Evernote aims to expand its note-taking app’s popularity in the U.S. to other countries by making deals with carriers, and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom is the latest to provide Evernote’s Premium service free to its subscribers.
Google launched its television white spaces internet trial program in ten schools in South Africa on March 25. White space internet, which Microsoft has also begun to test in rural Kenya, involves transmitting wireless signals through white, or empty, spaces between broadcast television airwaves.
The recent Saudi Arabian government’s threat to ban internet messaging services, coupled with its Grand Mufti’s Twitter slam, reiterate the country’s stringent approach to internet regulation even as its population increasingly joins the global user base.
Despite companies recent efforts and plans to integrate ads into social media and mobile, to consumers, those ads are only slightly more appealing than traditional banner ads.
As more government entities shift toward using cloud computing technologies, the CIA is the latest agency to have reportedly agreed to a cloud computing contract with Amazon Web Services.
Mobile health tech continues to develop, but its doubted usefulness and potential regulation are obstacles to its growth.
YouTube announced that it had 1 billion unique monthly viewers on March 20. Google attributed its increase in views to “Generation C”, the ages 18 to 34 year old demographic.
In the seven years of Twitter’s existence, its usage has grown to hundreds of millions of users, and influenced political and cultural movements.
Yahoo is reported to be buying a 75% stake in Daily Motion, the French video-sharing site second to YouTube, for around $300 million.
Myanmar is a land of opportunities for smartphone makers and wireless providers.
