Microsoft launches MS-DOS mobile to reboot its struggling smartphone efforts

Microsoft is going back to the basics for a joke at the expense of Windows Phone today. What do you do when your smartphone operating system has less than three percent market share worldwide? Reboot.

Nintendo enters alliance to develop games for smartphones

After years of scoffing at the threat from smartphones, Nintendo Co. is doing an about face and entering an alliance with Japanese mobile game company DeNA Co. to develop games for mobile devices.

The announcement Tuesday means that Nintendo's trademark game characters such as Super Mario and Pokemon could finally come to smartphones and tablets. Such characters have been fiercely protected by Nintendo, appearing only on Nintendo platforms such as the Wii home console and 3DS mobile machines.

Fujitsu smartphone prototype one-ups iPhone’s Touch ID with infrared iris authentication

Earlier this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Japanese tech giant Fujitsu upped the ante for biometric security in mobile phones with the unveiling of a smartphone equipped with iris authentication. It provides a unique – and tougher to crack – alternative to the increasingly popular thumb scanners now standard on Apple and Samsung’s flagships.

Lenovo unveils a camera-phone hybrid, a smartphone, and a pocket projector

Lenovo announced a grab bag of products here at Mobile World Congress 2015 today, including a new camera-phone thing, a mid-market smartphone, and a small projector.First out of the gate is a new “camera phone crossover device” called the Vibe Shot. “It’s first a fabulous camera that shutterbugs will love, and secondly, a performance-laden, standalone smartphone,” Lenovo crowed.

BlackBerry Wants Startup Hustlers To Buy Its New Touchscreen Smartphone

BlackBerry has gone back to making touchscreen phones again after it unveiled the Leap, a device that the company believes will appeal to young people and startup founders, in particular.

Visa hopes to track smartphone locations to prevent credit card fraud for travellers

card fraud for travellers

Currently most of us have to inform our bank by phone when we’re travelling to avoid purchases in other countries appearing as red flags for fraud and being declined.

ARM just introduced the processors that'll power smartphones in 2016

ARM has just released a suite of new CPU and GPU designs that'll make 2016's mobile devices faster and — more importantly — more power-efficient. The core of the new processors ARM is introducing is the new Cortex-A72 mobile CPU — it's rated at 3.5 times faster than the current generation Cortex-A15 that started shipping in late 2012 in the Nexus 10, and it uses 75 percent less energy than the A15 under identical workloads.

Microsoft: High-End Lumia Windows Smartphones w/ Snapdragon 810s Incoming

New flagship Windows Phone devices should help revive Windows' market share in the high-end smartphone space

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) had some successes to be grateful for in Q4 2014, growing sales of its Lumia smartphones to a record 10.5 million units.  But much of that volume was driven by low end models like the Lumia 530 and Lumia 630/635; Microsoft's sales have slowed on the mid-range and high-end markets.  The key reason for this slowdown is a lack of internationally available product.  Indeed Microsoft had no clear flagship device in late 2014 that could keep up with Android OEMs hardware-wise.

A smartphone case maker might have made this year's best Super Bowl ad

The Super Bowl is still two days away, but between Budweiser's attempts to tug on your heartstrings to sell beer, and Kim Kardashian's selfie-centrc self-parody for T-Mobile, we've already seen a number of the big budget ads that will air during the big game's commercial breaks.

Analysts say Apple has beaten Samsung to become world's largest smartphone vendor

After recording the biggest quarterly profit by any company ever, Apple might have earned itself another accolade: world's largest smartphone vendor. It's clear that the iPhone maker had a bumper quarter, reporting record sales of 74.5 million smartphones. However, Samsung is only saying that it sold 95 million total handsets, of which, it says, somewhere between 71 million and 75 million (the "high 70 percent") were smartphones.