A Man's New Status Symbol Source: Wikimedia Commons What defines a man? The phone he carries around with him, according to 61% of men surveyed by media site Vuclip. The mobile video and media company asked participants to complete the phrase, ...

By John Reeves The Motley Fool Makers of smartphones are expecting a blockbuster holiday season. According to International Data Corporation, a leading provider of market intelligence, smartphones are likely to grow 39.5%, year-over-year, ...

By Sterling Wong Minyanville The idea that smartphones are making us dumber is not a new one. With the increasing ubiquity of iPhones (NASDAQ:AAPL), Androids (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Samsung (NASDAQ:SSNLF) Galaxies, much has been written about how an ...

As the smartphone market slows, tablets are becoming an increasingly popular way of consuming mobile data, according to the latest report by mobile advertising network Jumptap. The company found that tablets accounted for 18% of all mobile traffic ...

By Josh Wolonick Minyanville If 2012 was the year that disc drives and compact discs became obsolete, the ubiquity of GPS services on smartphones made stand-alone GPS devices unnecessary, and small-screened smartphones were widely replaced by the ...

The world is a dangerous place to be, and the more we depend on computers and their sundry relatives (read: smartphones), the more dangerous it is. Our telephones have become computers in their own right. And everybody and their dog keeps sending ...

By Dave Schepp Daily Finance Samsung Electronics is set to unveil its latest smartphone at a high-profile event Thursday evening in New York, where the company has rented New York's Radio City Music Hall to unveil the Galaxy S IV, expected to hit ...

It's not as if smartphones were bidding good-bye, but their popularity has been sinking lately. Thus a report by British international marketing research company, Intersperience. Why? Simply because the technology hasn't been keeping up with ...