Communications Major

File this under "there's an app for that". Moviefone (777-FILM) will be shutting down next month. Not that you've been dialing for movie times much in the recent past. Moviefone is off to join the pay phone, calling card and cordless land line phone in the heap of no longer useful technologies and conveniences that once facilitated communication and information.

WhatsApp, the largest messaging service in the world, will now be under the command of Facebook.

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app for smartphones, according to OnDevice Research.

Buying WhatsApp will only bolster Facebook's already strong position in the crowded messaging world. Messenger, Facebook's a standalone messaging app for mobile devices, is second only to WhatsApp in its share of the smartphone market.

Just because you can cook, doesn't mean you should take photos of it. Poor Martha Stewart. She needs help with a couple of good photo apps. Warning: Gross food photography ahead.

A paint company is offering a smartphone app that suggests paint colors based on consumers’ favorite songs.

Blame the Internet and/or the ease of making smartphone videos. Now the everyday celebrity sex video is generally greeted with a collective yawn rather than mass scandal. 

A short history of BlackBerry smartphones, which now may be destined to become relics.

For better or worse, getting one of Apple's new lower cost 5C iPhones isn’t just about ownership — it’s about "shownership", inspiring desire and jealousy in those around you that you’ve got the latest device.

Instagram has blocked a large number of hashtags — the keywords people use with "#" as a prefix to make their images more searchable — and unsurprisingly most of them are obscenities. The Data Pack has a large list of hashtags that Instagram has rendered unsearchable. You can tag your photos with them, but doing so is meaningless because no one will be able to search for them.

The plot of "The Breakfast Club" would have been much less interesting if it took place in the 21st century. Why? Well, you can still get detention, but now you bring your SmartPhone. 

You came loaded with so much promise. I had heard that you were going to revolutionize the smartphone industry with your 70,000 apps, your easy toggle button between work and personal mode, and your centralized notification system....But then you died. After four days of trying you out, for no reason at all, you simply refused to turn on. I removed and replaced your battery, tried to manually reset you, and even connected you to my laptop to see if I could revive you that way.

Report suggests growing labor costs, customer acceptance will spur usage of tablets and smartphones at restaurants, replacing some wait staff.

A mugging last night in Central Park went wrong, very wrong - for the mugger. His victim was not carrying the newest Smartphone on the market. Instead, all he had was a 3-year-old flip phone.

All hail the quick, reliable taxi SINCE last month the citizens of Johannesburg have been able to hail and pay for taxis through SnappCab, a local start-up. A tap on...

The birth of the iPhone. It was just a mere six years ago and it changed everything. 

Really? Smartphone addicts are starting to curb the habit. 

Doubt this ruling will stick, but it might make you lay off texting the hubby (or wifey) on their way home from work to pick up that carton of vodka.... um... we mean milk. 

People now spend 37% of online time on mobile devices - smartphones and tablets.