Even when your phone’s off, you might not be off grid. The OFF Pocket, a metalized-fabric case currently on Kickstarter, blocks signals to mobile phones and ensures users digitally disappear. The product’s…
Locket Monetizes Mobile Ads, Pays You
It’s rare that consumers celebrate ads on their devices. But they may be singing a different tune after downloading Locket, which pays them for their time. Adding to the pros: Locket CEO…
Proven: A Mobile App and Early Bird
There’s an adage in business: If you’re early, you’re on time, and if you’re on time, you’re late. But to land a job in the first place, you’ll need to beat the…
Microsoft Reorganizes in Overhaul to Boost Mobile Efforts
Microsoft leaders announced its biggest overhaul in five years to improve its innovation and streamline its product line as it plays catch up with competitors in mobile and cloud computing efforts. The…
Mobile Ad Spend Spikes 83%, Earning $9B in 2012
Smartphone growth may have reached its saturation point in already developed markets, but mobile advertising revenue is just beginning to hit some impressive speeds. Global mobile advertising spend earned $8.9 billion in…
India Beats Japan to Become Third Largest Smartphone Market
India has surpassed Japan in the smartphone market, becoming for the first time the third largest in the world behind the US and China, a new report from Strategy Analytics points out.…
2-Year Old Snapchat Raises $60M at $800M Valuation
by Matt Gallagher, Red Herring Journalist Though their messages may self-destruct in 10 seconds, Snapchat’s potential at monetizing its massive user base that has eclipsed the likes of Instagram and Vine is…
Taking on Twitter’s Vine, Instagram Launches Video Sharing
Instagram announced video sharing capabilities this week at a special event in Facebook’s headquarters, giving Twitter’s Vine a run for its money. Instagram will enable 15-second clips of video (with a three…
Apple Wins Augmented Reality Patent to Make Mapping Interactive
Apple was awarded a patent this week for an augmented reality function that can tag objects in a live video stream and present information about those objects in an overlay on the…
More than 1/3 of Chinese Android Apps Stealing Data
In China, Google’s Android platform truly lives in the wild, wild West. A recent report from the Data Center of China Internet indicated that nearly 35 percent of Android apps secretly steal…