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I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t know where to start if I wanted to learn to make sushi. I love eating the stuff, and a good buddy of mine is actually an amazing sushi chef… But for me, sticky rice and wasabi don’t typically find a home in my kitchen. I can eat it (and love…
A recent survey performed by Keynote Systems, commissioned by Adobe, shows that in a majority of cases people would rather use a mobile website than go hunting for an application. Does this really surprise anyone? Apps, to be frank, are overrated. Why would anyone want to force people to go into an App Store, then…
British firm ARM, who designs the chips that go into just about every single mobile phone on the planet, has published their Q3 2010 financial results and of all the facts and figures they present, that one that stands out to this writer is that 9% of the processors their licensees shipped were of the…
Above and beyond all the things Apple is known for, it’s there exploration of new materials to use for their consumer hardware that has impressed me the most. While most companies are still using black shiny finger print magnet plastic for their products, Apple has switched nearly their entire lineup to devices made out of…
Operators have traditionally made their money from the services that made landline phones popular a century ago: voice. Then SMS came and the profit margin on those, since they’re a fraction of a penny to send and receive, paved the way for yet another infusion of cash that could be used to do useful things…
HTCSense.com is HTC’s brand-new web-based service for the latest Android smartphones, including the Desire Z and Desire HD. Those are the only two phones that can sing along HTC’s new offering that allows users to personalize their phones, manage contacts, read, send, and search text and MMS messages, create and share Footprints and safeguard their…
UK’s largest online greetings card company, Moonpig, is out with its own iPhone app, allowing users to quickly navigate and choose from a selection of customizable cards. Of course, you can edit the text of the card (both on the front and the inside of the card) and use your own photos from the Gallery,…
And the latest best-selling application in Apple’s AppStore is… [drums please]… Angry Birds Halloween. The special Holiday-themed edition of the popular game has been bought by 1 million iOS devices owners in just 6 days! Up until this point, Chillingo’s Cut the Rope held the prime position, reaching the same number of paid downloads within…
The rumor is that Symbian has seen better days. However, that doesn’t stop the Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2010 organizers from proceeding with their event, which BTW is planned to take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands from November 9 to 10th. Unfortunately, we won’t be there, but that doesn’t mean we don’t care about the news…
After Juniper, we have another research company exploring the prospects of the mobile video calling services. It’s In-Stat which has found that this market’s total revenues will exceed $1 billion by 2015. Obviously, they point out that video calls are nothing new, but they returned to the spotlight following Apple’s introduction of the iPhone 4…