Do you need motivation in order to complete such mundane tasks as taking out the garbage, washing your car, or calling your mother? Well, one would think people would get enough motivation knowing they completed a task that was absolutely necessary to do, but for the rest of us that need more motivation in life,…
Archives for 2010
Skype Video Calling Removed from Fring
Last week, Fring was all sunshine and lollipops about enabling multi-platform video calling through a Skype connection on the iPhone 4. This was especially awesome not only because Apple’s official FaceTime function is currently limited to only playing with other iPhone 4s, but it also liberated video calling from Wi-Fi zones and out into 3G…
Android Market to hit 100,000 Android apps by the end of July?
We know that the Android Market has been growing rapidly, and in more ways than one. Last we heard, the Android Market had a cool 70,000 Android apps available, and now we’re hearing that it may have up to 90,000 at the moment. If this turns out to be true, we may see the Market…
Google Open Spot Android app helps you park
Google wants to make it easier to find parking spots and the search giant has released an Open Spot Android app that will help you mark and discover open parking spaces. I used to have a car here in San Francisco but the frustration of finding a viable parking spot led me to give it…
Mediatek joins the Open Handset Alliance: The industry has to stop making feature phones
Who here remembers the very first Asus eeePC? It came out almost 3 years ago, and man was it a terrible product. Screen quality was not only horrifyingly bad, but so was the size and resolution. The keyboard was cramped. It was slower than your 90 year old Jewish grandmother behind the wheel of a…
AT&T CTO: We’re just getting started with mobile data
For all the guff AT&T gets about its mobile data usage in major cities, I’m pretty glad they have John Donovan as its Chief Technology Officer. Donovan’s an interesting cat. A self-proclaimed gadget freak, he carriers an HTC Android device (Aria?), a BlackBerry Bold, an iPhone 4, a Kindle, an iPad and other things. I’m…
T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) confirmed for July 15th launch
With shortages delaying shipments of the Sprint HTC EVO 4G and the Verizon HTC Droid Incredible, the upcoming wave of Samsung Galaxy S variants could prove to be hot-selling alternatives to the Android superphones from HTC. As such, it’s good to get an official confirmation from T-Mobile USA that the T-Mobile Vibrant (the T-Mobile variant…
Rogers Begins iPhone 4 Training
No doubt some fellow Canadians have been glaring lustily south of the border at AT&T’s iPhone 4, but don’t worry, it’s coming to Canada soon. At the WWDC launch, Steve Jobs promised the Canadian market would be ready in July. Accordingly, this shot shows that Rogers’ internal web training for sales reps now includes options…
Google Android App Inventor lets anyone be a developer
Google is looking to make it easier to create mobile programs for Android and its just-launched App Inventor makes it simple to create programs with little, to no experience. The new development tool has been in work for over a year and it essentially creates a drag-and-drop interface for mobile program development. This doesn’t mean…
Consumer Reports: Liar liar, pants on fire; iPhone 4 has a real reception problem
Consumer Reports, an independent agency that makes sure the stuff you buy isn’t a lemon, took it upon themselves to purchase 3 iPhone 4 handsets, each from different Apple stores, and then test them to see if this “Death Grip” wireless signal reception issue really is a problem. Guess what? The old “we calculated the…