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Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that smartphones will outsell PCs in two years and the search giant has been adjusting its business accordingly. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Schmidt said that Android is picking up steam, as there are now more than 60 devices from more than 20 manufacturers. This momentum doesn’t appear to…
Well, it looks like Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices won’t be able to tether after all. This leaves the upcoming platform another step behind Android and iPhone, which can turn handsets into mobile modems. “Windows Phone 7 does not support tethering,” Microsoft said in a statement. This is a quick turnaround from yesterday, when a…
It looks like Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will have native tethering support in the operating system but it will be up to the carriers to determine how much it will cost, or if it’s enabled at all. The news came out of the Windows Weekly show on the TWiT network (which is pretty cool stuff,…
As expected, the Federal Communications Commission voted on white space today and approved the commercial usage of this unused spectrum. White space received the thumbs up from the FCC back in 2008 under the previous FCC head Kevin Martin. Progress with white space technology was stalled by objections from the National Association of Broadcasters which was…
The Amazon Kindle app for Android has just received an update and it’s full of cool new features like voice search and Wikipedia integration. The Amazon Kindle app for Android now includes: – Search within the book: Customers can either type or speak a word or phrase to search within a book. – Add, Edit…
The magical fairies dropped off a Motorola Droid X with Android 2.2 on it and a near-final build of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and you know we had to show if off to you dear readers. We all know that Flash is a contentious issue in the smartphone space thanks to Apple’s belief that…
While we sit around and wait for Sprint WiMax to do its thing in New York City, it looks like Clear is already on its game offering services in the city. Now you can sign up for data cards and little WiFi hotspots and enjoy 4G data speeds from devices like the iSpot or the…
AT&T has just unveiled its prepaid mobile data plans for its netbooks and laptops. While I’m not a big fan of the pricing, I’m happy that you can get mobile data on the go without having to sign an onerous long-term contract. Over at AT&T, you can check out what type of hardware will work…
The rules governing whitespace broadband will be decided by the Federal Communications Commission on September 23rd. While the FCC makes this decision, the big players in the technology world are tripping over themselves as they begin large-scale trials of this new form of wireless broadband. Whitespace is the term given to the unused spectrum that exists between television channels.…
The Skyfire browser has always been popular among mobile fanatics but the company has told us that its Android version is officially mainstream as the server-side browser has been downloaded more than 1 million times. If you haven’t tried out the free browser, you should. Skyfire for Google’s mobile operating system uses server side technology…