It’s not just the new mobile homepage Yahoo has launched at CES. It’s also the new Yahoo! Go 3.0 all-in-one mobile offering, which now includes a much better feature-rich user interface that can be customized and personalized according to the user’s needs. In addition, Yahoo! also bundled widget support with its new offering, allowing third-parties…
Qualcomm shows off Snapdragon devices
The embattled chipmaker is making a huge push toward next-generation mobile devices. Their most promising offering, Snapdragon, made an appearance at CES 2008 Las Vegas. Stefan mentioned the multi-core, multi-featured processor family a little while ago, and it looks like Qualcomm is showing off it’s charm with a new reference design prototype. Qualcomm’s “Fairbanks” design…
White Palm Centro does GSM at CES 2008 Las Vegas
While Palm is working hard to keep their next Centro under wraps, a little-known accessory vendor at CES 2008 Las Vegas managed to let slip a White Palm Centro. The handset is GSM and most likely headed for AT&T, but doesn’t look like the other Palm Centro that we believed was headed to Big Blue.…
More pics of Intel’s iPhone-clone mobile phone concept; Intel’s Hafnium-based, ultra-efficient Silverthorne chips
We know, it’s already old news. Intel’s most definitely jumping into the mobile-scene and they’re planning to make a pretty big splash. So, just what does the chip-making giant have in store for us in the mobile market? Well, aside from possibly powering the next-gen iPhone, Intel’s got a pretty broad strategy for everything mobile.The…
Yahoo! Mobile homepage redesigned, improved
At the CES, Yahoo announced that it has launched a new mobile home page. Still in early beta, the new website allows users to customize their “Yahoo! experience” more than ever before. You can pick content from various Yahoo’s websites, but also from other leading web properties. The keyword is “dynamic,” meaning that you’ll be…
Bluetooth SIG’s Best of CES Contest winners announced
Bluetooth SIG announced the winners of its third annual Best of CES Contest to highlight the “hottest, most innovative and consumer friendly Bluetooth enabled products,” and to get some media attention, we might add. Anyway, 48 new Bluetooth products were submitted in categories focusing on what consumers can do with the technology – talk on…
EA Mobile: iPhone is hurting mobile gaming industry
Right from the floor of CES, Macworld brings us an interesting story about Apple and how it hurts mobile gaming industry. According to EA Mobile’s VP of worldwide studios Travis Boatman, iPhone is “a replacement for someone who had a RAZR before. They still want their content but there’s no distribution platform in place so…
SanDisk announces 12GB microSDHC card, world’s largest; Promises 16GB later in the year
Here’s something for those of you craving for more store capacity on your mobile phone. SanDisk has announced the “world’s largest” microSDHC card that has a capacity of 12GB. Apparently, that’s enough to store a combination of 1,500 songs, 3,600 photos and 24.5 hours of video — at least SanDisk says so. According to Gizmodo,…
Skype announced for Intel MID platform
Skype is getting out of hand. The popular VoIP application can be already used on the popular smartphone platforms, Nokia Internet Tablet devices (N800/N810), Sony Mylo 2, and even the PlayStation Portable (PSP). Not to mention that there are in-house phones that work with Skype, as well as 3 Skypephone available through Hutchinson’s 3 network.…
FlyTunes announces new personalized radio-like music service for Apple iPhone, other phones
FlyTunes announced a new kind of music service, designed for WiFi and 3G-enabled mobile phones and media players, Apple iPhone and iPod Touch included. The idea is to outradio the (satellite) radio, by providing users with thousands of high quality music channels that can be personalized and enjoyed on your iPhone or other mobile phone,…