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With the British Open going on at St. Andrews right now, this morning I poked around for some ‘Old Course’ goodness to enjoy… and wouldn’t you know it, there’s a new game available for iPhone miraculously titled ‘The Old Course’… and it’s a gem. Released by the developers at Cobra Mobile, The Old Course lets…
Vlingo continues to improve its voice-activated apps and the Android version will now include a “SuperDialer” to make calling easier. Vlingo SuperDialer is sort of like the Genius button on the myTouch 3G Slide on steroids: tap the widget and then tell it what you want to call. Voice dialing is nothing new but this…
If you’re looking for an Android device, and live north-of-the-border (yes, Canadians I’m talking to you), Rogers has lowered the price on some very powerful Android-powered handsets… and more. The scoop? Here are the price drops: The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is now available for $99.99 on a 3-year contract (previously $149.99) The Acer Liquid…
A quickie here for those of you toting a webOS powered device. webOS 1.4.5 is making the rounds, and has already arrived at a couple of carriers over in Europe (O2 Germany got it first, followed by O2 UK). The latest rumors have 1.4.5 hitting various carriers around Europe as we speak, and the update…
If you love Evernote like I do, you definitely follow “every step they make” in a hope they’ll push their service even further. The popular note-taking tool is out with “The Trunk,” a service that showcases various Evernote integrations. As you know, Evernote does notes like no one else with its features including cross-platform synchronization…
Broadband Genie has recently conducted a small survey of more than thousand of their website visitors to find out how much data mobile broadband customers use. Results are kinda stunning with most users having no idea how much data they use each month. Here’s the recap of the results: 53.5% answered “Don’t know,” 11% of…
Mobile security firm NetQin has apparently found a malware spreading via Symbian S60 handsets that is being used to build a mobile botnet. The company has identified three piece of malware masquerading as mobile games or special offers, infecting Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition devices. Their estimate is that around 100,000 handsets have been…
We applaud British Gas for being so high tech, supporting the latest mobile technologies. The company has updated its iPhone app to make it even easier for customers to keep track of their energy bills, monitor their energy use over time and submit meter readings to avoid estimated bills. British Gas has already seen its…
HID Global and INSIDE Contactless are extending their long standing partnership to bring iCLASS access control and identity credentials to NFC-enabled mobile phones, in a move that will enable potential substitution of numerous plastic cards for a variety of commercial and consumer identity applications. Usually we wouldn’t care about such a news, but when we…
According to the latest report from In-Stat, 4G technology deployments and subscriptions will begin to take root this year, but only in North America and Western Europe, while the rest of the world won’t begin to embrace it in any significant way until 2012. Most of the world is still migrating towards 3G WCDMA and…