Adobe AIR for Android has just been announced, and it looks like users will have a lot of new apps and features to look forward to. Android devs can now use ActionScript 3, or AS3, to create apps that run as native Android apps. Naturally, all of these apps can be made available to the…
Archives for 2010
Samsung Galaxy Tab for Sprint Launching November 14 for $399?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is set to hit all four carriers by the holidays, according to the Korean manufacturer, and it looks like some models are getting pricing and launch details leaked. While the timing has made most of us curious, the pricing is really what we’re after since this Android tablet is considered a…
Motorola Droid 2 Global Specs Briefly Appeared Online
Motorola fans might have noticed the Droid 2 Global quickie on the website yesterday before it was pulled by the folks in charge. The quick appearance gave us a glimpse at the specs for the new Droid handset, however, and it doesn’t look like much of a slouch. In addition to global calling capabilities, this…
Apple Readying to Announce Record iPhone Sales?
Despite all its problems and issues, the Apple iPhone has constantly been breaking its own sales records with each quarter. All the criticism in the world, whether it’s the faulty antenna or the alleged susceptibility of its glass construction, doesn’t seem to make a dent in sales. Apple is set to announce its earnings on…
RIM Evades UAE Ban, “BlackBerry Services are Now Compliant”
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the United Arab Emirates has issued a statement about the impending October 11 ban of BlackBerry data services: “The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has confirmed that Blackberry services are now compliant with the UAE’s telecommunications regulatory framework. Therefore, the TRA has confirmed today that all Blackberry services in the UAE…
UberTwitter Beta-9 Release 2 Now Available for Download
The UberTwitter Twitter client for BlackBerry has been updated yet again. Last time around we told you about UberTwitter Beta-9 Release 1… and now, yes, you guessed it, UberTwitter Beta-9 Release 2 is available for download. The big change in this one? UberTwitter has made a change in their maps provider. For now, Google Maps…
Gadget Porn: Nokia N8 torn apart [Huge camera module, super easy to replace battery]
The boys and girls over at iFixit have taken their skills at disassembling nearly everything on the face of this planet and applied it to Nokia’s latest device, what many are calling the new flagship, the N8. What they found doesn’t really come as a surprise to anyone with a pair of eyeballs. The camera…
Yahoo! Messenger with video chat capabilities coming to the Apple iPhone and Android devices
When I think Yahoo! Messanger, I think old people who can’t be bothered with keeping up with the times, or Asians. Anyway, it doesn’t matter if you’re a senior citizen or that your most prized possession is a rice cooker to enjoy the fact that Yahoo! is going to introduce their Messanger client for both…
comScore: Japanese people use the mobile web the most, Europeans are SMS addicts
In a survey done by comScore, sample size unknown, some startling results were found between the differences of how the Japanese, Europeans, and Americans use their mobile devices. You’d think that because mobile phones are so limited in what they can do that everyone, everywhere, would be doing the exact same thing, but you’d be…
Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Mobile Beta 1 for Android and Maemo [Still not fast enough]
Mozilla is in weird position. Two years ago everyone loved them and their browser and if you didn’t use Firefox then people looked at you like you were a 40 year old man dressing up as 13 year girl eating an ice cream cone in the middle of a winter snow storm. But then Google…








