Smart Watch Galore; Zuckerberg's Internet; and more [Weekly Mobile Newsletter]

March 9, 2015 Weekly Mobile Newsletter

NEWS More Stylish Smart Watches on Show New and improved smart watches were unveiled at Mobile World Congress—but consumers remain unconvinced.       NEWS Zuckerberg and Others Discuss Growing the Internet Efforts to expand Internet access via mobile technologies may be stymied by economic and social challenges.

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NEWS Google Researchers Demonstrate Breakthrough Needed for Quantum Computing Researchers from a university and Google demonstrate a crucial error-correction step needed to make quantum computing practical.       NEWS Groupon Founder Andrew Mason on His New Startup, Detour With the Detour iPhone app, Groupon founder Andrew Mason wants to make location-aware audio tours where technology seems to fade into the background.     NEWS By the numbers: the Internet’s Language Gap Efforts to bring Internet connectivity to developing countries don’t address the fact that little content is available in local languages.     NEWS Wireless Innovation Is Challenging Internet Incumbents Beyond the U.S., many ISPs have less of a grip on their communications markets.     NEWS An App to Simplify Nights Out An app called Vurb aims to make it easier to search for stuff to do using a smartphone.     VIEW Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending March 7, 2015) A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.     VIEW Five Cool Things Revealed at Mobile World Congress This year’s Mobile World Congress was about everything except the mobile phones.     VIEW Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending March 7, 2015) Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.     SEE MORE STORIES »

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