Opera Mobile 10 Beta Now Available For Windows Mobile Phones, Too

Categories: SciTech, Top Stories| Nov 18, 2009

Opera Mobile 10 Beta Now Available For Windows Mobile Phones, Too About two weeks after debuting the latest beta build of Opera Mobile for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 smartphones, Norwegian software maker Opera is bringing the latest beta version of its custom mobile browser application to Windows Mobile-powered devices. Microsoft's operating system ...Read More

Yahoo Discontinues “Go”, A GPhone Finally Cometh?

Categories: SciTech| Nov 18, 2009

Yahoo Discontinues “Go”, A GPhone Finally Cometh? Yahoo has decided to discontinue its "Go" mobile app. Go was originally part of a larger "three screen" strategy that included TV and mobile delivery of Yahoo content. The Go app was intended as a way to have a richer, ...Read More

Microsoft Looks Ahead to Azure, 'Dallas'

Categories: SciTech| Nov 17, 2009

Windows Azure cloud computing platform will become a production server on January 1, Ozzie said. This platform, which was announced at the PDC conference last year, will be free until Feb. 1, Ozzie said.The vision of Azure, said Ozzie, is ...Read More

Hands On: FLO TV Personal Television

Categories: SciTech| Nov 13, 2009

Hands On: FLO TV Personal Television Have you ever wanted to see the CNBC ticker fly by while waiting to pick up your dry cleaning, or to watch the game on TV as you sit in the stadium? The FLO TV Personal Television, from the company ...Read More

Smartphone sales up 13% in third quarter

Categories: SciTech| Nov 12, 2009

Despite worldwide economic woes, smartphone sales to end users grew by 13% in the third quarter over the year-earlier period, pushing the overall mobile phone market to grow slightly in the period, Gartner Inc. said today. "Smartphones continued to represent ...Read More

"Google Acquires AdMob, Mobile Display Ad Company" and related posts

Categories: SciTech| Nov 9, 2009

Google has acquired AdMob (www.admob.com), a popular mobile display ad company, for $750 million. Google has already built their own platform for AdSense on Mobile devices, but this acquisition gives Google access to AdMob's more than 15,000 mobile Web sites and ...Read More

New Skype Competitor: Google May Acquire Gizmo5 For $30M

Categories: SciTech| Nov 9, 2009

Google may be making a big play in the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) market and competing with Skype thanks to an acquisition of VoIP startup Gizmo5.The TechCrunch Web site, citing multiple unnamed sources, reported Monday that Google purchased Gizmo5 for $30 million. San ...Read More

AdMob: Google To Acquire Mobile Ad Network For $750M

Categories: Business| Nov 9, 2009

AdMob: Google To Acquire Mobile Ad Network For $750M MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cell phones, announcing a deal Monday to buy a mobile ad network, AdMob, for $750 million in stock. Google already has a mobile ad delivery system, ...Read More

Google to buy mobile ad network for $750 million

Categories: Business, Top Stories| Nov 9, 2009

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google is stepping up its push to sell advertising on cellphones, announcing a deal Monday to buy a mobile ad network, AdMob, for $750 million in stock. Google already has a mobile ad delivery system, DoubleClick ...Read More

AP answers your questions on the news, from polluted waterways to neutralizing nuclear waste

Categories: Top Stories| Nov 6, 2009

Instead of figuring out where to put nuclear waste, why can't we just find a way to neutralize it so it's no longer hazardous? Curiosity about what to do with nuclear waste inspired one of the questions in this edition of ...Read More