RIM BlackBerry Curve 8520
February 28, 2011 by admin
Filed under BlackBerry
The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone. It provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and easy access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.
Microsoft bans GPLv3 apps from Windows Phone Marketplace [Open source software is evil]
February 28, 2011 by admin
Filed under Windows Phone
Of all the nerd fights that take place on the internet, Microsoft
versus the open source community is the battle that has caused more trollish comments and lengthy prose to be posted than anything even remotely similar. Forget Android versus iOS, Microsoft versus Linux is where blood boils. Understandably so when you look at how Microsoft makes money, by writing and selling software, whereas the “freetards”, as Fake Steve Jobs likes to call them, want to sell you professional services and management while keeping the apps themselves free for everyone to tinker with. This hasn’t stopped Microsoft from tipping their toe into the sea of quality free software out there, but they’re not going to change business models anytime soon. The same mindset is now being used to push free open source software out of the Windows Phone Marketplace, but not in the way most imagined. Rather than write a headline about how all open source software (OSS) is banned, the real story is a bit more complicated than that.
Clearwire vs Sony Ericsson – 1:0; No trademark disputes here
February 28, 2011 by admin
Filed under Sony Ericsson
Remember that “Sony Ericsson suing Clearwire for having a very similar logo” story? While the fight may still not be over, the first round definitely goes to Clearwire. Federal court found “insufficient evidence of likelihood of confusion and no irreparable harm,” denying a motion for a preliminary injunction. That doesn’t mean the buck necessarily stops here, but it will be much harder for the Swedish-Japanese lawyers to take much further.
4G LTE for Xoom to require shipment to Motorola
Consumers who buy Motorola’s new Xoom tablet when it hits stores today will have to send their tablets back to Motorola if they want to upgrade to 4G LTE, according to Verizon Wireless.
Stream your own video content to iPads with JetStream HD Read more
JetStream HD users who pay the one-time $199 fee will get a special appliance that they connect via an Ethernet cable to a Wi-Fi router in their home. Any content from a home computer or media server that they want to view on the go is then captured wirelessly–or through a USB connection–and streamed over the Internet to their iPad. JetStream HD requires a visit to Apple’s App Store for its dedicated iPad app, which authenticates the user, ensuring that only they can view the content.
Motorola, Amobee bring in-app advertising to China
Developers looking to tap China’s huge mobile market now may have an easy way to monetize their apps in the world’s fastest growing economy. Amobee has teamed-up with Motorola to bring its in-app ads to mobile application developers looking to launch apps for Chinese mobile users.
Microsoft shows off the interconnected future Windows Phone
February 28, 2011 by admin
Filed under TOP Ranking
Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie, showcased some new technology during a recent TechForum event for news media. His presentation demonstrated the use of a Windows Phone handset, supposedly the HTC HD7, to control the user interface of a computer. If you look beyond the UI beyond being presented, the phone is serving as to control as well as share data with the computer. This demonstration is only the tip of the iceberg of what may be possible when the computer becomes the natural extension of the phone and it is this type of synergy that Microsoft has been talking up since it introduced WP7 in 2010.
HTC Flyer, Desire S, Wildfire S, and Salsa get ‘First look’ videos
February 27, 2011 by admin
Filed under Devices, Others Brands
If you missed our live blog for HTC’s new handset lineup, you’ve got some catching up to do. However, if you’d like it short and sweet, HTC has provided a handful of “First Look” videos for most of the lineup.
Marvell, ASUS team-up to bring TD-SCDMA smartphones to China
As part of its strategy to fight competitors like Qualcomm, ST-Ericsson and Freescale, Marvell has been working to develop TD-SCDMA chips for the ever-growing Chinese market, including the recently announced PXA978 single-chip that works both on UMTS and TD-SCDMA 3G networks. Now they’ve teamed-up with ASUS to launch T10 and T20 OPhone smartphones with China Mobile.
Windows Phone 7 ‘Metro’ calculator for Windows Mobile phones
February 27, 2011 by admin
Filed under Windows Phone
Are you a Windows Mobile smartphone user that’s feeling a bit burned by Microsoft’s decision to leave you by the wayside when it launches Windows Phone 7 later this year? Well, here’s a little something that might make it easier to deal with your aging Microsoft mobile operating system. What you see here is a calculator that’s obviously been inspired by the “Metro” UI (user interface) seen on the upcoming WP7. There’s no telling how far this single calculator app will go in helping you cope with your smartphone shame, but hey, it’s better than nothing. Right?