Based on its Kinect hardware for Xbox, Microsoft knows a thing or two about gesture-based interfaces. A report suggests that upcoming Windows Phones could use gestures and sensors to simplify smartphone… Read more »
A Nokia-built Android phone might actually help Microsoft. It could reduce costs but the bigger benefit is this: Every such phone built on the platform is one less phone for Google… Read more »
Nokia may be working on an Android device as a successor to its low-end Asha efforts, but for new owner Microsoft the project risks consumer confusion and further entrenchment of an… Read more »
New data indicates mobile game developers are paying more to acquire customers than they’re making from those users. So those developers must find ways to keep those customers spending over longer… Read more »
A new service delivery model of the cloud, called Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), fills the gap that exists in the current cloud delivery models and offers a higher level… Read more »
Microsoft is paying about $7.2 billion for Nokia’s devices business and patent licenses in a last ditch gamble to take on Google, Apple and a wide variety of smartphone players who… Read more »
The mobile platform wars escalated once again in the first quarter of 2012 as BlackBerry finally took the wraps off its much-anticipated new operating system. Meanwhile Android continued to build on… Read more »
Almost every mobile application relies on a few essential services to deliver the expected functionality and user experience. SDKs and integrated tools simplified the mobile application life cycle management, but the… Read more »
The fundamental business model at the heart of the U.S. mobile industry is largely the same as it has been: Consumers pay for monthly buckets of voice minutes and data usage,… Read more »