Mobile & Wireless

AT&T is announcing new cellular plan options on Thursday that offer discounted rates to customers who forgo the usual subsidy given to those switching to the carrier or signing up for a new two-year contract. Starting on Sunday, the new “Mobile Share Value” plans will be available to customers who buy new phones outright, bring Continue Reading →

Well-known entertainment personality and producer Ryan Seacrest said he had invested in a startup, which he also co-founded, that makes a keyboard accessory for the Apple iPhone. The Typo Keyboard will makes its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at the beginning of 2014. While the company declined to discuss funding, sources Continue Reading →

Digital media pioneer Jeff Einstein started writing about media as addiction in 2004. Back then, he observed how our fealties and addictions to the media and digital devices in our lives had already begun to turn against us, like an addiction to any other narcotic. Of course, back then almost everyone thought he was crazy. Continue Reading →

This isn’t by any means the first time we’ve seen a cloud storage provider offer up a special offer, in fact it seems like the cool thing to do these days. With that in mind, it’s worth noting that Amazon is throwing its hat into the proverbial free cloud storage offer with 50GB of storage Continue Reading →

Google on Wednesday announced a big update to Google Search for Android that will make it a lot easier to find what you’re looking for, even if it’s not on the Web. In short, the company has added app listings, meaning you can now get results based on information inside apps on your device as Continue Reading →

While you’re still trying to work out why you need a curved phone, LG’s getting ready to sell you one anyway. That’s if you live in Hong Kong, Singapore or Thailand at least. The firm’s arched G Flex handset is just embarking on its worldwide rollout, with those nations getting first dibs (after it’s home Continue Reading →

Ever wonder how much an artist gets every time you click their song on services like Spotify? The Swedish streaming-music provider is looking to provide some answers amid continued debate over whether artists and music rights holders get a fair shake from their business model. Spotify on Tuesday unleashed a load of data,  revealing that Continue Reading →

The most popular mobile/handheld devices for playing videogames in the U.S. are Android phones and Apple’s iPad tablets, but Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets made a surprisingly strong showing in a June survey conducted by IDC. That survey’s results appear in the latest IDC-App Annie mobile gaming spotlight, out today. The overall winner was Apple, with Continue Reading →

Apple has acquired Topsy Labs, a social-analytics start-up that has an archive of every tweet published since Twitter launched in 2006. The purchase, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, was for more than $200 million, and will give Apple control of a company that is currently one of a handful with access to Twitter’s Continue Reading →

Well, we might have just found the grandaddy of all audiophile music apps, perfect for the most important music snob in your life: you. Of course, if you care about sound quality, you already have nice headphones. Canopener for iOS ($4), is about what happens right before the sound leaves your iPhone, but before it Continue Reading →