New technologies are making it easier to get high-quality video streams just about anywhere and on any device, but content owners are still calling the shots. What this means for consumers is that the dream of cutting the paid-TV cord and getting everything you want streamed over the Net without a subscription and largely for …
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The times they are a-changin’; our phones are getting smarter and the stats are showing we are making less calls and we’re instead using them more for a wide range of different tasks — web browsing, gaming, multimedia. One of the areas this impacts most is in the average battery life of modern smartphones. At CNET we strive to determine …
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Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has checked into Bittersville — mayor: him — and described new rival service Facebook Places as “boring”. Crowley says he doesn’t feel threatened by the 500 million-strong site’s rival service as it lacks gaming incentives. Following the US launch of Facebook Places last week, Crowley told The Telegraph that Facebook’s only advantage is its much larger …
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Early adopters of Motorola Android smart phones may be feeling listless and abandoned right now, as it was revealed that the Dext and Backflip won’t be upgraded to Android 2.1. Motorola can’t blame the limitations of the hardware, as its software upgrade screen also revealed that the Backflip and the Cliq (the US name for the Dext) will be getting …
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It’s not an overstatement to say that Sprint pulled off a significant coup earlier this year when it introduced America’s first 4G smartphone to rave reviews. The HTC Evo 4G not only attracted new customers to a carrier that had long been losing them, but it also gave a much needed boost to a struggling brand. Though the Evo 4G, …
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LG will launch ten new smart phones by the end of the year, with new additions to the Optimus range chipped by Nvidia, as well as the Android tablet it previously confirmed. LG confirmed it would be using Nvidia dual-core processors for its high-end Android phones, the Wall Street Journal reports. This might be a win for both companies: Nvidia …
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As with any classic role-playing-style game, EpicWin ($2.99) gives you experience points in a number of categories that help your character gain skills and move through a mystical world. The difference in this game? You have to complete your own real tasks to advance your character. While task management and to-do lists are nothing new on the iPhone (see OmniFocus …
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Specifications for a new BlackBerry Bold have been leaked, and it looks as though little has changed from the 9700, at least visually and through the way it works. Boy Genius Report managed to get hold of an internal document that reveals RIM hasn’t changed much with the ‘Bold R020’, which is expected for an October release, compared to what …
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Android and iPhone owners will be able to discover weird and wonderful Web pages they would never have otherwise experienced thanks to a new StumbleUpon app. It takes the StumbleUpon experience mobile, letting you can discover and rate random Web pages recommended to you by others. It works by getting you, the stumbler, to click on a ‘stumble’ button that …
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With the Dropbox-powered Elements, text editing on the go is more accessible than ever. A basic but functional feature set keeps Elements light, but still incredibly useful. If you already have a Dropbox account, just sign in when Elements launches and you’ll get a new folder on your account to store your Elements documents. I ran in to some issues …
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Nokia announced Friday that it will acquire Motally, a small, privately held mobile analytics firm in San Francisco. Staffed by a team of only eight people, Motally offers mobile app developers a service for tracking the usage of their software. The goal is to help developers enhance and optimize their apps by understanding how people use them. Looking to support …
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Carphone Warhouse appeared to have let the cat out of the bag after it put details of a mystery Qwerty phone called the HTC Desire Z — as well as the heavily leaked HTC Desire HD — on its Mobiles.co.uk website. That was until it admitted to our sister site ZDNet UK that it had culled the specs from online …
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They say patience is a virtue. But it’s certainly not easy, especially when you are waiting for the latest and greatest in technology. This week I try to answer one reader’s question about when he can expect to get Fios TV in his neighborhood. He’s seen the fiber trucks and fliers promoting the service, and now he wants his Fios …
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Movie sequels almost universally suck, but video game sequels? More often than not, they improve on the original. So it is with Top Gun 2 ($2.99), the unexpected but very welcome follow-up to last year’s widely praised Top Gun. It’s essentially the same game, but just plain better in nearly every respect. As before, you pilot your jet from a …
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HTC is reportedly working on a Chrome OS tablet, which will offer the iPad some much-needed competition before the end of the year. Before you get too excited, this information is based the words of an unnamed source who spoke to the AOL blog downloadsquad. If the rumour is true, the tablet will be built in conjunction with Verizon and …
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