Smartphones

Shelly Palmer talks about Bitstamp’s recent hack, the future of Bitcoin and Alibab’s potential expansion on CNNi’s World Business Today. Continue Reading →

Have you ever been out for the afternoon, fire up Fruit Ninja to kill a few minutes and suddenly find your phone at low battery? You’re not alone. While Verizon may have shut down its own app store, the cell phone carrier began rating, reviewing and recommending Android and iPhone apps for its customers on Continue Reading →

Verizon Wireless may have shut down its own app store, but it’s not wiping its hands of app curation entirely. The carrier has started reviewing, rating, and recommending Android and iPhone apps for its customers. What’s interesting about Verizon’s approach is it isn’t making its recommendations based on how entertaining, useful, or fun a particular Continue Reading →

Apple’s devices are notorious for dominating user satisfaction, but that supremacy is starting to slip. Android smartphones are becoming more and more popular, and most recently four of them have ranked higher in the US than the company’s iPhone 5. In fact, the latest smartphone to grab first place is the low-end $0 Motorola Atrix Continue Reading →

Mobile is “the” story of 2013. This year, the industry will ship five billion mobile chipsets. By 2015, there will be three billion people connected to the Internet and, according to Cisco, over 15 billion connected devices. What does it all mean? Come with me to Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona from February 25-28 Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer Chats with Jim Blasingame on the Small Business Advocate Show. The two discuss the advantages of the Windows 8 operating system, what it means for Dell to go private (and what it means that Microsoft helped them to do so), and also how BlackBerry 10 stacks up to the competitors. Listen now through Continue Reading →

After promising it would release a Windows Phone 8 app back in November, Spotify has finally launched its music-streaming app on the Windows Phone Store, allowing Nokia, HTC, Samsung and owners of other Windows Phone 8 handsets to get their music fix. The app is free and so is the service for the first 30 Continue Reading →

A while ago, Google took its Street View cameras to the slopes and started documenting ski runs at a few select resorts. On Wednesday, Google is expanding its mapping options for skiers by adding 38 new run and lifts maps to Google Maps, including its apps for Android and iPhone. These include well-known ski resorts Continue Reading →

Samsung has done an excellent job of keeping us in the dark regarding the forthcoming Galaxy S IV launch dates, but the folks over at SamMobile seem to have locked in an announcement date of March 15. However, previous reports suggesting that the Galaxy S IV would be available in stores by mid-April may not Continue Reading →

There’s no mystery that Google is collaborating with Motorola on the so-called “X Phone” at least in part to weaken Samsung’s hold on the Android ecosystem. And now Benedict Evans, a strategy consultant for Enders Analysis, points us to some charts showing why Google is so eager to contain Samsung: It seems that Samsung’s Galaxy Continue Reading →