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Skype is in the process of beefing up its mobile teams and this could lead to apps which include video calling. According to GigaOm, Skype is hiring 20-30 employees to improve its mobile engineering teams. As you know, the company already has a plethora of apps which will enable you to make free VoIP calls…
We all know that Apple is already working on the followup to the iPhone 4 and analysts are already speculating that the iPhone 5 will have a pico projector and access to live TV. I think these are both nonsense predictions for multiple reasons. Analyst Brian White with Ticonderoga Securities is not outright saying that…
Google has just acquired the speech technology company Phonetic Arts and this could eventually lead to stronger voice support on Android handsets. According toe Phonetic Arts website, the company specializes in “technology that generates natural expressive speech, allowing computer games to say any sentence in any type of voice.” How will the search giant be…
A new report from comScore confirms what a lot of us already knew: the Google Android operating system is the fastest-growing platform in the United States. The comScore data says that Android grew from 17% in July to 23.5% in October, representing a 6.5% improvement. Those numbers were undoubtedly helped by the release of high-profile…
It looks like there’s a new kind of the Android heap, as a Gartner report says Samsung is now the largest Android handset maker thanks to the success of the Galaxy S lineup. Gartner said Samsung was able to capture 32.1% of the U.S. Android market, a marked increase from 9.2% of the market in…
Let’s say you want to be the next Rana Sobhany or Deadmau5 but you can’t afford the expense equipment to spin those disks (even the digital ones). Well, the folks at Algoriddim have your back as the new DJay iPad app turns your tablet into a monster music device. As you would expect, the DJay…
Hewlett-Packard will be moving its MediaSmart Server team into the Palm unit in an effort to boost the multimedia capabilities of webOS. “We’ll put the MediaSmart Server team’s multimedia and entertainment application experience toward developing the WebOS ecosystem,” said Marlene Somsak, an HP spokeswoman, in an e-mail to PC World. If you don’t know, the…
Samsung has introduced some LPDDR2 DRAM for smartphones and tablets that it promises will deliver speeds that are similar to what we find on desktops. The 4 GB version can transfer up to 1,066 Mbps and Samsung says this doubles what the industry standard is. Additionally these chips will only be 30 nanometers thick, which…
If you were anxious to try out the Verizon 4G LTE network but didn’t want to be saddled with a new, two-year contract, you’ll be happy to know that the no-contract prices will be quite reasonable for service. According to PC World’s Sasha Segan, the no-contract prices for the 4G LTE service will be the…
The Skyfire iPhone browser has only been available in eight countries before today but the company announced that it will be bringing its Adobe Flash-enabled browser to the Apple App Stores in France, Germany and Italy. As you should know by now, the biggest appeal of the Skyfire iPhone browser is the ability to play…