Building on its initial release, the Firefox Mobile project (a.k.a. Fennec) has advanced to version 1.1 today, giving Maemo handsets (i.e. the Nokia N900) a few new browsing features. Firefox lets you browse in landscape and portrait mode Volume rocker lets you zoom in and out Personalized Start page helps you pick up where you…
HTC Desire Takes on Samsung Galaxy S in Quake 2 Video Test
The HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S are pretty evenly matched on paper – both have 1 GHz processors, run Android 2.1, WVGA touchscreens of similar size (3.7″ versus 4″), and about the same memory (576 MB versus 512 MB). One would argue that if you were to run a Quake 2 demo on both…
IM+ for BlackBerry Updated to Version 8.5
Looks like the good folks at SHAPE Services have been working hard on IM+ for BlackBerry yet again. They’ve just released an update for the all-in-one messaging app for BlackBerry. The update brings us up to version 8.5, and besides the usual box full of slight modifications and bug fixes, the developers have added a…
BMW Pathfinder to Offer Large Scale Navigation on Mobile
BMW is working on a way to sideload large scale mapping data (like parking structures) to enable a new breed of micro-navigation. The project, Pathfinder, is still in the works, but is being prototyped on BMW 3 Series vehicles, presumably through ConnectedDrive. When punching in a route, the appropriate micro-maps (if available) are sent to…
Nokia C5 hits India; Could be yours for $175
There are no doubts in my mind Nokia will move quite a few C5 units. It’s an entry-level smartphone with an impressive feature set for the price. And now it’s hitting India where interested folks could grab it for 8,200 INR, which is about $175. Bare in mind that’s the price of an unlocked device…
Foursquare secures $20 million in 2nd round of funding
Popular social network Foursquare announced that it secured $20 million in Series B round with Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and new investor, Andreessen Horowitz, which is backed by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The company will use the new money to expand the organization to supplement the core team, as well as to…
mSpot Radio now available on Verizon
We’ve almost missed this, but it’s important so we’re going with it few days later. Verizon Wireless has launched mSpot Radio in partnership with mSpot, providing access to a wide selection of music to its multimedia phone owners (not just those with smartphones). In total, the mSpot app works with 60 Verizon phones that use…
Harris Interactive: Mobile marketing alerts drive 1 out of 3 recipients into stores
Harris Interactive conducted an online survey, commissioned by Placecast, in May of this year to research consumer receptivity to opt-in mobile marketing. Here are the highlights: One-third of Americans who currently have signed up for mobile marketing alerts indicate that such services impact their decision to go into stores and 27% report that such programs…
Samsung SHW-M130 is Galaxy S for KT and LG Telecom
Who says SK Telecom will be the only kid in block with the Samsung Galaxy S? Two other Korean mobile operators are joining the party with their own “flavor” of the device marked as SHW-M130. However, it’s not exactly the same device. For one thing, it comes with a slightly smaller screen – 3.7 as…
Nokia Software Updater beta updated with device application updates and one-click device software update
Nokia Beta Labs is out with a new beta version of the Nokia Software Updater software. There are two important enhancements in this release – device application updates and improvements in the user experience. As far as I’ve understood, similarly to iTunes, the former feature will make sure you’re running the latest versions of your…