If 90 percent of Latin America is covered by mobile broadband, why is more than half the population not online? Here are the four major barriers new research has found keeping the Latin American economy from bursting on the mobile Internet scene.
The Firefox OS smartphone will soon be no more. Mozilla announced on Tuesday that it would stop developing and selling smartphones based on its experimental mobile operating system.
Latinos have been the leading edge in adoption of mobile technology and smartphones in the U.S. since the beginning of the trend. Now Hispanics outside of the U.S. may take the reigns, as a boom in Latin America's mobile market is taking shape.
On Thursday, Motorola dramatically unveiled a new 2015 Moto X model, the Moto X Force, that Motorola says sports a shatterproof display. Not crack-resistant or "tough as nails," but shatterproof. And the company is backing up the claim with a four-year replacement guarantee.
What if a dating app had an approach that incorporated more transparency, more trust, and none of the swipe-through, throwaway hookup attitude, built-in to its core?
Music-streaming service Spotify is eyeing an expansion into Latin American markets, and the way to do that, the company says, is by integrating itself into consumers' phone contracts.
Last week, Cuba got its first free, public WiFi hub. But as significant as that is for the formerly hermetic island nation that's in the process of normalizing relations with the U.S. and others, it may just be the beginning of a much larger coming technology revolution in the country.
Jorge Granier found a way to give his family's legacy -- archival television programs from his family's media company, and former Venezuelan TV channel RCTV -- a new life online. Now he's set his sights on creating a global Spanish-language streaming empire.
For soccer fanatics, nothing gets them more passionate than every four years when the World Cup takes place. For 2014 World Cup fans in Brazil, apparently that passion is spreading beyond the stadiums, where location-based dating apps like Tinder and Grindr have erupted in popularity since the start of the world's biggest sporting event.
The World Cup, which kicked off this Thursday, is expected to be the most social media-intensive event in history. Already, in the year leading up to the world's biggest single-sport event, the phrase "World Cup" has outpaced other big sporting events in social media mentions. Here's how Twitter, Facebook and others have prepared and how they hope to capitalize on the World Cup.
On Monday, Google bought Titan Aerospace, developer of solar-powered drones that may purportedly fly uninterrupted for years. It's yet another move in the ongoing race between Google and Facebook to build (and control) the next big expansion of the internet - in developing countries.
Oppo Electronics, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer that is showing it can innovate as well as the top Android smartphone makers, recently announced it was entering the mobile market in Mexico with a few of its top smartphones.
South by Southwest Interactive has always been seen as the hip place to go to learn about the next big Silicon Valley startup, but the tone and focus has changed a little this year. The festival is toning down the "trendy" and enlarging its international focus, along with taking on some serious issues in technology.
Last year marked the first time smartphones outsold cheaper feature phones globally, but according to a new report, the smartphone frenzy is expected to slow down this year and into the near future. For PC makers, the computer market looks even worse.
