February, 2010

• 12 February

  ‘The Cat in the Hat’ comes back…to the iPhone

  

  It’s a good time to be a Dr. Seuss fan–and an iPhone or iPod Touch owner. Hot on the heels of last year’s criminally overlooked “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and thoroughly entertaining Dr. Seuss Camera, Grinch Edition, Oceanhouse Media just dropped three new Seuss apps, starting with a spectacular e-book edition of “The Cat …

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• 12 February

  Motorola Devour might launch on March 15

  

  Boy Genius Report Boy Genius Report received a tip and some revealing documents that indicate the Motorola Devour might be available some time between February 25 and March 15 (the February date is for indirect channel distribution, while the March date is the official full launch date). The Devour, you might recall, would be Verizon’s first Motorola Android phone with …

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• 12 February

  Wi

  

  Good old Wi-Fi could be the fix to an impending explosion of data on wireless networks. Nearly three years after Apple introduced the game-changing iPhone, wireless operators around the globe are feeling the effects of the wireless data tsunami that is well under way. Even networks that don’t support the iPhone are feeling the pinch as a generation of new …

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• 12 February

  Ringin’ roses: Top 10 pink mobile phones

  

  Pink phones used to be unusual, but now they’re everywhere, in every colour from blossom to rose, bubblegum to candy heart, and palest peach to bright magenta. Whether you’re a girly girl taking your fashion cues from Legally Blonde, a metrosexual man making the ultimate statement about your sexual confidence, or — more probably — you just like pink, the …

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• 12 February

  Juniper eyes wireless network upgrades

  

  Juniper Networks on Monday will launch three products for mobile network providers to get a bigger slice of the 3G, 4G, and LTE upgrade revenue pie. The big picture: Juniper, which primarily competes with Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco Systems for wireless business, sees networks converging. According to Mallik Tatipamula, vice president of service provider marketing at Juniper, the mobile network will …

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• 12 February

  The Vancouver games: Here’s the app for that

  

  Are you ready for some winter gaming? The NBC Olympics app provides a full schedule and a whole lot more. AT&T After tonight’s opening ceremonies, the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games will get down to business: skating, slaloming, bob-sledding, and all the rest of it. Of course, it’s always a challenge keeping tabs on the various events, which is why …

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• 12 February

  Toshiba BDX2100KB: Blu

  

  Toshiba started to get over its tragically failed relationship with HD DVD with a quick rebound fling — the BDX2000KB Blu-ray player. Now it’s ironed its best shirt, slapped on some Tiberius and is really back in the game with a nice cheap date: the entry-level BDX2100KB. Toshiba’s second Blu-ray player outputs images at 1080p/24p and offers an Ethernet jack for access to …

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• 12 February

  Humax HD

  

  Any plans for the weekend? Few sherbets with the lads, or getting your hair did with the girls, perhaps. Or you could watch Six Nations rugby, Champions League football and the Winter Olympics in your own home, in glorious high definition — for free. Yes, Freeview HD finally hits living rooms as the Humax HD-Fox T2 goes on sale this …

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• 11 February

  Dialed In 114: Mobile overload in Barcelona (podcast)

  

  Next week, Bonnie and I are off to Barcelona with Maggie Reardon of CNET News and CNET TV’s Ariel Nunez for the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) brouhaha. As the global show for the cell phone industry, MWC (nee GSMA and 3GSM), sets the stage for what will happen in the cell phone world. And 2010 will be no different. …

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• 11 February

  Garmin

  

  Much like last year, Garmin-Asus got a head start on Mobile World Congress 2010 and introduced two new additions to its line of GPS-enabled smartphones, the Nuvifone M10 and the Nuvifone A50. Promised since 2009, the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone A50 is the company’s first Google Android device and features all the usual Google and Android services, including Google search by voice, …

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