Mobile Technology

Filipino Accelerator IdeaSpace Picks Country's Top 20 Tech Startups TechCrunch A look at the list of finalists reveals that healthcare is a top concern, and like many tech ideas in Asia's emerging markets, the heavy reliance on mobile technologies is apparent. IdeaSpace would not provide more details on the startups' models, in ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile tech prop for motor insurance Calcutta Telegraph Calcutta, March 24: Private motor insurance firms are betting big on mobile technology for quicker settlement of claims. General insurance firms ICICI Lombard and Bajaj Allianz, which together garner one-third of the net premium earned by private motor ... See all stories on this topic » Calcutta Telegraph

HetNet News: Ruckus ready for trackside networks, small cell predictions RCR Wireless News “There's no better way for mobile carriers to reduce costs while offering a service that millions or perhaps billions of users really want,” Hetting said. “In many ways it's a no-brainer, and thetechnology is already here. Embracing Wi-Fi will reduce ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple buys mobile mapping start-up FT.com (blog) WifiSlam's technology uses ambient wireless signals that are already present in buildings to pinpoint the location of smartphones, as opposed to the space-based satellite signals relied upon for larger-scale GPS mapping and navigation systems. See all stories on this topic »

Amazon's Mobile Strategy: Impulse Buying Rachel Metz MIT Technology Review Mobile computing is the fastest-spreading consumer technology in history, but the real change for the technology business is only just beginning. Sam Hall doesn't just eat his own dog food, as the Silicon Valley saying goes. He also orders it on his ... See all stories on this topic »

Google and Netflix et al reconfigure the Internet in bid for global content ... SymbianOne (press release) Instead, the Internet Innovation report concludes that the next decade will see the emergence of multiple commercial and technological arrangements for managing the relationship between telcos and content providers, including bandwidth-management ... See all stories on this topic »

Unity Technologies Collaborates With Qualcomm to Optimize Unity ... Marketwire (press release) These modifications will help improve the performance of Unity-authored games and applications running on mobile devices powered by a wide variety of Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processors from Qualcomm Technologies. As a result, developers will have ... See all stories on this topic »

NCR adds mobile payment component to POS software QSRweb.com NCR Corporation announced the launch of NCR Aloha Mobile, an extension of the NCR Aloha Table Service point-of-sale (POS) software. According to a release, Aloha Mobile allows restaurants to easily and securely deploy mobile technology for tableside ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile location data 'present anonymity risk' BBC News Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Catholic University of Louvain studied 15 months' worth of anonymised mobile phone records for 1.5 million individuals. They found from the "mobility traces" - the evident paths of ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News