Working in the mobile advertising business, New York City-based Xtify has been building its platform for brands and other app developers, allowing for geo-targeted notifications — most often, ads — that are pushed to consumers when they a...

PlacePop,  a company that allows any company to create and maintain virtual loyalty cards, launched its iPhone app today. It also announced fresh funding of $1.4 million from a number of angel investors. PlacePop wants to replace the clumsy, physic...

Google’s Android 2.2 “Froyo” update is finally hitting more phones than just the Nexus One. Sprint announced today that it will start rolling out the update to Evo 4G users starting next Tuesday, August 3, Engadget reports. Android...

Among the scary talks at the Black Hat security conference yesterday was one entitled “You will be billed $90,000 for this call.” That title was an exaggeration, but it certainly highlighted the risks facing users with unprotected mobile...

Be prepared to be scared about your cell phone privacy. Two security researchers showed today how they can track down cell phone numbers, identify the person who owns the phone, and then track the whereabouts of that person. And they can do it with t...

Google today announced on its Mobile Ads blog that it has launched location-aware display advertisements for mobile phones. Through Google’s “location extension” feature, advertisers can now include their location and phone numbers...

Carriers are often the gatekeepers when it comes to deploying new services to mobile networks and devices. They can bring scale businesses in the mobile community in a sudden and dramatic way. And they are where the money is — the collection po...

The components that make up HTC’s Droid Incredible Android smartphone cost about $163.35, according to a teardown estimate by market research firm iSuppli. Most touchscreen smartphones today can usually be broken down into $150-$190 worth of co...

The problem with being private is that it increasingly means that you have to choose to drop out of society. You would never let the government put a tracking device on you, but you may be carrying a cell phone that tracks your location. You don̵...

A questionable Android mobile wallpaper app that collects your personal data and sends it to a mysterious site in China, has been downloaded millions of times, according to data unearthed by mobile security firm Lookout. That means that apps that see...

eWise, an online payments and financial management solutions company, has secured $12.1M in funding, it announced today. The round was led by prominent European tech investor Balderton Capital, and included Total Technology Ventures, Patagorang, and...

It looks like investors hope to take the “check-in” model popularized by Foursquare to TV viewers. A startup called Philo, which lets users share which shows they’re watching, just raised its first round of funding. We’ve cove...

Jack Gold is the founder and principal analyst at IT analyst firm J.Gold Associates. RIM has been feeling the heat in the smartphone business, along with everyone else who is not iPhone or Android powered. Indeed, Android has even been pressuring...

Another day, another Android departure. Google’s worldwide head of Android business development and operations, Tom Moss, has left the company this month. He owned relationships with the major handset manufacturers and carriers for Google and...

Last week we reported that RIM’s upcoming new touchscreen Blackberry (which also sports a slide-out keyboard) will likely hit shelves on August 15, according to the BlackBerry Partners Fund’s John Albright. Now Engadget reports that RIM is pl...