Mobile Device

T-Mobile dumps mobile phone contracts, will switch to installment plans Oakland Press NEW YORK - T-Mobile USA is ditching phone subsidies under a new set of service plans, hoping to differentiate its offerings from bigger rivals by promising customers more flexibility. The No. 4 U.S.mobile network operator, owned by Deutsche Telekom, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Reservoir aims to charge your mobile devices over and over again TechHive Clad in soft black material, the 8000 mAh capacity device allegedly holds enough juice to charge a normal smartphone an average of five times over (it also works with tablets using a 2A output). Weighing 5.9 ounces, the Reservoir is able to ... See all stories on this topic » TechHive

Apple (AAPL) Chips Away at Samsung Lead in Mobile Device Shipments - IDC StreetInsider.com (subscription) According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Smart Connected Device Tracker, worldwide shipments of smart connected devices grew 29.1 percent year over year in 2012, crossing 1 billion units shipped with a value of $576.9 billion. The market ... See all stories on this topic »

Pentagon Retaining Multivendor Mobile Device Strategy ExecutiveGov Damian Pickart, a department spokesperson, told GCN said the department is taking a multivendor approach for its mobile device management strategy. The department is aiming to have a management system and application store supporting 100,000 ... See all stories on this topic » ExecutiveGov

Battle of the mobile phone keyboards – BB10 vs iOS vs Swype vs SwiftKey Tech2 One was an iOS user and the fourth has been using the BlackBerry Z10 device for a few weeks. Also, all their keyboards pose unique fundamental design differences. While all may be QWERTY in form, each one is different in terms of functionality, layout ... See all stories on this topic » Tech2

Samsung launches its Two New Service Centers for Mobile Devices Zawya (registration) (press release) This has lead Samsung last week to officially open two new service centers both in Riyadh and in Jeddah entirely dedicated to mobile phone services. In Jeddah, the center is only a few minutes away from Souq AlAmir, the largest mobile phone market in ... See all stories on this topic »

Stores rethinking registers, go with mobile devices Harrison Daily Nordstrom Inc., an upscale department store chain considered the gold standard within the retail industry, plans to phase out cash registers in favor of mobile checkout by next year. The company has handed out iPod Touch devices at all of its full ... See all stories on this topic »

T-Mobile now allows you to actually own your phone SlashGear If you're thinking about picking up a smartphone in the near future and aren't connected at the hip to one carrier or another here in the USA, you might want to hear what T-Mobile has to say this week. They've got a big event coming up tomorrow, but ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

Feature: Mobile Devices And Digital Investigation Police Oracle Smartphone and tablet technology has developed faster that the field of digital forensics, which develops techniques to extract data from the devices without compromising the evidence. So how will high-tech crime units and specialist service providers ... See all stories on this topic » Police Oracle

Group Buying Ahead of the Mobile Curve Econsultancy (press release) (blog) It is no secret that mobile commerce has shown considerable growth over the past couple of years. In this time, Affiliate Window has seen a staggering increase in traffic and transactions across the network occurring on a mobile device. While we have ... See all stories on this topic »