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Windows Mobile 6.5 Sees 50 New Widgets

One of the most attractive new features that the upcoming 6.5 flavor of Microsoft's Windows Mobile will bring along is the support for widgets. These are HTML and CSS-based, JavaScripts single-purpose tools that deliver to users services like the latest news, the weather, the time, calendar and more, depending o...

24 July 2009
10:39 GMT

Motorola Announces A1200R, a New A1200 MING

The Motorola A1200 MING became quite a popular mobile phone after its launch back in 2006, and now the handset maker decided it was high time to release into the wild a successor of the device, in the form of Motorola A1200R, a handset that has great chances to prove as successful as the original model. The new Mot...

23 May 2009
04:43 GMT

More Details on Windows Marketplace and WM 6.5

Redmond-based Microsoft silently opened the gates of its Windows Marketplace for Mobile for application developers about two weeks ago, and now it has made the official announcement on the Windows Mobile Team blog, though still stating that developers who lived outside of US or UK could not access it just yet. As ma...

14 May 2009
08:16 GMT

Samsung Announces TouchWiz Connected Mobile Apps

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) has announced at the CTIA Wireless 2009 show in Las Vegas that it will introduce a new set of rich connected mobile applications meant to run on the company's family of TouchWiz touchscreen phones, and that it will do so in partnership with Yahoo, Google and Ac...

2 April 2009
04:19 GMT

Jerry Yang Proves Why Yahoo! Should Be the Starting Point for the Future

Jerry Yang came to the helm of Yahoo with a clear idea of what he should accomplish and the time he has for the job. He never kept it a secret, he wanted to turn Yahoo! into the starting point for web surfers everywhere, the portal of choice for everyone, no matter if young or old. His plan slowly began unfolding, fi...

8 January 2008
13:06 GMT

Google and Yahoo! Hand in Hand

Ta-daaa! Google and Yahoo! Sitting in a tree!...You know the following string of letters, so you'll have to guess what I mean. By the looks of it, Google's engineers are as skilled as Yahoo!'s ones, because they are rolling out about the same things at about the same time. Neat!Well, not so neat becaus...

29 November 2007
05:13 GMT

Meebo Trying to Copy Facebook Model

The impact Facebook has had on the social network market has been extraordinary. In just a little over six months since opening its backdoor to developers, it now hosts over 6000 applications (some say the number might actually be closer to 8000), also known as widgets. Meebo - a web-based Instant Messaging site that...

2 November 2007
01:36 GMT

Widgets May Make Your PC Vulnerable

I think that this is all that hackers have been waiting for. Widgets are pretty popular and people like them (I consider this type of applications useful myself), so the disclosure of vulnerabilities in this type of software means that hackers will have a lot of opportunities to be successful in their deeds. But this...

18 September 2007
09:32 GMT

Yahoo Widgets Fan? You Shouldn't Be!

Yahoo Widgets is an attractive platform powered by the Sunnyvale company that provides tiny and eye-candy utilities able to bring some simple functions straight on your desktop. The product is quite popular and, because you might be one of the users, you must know that Yahoo Widgets must be updated as soon as possibl...

27 July 2007
06:36 GMT

1 Million Users for Nokia's WidSets

The WidSet service has just reached an impressive number of 1 million users. This is a great accomplishment for Nokia, as such performances have not ever been reached before by any other company that provides anything similar to WidSets.In fact, this is a service that manages to offer its users more facilities than a...

25 May 2007
08:30 GMT

Apple Patent for Multiple Dashboards

It looks like one thing we will be definitely seeing in Leopard is multiple Dashboards. No less than five Apple patents were published recently by the US Patent & Trademark Office, of which, the one entitled 'Multiple Dashboards' gives us a pretty clear idea on what we can expect to see.The patent covers th...

4 May 2007
08:08 GMT

The Revolutionary Yahoo Widgets 4.0 Available for Download!

Yahoo Widgets Engine is an interesting application developed by Yahoo that helps Windows and Mac OSX owners place widgets on their desktops. The widgets represent tiny tools with an attractive interface able to add a simple function or to display only one type of information (CPU info, weather, calendar), being based...

22 March 2007
07:39 GMT


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