Mobile

Some iPhone 5 owners eligible for free battery swap

“Very small percentage” of about 50 million phones.

How Sensors Can Add Zing to Your Apps

The addition of sensor data can turn boring applications into exciting ones that impress your customers, a Forrester analyst says.

Store mannequins can now beacon passing smartphones

For the first time, store mannequins are being embedded with Bluetooth beaconing chips. And it’s cross-platform.

Two Galileo GPS satellites launched in wrong orbit

Samsung sinks to new low with ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Aug. 22

Study disputes predictions of coming spectrum crunch

Apple iWatch release may be pushed back to 2015

What matters in the fall smartphone lineup: brand, display size, battery life, LTE

Google’s search app gets friendlier to bilingual Android users