It seems more and more manufacturers are cosying up to the Android open source community. We recently saw HTC promise unlocked bootloaders from now on and it looks as if Samsung is getting in on the community love action by sending a shiny new...
For the first time since 2008, Apple Inc. (AAPL) declined to introduce a new iPhone today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. CEO Steve Jobs and his team of executives pulled few, if any, surprises on stage, however the software and...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Visiting Taiwan during Computex 2011, Google’s senior VP of Chrome, Sundar Pichai said the firm would not be porting its Chrome OS to tablets or handsets, nor would it be scaling Android up to Chromebooks. Since Google's Chrome browser was unveiled...
The keynote at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just wrapping up in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the company's CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest additions to their desktop operating system OS X, and iOS, its mobile sibling.
Ad agency AirPush has announced a new approach to in-app advertising – whereby ads are pushed directly to users' notification pane.The idea is that having installed an AirPush enabled app, ads targeted to the user will appear in the notification pane – even when...
Google Inc.’s Android OS (GOOG) showed national dominance in a new report released by Reston, Va.-based Comscore (SCOR) that shows Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone overtaking Research in Motion Ltd.’s (RIMM) previous BlackBerry dominance in smartphone markets.
The report highlighted trends in the U.S. mobile phone...
As any BlackBerry user will know, one of the best features about RIM's device - barring the stellar keyboard - is BlackBerry Messenger, which allows people to communicate with other BlackBerry users for free, anytime, anywhere through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has taken its HealthVault mobile. Microsoft has built client libraries to develop standalone HealthVault applications for Windows Phone 7, iOS and Android. The software development kits (SDK) for Windows Phone 7 are available now and iOS and Android will be available...
SAN DIEGO — Fourth-generation networks and the smartphones and devices that take advantage of that new technology are going to “supercharge” consumers' experience with mobility, Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corp., said in his keynote at Uplinq.Smartphones will increasingly become digital wallets for consumers...
Ad agency AirPush has announced a new approach to in-app advertising - whereby ads are pushed directly to users' notification pane.
The idea is that having installed an AirPush enabled app, ads targeted to the user will appear in the notification pane - even when...
Poor PC vendors. If a new report by analyst firm IDC is to be believed, the world and his wife are conspiring to reduce PC shipment growth for the rest of 2011. At the beginning of the year IDC predicted 7.1% growth for the PC sector, however after a poor Q1 that forecast has now been revised down to just 4.2%.
Taipei, Taiwan – The upcoming PadPhone from Asus will sport Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich, RCR discovered at Computex this week.Asustek’s tablet/phone combo – which allows consumers to use one SIM for two devices by allowing the smartphone to dock at the back of...
SAN DIEGO — Until Nokia Corp. (NOK) releases some actual equipment running on Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows Phone operating system, signaling a return to better days and some semblance of longevity in the smartphone space, the Finnish company is going to be on the...
Taipei, Taiwan - The upcoming PadPhone from Asus will sport Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich, RCR discovered at Computex this week.
Asustek's tablet/phone combo - which allows consumers to use one SIM for two devices by allowing the smartphone to dock at the back of an...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It was another significant week in the mobile device world this week as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) gave the world it's long awaited preview of Windows 8 at the All Things “D” conference in California and the Computex trade show in Taiwan....
Rob Matthews is a self-described lazy man. The 2008 graduate of Miami (OH) University somehow saw opportunity in his deficiency, and became founder, CEO and president of AirRun, which recently launched its free, hyperlocal service-based app in cities across the U.S.
While a student, Matthews...
Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Eric Schmidt, now executive chairman after stepping down as CEO earlier this year, opened up during his keynote at the D9 Conference last evening about some mistakes, the platform wars (it involves a "gang of four") and the good and bad...
Recently the Finnish company behind the seminal Angry Birds, Rovio, announced that their game had been downloaded more than 200 million times, cementing its title as the most popular game of the smartphone era, and the most popular game of all time, eclipsing Tetris by almost 2-to-1.
E-commerce software firm Insterpire plans to expand its footprint in its Austin, Texas office from around 40 employees to 70 workers by the end of 2011.
The Sydney-based company announced that healthy growth will likely lead to hiring VP positions in the area of engineering...
Ah - the old "robots have taken over the world!" plot. Not especially original, but it has provided us with some good material over the years. Â Most notably the Terminator series of films. Now we can also add Hexage's Robotek for Android to the...
While Google worked closely with Nvidia on its Gingerbread and HoneyComb versions of Android, Texas Instruments (TI) is the software firm's latest best buddy when it comes to Ice Cream Sandwich, with Qualcomm rumored to be on the BFF list once Jelo comes around.
It is not often that we hear about big companies bowing to customer pressure. All the more reason, then, why we should applaud HTC for doing exactly that. Â After a sustained campaign by HTC customers and enthusiasts, HTC have promised to provide unlocked bootloaders...
DALLAS—AT&T Inc. is connecting a great TV experience with a great wireless experience to drive growth in its U-verse product, said Jeff Weber, VP of video services, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. The company recently introduced some updates to its U-verse product to make...
