Mobile & Wireless

Verizon Wireless has recognized local, New York City-based startup Smart Vision Labs with a $1 million award as part of its Powerful Answers Award winners during a presentation at CES. Verizon encourages innovators to help solve major world problems through this program, with special attention to education, healthcare and sustainability. Of the more than 1,300 entries submitted over Continue Reading →

If you love music, AT&T has an awesome new offer for you. The company is introducing an innovative new way for families to experience the music they love through an exclusive partnership with Beats Music by addressing the challenges that exist with current music subscription services today – lack of unique personalization and high costs Continue Reading →

PasswordBox was named the 2014 CES Mobile App Showdown winner. One of the app’s most innovative features is Digital Legacy, which lets you share your social passwords with a trusted family member to help manage what happens to social accounts after death — like your Facebook account, for instance. To get a good sense of what, exactly, this entails, Continue Reading →

It’s easy to imagine that being blind or visually impaired more or less excludes people from using smartphones or tablets. But nothing could be further from the truth. App stores have a dizzying variety of products that help the visually impaired access all kinds of information much more easily than would otherwise be possible. These Continue Reading →

Samsung Electronics Co. will release its Galaxy S5 smartphone by April and is studying using eye scanner technology for the first time as it readies the high-end handset to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhones. The S5 will be paired with a new wearable device that will be an evolution of the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, Lee Continue Reading →

Love is supposed to mean never having to say you’re sorry. But Snapchat has expressed both love and apologies for a bug that caused headaches for the millions of users whose names and phone numbers were exposed unexpectedly. In a blog post on Thursday, Snapchat said it was “sorry for any problems this issue may have Continue Reading →

Intel intrigued many with its “charging bowl” concept this week. The idea of coming home and dropping your phone and wearables into a tasteful bowl by the door for fast and easy battery charging is appealing. Yet Asian component powerhouse Mediatek may be racing ahead in the wireless charging wars with its Inductive and Resonance Continue Reading →

Sprint Corp on Tuesday unveiled a new option called “framily” plans that give up to 10 family members or friends big service discounts if they sign up as a group, the latest move in an increasingly competitive market. The new option, which could represent a service discount of almost 50 percent from Sprint’s existing family Continue Reading →

Nokia is preparing to release a new 5-inch 1080p device for Verizon, and the US carrier appears to have accidentally listed the device on its website today with a placeholder price of $777. Labeled as the Nokia Lumia Icon, the 5-inch device includes a 20-megapixel camera, 2.2GHz quad-core processor, and a 2420 mAh battery according Continue Reading →

T-Mobile USA announced on Wednesday the next phase of the operator’s “Uncarrier” business model with a bold offer to pay customer’s early termination fees if they switch from competing carriers AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. T-Mobile says it will pay up to $650 per line in some situations. Word of T-Mobile’s plan leaked out earlier this Continue Reading →