store. We’ve been down this road before with alternative app stores and… Read more »
Some major acquisitions jolted the mobile industry in the first quarter of 2014, underscoring some important trends. Meanwhile, turbulence plagues the mobile-gaming industry and Dish is ramping up speculation about its… Read more »
Users of Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets can download a new Kindle app produced in partnership with Amazon. The app, Kindle for Samsung, has a new interface and gives away one… Read more »
Google is adopting some strict new policies in an effort to clean up its flagship Android app store. The company is taking a page from Apple’s playbook as it tries to… Read more »
Roughly half a dozen new mobile operating systems will come to market over the next 6 to 12 months. Many of these look to be more sophisticated than the older ones… Read more »
While SwiftKey has always been available directly to consumers, Swype has distributed its virtual keyboard through device makers. That changes on Wednesday, though, as Nuance releases Swype into the consumer marketplace. Read more »
Amazon took another step toward co-opting Google’s mobile operating system with a new API that enables developers to place Amazon-based ads on titles distributed through its Appstore. The move is the… Read more »
Some Chromebook owners are getting their Google Play video rentals in WebM, thanks to new HTML5 video security. And Google is already working hard on a next-generation video codec. Read more »
Samsung could gain even more influence over Android with its new Chillingo partnership. The two are offering developers 100 percent of revenues for titles sold in the Samsung Apps store. Read more »
Samsung now accounts for a whopping 42.5 percent of all Android sales, according to fresh data from Gartner.The company is moving aggressively to leverage that dominance in both the consumer and… Read more »