Google has finally pulled the plug on SMS Search, a feature on phones allowing a user to text Google a query and then Google would send back a list of results and answers. This was used regularly back when the iPhone and Android smartphones were not a thing and people used either a "baby Internet" portal on a mobile or a feature phone. Instead of waiting a few minutes for pages to load on 2G connections, the SMS messaging was instant and Google had quick speeds getting ...

The mobile web is getting increasingly important and is fast becoming a lifestyle for many of us. Unfortunately for publishers and many website owners, it is not always easy to know where to start or how to satisfy the mobile audience. Nonetheless, getting a mobile website is definitely a great step. Once your content or website becomes available to your target audience, and they love it, you can begin to develop ways to monetize them ...

Smart phone users have the luxury of instant access to new emails. This is a luxury any one, smart phone user or not, can have with a little help from MailBliss. The amount of people using text messages had risen exponentially since the time we started using mobile phones. People receive several messages on a daily basis. These same people are relying more on SMS messages to communicate. Adding an email service to work with the text ...

One of the rather unfortunate downsides of modern smart phones is that they sure do cost a lot of money. Even with a renewed contract of special sale, you can end up paying hundreds of American dollars for a good cell phone. These things are expensive. So, you definitely don’t want to lose it. It would be pretty awful to spend a couple hundred dollars on something that gets stolen. Thankfully, there ...

Google's new project - GoMo - seeks to change the way your use the Internet on your mobile devices. This project is aimed primarily at mobile phones but could be aimed at all forms of devices on the go, such as iPads and tablets. Since the majority of Internet users are now surfing on the go, they may not be able to take advantage of a web site if the site itself does not offer a mobile ...

Ever since the inception of the smartphone, these devices that we can hold in our hands have replaced more and more of the previously essential items to keep with us when we go out, and converging them into one constantly-connected swiss army knife of the digital world. This time around, it's the wallet that's getting the boot from our decreasingly bulging pockets, as Google has introduced 'Google Wallet', so what's it all about?   What is Google Wallet? Well at the moment, Google Wallet is exclusive to Google's ...

The China based Alibaba Group is planning to launch its own operating system,  for mobile devices, called Aliyun OS along with it anew smartphone, in partnership with K-Touch, the W700. Aliyun OS derives from Linux and is reportedly similar to Android and could even run Android applications. Plus, Alibaba’s operating system could also run other web apps based on HTML5 and JavaScript, whether the users are online or not. These compatibility would give developers the chance and the flexibility to create applications for the devices running Aliyun ...

Similar to the idea behind Google Chrome OS, Mozilla is building its own operating system to compete with its rival. The only thing is, unlike the netbook-focused Chrome OS, Mozilla’s operating system project is being developed for mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. Boot to Gecko(B2G), the new web-based mobile operating system, was built from the need to create a standalone system for the open web, aiming to “make open web technologies a better basis for future applications on mobile and desktop alike”, said Mozilla researcher ...

For some time now, smartphones have become more and more so. Using ever updated hardware to give better usability and increased processing speeds, manufacturers were able to use the latest in mobile OS technology for their devices. However, the difference between mobile OS and standard, computer OS has always been clear. And, in turn, this growing gap has given rise to an ever-increasing desire to manufacture a mobile device which could run a standard desktop OS.   First Ever Phone That can run Windows 7 OS: Enter the upcoming 

Google is really been busy lately working on new features and services. Just when you think they’ve run out of ideas, they turn around and come up with something else totally convenient and useful. You may (or may not) be familiar with Google Sites and the many free templates that are offered; well now they’ve add free mobile templates to the roster. That’s right, now you can create your very own mobile site using ...