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T-Mobile is rapidly expanding its new 4G revealing high speed HSPA+ data network to more and more US cities as the weeks go by, and has just announced many more metro areas to add to the pack. Users with compatible devices, the G2 and upcoming myTouch can take full advantage of the carrier’s very speedy…
For those of you who thought that T-Mobile was done launching new Androids with the G2, you were mistaken. Meet the myTouch (MyTouch HD as we used to call it), a re-visioning of the carrier’s Android brand that offers just about anything you could want on a smartphone today. The myTouch is every bit as…
During the recently ended Mobilize 2010 conference in San Francisco, Orange announced that its “Open Source Mobile Widget Platform” is now available to the mobile industry, allowing developers to make HTML-based widgets that could run on an array of mobile devices, both the basic feature phones and high-end smartphones. The platform includes: A “widget reader”…
Video search engine blinkx is teaming up with Evri, the real-time content discovery engine, in a deal that would see Evri’s multimedia apps such as EvriThing Tech, EvriThing Gossip and EvriThing Baseball being “enhanced” with videos from blinkx’s Mobile Video Index. In other words, with this partnership, Evri taps into a blinkx’s vast library of…
Harbor Master is one of my favorite iPad games, hands down. The object of the game is to direct the incoming ships to different harbors on your screen. On arrival, the ships unload their cargo, and then it’s up to you to safely direct them on their way. Sounds simple, but this gets tricky as…
The list of resellers putting the iPad up for offer is growing and growing. There’s always going to be the smaller ‘mom and pop’ electronics shops that get Apple’s blessing as a reseller. But when some of the ‘big boys’ step up to the plate, that’s where some real heavy-duty sales are made. Case in…
Eniac Ventures, which touts itself as the “world’s first mobile seed venture capital firm,” announced that it has closed its first fund, which will focus on investing in the mobile software and services space. The partnership also announced that they have already invested in 6 promising young companies out of the fund – including Localytics,…
Layar may go for the Samsung Wave (Bada) smartphone users, but metaio wants its share of the Symbian action… During the recently held insideAR augmented reality conference in Munich, Germany, metaio unveiled and even demoed junaio for Symbian. The popular AR app was caught running on the brand-new Nokia N8 smartphone, though we still wait…
After Handmark, Samsung has scored another mobile app publisher to support its Bada platform – Netbiscuits. Actually, Netbiscuits is not a publisher per se, they are the “development and publishing platform for mobile web sites and apps” and they will allow its users to get content on Samsung Bada smartphones, Samsung Wave (S8500) included. Samsung…
HP has made a commitment to the Palm community and webOS fans since its acquisition of the smartphone maker, and it looks like it’s doing something special for developers, too. We recently got an e-mail that on November 20, there will be a webOS Developer Day in New York City. Any webOS developers in the…