155 days ago by Jacob Miles

Just last year, Nokia had over double Apple’s mobile market share. By the end of this year, however, Taipai-based daily Digitimes is predicting that Apple will blow Nokia’s once-dominant position to bits. “Apple’s smartphone shipments are projected to top 86.4 million units in 2011, up 82% from 47.5 ...

184 days ago by Natalie Chandler

Australian company Roar Engine recently wowed ‘em Stateside at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2011. The mobile startup beat out 15 other hopefuls to win one of two coveted Tesla prizes. (Named after Nikola Tesla, the scientist who discovered early mobile communication. Obvs.) Roar Engine pulled off the fl ...

209 days ago by adsenser

I know that this is a superb was Friday and many of you already consider the weekend but prepare you for some mobile news hardcore next week, as the MobileBeat Conference 2011 arrives in San Francisco from 12 to 13 July at the Palace Hotel. It is filled with leaders of thought by the major manufactu ...

210 days ago by MegaZone

At this past week’s MobileBeat 2011 Conference in San Francisco, PayPal demonstrated an Android widget that allows users to transfer funds phone-to-phone using NFC (Near Field Communication). NFC is a very-low power, very-short range radio frequency communications technology, most commonly associate ...

210 days ago by MegaZone

At this past week’s MobileBeat 2011 Conference in San Francisco, PayPal demonstrated an Android widget that allows users to transfer funds phone-to-phone using NFC (Near Field Communication). NFC is a very-low power, very-short range radio frequency communications technology, most commonly associate ...

210 days ago by adsenser

This is an exciting in the mobile space time, as 4 G networks are now up and running around the globe and mobile gaming is becoming a force. In the 2011 MobileBeat Conference, you will have the opportunity to hear great minds discuss these issues at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on July 12 and J ...

212 days ago by Matthew Lynley

Cloud storage provider Box.net is unveiling a new set of code libraries that will let app developers quickly embed company’s storage and collaboration tools in their apps, the company announced today. “We have 40 developers building that back-end stack, and people want to be able to deploy that inst ...

212 days ago by Devindra Hardawar

16 mobile startups entered our MobileBeat 2011 competition, but only two could win our coveted Tesla prize. Onavo, a company that compresses mobile data on smartphones and tablets, and Roar Engine, which impressed judges by building a social game in four minutes, were declared the winners by our pan ...

212 days ago by Meghan Kelly

Live Dibs, who presented at the MobileBeat Startup Competition, was just announced as this year’s Infrastructure winner. The define themselves as a geo-location oriented social deals marketplace. “Live Dibs gives you access to the deals you might actually care about,” joked Lindsey Rosen. They do th ...

212 days ago by Matthew Lynley

This year’s winner of VentureBeat’s “Who’s Got Game” startup competition this year is Kaiju, a social games maker that creates games built around outlandish Godzilla-style monsters. This company makes games that bring comically outlandish Japanese-style monsters back to video games. It will launch K ...