Mobile

Are you doing the Boston Typewriter? Perhaps we're lucky that when it comes to marketing, viral video has its limits.

In the app store, no one knows you're a dog.

Engineering beneficial computer viruses to protect wireless devices, researchers learn to treat time as a network.

A business-machine brand and icon of twentieth-century design jumps into the tablet race.

Google engineers send their latest smartphone into the upper atmosphere, extending the reach of the do-it-yourself impulse into space.

A new remote-control ball controlled by a smartphone app seems less like magic than a kind of undead.

By slowing down your music, this app helps you keep below the speed limit. Whether it makes driving safer or not, it's a reminder that augmented reality is about more than images.

it can be difficult to find genuinely useful apps for content creation of any kind. Shrink a powerful sampling keyboard down to iPhone size, and maybe you've got an answer.

Is mobile the answer for a pioneering, moribund social networking brand?

At the Web 2.0 Summit, a look at the emergence of mobile technology and unforeseen twists in the story of the digital divide and the ongoing evolution of the public sphere.