In its effort to keep the Bing for Mobile iPhone app competitive in the swiftly evolving mobile OS space, Microsoft rolled out yet another update today. The latest version focuses on improving the mapping experience for the user as well as offering a couple new travel features. More specifically, the software maker has carried over …
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The jailbreaking attempts on iOS 4 devices continues as one of the major players, the dev-team, posts a video of a new iPod Touch running a beta version of the latest exploit in iOS 4 called SHAtter. After the jailbreakme.com exploit was closed by Apple via iOS security update, the dev-team, along with several other hackers, have been hard at …
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Mobile application developers are being courted by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) with a swell of new tools, free application submissions and new money-making opportunities. RIM showcases new apps built using WebWorks.(Credit: CBSi) The introduction of what RIM calls WebWorks will allow developers to create applications for BlackBerry OS using common web languages, including HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. RIM …
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For years, BlackBerry Messenger has been one of those native apps that has flown a little bit under the radar. RIM’s announcement today at its third-annual BlackBerry Developer conference shines a brighter light on the peer-to-peer communications platform, and grants it more social skills. The new BlackBerry Messenger platform will now allow applications like those in the Blackberry App World …
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Sony Ericsson won’t be making any more phones with the Symbian operating system, Bloomberg reports. Symbian is on phones such as the Vivaz, but Sony Ericsson has been moving to Google’s Android OS for its latest phones, such as the Xperia X10. That leaves Nokia and Samsung to try to keep breathing life into the struggling software. It’s not that …
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Sony will officially take the wraps off its first Google-powered television on 12 October. Google TV puts the power of the Web in your Bravia television, tying Net and set together. We got a first look at Google TV in a demo at technology trade show IFA earlier this month. The service lets you search the Web and television schedules …
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Those of you on Android without Swype support or simply looking for a decent alternative to the OS’ occasionally ropey predictive text should praise the Friday gods, as the full version of SwiftKey is now available. SwiftKey is a keyboard app that uses artificial intelligence to learn your touchscreen typing style, completing words and sentences. It’s already been quite a …
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–As data traffic explodes on wireless networks thanks to smartphones and other connected mobile devices, 4G wireless technology is expected to solve mobile operators’ network congestion problems. But is 4G really the savior so many people expect it to be? At the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT here this week, experts in the wireless industry warned that it will …
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Joining Best Buy and RadioShack, T-Mobile is now taking preorders for its first HSPA+ smartphone, the T-Mobile G2. Preorders are limited to current T-Mobile customers, though. You must reserve your phone by October 4 in order to receive it on October 6, which is when the G2 will be available in stores nationwide. T-Mobile did not disclose the price of …
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What do you get if you cross a crazy Japanese inventor, the iPod nano 6G and a lot of spare time? That’s easy: the super-cute dancing iPod nano robot. We didn’t think the nano could get any funkier after seeing iPod nano watches. But an enterprising young man who goes by the name PachiMon thought of a very simple way …
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Only the most passionate cell phone geeks know that the Federal Communications Commission holds a treasure trove of information on upcoming handsets. Because the FCC has to certify every phone sold in the United States, not to mention test its SAR rating, the agency’s online database offers a lot of sneak peeks to those who dig. And to save you …
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More than three years after it first came on the market, Apple’s iPhone is still one of the hottest smartphones out there. But new hardware designs and the unending software upgrades to the iPhone’s operating system, have left some iPhone subscribers scratching their heads. In this week’s Ask Maggie column I help explain to one reader why his data usage …
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Kindle for Android, the app which allows you to read electronic books on Google-powered phones, has been updated with a bunch of new features. Version 1.1 lets you search the full text of Kindle books using text or voice. And if you highlight text it will bring up the results in Wikipedia or Dictionary.com — without you having to leave …
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Freeview HD PVRs are slowly starting to trickle on to the market at last, but our primary grumble is they’re too expensive. Especially considering there are currently only three HD channels on the service — the BBC will launch BBC One HD soon, boosting the corporation’s potential HD output, and bringing a dramatic new look to, er, EastEnders. The TVonics …
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The Samsung Galaxy S will get some Android 2.2 Froyo love by the end of this month, but only if you’re on T-Mobile. On its customer support forum, T-Mobile announced the software update will come to the Galaxy S by the end of September. This will be available through its drag and drop Samsung Kies PC software. T-Mobile didn’t answer …
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