WeFi, the company behind the community-based global WiFi network, used the Mobile World Congress to launch the WeFi API to enable Android application developers to “benefit from WeFi’s award-winning WiFi technology.” What this actually means is that developers will be able to insert a snippet of code...

Google has finished its acquisition of video-compression-technology vendor On2 Technologies, boosting its efforts in online video. The deal closed after gaining approval from On2 shareholders and was valued at US$124.6 million, Google said in a brief statement late Friday. The figure was about $18 million...

After a hiatus, HP is back in the camera game with its Spring line-up of five new point-and-shoot cameras and three new camcorders. The budget devices mark HP’s first big camera announcement since 2007, though the company did release a few cameras as a soft launch at CES in January. The newly...

Bing will become a better search engine when Microsoft takes over Yahoo search, and better able to compete with search giant Google, the U.S. Department of Justice said in its decision supporting the deal. The reasoning is simple: By handling the back end of all Yahoo searches, Microsoft will gain access to...

Apple has increased the cap for downloads over 3G networks on the iPhone from 10MB to 20MB, in what some think is a sign of heavier multimedia content appearing for the upcoming iPad. By now, every time you wanted to download a podcast or application from the App Store that was over 10 MB, you got an...