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A quick shot of the BlackBerry 9860 (code-named Monaco or Monza) has snuck out recently, giving us a close-up of the hardware keys along the bottom. RIM has two touchscreen slates on the roadmap, and the Touch 9860 will be the higher-end among them. The Curve Touch will be a bit smaller, but the hardware…
Today at Google I/O, the search giant went official with Music, a new beta service for the United States that will allow invited users to store up to 20,000 tracks in the cloud and stream them wirelessly to your Android phone or tablet. The app will work with Android 2.2 and up, and has all…
Today at Google I/O, the next Android build, Ice Cream Sandwich, went public, as expected. Launch will be in the fourth quarter. This next version of Android promises to bring all of the cool features that were introduced in Honeycomb (the tablet-optimized version of the mobile OS) to smartphones, and other platforms like TV. This…
As suspected, Google will be announcing at their I/O conference this morning a streaming music service for desktop and mobile. Simply called Music, the early beta is currently only available in the United States, but will allow users to upload their songs to share with the world at large, much like Grooveshark. Record labels probably…
Nokia has just announced an official LinkedIn app for Symbian handsets, just in time for the platform to be phased out. With it, users can conduct searches on the professional social network, send and recieve status updates, check direct messages, manage connection requests, and use reconnect to find folks you probably know on the network…
Last month, Adobe announced that they would be launching tablet apps that could communicate with their desktop image editing software, Photoshop, using a new development kit called the Adobe Touch SDK. Today, the first batch of their own apps have hit the Apple App Store, ready for iPad owners to try out. Adobe Color Lava…
Google Goggles, the neat image recognition and search application for Android, has been updated to version 1.4 with a couple of new features. The big addition is notes that you can add to your search history. This means when you take a picture of something to scan, you can add any additional context you might…
Those of you into music, and more specifically music videos, will have probably heard of Vevo. They offer over 25,000 free legal Flash-powered music videos, namely on YouTube, thanks to partnerships with Universal and Sony. Some welcome news out of BlackBerry World last week was that they’re going to be launching a PlayBook app to…
Over the course of BlackBerry World last week, Xobni, a popular e-mail inbox management app (coming soon to Android and iPhone), updated to version 2.0.28 with a giant heaping fistful of new features. For starters, free users can now enjoy limited daily universal searches (a feature previously held back for premium customers). There are also…
One app to make its debut at BlackBerry World last week was Unsubscribe. They’ve been getting cozy with desktop e-mail through Outlook and Gmail since late last year, and are now moving into mobile starting with BlackBerry. While any decent e-mail-based marketing not caught by your built-in spam filter will offer an “unsubscribe me” link,…