South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty ...
Tags: hardware, social networking, apps
Facebook has blocked Vintage Camera, an Instagram-like photo app, from accessing its API (application programming interface). The move follows the recent blocking of other apps by the social networking giant. Vintage Camera is an app for ...
Tags: Facebook, Vintage Camera, photo app
Microgaming's most successful slot, the 243-ways to win, Thunderstruck II now compatible with iOS and Android devices. LONDON, ENGLAND, February 19, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- When Thunderstruck II video slot was rolled out at Microgaming ...
Tags: Mobile Video, iOS devices, Android devices
Browser developer Opera Software will acquire Skyfire Labs, which develops technology to speed video delivery over mobile networks, the companies said Friday. The deal is valued at $155 million, which includes a mix of cash and stock and ...
Tags: Opera Software, Skyfire Labs, acquisition, mobile networks
Vimeo today announced the acquisition of Echograph, the popular iPhone and iPad app from Clear-Media. Echograph is a premium app that creates beautiful videos that look like animated GIFs. As part of this acquisition, Vimeo will offer the ...
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Norwegian web browser provider Opera Software has announced its acquisition of California-based mobile video optimisation provider Skyfire Labs in a deal that could be worth up to $155m (£100m). The move comes after Opera revealed ...
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According to new research from Cisco, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, exceeding the amount of data initiated over fixed lines by three to one by 2017. Cisco estimates that mobile data traffic ...
Tags: mobile data, fixed lines, 2017
The blocked Facebook friend-search feature on Twitter's new Vine mobile video app may be an annoyance for users, but it's all part of the social networking game. Vine, a service launched Thursday by Twitter that allows users to quickly ...
Looking to converge its telecoms services, the UAE-based Du announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with Alcatel-Lucent to deploy the latest IP-routing technology. The move will eliminate the need for Du to manage multiple networks, ...
Tags: Du, telecoms services, Alcatel-Lucent
The recent spat between Samsung and Qualcomm with Samsung announcing an eight core IC for mobile phones and Qualcomm's CEO dismissing it as a publicity stunt, is put in context by ST-Ericsson Fellow Marco Cornero and Andreas Anyuru. ...
Tags: Samsung, Qualcomm, mobile phones
Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and ...
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Despite widespread calls for more spectrum to carry mobile data, there is a wide range of technologies already being used or explored that could help to speed up networks or put off the day when more frequencies need to be cleared. ...
Tags: spectrum, mobile data, technologies, could, networks
Just a day before Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone, Google today released its first iOS YouTube app. The move, if not the timing, was anticipated: Last month Apple confirmed that its YouTube license had ended, and that its own app ...
Tags: Google, iOS Youtube app, Computer Products
INTERNET radio service Pandora has chosen Jane Huxley as Sydney-based managing director for Australia and New Zealand -- and its first employee in the region. Huxley brings more than 20 years of relevant experience in digital media, ...
Tags: internet radio service, digital media, mobile, video
Picometrix LLC of Ann Arbor, MI, USA, a subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc (which designs and makes silicon, InP- and GaAs-based APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz ...
Tags: Photonix, PIN, FILTRODE photodetectors