Mobile & Wireless

Google on Wednesday released version 3.0 of Gmail for iOS, which finally includes full support for iOS 7’s background app refresh. This means Gmail can now download your email in the background (even when it’s not open) and your inbox will be up to date whenever you launch the app. Oddly enough, last November, a Continue Reading →

Meet the Privacy Phone, a device that FreedomPop brags is the only smartphone and mobile service that allows for encrypted communications. Lovingly nicknamed the “Snowden Phone” by FreedomPop, It can even be purchased with Bitcoin to further protect the owner’s anonymity. Simply put, if you’re in the market for a phone to plan to help Continue Reading →

RootMetrics’ National RootScore Study — a look at the four largest U.S. wireless providers — was released on Wednesday and awarded top honors to the Verizon Wireless network. Verizon Wireless took down the Overall Performance Award Winner in the national study and tops in 4 sub-categories (reliability, data, call and text). Verizon was also crowned the best in New York Continue Reading →

Getting around NYC just got a little cheaper. Isis, a mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile and Verizon, announced an exclusive offer for American Express Card Members. Any AmEx Card Members who tap to pay with a registered Card for a ride in a qualifying NYC Yellow Medallion Taxicab by June 1, Continue Reading →

T-Mobile incurred the wrath of BlackBerry CEO John Chen and some of the phone’s loyalists by making an upgrade offer encouraging BlackBerry owners to trade in for a new iPhone. Aiming to make amends — and really calling the BlackBerry bluff — T-Mobile launched an upgrade offer that gave BlackBerry owners the choice of sticking Continue Reading →

Flipboard announced Wednesday morning that it is acquiring Zite, a competing news-recommendation and content-sharing app currently owned by CNN, and will use that acquisition to create a broad advertising and content partnership with the news giant. The two companies didn’t release the details of the acquisitions, but according to a report CNN Money the deal Continue Reading →

When we reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 back in October, we noticed that it was doing something funny. Launching most benchmarking applications would kick the phone’s CPU into overdrive, forcing all CPU cores to run at their maximum rated speeds for as long as the application was open. Maxing out the CPU frequencies threw a Continue Reading →

Intel has won the Basis auction, we’re hearing, at a price of around $100 million, according to one source. A second source pegs the deal at closer to $150 million. Basis makes wristwatch health trackers, capturing 7 percent of the market versus competitor Jawbone’s 21 percent. As Intel was all about the wearables this year Continue Reading →

We’ve all been in a situation where nature calls at a crowded event and an empty toilet is nowhere to be found. Airpnp is an experimental service that aims to solve this problem — by letting residences and businesses rent out their bathrooms to people in their immediate location who need to use it. Airpnp Continue Reading →

Microsoft is reportedly looking to port Xbox Live to Android and iOS, bringing its many functions to the mobile games that run on Google’s and Apple’s mobile operating systems. A recent Microsoft job posting notes ” We will create a modern framework that is open source, light-weight, extensible and scalable across various platforms including Windows Continue Reading →