"The fight is about keeping the Internet – including the mobile Web — an engine of choice and innovation as well as economic value,” says Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker,  a scheduled speaker at the Web Summit in Dublin.  “That is why it is so important to build freedom into the technology itself."

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With makers of mobile phones and other consumer technology rushing to beat the competition to market with their newest gadgets, logistics has taken on increased importance for everyone from hardware giants like Apple to start-ups seeking to get their first product into the hands of consumers. PCH International, a company started by Irishman Liam Casey is the company they  to for help.Read more

Who could have predicted that a young Silicon Valley company with no expertise in the sector could develop a mobile operating system that would corner half of the global market in just two years? Or that the same company would end up buying once mighty Motorola for $12.5 billion?  Google has successfully pulled off both moves.Read more

Evoking images of the Allies landing at the Normandy beaches in 1944 Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop said in late January that the Finnish mobile phone maker had managed to “establish a beachhead” in the smartphone market.Read more

If Italy’s Monte dei Paschi di Siena (pictured above), which has been operating without a break for over five centuries, represents the banking sector’s history, its future is more likely to resemble that of a 35-year old company: the one behind the iPhone, iPad and iTunes.

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During his tenure as Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt attended a private meeting in Davos with a group of senior telecom executives and tried to crack a joke. “Why don’t you make all of the investment and we will take all the profits,” quipped Schmidt, according to a story making the rounds in the tech industry. Nobody in the room laughed. His stab at humour hit too close to home.

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Gate-crashing U.S. tech giants Apple and Google have been so successful at grabbing market and mindshare from Nokia, the world’s largest handset maker, and Symbian, the long-time market leader of operating system software for advanced mobile phones, that the Finnish phonemaker realized it had to take drastic action. It announced February 11 that it is forging a sweeping strategic partnership with another long-time rival, Microsoft, aligning its destiny with that of the US software giant in the burgeoning smartphone market.

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 Google chief executive Eric Schmidt managed to snag a cherished slot as a keynote speaker at this year's Mobile World Congress,  the industry's biggest annual bash.   But announcements made at the show's opening February 15 illustrate how the mobile sector is struggling to grab the spotlight back from  Apple and Google.Read more