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Twitter may be slowing down in the US, but it's showing no signs of stopping elsewhere. One feature, which seems to drive growth as much as anything else, is its mobility. Since its inception, users have been able to send tweets via SMS, but Twitter is now taking it to the next level with the announcement of a ... |
17 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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Any one person must have at least one horrible memory of a five-hour flight or drive during which there was nothing to do but stare at the walls or the road. It seems that the gentlemen and gentlewomen at Viewsonic either know about such things or experienced them on their own enough to come up with a device meant to... |
11 November 2009
09:27 GMT |
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Location-based services are becoming increasingly popular as more mobile devices get GPS features and people are less concerned about their privacy. There are a couple of hot startups, like Foursquares, catering to this space, but Google has now updated its own similar service Latitude with a couple of new features,... |
11 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Real-time search is heading to its rightful home, mobile phones, with a new partnership between mobile search engine Taptu and real-time search engine OneRiot. The idea is to bring a real-time experience to mobile phones in a way that takes advantage of their capabilities and solves their shortcomings. The new Taptu ... |
10 November 2009
11:46 GMT |
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Twitter has always greatly focused on the third-party environment. The website itself gets its fair share of attention, but the company has always envisioned itself as just a service provider and, as such, has made sure that all manners of third-party apps and devices are being catered to with the APIs and access to ... |
3 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Anyone is eyeing the mobile web space these days and Google is no exception. In fact, the search giant is pushing hard on all fronts, from its dedicated search services for mobile to creating its own mobile OS, Android. After making a big splash last week with a dedicated turn-by-turn GPS app for Android, it's n... |
2 November 2009
12:13 GMT |
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Google has been pushing hard in the mobile space with its Android operating system for smartphones, which is now mature enough to tackle the best phones out there. The devices running Android are also getting more competitive especially with the new Motorola Droid announced today. But being just as good wasn't g... |
28 October 2009
12:10 GMT |
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The mobile space isn't that big in the grand scheme at the moment but it is growing at a breakneck pace and mobile use is expected to make up a very large percentage of the overall Internet traffic in just a few years. Spurred by increasingly powerful smartphones and better data access, users are spending more t... |
23 October 2009
06:59 GMT |
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The mobile web is growing at an increased pace and, with more and more mobile users, everyone is moving to meet the demand and hopefully get a piece of the revenue that it's bound to generate. WordPress.com has also recognized the need for a dedicated mobile experience, so it's launching two customized blog... |
21 October 2009
11:13 GMT |
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Google Analytics, the free stats tool from Google, has gotten a major upgrade with a bunch of new features and some updated ones. The most touted feature is the so-called Analytics Intelligence, which will notify the users of the changes it deems important based on an algorithm that determines their significance. Oth... |
21 October 2009
04:35 GMT |
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The smartphone market, despite being the center of attention on the mobile front, is still very small compared with the mobile market as a whole and the revenue from apps and services targeted at smartphones, though increasing exponentially, is still rather insignificant overall. But there are those who are looking a... |
5 October 2009
11:36 GMT |
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Adobe has just announced the latest iteration of its rich Internet applications platform runtime environment, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, and a public beta is expected for most platforms by the end of the year, with a full launch early next year. The biggest part of the announcement is that the full version of the playe... |
5 October 2009
03:08 GMT |
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The company enabling mobile user experiences going by the name of mPortal, Inc. has announced in a report that it assisted Comcast in developing Comcast mobile for the iPhone and iPod touch. Reportedly, mPortal was a key part of the end-to-end application development, as the company worked closely with Comcast. User... |
2 September 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Photobucket, one of the biggest media hosting websites around, recently introduced paid membership accounts for its services. The company also introduced the possibility to send images to a user's mobile device directly from their website through the usage of a simple “Send to phone” button in the im... |
2 September 2009
10:09 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced recently the launch of its AT&T U-verse in parts of Mobile and Pensacola, as well as in the Louisville area. The company's offering includes AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet and AT&T U-verse Voice, and provides residents in the aforementioned areas with a new choi... |
31 August 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading chip maker, is expected to announce a series of new processors that will be part of the company's new CPU families, including the Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3. Part of the company's new line of CPUs will be Intel's Arrandale chips, which wil... |
26 August 2009
11:13 GMT |
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AlarmPoint Systems has announced Mobile Infrastructure Management solutions spanning IT service delivery and service support products from BMC Software, HP Software and IBM. AlarmPoint Systems aims to effectively deliver Mobile IT infrastructure management for the iPhone, BlackBerry and other smartphones. AlarmPoint ... |
14 July 2009
08:39 GMT |
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It has been revealed that people applying for the Yahoo! smartphone beta app are now receiving a notice from the company, which says, “Yahoo has decided to cease development” of the app on May 20. According to Yahoo!, the focus is now on the newly launched Yahoo! Mobile experience for browsers and for the... |
19 May 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Yesterday, in London, Sony Ericsson proudly presented its Mobile Event Guide, a free mobile application that allows sport fans to access all the information about a sports program, local travel and tourism information, and that is updated via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The application will be launched for the first time at ... |
16 October 2008
06:44 GMT |
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It looks like Verizon thought it was about time for a boost in profits, and it decided to make a move that, while it might not seem that important, comes with major repercussions. The mobile carrier has announced its partners that it will add an extra 3 cent fee for every mobile terminated message that's going t... |
13 October 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Leading chip maker Intel is expected to release a new Core 2 Duo CPU for portable computer systems sometime in Q1 next year. According to details currently made available, the Santa Clara, California-based company is going to deliver a faster-running mobile CPU, raising the performance level of its current high-speed... |
3 October 2008
10:03 GMT |
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Hi5, the third largest social network in the world, according to a comScore study, announced that it had expanded to include the mobile platform as well. Users from all over the world will have the possibility to login to their favorite (or maybe not favorite, if we’re to believe the numbers, but close enough) ... |
26 August 2008
22:32 GMT |
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Nokia has confirmed that the major vulnerabilities reported by Polish security researcher Adam Gowdiak are valid. The Java Micro Edition vulnerabilities affect the very popular Nokia Series 40 phones and can result in vital phone functions being compromised.Earlier this month, Security Explorations, a Polish security... |
22 August 2008
04:11 GMT |
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If you haven't been reading the news lately, yes, Apple finally introduced the iPhone 3G. The device uses 3G networking, GPS, sports enterprise support, third party application support, will be available in around 70 countries, and will be more affordable. iPhone 3G is an overall better-performing device at a lo... |
10 June 2008
16:09 GMT |
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Nokia, one of the top companies on the mobile market, might create some new Linux-based, Internet-focused devices, as the interest in such appliances is growing, Reuters is reporting. Although Linux is not widely used on cellphones, the situation is beginning to change, and Google's Android platform is one good ... |
26 May 2008
04:15 GMT |
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In less than two years, users will have their mobile phones shipped with built-in browsers, designed mainly for that specific phone. According to Google's mobile engineering director, Ann Mei Chang, "Within a year, you'll see all manufacturers have full browsing, at least on the high-end phones. This is a t... |
14 May 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Rogers Wireless users will be happy to find out that their favorite wireless carrier has just signed an agreement with Yahoo, which is meant to enhance the quality of Rogers Wireless' products. The agreement also includes Fido, which, along with Rogers Wireless, is on the most important Canadian mobile carrier. ... |
13 May 2008
11:22 GMT |
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Chinese security company Rising has launched what seems to be one of the most innovative consumer-oriented security services ever created: an SMS antivirus solution which allows users who encounter problems with the security of their computers to get professional help in a matter of minutes. All a user has to do is t... |
30 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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The SMS spam is a different meaning of the term spam and even if it occurs quite rarely, it's extremely difficult to block it. A long time ago, one year or so, there were multiple reports revealing massive SMS attacks which harmed the mobile phone owners from multiple regions of the world. However, the attacks w... |
29 April 2008
06:10 GMT |
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Ever since mobile phones got popular on the worldwide markets, researchers have been trying to find a link between their emitted radiation and brain cancer conditions. However, given the fact that the achieved results are absolutely irrelevant, anti-mobile phone groups started to pinch other sensitive chords: gonad c... |
25 April 2008
11:11 GMT |
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Since Motorola came out with MotoRAZR Maxx V6 Ferrari Limited Edition, a Ferrari phone is not a new thing to see. But the Maxx V6 only looks like a phone, and not like a car. Assuming that the world might need a phone that actually resembles a Ferrari, an anonymous producer came up with such a handset. And I'm ... |
11 April 2008
10:33 GMT |
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EA Mobile unveiled the availability of many EA games for mobile devices that run on BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems. The new titles include popular games like Bejeweled and Tetris and are available as payed downloads.EA Mobile has already published various games for Symbian, BlackBerry and Wi... |
7 April 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Your phone's alarm buzzes. You wake up. Grab the phone, stop the alarm, check email - nothing important. Call X, set up a meeting for later. Smile. Receive a call from the office - they need you earlier today. Frown. Wash, eat, dress, call Y, send email to W, send cute MMS to Z and decide to call her/him later t... |
5 April 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Fox, the giant American TV and film company, announced the launch of Fox Entertainment Mobile Network, a new web portal for mobile phones. The new portal was unveiled during CTIA Wireless 2008 (1 - 3 April, Las Vegas), and it is set to bring one of the widest ranges of TV programs and video content ever made availabl... |
3 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Slim and lightweight are definitely nice qualities for mobile phones, but the new king of handsets is far from having these attributes, and has all the chances to be designated the biggest functional cell phone in the world. A Mr. Tan, resident of Songyuan, China, worked about half a year to create a huge handset... |
3 April 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Google has rolled out several mobile services until now but none of them was designed to work on Windows Mobile 6 devices. However, this needs some changes so, today, the Mountain View company officially introduces a Windows Mobile 6 compatible version of Picasa Web Albums, allowing users to view photos, slideshows o... |
3 April 2008
02:21 GMT |
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TeaShark is a mobile browser that works on any handset with Java MIDP 2.0, and it was first released in the fall of 2007. Now the browser comes with several enhancements and, according to its producers, it has more features than any other mobile browser out there.Besides having extra features, TeaShark is also free ... |
27 March 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Windows Mobile 6.1, the newest version of Microsoft's OS for mobile devices, should have been launched at MWC 2008, at the beginning of February, but the giant software company postponed its release for unknown reasons. Now it looks like the new OS will be available starting April the 1st, and Pocket-Lint re... |
26 March 2008
14:33 GMT |
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Motorola, the American mobile industry giant, just announced via a press release that it will split up to form two independent companies in order to achieve a better management of its business(es). The news comes in a quite difficult period for Motorola, as the company was surpassed by Samsung in terms of mobi... |
26 March 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Spam has followed the natural evolution course of advertising. First designed only for computers, now, as the mobile ads continue to increase in importance, the unwanted messages have ported to the handheld devices in a flash. What better place to target with such an attack than the biggest mobile communications mark... |
24 March 2008
06:58 GMT |
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The new flat-rate data plans from phone carriers is overwhelming, pure and simple, and it is fueling the rate at which the Internet is accessed via mobile handheld devices up to rocket speed. That has not always been the story; there was a time (which I like to refer to as "The Dark Ages") when the per-minute chargin... |
20 March 2008
08:00 GMT |
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Not long after iTunes was declared the second-largest music retailer in the United States, catching up mighty fast to Best-Buy, Apple's iPhone just took the lead in the US thanks to Safari, as far as mobile web browsing goes. The mobile version of Apple's Safari is the second most used browser for the same ... |
19 March 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless thought about all the automotive enthusiasts out there that are equally enthusiastic about cell phones, and today launched a new application called Car and Driver SlideShow. Developed by Viva Vision, a top provider of mobile entertainment content, the application is an interactive SlideShow one that ... |
11 March 2008
11:54 GMT |
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Melodis Corporation, a company based in Sunnyvale, California, announced the releases of midomi mobile, an innovative music search engine for Symbian S60 mobile phones. The new application allows you to find music by singing, humming or whistling into your phone the song you want to download. The search engine acce... |
28 February 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Nvidia introduced a new generation of graphics processors for notebook systems. The Nvidia Quadro FX 3600M is a professional GPU that gives a new definition to graphics performance and advanced visual computing. Dedicated to designers, engineers, and scientists, the GPU can offer the necessary graphics power for the ... |
25 February 2008
11:18 GMT |
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You would stay for hours talking on your brand-new mobile phone. Do you think that the molecules of your body are non-responsive to the radiation emitted by the mobile phones?You should know that researchers have linked radiation of 884 MHz to insomnia, headaches and concentration difficulties. A recent Israeli resea... |
25 February 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Vollee, the US-based mobile entertainment company, announced it would bring the Second Life experience to 3G mobile phones. Beta trials of Second Life for mobiles will be open to users starting May 2008 and will be free of charge. If you don't know what Second Life is, we'll tell you. It's a sort of... |
23 February 2008
04:40 GMT |
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The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) announced at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain, its new ad-supported Disney.co.uk portal for mobile phones, which brings the Disney digital entertainment experience closer to mobile consumers. Following Disney's philosophy to provide compelling content anytime a... |
13 February 2008
04:29 GMT |
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Nvidia has rolled out the APX 2500 mobile CPU with integrated graphics, the company's first application processor for handheld devices. Few hours later, another CPU for cellphones emerged from the ST Microelectronics laboratories. The CPU not only has similar features with Nvidia's chip, but it also integra... |
12 February 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Given that more Mac users/fans will be somewhat mislead by Mac Funamizu's name appearing in headlines recently, here's what this non-Mac news is all about. Funamizu has this idea of developing a gadget that incorporates a camera and a scanner. The built-in GPS could use Google Maps "or an improved image sea... |
12 February 2008
03:37 GMT |
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