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 …
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We like a good tech dust-up, and it seems a new scrap is brewing — this time it’s video-calling VoIP services Fring and Skype apparently squaring off as we gather round chanting, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” No sooner has Fring 4 iPhone 4 brought 3G video calling to the latest Apple phone than the service loses Skype. Scrappy Fring reckons it …
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This will be the year of Freeview HD — it’s a low-cost way for people to access excellent free hi-def services from the BBC, ITV and soon, Channel 4. Sony has announced it will be the first to sell TVs with the necessary hardware to receive these broadcasts built-in, with sets going on sale this week. Sony is pumping out …
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YouTube now supports enormous 4K videos, heaven knows why. The video streaming site, in what can only be described as a display of audio-visual genital-measuring, is streaming video four times the size of HD. Videos can now be streamed at sizes up to 4,096×3,072 pixels, roughly four times the size of high-definition 1080p and twice the size of IMAX. For …
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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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The seemingly unending saga of the iPhone 4 antenna issues has grown yet again. After a negative report from Consumer Reports, Apple has apparently deleted all threads about the findings from its popular Support Discussions forums. As Kent German reported earlier today, Consumer Reports has issued its official stance on iPhone 4 and it can’t recommend the phone. Moderators for …
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iPhone 4? Oh yeah, that old thing. T-Mobile has finally unveiled its price plans for Apple’s latest Jesus phone, and — good news! — it’s kinda expensive. Yes, T-Mobile customers eager to be parted from their hard-earned cash will be delighted to hear that if you’re after a 16GB iPhone 4 and fancy paying £25 per month (the lowest monthly price …
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Welcome to the first installment of CNET 100: iPhone apps. Each day for the next 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love will publish slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. Two weeks from now, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps …
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There’s a reason Angry Birds has been the top-selling game in the App Store for so long. Clickgamer Technologies As you may have heard, the App Store just celebrated its second birthday. That means iPhone and iPod gaming is officially two years old as well. How in the world did I ever occupy my downtime before Flight Control came along? …
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Consumer Reports announced Monday that it can’t recommend the iPhone 4 due to problems with its reception. According to a story posted on Consumer Reports’ Web site, it is withholding the recommendation after its engineers found that when you touch the gap in the antenna on the phone’s lower left side, “the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you …
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