BEIJING, Feb. 15, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- KongZhong Corporation (the "Company") (NASDAQ: KONG), a leading provider of digital entertainment services for consumers in China, today announced it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire 100% of the equity interest in Noumena Innovations (BVI) Ltd. ("Noumena") and certain assets from a r... read entire news →

We’ve seen handset makers like HTC, LG and Nokia all warning of declines in smartphone sales. But if there is a slowdown affecting some, it’s not because people are not buying smartphones; it’s because they’re all buying iPhones. Figures out from Gartner today say that smartphone sales totalled 149 million units in Q4 2011 ... read entire news →

Despite its long and boring name, Cisco&8220;Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update&8217;ll read this year. The report examines the dramatic growth we&8217;s more telling figures, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth by the end of 2012. By 2016, there will be 1... read entire news →

The more you use your mobile phone, the less likely you are to care about other people, new research from University of Maryland has found. And the research isn't just talking about annoying social behavior like texting while on a date, or talking on the phone in a movie theater. The researchers found that after their subjects spent some time usin... read entire news →

Zite found that users of its iPhone app spend far more time reading articles during the day than do their iPad owner counterparts. (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) When Zite's Mike Klaas examines usage data for his company's news aggregation app, something very interesting pops out: he can pretty much paint a picture of how his users are spending the... read entire news →

The number of Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich is growing slowly, but the latest version of Google's mobile OS is still only available on 1.12 percent of Android-based gadgets. Mobile ad network Chitika examined the number of impressions it received in recent days and found that the most popular version of Android remains Gingerbread at 6... read entire news →

Details on the HTC Endeavor have emerged this weekend, after a ROM for the Android smartphone &8211; revealed it as a Tegra 3 powered 4.7-inch superphone with an 8-megapixel camera. The ROM was turned up at xda-developers, detailing Android 4.0.3 and Sense 4.0 along with NFC and Beats Audio; then HTC-Hub did some digging, pulling out... read entire news →

The Wall Street Journal report that Google is building a home entertainment system to let users stream music throughout the home without wires has roiled the tech sector the last couple of days. The news comes several months after Google unveiled a streaming music server that let users tap a CD against a consumer electronics device to have it pla... read entire news →