After releasing its app for the iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry – TIME.com is going for the Android smartphone users. Since Google’s mobile platform is more open than BlackBerry OS and iOS, this version also allows users to put pieces of the TIME.com content on their phone’s homescreen using a small or large widget and eventually…
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Oxygen Phone Manager adds support for latest Nokia C and X series phones
Oxygen Software updated two of its popular “PC Suite replacement apps” to include the support for latest Nokia devices. Here’s what changed: Oxygen Phone Manager II for Nokia and Vertu phones v2.18.13 got the preliminary support for Nokia C1-00, Nokia C2, Nokia C3, Nokia X2 and Nokia X3 phones. Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian OS…
Kensington unveils five smartphone accessories
Kensington Computer Products Group knows everyone loves smartphones these days. In that sense, despite the fact their products can be used with just about any handset out there, they tout them as “made for smartphones.” Here’s what they got: Kensington Pocket Battery for Smartphones ($39.99) – the light and thin accessory comes with mini and…
Angry Birds 1.4 rocks a new bird, new world and 15 new levels
Rovio has released another free update for its highly popular iPhone/iPod Touch game – Angry Birds. Called “BIG BROTHER’S REVENGE,” it comes with 15 new levels, a new world and a new bird. In addition, there are new achievements to be earned, a new story and a golden egg to located. Facebook and Twitter integrations…
Video search engine blinkx unveils mobile API
blinkx, which touts itself as the “world’s largest and most advanced video search engine,” launched mobile API, giving developers of mobile applications and sites access to blinkx’s index of MP4 video. We’ve already talked about blinkx in the past. If you’ve missed that article, you should know their mobile video index includes millions of clips…
HTC Touch Diamond2 gets an update to enhance the stability of SMS
Good ol’ HTC doesn’t forget its users, even if they have a phone which is now almost 3 years old. The Touch Diamond2 got a small update that “amends the internal management of SMS functionality, and enhances SMS transmission stability.” In other words, if you experienced some problems with SMS, this update should fix that.…
France’s Samsung Galaxy S to get the Android 2.2 update in September
We have one good and one bad news to share with our French readers ownin’ the Samsung Galaxy S. The good news is that the Korean company hasn’t forgotten you – you will be getting the Android 2.2 updated. The bad news is that you’ll have to wait for September to grab it. In the…
bigmouthmedia: Most UK brands don’t understand mobile
UK-based bigmouthmedia has conducted a small survey among key decision makers at a raft of leading UK companies to find out their attitude toward mobile marketing. The results are disappointing with more than three quarters of respondents not understanding the value of a visitor via mobile compared to other digital channels. And here are some…
Apple puts Verizon and Motorola Droid X on blast, shows antenna problems on video
Just when you thought Apple was done bashing other smartphones on its “Smartphone antenna performance” web-ucational page, the iPhone maker adds the Verizon Motorola Droid X to its “antennagate” lineup. In doing so, Apple essentially calls out Verizon and Motorola’s Android-powered Droid X flagship for losing reception when its antenna is covered up by a…
The Mobile Roundup – The ‘Money Never Sleeps’ edition
It was Wall Street week as Apple, Microsoft and Nokia posted very different quarterly earnings and these provided great insight into who is winning in the mobile space. We also put the Samsung Galaxy S phones under the microscope and Apple finally started taking orders for those free bumper cases. Let’s stop wasting time and…