Today, Google kicks off the first keynote of their Google I/O Conference in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Keep checking back here for live, up to the minute coverage of what Google has planned for the future of Chrome and Wave! Live: Google I/O Day 1 Keynote (Chrome, Wave)
Twitter for iPhone goes live on AppStore, replaces Tweetie 2 on AppStore
The AppStore is a continuously changing landscape of mobile apps as far as eye can see, especially when it comes to updating apps like Tweetie 2. As you might recall, the popular Twitter client for the iPhone was bought out by Twitter itself. Following that deal, Tweetie 2 was unceremoniously taken down from the AppStore…
Hey stupid, stop texting and driving. This is what could happen [graphic video]
Hey you, yeah you with the cellphone in your hand and a steering wheel in the other, you’d be better off putting off that all-important text message about your dinner plans until you’ve pulled over and parked the car. We all know that sending a text message while driving can be worse than driving drunk…
Slaker Radio 2.0 for iPhone coming soon with music / station caching feature for offline use
As expected, Slacker Radio is preparing to unleash a major 2.0 update to their iPhone app that will bring with it an offline music listening mode that caches hours of music to your iPhone, and we’ve got some preview details on the upcoming app. While some streaming music services put an essentially limitless library of…
LTE vs WiMAX – The 4G Mobile Broadband Shootout
The future of the US mobile broadband market is taking shape right before our very eyes, with both the LTE and WiMAX flavors of 4G wireless data networks promising to deliver the internet to your mobile phone at speeds that might give your home broadband connection a case of “bandwidth envy.” But, with heavyweights behind…
LG’s Windows Phone 7 Chassis 2 slider phone caught hanging out in the wild
LG is making another appearance with its Windows Phone 7 slider phone today in photo that was posted to Flickr by a French Microsoft employee. With all the buzz around Android and the upcoming Sprint EVO 4G (made by HTC, of course), we had almost forgotten about the completely revamped Windows Phone 7 mobile operating…
Symbian users love mobile ads – Symbian OS users 2.7 times more likely to click ads than iPhone OS users
If you’re a Symbian OS user, you’ll be happy to know that your smartphone operating system of choice has at least one leg-up on the iPhone OS. The Symbian smartphone platform sends 2.7 times the number of mobile advertising clicks as the iPhone OS! No other OS even comes close to the mobile ad click-through…
Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G retail packaging spotted in the wild
As the US, nay the world, waits for Sprint to launch their much-anticipated HTC EVO 4G Android smartphone next month, mobile tech geeks will have to pass the time with somewhat previews of the Android phone in any shape and form. The latest preview of the EVO 4G isn’t as much a look at the…
Verizon Droid Incredible demand high, shipments repeatedly selling out
If you asked us which Android smartphone was the king of the hill at the moment, we’d be hard up to choose between the HTC-made Google Nexus One and the HTC Droid Incredible. Carrier choices aside, both handsets are remarkably well made and bring iPhone 3GS-killing specs to the table. In fact, we’d likely just…
Palm Pre Plus hits AT&T for $149.99 with wireless Touchstone charger
AT&T and Palm have apparently chosen this fine Sunday to go live with Big Blue’s very first webOS-powered smartphone – the AT&T Palm Pre Plus. Today is May 16th, after all, and AT&T did previously promise to unleash the Palm Pre Plus on the American masses today for just $149.99 when purchased with a new…