For Barcelona, four days isn’t enough. Spain’s second biggest city, which just hosted the nearly weeklong Mobile World Congress, wants to be a center of technology year-round. And it’s easy to see why. Faced with a worsening recession, a 26...
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Barcelona, which just hosted the Mobile World Congress, wants to become a major technology hub.
Show’s Over, But Barcelona Wants Mobile Spotlight to Keep Shining
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Motion sensors allow users to control the screen of a device without having to touch it.
How an Old Russian Invention Inspired STMicro’s Hover Screen
It’s the latest in mobile technology, inspired by an invention nearly a hundred years ago. At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, chipmaker STMicroelectronics is showcasing screen technology that works by just hovering your hand a few inches away from the...
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Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla, with the Firefox logo during a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Mozilla’s Fox Tries to Steal Spotlight and Outrun Google’s Android
While many European technology companies have pared back their presence at this week’s Mobile World Congress, Silicon Valley’s Mozilla is leaving a noticeably bigger footprint. The maker of the popular Firefox web browser sent about a hundred employees — which...
Read more »Europe’s Airwave Auctions Wrong, Says Deutsche Telekom Chief
When a government is buried in debt, making money from thin air sure sounds like a good idea. The U.K. and the Netherlands were among the latest European countries to sell wireless frequencies — the right to use certain airwaves...
Read more »Paying With Your Digital Wallet? Don’t Forget to Charge Your Device
Near-field-communication technology, or NFC, may allow consumers to someday leave their wallets at home and instead use their mobile devices as digital wallets, where credit cards, gift cards, coupons and bus passes are stored. But what happens if you forget...
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