If you’re looking for more ways to get apps onto your BlackBerry smartphone, Verizon would like to make a suggestion: use its storefront. On Monday, Verizon began rolling out V Cast Apps on select 3G smartphones, like the BlackBerry Bold 9650, Storm 2 9550, Curve 8530, and Tour 9630. The company announces it will also …
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How do you zero in on a location without using GPS? You use cell phone towers. BlackBerry-maker RIM announced on Monday that it will use cell-tower triangulation as part of a new geolocation feature in its Locate Service for the BlackBerry Application Platform. This tactic of using signal from nearby cell towers to approximate your phone’s location is nothing new, …
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Apple isn’t likely to allow Firefox or any other competing HTML Web browser on its iOS platform anytime soon, but Mozilla’s Firefox Home for iPhone, released to the App Store late last week, does at least bring the heart of the Firefox browser to your iPhone: your URLs. Before getting into what Firefox Home is, you should know that a …
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If you own an Android phone, you already know how to use Vlingo‘s SuperDialer, a beta feature that expands the app’s vocally triggered “call” command to search not just your personal phone book, but also a wider directory of businesses. Tap Vlingo’s home screen widget and speak out the name of the business or category of business you’d like to …
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Opera continues updating the “Mini” version of its mobile browser for Android phones with some noticeable tweaks and enhancements. The Wednesday release of Opera Mini 5.1 for Android brings sundry features such as setting Opera Mini as the default browser, and seeing the entire screen when you switch to full-screen mode. The best addition is that Opera Mini can save …
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SAN FRANCISCO–Facebook’s Open Graph is the reason there are Facebook “Like” buttons strewn across the Web on sites that Facebook doesn’t operate. Eric Tseng, Facebook’s head of mobile products and a former product manager of the Google Nexus One phone, told the room at MobileBeat 2010 that Open Graph is going mobile. What does this mean? Simply that as Facebook …
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Fring and Skype, sometimes-rivals in the VoIP mobile space, are spitting out harsh words in what’s turning into an ugly public relations play. In a news release sent to CNET on Monday, Fring accuses Skype of being “afraid of open mobile communication” after Skype brought legal action against Fring, which has traditionally included Skype in its IM and VoIP calling …
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Ever since June, when we learned of FaceTime, Apple’s two-way video-calling feature for the iPhone 4, we’ve been waiting for Fring to make its competitive move–especially since Fring announced its intention to release the very same features last March. Since Fring, the joint VoIP-and-multinetwork IM client, was still offering only one-way video calls when we pitted it against FaceTime on …
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With such insistent clamoring for a mobile version of Hulu.com ever since the streaming TV site captured the hearts and eyeballs of American viewers, this week’s release of Hulu’s new Hulu Plus app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch has received a surprisingly large number of user complaints. Why? Of the multiple reasons, the most significant is price. Although the …
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Updated (12:30 a.m. PT, July 1, 2010): Clarified the relationship between Firefox Home and Safari. If you’ve been one of the many clamoring to see Firefox running on an iPhone, you may get your chance–of sorts. Back in late May, Mozilla announced that it would be creating an iPhone version of its Firefox browser–though the solution is not a browser …
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