Google Reportedly Testing New Mobile Image Search Results Design

From time to time Google makes a variety of changes to its design of its websites. It’s usually nothing huge or drastic, but rather subtle changes meant to help improve the ease of use of its services. Recently it seems that Google has been testing out a new design for its image search results on mobile devices.

Google says it's now bigger on mobile than desktop in 10 countries

Google is focusing more firepower than ever before on meeting the demands of mobile users, and with good reason: the company has confirmed it's now serving more Google searches on smartphones than desktop computers in 10 countries — including the US and Japan.

Google Could Offer Free International Roaming On Its Mobile Network

Reports out of the United Kingdom suggest that Google is in talks with several mobile operators in the country which will ultimately allow users of its mobile network to use the service outside of the United States at no extra charge. If a deal is reached basically it would offer free international roaming to people on Google’s mobile network. Apparently that’s what Google and Hutchison Whampoa are negotiating, the company operates UK’s Three Network and is also making efforts to acquire the O2 network in the UK from Telefonica.

MomentCam, with 200M downloads, wins Facebook’s first Fb Start mobile app contest

Facebook has crowned the winner of its first-ever Fb Start competition, a contest that sought to identify the best apps in the world that are part of its program aimed at helping mobile developers.

Facebook Took The Scenic Route, But Now It’s Nailing Mobile

A company can’t easily shore up its weaknesses, especially when it grows to the size of Facebook, but the social network has managed to slowly but surely reinvent itself on mobile in a way that makes sense and resonates with users. FB surely stumbled along the path, and some of its efforts even drew outright scorn, but presumably the ill-fated experiments informed recent successes, and so it’s worth a quick examination of how we got from here, from there.

How The Apple Watch And iPhone 6 Plus Might Flip Your Mobile Computing Habits

Apple’s new wearable hardware could eventually become much more than just an optional accessory – eventually, it could be one half of a Voltron-style combo that makes up the bulk of our computing life, relegating the tablet and smartphone model to the past. Just like a tablet/smartphone combo was a common duo over the past few years, a smartwatch/phablet duo could be the optimal setup for working on-the-go in the future.

UK mobile operators will limit bills from stolen phones to £100

Five UK mobile networks – EE, O2, Three, Virgin Media and Vodafone – have agreed to limit the bill customers could face if their phones are stolen.

Elliptic Labs unleashes faster touchless gesturing for mobile devices

Elliptic Labs, which specializes in ultrasonic touchless gesturing for consumer electronics, has announced what it calls “Ultra-fast Ultra-far Interaction” — meaning super fast speed coupled with a larger field of response for its touchless gesture technology.

Take charge of your mobile device with the Power Vault 18,000mAh portable battery pack

Never run out of battery power on your mobile device again with the Power Vault, available at the Pocketnow Deals Store for a limited time.

US mobile users can unlock their phones and more easily switch carriers from today

Tired of your mobile operator’s service or plans? The Cellular Telephone Industries Association’s (CTIA) new standards on unlocking phones go into effect among all mobile service providers in the US today, allowing users to switch carriers, provided they clear any binding terms on their contracts.

Coursmos Gets $600K To Push Its Mobile-Friendly Micro-Courses At Corporates

Coursmos, an online learning startup out of Russia that began as a mobile app back in 2013 offering bite-sized, user-created micro-courses for the attention-deficit generation, has taken in a new tranche of seed funding to scale up and attack the b2b learning space.