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With Oscars just around the corner, Yahoo! reminded us to try out their IntoNow application, which is available for iOS and Android-based devices. Using it, you will be able to add some interactivity when watching the Oscars. For instance, IntoNow users can: Rate the looks on the red carpet with thumbs up or thumbs down;…
Sony released new beta ROMs for select Xperia models, namely Xperia Arc S, Xperia Ray and Xperia Neo V. Once installed, you’ll get few of the gizmos you may’ve seen from the Xperia S and Xperia ion demos, including: Updated UI Lockscreen improvements – there’s a shortcut to the camera directly from the lockscreen, as…
Verizon Wireless will soon add another low-cost QWERTY slider to its portfolio – Samsung Brightside. Unfortunately, it’s not a smartphone — rather it runs Samsung’s proprietary OS which does come with mobile Internet capabilities. At the moment, we don’t have all information about the Brightside, but we do have few details. For instance, we do…
British market leader Everything Everywhere said it will start offering 4G LTE services by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approval. The company, which is a 50-50 joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, is also upgrading its network to 21Mb/s HSPA+ technology as we speak with the goal to end the process by…
Mozilla thinks the world needs yet another app store. But hey, if Google can have its Chrome Store, why wouldn’t there be one store for Firefox – Mozilla Marketplace. Guess that’s the reasoning behind their thinking and voila… they’re doing it, right from the floor of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Interested developers will be…
A little known (as far as I’m concerned) company called novero will launch an interesting product at the Mobile World Congress. The novero Solana is a 10-inch laptop/tablet hybrid with a flip-rotating design that runs both Windows 7 and Android. We’ve seen similar products in the past, namely some Lenovo models, which unfortunately never reached…
Augmented reality experts from metaio will unveil the Augmented City platform, which adds 3D Object Tracking and Visual Search to its free mobile Augmented Reality SDK. Available for download from March 14th, metaio’s mobile SDK version 3.1 will assemble core technologies necessary for creating the “most interactive and immersive AR experiences,” allowing overlay of virtual…
According to data from Berg Insight, smartphones equipped with dual-core processors reached 60 million units worldwide in 2011. The first such smartphones were unveiled at the beginning of 2011 with sales starting in February 2011. One year later, several handset makers are expected to announce their first smartphones with quad-core processors, eventually pushing dual-core phones…
Like all that cash actors get isn’t enough, they also happen to receive cool awards from the Oscar sponsors. Take Motorola for instance. It is using Hollywood’s biggest night to tempt us with a special version of the DROID RAZR MAXX. Actually, the American handset maker is mostly teasing ladies with the Special Edition “Red…
Just in time for the Mobile World Congress, Google has teamed-up with the Government of Catalonia and the City of Barcelona to launch a brand new mobile website about Barcelona. Actually, it’s a set of 26 mobile websites for some of the city’s most famous attractions, restaurants, night clubs and businesses. The new initiative called…