Yesterday at the urging of a friend, I ordered “Your Brain at Work” by David Rock on my iPod touch via the Amazon Kindle app. In doing so, I became one of many people who are helping the iPhone become more than just a phone. It’s la...

Updated to further clarify MySpace’s involvement: Google is set to lift the lid on its new music search system this afternoon, with a party at the Capitol Records building in Hollywood to celebrate the occasion. The product is a lot like what I...

With a number of Google’s Android OS-based smartphones on the horizon, developers are devoting significant resources to the mobile platform, which will result in a boom in Android apps, according to reports  from two Silicon Valley startups, F...

The Powermat charging pad. The technology industry has invested a lot of marketing energy and dollars into getting consumers excited about wireless power, the promise being that it will free us from the size and feature constraints imposed by batte...

The Federal Communications Commission at an open meeting today approved a draft of proposed rules related to net neutrality. As expected, the rules call for transparency and aim to ensure that the owners of the broadband pipe can’t discriminate...

If you live in the U.S. and own a mobile phone, it’s most likely an iPhone, according to a new study conducted by Nielsen. From January through October of this year, Apple’s little wonder device was the most popular phone in the country. It beat the...

The last few years have been brutal for some of the best-known companies in the handset business. Nokia has watched its dominance erode, Motorola failed to maintain the momentum it created with the Razr, and Sony Ericsson’s prospects look bleaker by...

Telefónica, the parent company of O2, today announced the acquisition of Jajah for €145 million (about $207 million) in an all-cash transaction. The company had raised $35 million from various investors including Deutsche Telekom, Intel Capital and...

Earlier this month, when I visited Paris for the Le Web 2009, the most important thing I “packed” for the trip didn’t weigh an ounce: an account with Wi-Fi hotspot aggregation service, Boingo. It alone allowed me to stay connected, avoid expensive...

The first batch of 150 tickets for the third annual Crunchies awards ceremony — scheduled to be held on Jan. 8, 2010, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco — go on sale today starting at noon PST. As we reported yesterday, you can also now vote for...