HootSuite’s Facebook and Twitter app for iPhone has been updated to include push notifications (pop-up, audio, or vibration) whenyou either get a reply, retweet, direct message, or when there are any new tweets on your home timeline. The update also includes new localizations for Arabic and Korean, as well as a few UI tweaks, like…
Archives for 2010
New iPhone 4 preorder shipments pushed back to July 14th
If you haven’t yet hit up the Apple online store to preorder your iPhone 4, we’re sorry to say that you’ll be waiting a good long while. The latest checks on Apple’s online store shows that the ship date for your new iPhone 4 preorder has been pushed back to July 14th. Think about that…
Verizon doesn’t like FCC’s plan to reclassify broadband
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to vote today about whether it should take public comment on reclassifying broadband as a common carrier and the major players are already giving its opinions. If reclassified, broadband connection providers wouldn’t be able to prioritize their content over competitors. Comcast, for example, wouldn’t be able to deliver its…
Telus Teams Up with Poynt for Live Agent Assistance
Poynt’s location-based reference app for BlackBerry is getting an impressive new feature thanks to Telus. If you have incomplete or absent results when doing a business search, you can launch a phone call to a live service rep who can look up more information for you and update the Poynt database. Details right now are…
E3 2010: Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem Announced for the iPhone
Is your spidey sense tingling for some total mayhem? It looks like Gameloft has gotten their hands on another Marvel property to turn into a game on the iPhone as they released a trailer for their upcoming title, Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem. The game isn’t set to any of the recently released films, instead they’re…
T-Mobile Android app adds task killer
T-Mobile wants your Android device like the myTouch 3G Slide to run smoother and it has added a task-killing functionality to its My Account application. The “Tune-up” feature will try and kill unused services in the background for Android devices with the 2.1 version of the software and below. In theory, this could make the…
Nokia Researching and Developing Cognitive Radio
Bandwidth. There just isn’t enough of it to go around given our demands, so Nokia is diving in head first to figure out a solution for all our mobile broadband woes. What the manufacturer has come up with is cognitive radio, or radio that is intelligent and adjusts and suits itself to current given spectrum…
Windows Phone 7 to Take Five Years to Mature – VP
We all know Windows Phone is going to go through some growing pains post-launch to fill obvious gaps like copy and paste, porn, multitasking, and non-Marketplace apps. So how long will it take to get all caught up? Microsoft VP Terry Myerson says: “We’re going to reset, but it is going to take us five…
AT&T and Samsung Announce Galaxy S Captivate Coming This Summer
AT&T and Samsung have just announced the Galaxy S Captivate, part of the Galaxy S family, running Android for this summer. If you haven’t been sucked into the iPhone 4 hype just yet, this could be a nice alternative for AT&T. Seriously, if iPhone isn’t your cup of tea, the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate is…
Verizon Motorola Droid X Teaser Site Goes Live
If your patience for the new Motorola Droid X on Verizon has been running thin, we see a little relief not too far down the road. Verizon has just hit the on switch for the Droid X teaser site, which tells us nothing more about when it will be released other than “Coming Soon.” Perhaps…