Loopt told us that it has just pushed out some updates for its iPhone and BlackBerry apps and I thought there were a few noteworthy new additions. The biggest change is that the location-based social network now lets you interact with events and friends all from within the map screen (supposedly a first for LBS…
EVO 4G may hit in June, hotspot will cost $10 or $20 per month
If you’re still drooling over the EVO 4G, you may not have to wait long because tipsters told Engadget that the super smartphone could be heading for a mid-June release. This is in line with the “summer” window Sprint announced at CTIA and these tipsters also said that the WiMax access may not be that…
Majority of kids will use touchscreens by 2015
It looks like the kiddos will be very touchy feely with their computers, as a report from Gartner says more than half of the computers purchased in 2015 for people under 15 will sport touchscreens. Devices like the iPhone, iPad and Nexus One are making people comfortable with touch on mobile computing but Microsoft has…
Rhapsody officially hits Android Market
Get ready to rock and roll on your Nexus One, Droid, or other Android device because Rhapsody has officially hit the Android Market. The company has been beta testing on Android since January, and the iPhone version has been offering streaming tunes and offline access for months. You can get all-you-can-eat music for $10 a…
New Verizon smartphones coming soon
Start salivating Verizon Wireless subscribers because Big Red should have some stellar new handsets out soon, according to a leaked internal message obtained by the Boy Genius Report. What will it be? I’d bet dollars to doughnuts we’ll see the HTC Incredible get all official. This beauty is expected to rock Android 2.1 with Sense…
Get yourself ready for iPhone 4.0 – IntoMobile breaks down what you should expect
Apple will be unveiling the next-generation iPhone operating system Thursday and the 4.0 version is bound to be packed with goodies. We’ll be giving you up-to-the-minute coverage of the announcement but we thought it would be good to let you know what the IntoMobile team has heard and what’s on our own wish list for…
FTC may be prepping to stop Google’s AdMob purchase
Let’s hope the good folks at AdMob didn’t go ahead and buy Ferraris because the Federal Trade Commission is preparing an internal litigation team to stop Google from purchasing the mobile advertiser, according to a report The Wall Street Journal. If you remember, the search giant shelled out about $750 million late last year to…
Nintendo downplays Apple’s role in mobile gaming
If you think all those swell games on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad are making Nintendo nervous, you’d be reasonable but wrong. “I’ve seen data that suggests that while consumers are constantly downloading apps, they play with them for a few times and then they are moving on to the next thing,” Reggie Fils-Aime,…
ABI: 6 billion apps will be downloaded in 2010
The smartphone application space is going to explode this year, as ABI Research said there will be nearly 6 billion apps downloaded this year. That’s a sizable jump from last year, when 2.4 billion mobile programs were downloaded. This skyrocketing growth is due to the larger overall adoption of smartphones as well as the introduction…
Yahoo may want Foursquare for $100 million
Foursquare has been the digital darling lately and sources have told AlleyInsider that Yahoo is considering buying the location-based service for a cool $100 million. I’m not really the biggest fan of Foursquare – I find it’s primarily populated by tech hipster douchebags at the moment. But the service does have the potential to attract…