Your monthly iPhone bill is high enough without tacking on another $5, $15, or $20 for a text-messaging plan. That’s why free-SMS apps are so popular: They let you text to your heart’s content without putting a single extra penny in AT&T’s pocket. One of the most popular free-SMS apps, Textfree Unlimited, costs $5.99. That’s …
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Apple released the iPad outside the U.S. on Friday, which should prove to be a big day for the company internationally given the large crowds that turned out, according to reports. Supplies of the tablet device, however, may be limited overseas. With much of the tech world’s attention focused on the international release of Apple’s iPad, Reuters reports that Apple …
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Pressure is building in Washington for the Federal Communications Commission to abandon its plans to apply old-style regulation to the Internet. Now 282 members of Congress on both sides of the political aisles have asked the FCC to step aside while the lawmakers rewrite the nation’s telecommunications laws. On Friday, 171 House Republicans signed a letter addressed to FCC Chairman …
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Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPad. Amazon With the Apple iPad’s international launch on Friday, consumers worldwide gained access to Amazon.com’s Kindle app and Kobo’s e-reader–apparently ahead of Apple’s own iBook store. Amazon’s free Kindle iPad app is now available to all countries where the iPad is offered, Amazon said. The app lets people download and read e-books from Amazon’s …
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Taiwanese company AVerMedia is not about to set a new trend in simple, clear product names, but it will help you watch TV on your computer. The name AVerTV Volar HD A835M may look like the result of several very long meetings fuelled by gallons of coffee, but the product itself is delightfully simple. The A835M is pitched at both …
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Bonnie is out sick, so Jessica Dolcourt from Download.com is here to discuss Android 2.2 FroYo and what it means for future Android smartphones. We also discuss the latest iPhone news, the LG Fathom, and more. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 128: Where’s my FroYo? 32:17 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. Subscribe with iTunes (audio) …
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Acer has officially announced its next Android smartphone on Thursday, the Acer Stream. The handset maker bills it as the “Perfect Entertainment Machine” and the Acer Stream certainly has the the hardware to back up that claim. It features include a 3.7-inch AMOLED display and a 5 megapixel camera capable of recording 720p HD video. The inclusion of an HDMI …
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Rumors are swirling this week that AT&T and HTC are gearing up to announce an Android 2.1 device called the Aria. The smartphone may be the one that was outed by the FCC in late April, but there is still very little known about the phone other than it will run the HTC Sense UI. However, of all the days …
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Looks like Palm is suffering a bit of post-acquisition talent drain. Mobile user interface master Matias Duarte has left Palm and evidently hired on at the most obvious of places: Google. Duarte, who lead development of Palm’s WebOS user interface as the company’s senior director of human interface and user experience, has jumped ship, Palm confirms. And while the company …
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Android owners who use the IM and VoiP app Fring on their smartphones will now be able to place two-way video calls like their iPhone and Symbian S60 counterparts. A Thursday update to Fring for Android 2.1 adds free video chatting as a method for reaching out. You’ll recognize it by the blue icon of a camcorder now sitting alongside …
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We’ve tested the speed of Android 2.2 versus Android 2.1 and 1.5. Now it’s time to talk about Flash Player 10.1, the delicious chocolate sprinkles that top off the Froyo release. Adobe spokesman Ryan Stewart has blogged about some “pretty close to clean-room tests” that give a glimpse of how Flash 10.1 affects battery life. The tests were done on …
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Everything old is new again–or at least resurrected. This week’s batch of new games includes an early arcade classic, the sequel to an early iPhone smash, and the martial-arts legend himself, Bruce Lee. Get your trigger fingers–er, screen thumbs–ready for all kinds of crazy action. Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior This is a must-have for fans of fighting games, Bruce Lee …
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The lack of regulatory consistency across Europe means that businesses and consumers are paying higher prices than necessary and that new telecommunications services are being held back, warns the European Commission. The EC released on Tuesday the 15th version of its annual report on progress in the European Union’s electronic communications market. It found that telecom regulation across the region …
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If you can’t view Flash sites directly through your iPhone, why not connect to a remote PC where you can? Cloud Browse delivers Flash content to your iPhone. AlwaysOn Technologies That’s the idea behind the free Cloud Browse app from a company called AlwaysOn Technologies run by developer Lida Tang. Through Cloud Browse, you can connect your iPhone, iPod Touch, …
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The Federal Communications Commission, which has been taking a beating on proposed Net neutrality regulations, is lacing up the gloves again, this time to do battle with wireless carriers. While more than a few of the wireless carriers are the same companies going toe-to-toe with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski over Net neutrality, the latest scrap is over a very different …
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