Nokia has for the second time in row topped a Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes Review and is recorded as the most sustainable technology company. The Finnish giant won the “Technology Supersector Leader” crown, making it number one across the entire global technology sector. Mentioned Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are well-known rankings based on a thorough…
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BT FON for Android and iPhone helps users find BT hotspots
BT has launched a new mobile app for its broadband customers allowing them to automatically connect their smartphones to the firm’s network of 1.6 million hotspots across the UK. The application is called BT FON and it’s available as a free download for iOS (iPod Touch and iPad will work just as well) and Android-powered…
weComm launches Turner Classic Movies (TCM) mobile app for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android
weComm is all proud to announce the launch of Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) mobile application built on its Wave Platform. The multi-platform app — supported platforms are iPhone, BlackBerry and Android — comes with daily updated content, including: A complete schedule of movies playing on TCM, with full-month views up to two months in advance.…
Great Adventures: Lost in the Mountains is an adventure puzzler for iPad
After Lamp of Aladdin, Chillingo is out with yet another iPad-only title (there is no iPhone version). The name of the game is Great Adventures: Lost in the Mountains and it sees you solving the mystery of the missing scientist. Along the way you will solve numerous puzzles, take on quests and control multiple characters…
Agendus brings its all-in-one PIM software to iPad
After years of developing for various mobile platforms, including Palm OS and Windows Mobile, the folks behind the popular Agendus app are looking to iPad users for growth. Touted as the “first full-fledged PIM app,” Agendus brings your calendar, contacts and tasks in one place, allowing you to manage your business (and personal) activities from…
Mobile500 Alliance formed to drive the Mobile DTV standard adoption
A group of 30 broadcasters — which collectively own 346 TV stations in 167 markets covering more than 90% of the U.S. population — formed the Mobile500 Alliance to “turn nationwide broadcast mobile TV solution into reality.” The hope is to adopt the Mobile DTV standards which have been defined through years of work at…
Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Android client gets an update
Barnes & Noble has released an updated version of its NOOK for Android app. The most important new features of this release are quite a few UI tweaks and additional options that make reading on your smartphone more enjoyable. Here’s what’s new: First, there are pop-up menus in Library that appear around eBooks in Library…
Android-powered eLocity A7 tablet up for pre-order on Amazon
If you’ve been looking for an alternative Android-powered tablet computer, you may want to consider the eLocity A7. The 7-inch device measures 8.2×4.8×0.5 inches and weighs just 1.02 pounds, while boasting the familiar specs (for an Android tablet) that include such things as 512MB of DDR2 RAM, 1.3-megapixel camera, NVIDIA Tegra II T-20 processor with…
Strategy Analytics: Superphone shipments to reach 100 million units by 2015
Strategy Analytics is out with new study results, suggesting that global superphone shipments will grow 550% to reach 100 million units by 2015. Superphone is defined as a high-end smartphone with 4-inch or larger display and superfast processor running at 1GHz or more. Among the handset makers that currently offer such devices are HTC (Evo…
Nokia C6-01: Like the regular C6, but without the QWERTY keyboard [Symbian^3, 260 EUR]
While watching Anssi Vanjoki introduce 3 new devices at Nokia World today, I had a Skype chat window open and one of the first things ex-blogger Ricky Cadden said when the C6-01 was revealed was “wtf, isn’t the C6 already out?” That pretty much sums up this device. It’s the C6 that was launched during…