One of the many announcements made at the BlackBerry Developer Conference is a new ad partner program that allows app creators to monetize their apps right away. The BlackBery Advertising Service will plug in ads from Jumptap, Lat49, Millennial Media, Navteq, 1020 Placecast, Quattro Wireless and Sympatico.ca – an impressive initial list, but I’m wondering…
RIM Launches Academic Program
Ever wanted to go to school and learn about BlackBerrys all day long? Well, two bits of news for you: one, you’re crazy. Two, RIM is officially offering curriculum to academic institutions under app development, support, and administration branches. This can help you provide students the knowledge they need to achieve those dreams of making…
RIM Announces Flash Tools for Developers
While Adobe might be taking potshots at Apple for not providing the footholds to get Flash on the iPhone, RIM has announced that upcoming versions of Creative Suite 5 will allow developers to import Flash content in a BlackBerry-friendly format through the Eclipse JDE plug-in. So, yeah, Flash on BlackBerry. We had heard this was…
Calling all mobile app developers! Tell us why your app rocks!
Do you develop mobile apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian or webOS? Well, we want to hear from you! We’ve partnered up with “Under The Radar” to find cool mobile apps that will blow our minds. We’re asking any and all mobile app developers to submit their app for the “FAST PITCH” mobile…
The Signal 44: CTIA Wrapup and EarPollution Timbre Earbud Giveaway
Yeah, yeah, we know, we’re a little late. Sorry for the delay, y’all – between recovering from CTIA, and some technical difficulties, the podcast fell to the wayside for a few weeks, but we’re back on track now. San Diego had a few treats in store for us, like the Samsung Moment and the Behold…
Motorola booth tour from CTIA Fall 2009
Here’s a look at Motorola’s CTIA WITE 2009 booth from the San Diego Convention Center showfloor. Sure, it’s a little late, but better than never. Motorola’s booth was dominated by Android. As you can see from the photos, the booth was all about Android and the new Motorola CLIQ. Android is at the center of…
Verizon shares some VZ Navigator numbers at the CTIA
During the recently ended CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009, Verizon shared some numbers about its mobile navigation service – VZ Navigator. Here’s what we’ve learned: More than 65% of VZ Navigator customers use the service more than three times a week; So far in 2009, VZ Navigator users made 11.5 million more inquiries than…
Kempler & Strauss’ Billionair 7 WinMo provides solid bang for the buck
Kempler & Strauss, the folks behind the “W” watch phone we covered recently, have used the CTIA in San Diego to show off their Billionair 7 Windows Mobile smartphone. Here’s the specs rundown: 2.5-inch QVGA (320×240 pixels) “frameless” touchscreen Full QWERTY keyboard 624Mhz CPU HSDPA supporting speeds of up to 14Mbps on the downlink WiFi,…
Hands-on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 @ CTIA Fall 2009
Sony Ericsson didn’t have a CTIA booth this go around, so they sent their Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 with the “Windows Phone” booth to keep things interesting. There was no way I wasn’t going to get my hands all over the X2’s improved arc-slider and 3.5-inch OLED touchscreen. The X1 launched Sony Ericsson’s high-end XPERIA…
Nokia Working on Augmented Reality Language Translation via OCR Character Recognition
After getting a demo of some of the cool vector map capabilities on the N900 at CTIA, I prodded a Nokia rep about what they’ve been working on with augmented reality (since zooming down to street level on the map to check out the 3D rendering of a stadium was awfully close). He mentioned that…