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With smartphone sales continuing to grow and applications extending what is achievable using a mobile phone, there is no wonder that there are more mobile-focused events and conferences that look into what makes mobile successful and suggests ways to monetize it. One such event isMobile 2.0 Europe – openIDEAS Barcelona, a two-day conference that will appeal to those interested in the next big things in mobile, whether its coming up with that next big idea or being the person to make that idea happen....

While it may sometimes seem like it, Mobile World Congress isn’t just about sexy new handsets. There’s a lively developer and startup scene here in Barcelona this week too. Part of that is theMobile Premier Awards. This afternoon, startups and developers have been up on stage pitching their apps, and after some tough deliberation from the judges the following winners have been announced. App Circus Winner Swiftkey– Smart predictive text service for Android handsets....

Student Allen Paltrow was 12when he met Steve Jobs. Paltrow is a huge fan of Apple and had taken to shaving the company’s logo into the back of his head to celebrate every OS launch. His enthusiasm earned him a chance to meet Jobs himself and a story to last a lifetime. The story of how Paltrow got invited to the grand opening of the 5th Avenue Apple Store in NYC starts with him emailing Jobs a picture of his head and an ‘enthusiastic and grammatically incorrect message’....

Our planetary companion is putting on quite a show for amateur astronomers all around the globe during the month of June! These events all happen slowly, and will be visible to people around the globe, providing us with a global show. Over the course of June, theMoonwill huddle up close to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn! Plus, we will also witness the final supermoon of the year, and this sweet sight is also a strawberry Moon!...

The Moon’s surface is rusting — and Earth may be to blame Rust on the Moon shouldn’t be possible, but there it is — so how did it form? Actually, Earth may be to blame. Riding the solar wind The solar wind — a stream of charged particles — constantly emanates from theSun, feeding the Earth and Moon with hydrogen. This hydrogen acts as a reducer — adding electrons to molecules, hindering the production of hematite....