What is this, 1993? Microsoft is again the target of market-position abuse complaints in the European Union. Opera, maker of our favorite mobile browser, has filed a complaint with the European Commission against the software giant for abusing their dominant market position. Apparently, Opera isn’t liking Microsoft’s practice of bundling their Internet Explorer browser with…
Apple looking to bring full Microsoft Exchange support to the iPhone
If Apple’s newest job listing is any indicator, the techies at Cupertino are looking to bring on a new employee to finally bring Microsoft Exchange functionality to the iPhone. Apple is apparently looking for a “motivated, highly-technical Exchange test/sync engineer with excellent problem solving and communication skills,” who will be joining “a dynamic team responsible…
Video recording on the iPhone gets real
Or at least as real as a proof-of-concept application can get. The iPhone’s lack of video recording was an interesting omission that didn’t really make sense. Battery issues shouldn’t be, well, an issue. There’s really no extra hardware involved. And every other decent cameraphone has video recording capability. So, it’s up to the third-party iPhone…
Willcom shows off Android prototype – multi-tasking on Android is a go
Ever since Google blitzed the blogosphere with their Android and OHA announcements, we’ve been waiting on news of manufacturers tooling up their Android-based wares. It looks like Willcom, our favorite wacky-mobile-phone manufacturer in Japan have an Android-based reference board up and running. The image you see above is the Willcom reference board running Android on…
LiPS Forum nails down Release 1.0 specs – ready to take on Android
Google’s announcement of Android was big, there’s no doubt about that. But, the OHA and Android aren’t the only group to push for an open-source mobile phone movement based on Linux. The LiPS (Linux Phone Standards Forum) Forum has been championing the Linux cause for handsets on the open-source tip. With the might of Google…
iPhoneDevTeam releases source code for AnySIM iPhone unlock tool
It’s one thing to call a piece of software “open source and an entirely different thing to actually make the code “open source.” The iPhoneDevTeam’s iPhone unlocking tool, dubbed AnySIM, has been called an open-source application, but the source code wasn’t widely available. Well, in the spirit of the holiday’s, the iPhone-hacking consortium has gone…
Windows Mobile update to add higher-resolution widescreen display support
Well, it’s about time. We’ve been stuck with our 320 x 240 WinMo resolutions for so long that it’s almost surprising that Microsoft has added higher-resolution widescreen support. We say almost because the bumped-up resolution support is pretty much the most logical and simplest feature update that Microsoft could have included in the new Windows…
Apple starts seeding official iPhone SDK to a select few developers
It seems that Apple has heard our pleas to stop talking it up and get their official iPhone SDK out into developers’ hands. Well, in all actuality, Apple probably wasn’t responding to our singular call for the iPhone SDK, but we’ll take what we can get. Electronista is reporting that Apple has started seeding the…
Unlock your Samsung BlackJack II’s integrated GPS receiver to work outside of TeleNav
The good news is that the new Samsung BlackJack II rocks a full-fledged SiRF III GPS receiver – none of that cell-tower signal triangulation stuff here. The bad news, unfortunately, is that the GPS hardware in the BlackJack II is locked-down to only work with the bundled TeleNav software (AT&T’s way of getting more TeleNav…
Google announces open mobile OS Android and Open Handset Alliance
We expected Google to break the seal on their mobile OS plans today, and they didn’t disappoint. The search giant has formally announced their plans for the mobile space (in part, at least) with their new open mobile operating system, Android. Google has also announced the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) – a group of 33…