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SonicMule and every other developer should watch Nokia carefully
A tweet from Lee Williams, top man at the Symbian Foundation, pointed me to this blog post at the Wall Street Journal Online. Ty McMahan of the WSJ quotes Jeff Smith, CEO of SonicMule (the people who make the phenomenal music app, Smule) thus: “Nokia isn’t on the shortlist of anything...
Is Apple about to bake advertising into the iPhone SDK?
o2’s James Parton picked up this Mobile Entertainment story, Apple to integrate advertising into iPhone SDK. Mobile Entertainment’s Stuart Dredge noticed this job posting that gives a hint that Apple may well integrate advertising into the iPhone SDK. That has quite a few implications for the mobile marketing...
‘Spot The Dog’ shows iPads are going to sell in their millions
I was having a read of this PR Week story and thought I’d check out the video they included relating to books and magazines on the iPad. The video is actually from PaidContent’s story about how Penguin is going to “Reinvent Books With iPad” In the video, Penguin Books’ CEO,...
International calling for… FooCall
FooCall. Say it slowly, in two parts… Fook. All. Now say that together? Fook All. FooCall. That’s right! International calling for next to nothing. I’ve used a lot of international calling services, particularly from my mobile phone. For a long...
It’s the new Jabra Extreme, originally uploaded by smstextnews. Yes! It’s the new Jabra Extreme noise cancelling Bluetooth headset, complete with handy car charger. I will do a video shortly. – Taken at 10:54 AM on March 05, 2010 – uploaded by ShoZu...
Just picked this up…, originally uploaded by smstextnews. Popped to the Post Office to pick this up… – Taken at 10:52 AM on March 05, 2010 – uploaded by ShoZu...
Boy Genius Report
Motorola BACKFLIP now available from AT&T
Starting today, AT&T customers with a penchant for Android can point their browser to AT&T’s website or hoof it to their local AT&T store to snag the Motorola BACKFLIP. Now available for a mere $99 after rebate and a two…...
Moto’s iDEN Opus One is the i1, will have MOTOBLUR
Remember the Opus One, the Android-powered iDEN handset from Motorola we scooped and then spec’d just before Christmas? Well apparently it’s going to be made official sometime in the next few weeks (hello, CTIA!) and will feature one added but…...
Skype pulled from Nokia’s Ovi store in the US, Verizon Wireless to blame?
Skype users that own a Symbian-powered Nokia handset will have to go the extra mile to install Skype on their handset. As noticed following Wednesday’s debut of Skype in the Ovi store, Skype is reportedly not available for Nokia owners…...
Verizon already training some employees on Nexus One?
We don’t have a whole lot to go on, other than a couple of emails that were bounced around by some curious customers and some rather knowledgeable reps, but it certainly looks to us as if Verizon has begun training…...
Sony to launch a multimedia tablet and the long-rumored PlayStation phone in 2010?
According to a rumor from the Wall Street Journal, Sony may be taking aim at the Apple iPhone, the Apple iPad and Microsoft’s Zune Phone Windows Phone 7 Series with two upcoming multifunction, multimedia-centric devices. Sony is reportedly developing a…...
Mobile application market could grow to over $15 billion by 2013?
TechCrunch found an interesting study by analyst firm research2guidance. The study claims that the mobile application market place could grow from a $1.94 billion business in 2009 to a $15.65 billion business in 2013; a growth rate of around 807%.…...
GottaBeMobile.com
With mobile geeks going gaga over Tablets and handhelds, it is always good to see that some have a good sense of humor when it comes to blowing they hypemeisters out of the water. TUAW unearthed this parody. Enjoy....
Misleading Courier Photo Reveals My Years of Deception
Larry O’Brien of Knowing .NET has taken to task the main photo from the latest Courier sneak peek, calling it “misleading” and pointing out that the writing shown on the screen could not have been written at that size. He went so far as to sector the screen and determine...
Poll: Where Are You Spending Your Tablet Allowance?
Apple’s iPad is being released in just a few weeks. There’s new news on Microsoft Courier. Heavy Tablet PC hitters Lenovo and HP have weighed in with updates to existing Tablet PCs that are top of the line. Hanvon and countless others are readying Tablets. They all cost money and their...
Engadget is running with some news on Microsoft Courier. Here’s the quote: We’re told Courier will function as a “digital journal,” and it’s designed to be seriously portable: it’s under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn’t much bigger than a 5×7 photo when closed....
Sausage Stylus Coming to the US
Remember the Sausage Stylus from Korea? You know the creative multi-use solution some Koreans were adopting when it was too cold to use fingers on the iPhone’s touch screen? Well, apparently the Sausage Stylus is headed to the US. CaseCrown (they sell iPhone cases) have picked up a quantity of the...
Apple has announced that those eager to get the iPad in their hands can do so beginning Saturday, April 3 for the WiFi models. The 3G model will be available late April. Pre-orders for all models begin on March 12. Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be...
MobileCrunch
More BlackBerry slider photos for you, guv’nor
It looks a little bit better than it did before when it’s in focus, and with a Bold for comparison. Click for the high resolution version, or head over to BlackBerry Leaks for the rest. People are falling over themselves trying to decide whether this is going to be Bold-branded or...
More Shots of Microsoft’s Project Pink “Turtle” and “Pure” leak out; hitting Verizon on April 20th?
We're still trying our darnedest to not feed the hype machine surrounding Project Pink, considering that all signs are indicating that neither phone is anything to get worked up about. With that said, a couple of new shots of the Turtle (the stout, portrait sliding QWERTY handset) and the Pure (the...
TwitCasting lets you stream live video and tweet simultaneously from your iPhone
Late last year, Ustream and qik launched iPhone applications that let you stream videos from the iPhone to the web and allow others to watch them as they're being recorded. And now there is an iPhone app called TwitCasting Live (iTunes link), which offers the same basic functionality, but is...
Video: HTC Legend gets an early unboxing
Can’t get enough of the ultra gorgeous, uni-body HTC Legend? Neither can we. That’s why we’re glad (and a bit jealous) that our buddy Chris Davies over at SlashGear got his mitts all over a near-retail version of the device, and proceeded to give it a proper unboxing. We say “near-retail”...
HTC: Don’t put the Nexus One in your hipster jeans
The wording in the headline may not be, you know, exactly what HTC said – but it might as well be. After the folks over at Crave UK woke up to a broken screen — which they swear isn’t their fault, as the device had just been sitting on...
Adobe releases Photoshop.com Mobile editor for Android developers
Adobe this morning announced that third-party developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor, allowing them to make it a part of their applications. The news comes four months after the company released Photoshop.com Mobile for Android, enabling users to easily edit and share their photos. That...
VisionMobile :: blog
Demolition Derby in Devices: The roller-coaster ride is on
[The economic realities will lead to a roller-coaster ride that will shake up the mobile industry. Guest blogger Richard Kramer talks about the impending price war, the implications for industry growth, and how this will alter the landscape of device vendors......
2010 in review: Under-the-radar trends at Mobile World Congress
[Following a week of frantic announcements and marketing hype at MWC 2010, VisionMobile's Research Director, Andreas Constantinou looks at what really matters - the under-the-radar trends that will make the biggest impact in the next two years] The annual Mobile World......
MeeGo: Two (M)onkeys don’t make a (G)orilla. But they sure make a lot of noise
[What is behind the announcement of Meego operating system by Nokia and Intel? Guest blogger Thucydides Sigs deconstructs what Meego means and its importance to the mobile industry] How much substance is behind the noise of Nokia’s and Intel’s announcement of......
Location 101: breaking down the market for location-based apps
[People have got location all wrong, argues guest blogger Jane Sales, co-creator of flook. Rather than treating the market for location-based applications as a single monolithic entity, Jane breaks it down into use-case-driven segments and makes it concrete by showing......
Low cost Android: crossing the $100 barrier
[Where's Google's Android going? Guest blogger Ben Hookway uncovers the race for low cost Android taking place behind the scenes of the mobile industry, and how this may change the face of Android as we know it] Low cost Android devices......
Calling all developers: Making sense of a fragmented world
[Calling all developers: VisionMobile launches the most ambitious developer research to date. We also take the opportunity to look back at our past developer research to present some of the most interesting findings] We ‘ve recently launched what is probably the......
www.flashmobileblog.com
As part of a recent video recording session I created a Geolocation API example, this was to demonstrate just how simple it is to add Context-awareness to your applications. Now context-awareness is something that I know quite a bit about, it was actually the subject of my dissertation. Back then...
Helisso – A Packager for Symbian devices
As some of you know, learning about AIR, AS3, Flex, Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder has been my side-project for a few months now. As I mentioned in a previous post, it is essential to prepare for the future and invest now in learning new skills. For me, the best way to...
Flash Player 10.1 – Installations and updates
Flash Player 10.1 will become available in the first half of 2010 for all supported platforms. In fact, the desktop beta 3 is already looking incredible and proving to be a huge hit with developers testing their content. One of the most important parts of our work with our Open Screen...
Acrobat Connect Pro is now on the AppStore
One of the tools that I use almost every day at Adobe for screensharing, video conferencing and presentations is called Acrobat Connect Pro. It has been around for quite some time and today it’s used globally by organizations to help reduce the travel burden, as well as enabling teams to...
Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One
It appears that there has been some confusion from the community at large surrounding battery performance. This was caused by my colleague Michael Chaize publishing an amazing video of Flash Player 10.1 demos on Vimeo. Bloggers from Daring Fireball and Macgasm have spent a little more time than expected studying...
Redmond Pie and the “Farmville Test”
Many of you may have read that the HTC Desire ROM has become “available” via Modaco Forums and their chef Paul. As reported Taimur from Remond Pie has uploaded a video demo of the HTC Nexus running Farmville within Facebook, and as he discovered, it wasn’t quite baked for mobile...
Communities Dominate Brands
Voluntarily onto the Digital Leash - role of data in mobile future
The Economist had a great special report last week about data and it had me thinking. Yes the world is changing enormously as all sorts of companies compile ever more accurate data on us as consumers (and as patients, as......
Amazon Lessons for a Digital World - most trusted brand in USA !
We love Amazon, not the least because Alan and I are both authors and Amazon helps sell our books in many markets and regions where the local bookseller might not know of us and our books.. But there is more......
What does it mean to you, when Google says 'Mobile First' ?
So the biggest mobile industry event of the year, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is now over. We heard a lot about the mobile industry and its latest smartphones and amazing numbers of users, services, apps, revenues etc. One of......
Alan Moore and Gerd Leonhard online seminar on 1 March
Alan asked me to tell everybody that he is joining with our good friend and author Gerd Leonhard to deliver an online seminar about Thriving Commerically in Social Media and the Networked Society. Here is how Alan describes it at......
Two Phenomenally good articles: App is Crap, and 7 Deadly Sins of Mobile Marketing
I was just about done with Twitter today, when in very short succession there appeared tweets by two of my followed friends on interesting topics. I went to take a look and found articles that I really REALLY urge you......
The 25 Biggest Companies in Mobile - by their revenues in mobile only - an "Ahonen 25" Index?
Well, if I've been up all night, it can only mean one thing - I was playing with my statistics. I had been meaning to do this for quite some while but last night the inspiration hit me, and I......
mobiForge Recent Content
dotMobi company acquired by Afilias
You may have heard – or seen the press release http://www.afilias.info/mobi+acquisition – that dotMobi has been acquired by Afilias. read more...
One of the key limitations of developing Web applications for iPhone is that you are not allowed to access the hardware on the device via the Web browser. For example, you cannot access the camera on the iPhone; neither can you access the accelerometer. This seriously limits the kinds of...
Programming Apple Push Notification Services
One of the key limitations of the iPhone is its constraint on running applications in the background. Because of this, applications cannot keep running in the background when the user switches to another application. So, applications that require a constant state of connectivity (such as social networking applications) will not...
Nexus One: Where is Android at?
With the announcement of the new GooglePhone, which promises to be the best Android device yet and by all early reports at least comparable with the iPhone 3GS, it seems appropriate to stop to take a look around to see where Android is at. We start with the breakdown of Android...
Sending SMS with SMPP, Kannel and Java
There are many technologies and protocols that can be used to send and receive SMS from an application. This article focuses on sending SMS via a Short Message Service Center (SMSC), with the help of the Kannel SMS gateway. In order for an application to send a SMS, it generally has...
Welcome to the mobiForge newsletter October 2009. This time: 1. Announcing mobiForge Antenna 2. A Guide to Mobile Emulators 3. Understanding UI in Android 4. The Mobile Web is Dead... 5. mobiForge Shortlisted for Golden Spiders Awards read more...
Mobile Marketing Watch
Cardagin Scans $1M Series A for Mobile Loyalty Card Program
Carrying around loyalty cards for different stores can be a pain, so moving loyalty programs to mobile phones makes sense. I’ve lost one too many “buy 10 sandwiches, get one free” cards to count. Cardagin Networks, maker of mobile loyalty card technology for retailers, is attempting to solve this problem. The...
Intel Leads July Systems $7M Series C for Cross-Platform Mobile Publishing
Mobile media company July Systems announced the week the addition of $7 million in their Series C round of funding led by Intel Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital and Footprint Ventures. The latest round in funding comes with news that July Systems has achieved 300 percent growth in revenues...
99 Apps Launches $99 iPhone App for Restauranteurs
When it comes to launching mobile marketing companies, some firms believe it’s best to go after one industry, offering easy and affordable ways for businesses in that industry to get into mobile marketing. 99 Apps, the latest of these industry plays, is targeting restaurant owners — with $99 customizable iPhone...
Mobile Users: Fans of Personalized Location Based Services
Mobile tech gives developers power to offer a lot of “magic” features for the user experience given the data known about a user based on GPS location, time of day, and other info. While some folks, myself included, thinks there’s a limit to how much a person will want their...
iPad Release Date Finally Announced
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. And while the waiting isn’t fully behind us yet, people chomping at the bit to get their hands on the iPad can at least circle a date on their calendars. Apple today announced that the iPad will be released on April 3rd. However,...
02 Media: SMS Marketing Still Superior to Mobile Apps
Although mobile apps are clearly all the rage, Shaun Gregory, the managing director of O2 Media, says it’s important not to place apps ahead of sound mobile marketing practices when it comes to utilizing the mobile space most efficiently in the promotional process. Gregory advised firms to avoid the temptation of...
dailywireless.org
Amtrak has posted an RFQ for WiFi on all its trains. As the nation’s intercity passenger rail operator, Amtrak operates more than 300 trains each day to more than 500 destinations. In March, Amtrak launched its Wi-Fi Internet service, known as AmtrakConnect (pdf), aboard all 20 high-speed Acela Express trains,...
The Daily Show covers Chat Roulette. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c...
AT&T is expanding its 3G Femtocell trials to Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, San Diego and Las Vegas. The AT&T 3G MicroCell (FAQ) acts like a mini cellular tower in the home. It connects to AT&T’s network using existing broadband Internet service. AT&T and Cisco developed the 3G femtocell for...
Research2guidance, a market researcher, says the worldwide smartphone application market will grow from $1.94 billion in 2009 to $15.65 billion by 2013. It’s driven by smartphone growth. They estimate smartphone users will increase globally from about 100 million last year to 970 million by the end of 2013....
James Kendrick in JK On The Run says you’ve probably heard that Apple is sueing HTC claiming patent infringement. But, says James, it may not be about HTC. Or even Google’s Android. The impending launch of Chrome OS probably has Apple a bit concerned, but I suspect Google’s desire to see...
National Broadband Plan Previewed
The Federal Communications Commission will seek to bring Internet speeds of 1 gigabit per second by 2020 to community institutions such as schools and government buildings, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said on Thursday. The plan’s main goal is to give all Americans access to affordable broadband. The FCC proposes to deliver...
tmobilekatalyst.com
Motorola WX160, 100 minutes to any network and 100 texts. Unlimited internet (1GB fair use policy).Tariff Name: 100 mins £20 internet (18m), Network T-Mobile, 18m Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 100 Free Text Messages, Motorola WX160, Free Mobile Phone, Total Savings £360, Total Cost After Discounts: £018m Contract, Free Line Rental,...
T-Mobile USB Modem and USB Modem Stick
Out of Stock T-Mobile USB Modem Stick, Fair use policy of 3GB per month. Never pay more, there are no run-on rates.Tariff Name: Mobile Broadband 3GB (18m), Network T-Mobile, 18m Contract, T-Mobile USB Modem Stick, Free Mobile Phone, Total Cost After Discounts £27018m Contract, Monthly Cost £15T-Mobile USB Modem Stick, Fair...
T-Mobile Pulse, 300 minutes to any network and 300 texts. Unlimited calls to other T-Mobile phones.Tariff Name: 300 mins £15 T-Mobile (24m), Network T-Mobile, 24m Contract, 300 Anytime Minutes, 300 Free Text Messages, T-Mobile Pulse, Free Mobile Phone, Total Savings £100, Total Cost After Discounts £26024m Contract, £100 Instant Cash...
T-Mobile MDA Compact V, 100 minutes to any network and 100 texts. Unlimited internet (1GB fair use policy).Tariff Name: 100 mins £10 internet (24m), Network T-Mobile, 24m Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 100 Free Text Messages, T-Mobile MDA Compact V, Phone Price 169, Total Cost After Discounts £40924m Contract, Monthly Cost...
T-Mobile G2 Touch, 100 minutes to any network and 100 texts. Unlimited internet (1GB fair use policy).Tariff Name: 100 mins £10 internet (24m), Network T-Mobile, 24m Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 100 Free Text Messages, T-Mobile G2 Touch, Phone Price 126, Total Cost After Discounts £36624m Contract, Monthly Cost £10T-Mobile G2...
Motorola WX160, 100 minutes to any network and 100 texts. Unlimited internet (1GB fair use policy).Tariff Name: 100 mins £20 internet (18m), Network T-Mobile, 18m Contract, 100 Anytime Minutes, 100 Free Text Messages, Motorola WX160, Phone Price 490, Total Cost After Discounts £85018m Contract, FREE Apple MacBook laptop, Monthly Cost...
Enterprise Mobility Matters
More Thoughts On Windows Phone 7 Series in The Enterprise
I start today's entry thinking of Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain with his famous quote: "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Almost two weeks with not a peep or barely a tweet from me. Even on vacation, this... Click the article title to read the entire blog post. ...
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express: What It Means For You
As Mobile World Congress continues in Barcelona, the world of mobility is all aflutter regarding Microsoft's announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series (I am still struggling with that name). Fresh off the heels of that news, we have coming today... Click the article title to read the entire blog post. ...
Windows Phone 7 Series: The Enterprise Mobility Perspective
Today has been one heck of a busy day. If you read this blog, you know that today, Microsoft officially announced Windows Phone 7 Series (gotta love Redmondian branding), its brand new mobile platform geared to getting it back "in... Click the article title to read the entire blog post. ...
Smartphone Customer Care: A Blessing For Operators Or A Curse For IT Departments?
It's snowing today in Boston. This year has actually been rather easy in terms of snowfall in New England this year...certainly unlike what other cities like Washington D.C. have been dealing with in the last 10 days (I understand they... Click the article title to read the entire blog post. ...
Throwing Out The Kitchen Sink of Windows Mobile?
Madness. Sheer Madness. No I am not talking about the murder mystery. I'm talking instead about the state of my life post full time employment. While still not able to share anything about what I am planning next, I can... Click the article title to read the entire blog post. ...
biskero
Via EndgadgetMobile, the Nokia C5 gets FCC approval already. Alessandro...
My new toy: Nokia 6700 Classic
Thanks to 1800mobiles, I just got my new toy: Nokia 6700 Classic. First impression, is pretty slick!! Really thin, steel case, 5Mpx camera, OVI Maps with a month free navigation. Alessandro...
Nokia Platform Services 2.0 released
Forum Nokia published the Nokia Platform Services 2.0. “The full release of Nokia Platform Services 2.0 is now available. This includes support for the APIs on the Nokia N97 mobile computer and Nokia N97 mini. This release, which provide many API improvements, is forward compatible with future releases of WRT.” Alessandro...
Via Nokia Beta Labs, the Nokia Gig Finder has been updated using user feedback. Alessandro...
Forum Nokia: Design and User Experience Library
Forum Nokia published another resource: Design and User Experience Library. “The Design and User Experience Library gathers all essential aspects of design and usability into one. The library includes different kinds of guidelines, material about theme design, graphics design, and game design, as well as the basics of usability.” Alessandro...
Nokia N900 gets OVI Maps Uploader
Via NokiaItalia, the Nokia N900 gets OVI Maps Uploader. Alessandro...
MobHappy
More on Geofencing and Location-Based Messaging
I got a couple of responses in via email to my earlier post on geofence-triggered mobile ads. Matt Silk, SVP of mobile messaging company Waterfall Mobile took an interest in the post, as his company just announced a deal with WaveMarket to add location functionality to its messaging platform. We...
Mobile (and MobHappy!) at SXSW
I’m excited to be returning to Austin for a visit in a couple of weeks, not just because I’ll get to spend my birthday with a ton of great friends, but also because it’s South by Southwest time. It’s been pretty amazing to watch how SXSW Interactive has grown over...
Location-Based Ads Get Opt-In, Geofencing — But Does That Help?
Everybody knows about the Starbucks example of location-based ads: you walk past a coffee shop, and it sends a coupon enticing you inside to your phone. Most sensible people realize it’s not a great idea (see Russell’s definitive fisking of the concept), but the idea lives on. Monday’s NYT had...
Carnival of the Mobilists #212
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is out at Terence Eden Has a Blog. If you’re a stranger around these parts, the Carnival features the best writing about mobile from the past week and is considered a “must read” among all true Mobilists....
One of the finalists of last year’s Mobile Peer Awards in Barcelona was Mob4Hire, which showed an awful lot of potential. I caught up with them this year again at MWC and was really pleased to see that they were fulfilling their early promise and adding new services to their...
It’s February, which can only mean one thing in mobile — MWC in Barcelona. I’ve stayed home in Las Vegas again this year as I finish up my MBA courses, but I’ve been living vicariously through Twitter and following along with the news, while looking at pictures of jamon (see...
Wi-Fi Networking News
Apple Drops Wi-Fi Sniffers from iPhone App Store
I am compelled to write this story simply to say it does not matter: Reports came out a few days ago that all the iPhone OS applications that sniff out Wi-Fi, scanning the vicinity for signals and other information, have been removed from the App Store, the only authorized place...
What's the Sound of One Hand Paying? Kachingle
Loyal readers, I'm trying out a new way that you can support this site directly: Kachingle just launched, and it's the latest, but most interesting in my view, in a long series of ways in which individuals can push small amounts of money that aggregate into potentially large quantities without...
Pay Credence to Credant's Claims on Sleeping Wi-Fi?
Credant, a UK firm that sells data encryption tools, claims thieves sniff Wi-Fi in laptops stored in cars: I've been letting this percolate for a couple of days in my head, and would appreciate comments from those of you who know the nitty-gritty. Credant is claiming that thieves can use...
More Details on Amtrak's New Acela-Fi
A couple of reports on the new service Amtrak launched in the Northeast: Amtrak's offering free Wi-Fi in six stations and on the Acela line that runs between Boston and D.C. From the Washington Post, Rob Pegoraro runs through some of the details he's found out. On trains, streaming services...
Virgin Mobile Ups Data for On-Demand Broadband
Virgin Mobile is keeping its pricing tiers for its pay-when-you-need it broadband service, but bumping up included quantities of data: Virgin Mobile, now part of Sprint Nextel, has a unique 3G service, in which you can pay for limited amounts of data for limited periods of time. No contracts, and...
Netgear Raises Ante on Streaming HD over 802.11n
Netgear hasn't set the price of its new paired HD video adapters, but promises 99.9 percent reliability for multiple 1080p streams: The High-Performance Wireless-N HD Home Theater Kit, which will ship in Q3 2010, uses a 4-by-4 MIMO array to achieve the results Netgear claims, and I'm inclined to believe...
The Mobile Gadgeteer
Google rewarding top Android developers with free Android phone
Google is offering its top Android Market developers a free Android device. What will this mean for App development on Android and other platforms?...
Hands-on video with Facebook on the Zune HD
Microsoft released the free Facebook for Zune HD a couple of days ago, but there were some permission settings issues. The app now runs just fine and as you can see in my video it is quite a capable mobile application....
UPDATE: Microsoft releases and fixes Zune HD Facebook application
Microsoft finally released the free Facebook application for Zune HD owners two months after it was originally believed to be launched. It looks like a decent application and integrates easy capability to share what you are listening to on your Zune, but currently has issues connecting other parts of the...
Google Sync is experiencing some issues today. This time, though, the company has already come forward with an official explanation and a reassurance that our data is intact....
Skype drops Windows Mobile and Skype Lite from its offerings
Skype recently pulled its Windows Mobile and Skype Lite versions from its website because it wants to offer its new customers an improved mobile experience. Even though the Windows Mobile version didn't have the most beautiful UI, it got the job done....
SugarSync adds support for upload by email
There are several online backup and syncing solutions, but some stand out above the rest. SugarSync keeps adding attractive features for those of us on the go and this latest upgrade gives you support for upload of attachments via email....
The Register
Satellite delight? Review It’s almost a year since we reviewed the Foxsat-HDR from Humax, which was one of the first Freesat+ recorders to appear in the UK. Since then, there’s been more of a steady trickle, rather than a flood of Freesat gear coming on stream. To drum up a...
US judge puts freeze on Apple-Nokia patent kerfuffle
Let the feds sort it A US federal judge has sent Apple and Nokia lawyers to their respective corners until the feds get their chance to sort through the competing patent infringement claims.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work...
E-book buyers favour iPad over Kindle and co.
Owners wished they'd waited for the Apple offering Punters out to buy an e-book reader seem set on Apple's iPad, a survey of 3171 US consumers has revealed.…...
Could Vodafone nab 3 UK after T-Orange merger?
Hutchison 'looking for options' With the merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK approved by the European Union, the current UK leaders, O2 and Vodafone, will be mulling their competitive responses. So far, Vodafone has mainly focused on revamping its software brands and its higher-value services, but it could also...
For Americans only - Brits will have to wait Apple has missed its deadline. The iPad will go on sale in the US not in "late March" but early April, the company has admitted.…...
David Atherton on football, why mags beat Google, and what he's doing next
'One of Britain's richest vs Dabs? No contest' Interview Part 2 This is part two of a two-part interview with Dabs founder David Atherton. Part one is here.…...
jkOnTheRun
3 Reasons Apple’s iPad Won’t See a Price Drop
Apple iPad pre-orders begin this week, but some folks are holding out for a price drop and letting the early adapters shoulder the cost risk. Unfortunately, this isn't like the iPhone debut. Three reasons tell me not to bet money on an iPad price cut....
MobileTechRoundup 199 — Mobile Tech Saves the Day!
In this week's audio podcast, we chat about the Dell Mini10 netbook and Motorola Devour, as well as the Apple patent suit against HTC. Matt's normal Internet connection is down, but the show goes on thanks to mobile tech -- and the Nokia N900....
How Handwriting Recognition Could Work on the iPad
Apple's iPad won't support native handwriting recognition, which has disappointed many potential purchasers. This could be due to the lighter OS or CPU, but there are some potential solutions to get around this. Maybe the client-server model will be reborn for handwriting on the iPad....
The Motorola Devour is the latest Android phone appearing on the Verizon network in the U.S. The Devour has a QWERTY keyboard and a unique side-mounting battery, plus the Motoblur social network aggregation and UI technology. Here's a look at the phone....
Why Google Android Favoritism Isn’t Punishing Consumers and Partners
In a smart opinion piece, Mark Spoonauer makes the case for Google Android favoritism with new features and functions often appearing only on new Android devices. There's definitely a fragmentation issue that Google is causing, but there's plenty of blame to go around....
iPad Arrives April 3 — You Might Need to Hold It First
Apple today announced both pre-order and availability dates for its iPad. Many see it as an oversized iPod Touch, but perhaps the form factor is part of the purchase equation. You might need to hold and use the device before making a decision. Are you buying?...