While smartphones seem to be hogging all the air-time lately, it’s easy to forget that most of the world (over 80%) is still using basic or feature phones. While this may be a sobering statistic for app developers hoping to get rich quick by selling half a billion 99c iPhone apps to India, it need not affect the mobile world’s ‘appiness too much, because Israeli firm Snaptu is rather successfully bringing high end apps to low end phones in the cloud.

In a muggy, overcast and polluted city like Hong Kong, it seemed somewhat apropos to gather together thought leaders from the mobile industry for a discussion on mobile computing and the cloud. That fluffy, shape shifting, overshadowing Cloud which has managed to e

In a slightly unforeseen, but by no means unwelcome move music legend and Knight of the Realm Sir Paul McCartney has struck a deal with HP to set up a private cloud in an effort to digitise his no-doubt huge collection of music, artwork, photographs and videos from his years in the music industry.

Another day, another “anonymous source”, this time claiming to have to inside track on Google’s closely-guarded upcoming music service. An article posted on Billboard yesterday makes some bold claims about the as-yet-unannounced service.

Mobile content revenues are expected to more than triple from 2009 to 2014, according to a new report from eMarketer called “Mobile Content: Games, Music and Video Take to the Cloud.”

It has apparently been a very good year for Chinese telecom equipment and network provider ZTE. The Chinese firm announced not only had it leapfrogged rival Alcatel Lucent to become the world’s number two fixed broadband infrastructure provider, but also that it had just won a lucrative passive optical network (PON) equipment deal with China Telekom and will partner with Telekom Malaysia

Powered by the latest Android OS, the A10 is “the perfect combination” of phone and GPS; or so claims Asus.

Here at Computex 2010 both Asus and MSI have stated their commitment to the clouds, with their future mobile eco-system, including the latest Tablets and Pads, maintaining some lofty co-operation.

With physical stores increasingly coming into competition with online retailers, it seems almost inevitable that one would begin to borrow from the other

Over the last decade, computing power has become much cheaper, more plentiful and more widely available. At the same time, some companies have been built on business models that require massive aggregate computing power.