They start on smartphones, advance to the PC and perhaps finish tasks on tablets. They watch TV and search on what they’re seeing. They...

won a major victory “at home” and lost (partly) “on the road” in South Korea, where a court last Friday issued a split decision in its IP...

Beyond consumer purchases, Google envisions Wallet (online and mobile) to be a kind of ecosystem and platform for merchants. If...

Google is showing an animated, very prominent ad for the Nexus 7 tablet on its homepage today. The tablet has sold well though Google...

dramatic Apple victory over Samsung in its patent case in US federal court on Friday. Many bloggers, pundits and tech journalists are now...

The jury also found that Samsung’s infringement was “willful” in several cases and awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages. By the...

(Update: see our post-verdict story: Apple Wins: Proves Samsung Infringed Patents As Jury Awards $1B+ In Damages.) Apple might similarly...

App-making is a good capacity to develop in your business, since the app market is in a big boom right now, and there are still plenty of...

hacked into Gmail in early 2010, Google has struggled with its “China policy.” It threatened to withdraw from China and then reversed...

Much of the focus, though, is on the consumer side. Meanwhile, over on the merchant side of things, Square changed the game today with...

Mobile is hot and shows no sign of moving off marketers’ priority list. Not only is there an enormous, diverse mobile audience that...

In my last column, we discussed the conundrum of achieving–and maintaining–optimal visibility in mobile app stores. It’s a delicate...

Google Wallet is still waiting for consumer liftoff, that company is taking it into the cloud. Today Google announced that it was adding...

Several analyst firms have recently released tablet market-share estimates; however these are based almost entirely on “shipments,” which...

There are a variety of location-based data signals available to the mobile industry which have shaped a diverse landscape of products and...

released some new survey data that show an increasing percentage of US feature phone owners are making the switch to smartphones when...

just released its corporate earnings for Q3 of this year and the numbers are down. Apple is reporting $35 billion in revenue during the...

Nexus 7. More important, Google’s produced a device that’s a solid alternative to the iPad. If you can’t afford an iPad, don’t like the...

There will be 115.8 million smartphone users in the US by the end of 2012, and that number is expected to reach 176.3 million by 2015....

In my last column, we discussed the dilemma of when to build a mobile web site vs. when to build a native mobile app.  I find this...