Opera is rounding out their OEM Opera Mobile offerings with a new version of the mobile web browser for smartphones running the Android operating system. If you’re not a smartphone maker with Android wares in the pipeline or a wireless carrier with plans to offer customized Android phones in the future, this news doesn’t affect…
Google Puts A Stop To Google Maps Navigation International ‘Hack’
When a handful of Android modders managed to hack Google’s new Google Maps Navigation and its turn-by-turn GPS navigation service to work outside the US, DROID and MILESTONE users around the world threw up their hands in celebration. Who wouldn’t want to get free GPS navigation directions on their smartphone, after all? But, the celebrations…
Qik Submits Live-Streaming iPhone App To A More Friendly AppStore
The AppStore has been making some significant strides as far as being more accepting of apps and communicating more effectively with iPhone developers. Now that the AppStore condones live video-streaming apps like Ustream‘s Live Broadcaster, it’s only a matter of time before we see more of the same from other companies with hooks in the…
Skyfire 1.5 launches on Windows Mobile with improved UI, touchscreen enhancements, and more
Skyfire, for those of you not yet aware, is the only web browser that supports every streaming media technology across multiple mobile platforms. As Skyfire’s CEO Jeffrey Glueck puts it, “everything plays” on the Skyfire browser. And, with today’s launch of Skyfire 1.5, the browser features sharper text, full-screen browsing for touchscreen phones and a…
Apple using RSS to keep iPhone developers up to date on review process
While Apple’s AppStore might be brimming with all kinds of iPhone apps, the iPhone maker itself is struggling to keep up with the flood of new iPhone apps being submitted to the AppStore. Developers are hitting the internet en masse, complaining of rejected apps and apps that are taking longer than the standard two-week review…
Telefonica O2 Set to Launch Palm Pre in Czech Republic ‘Sometime in 2010’
Telefonica O2 in the Czech Republic (aka T-O2) has let it be known they plan to launch the Palm Pre ‘Sometime in 2010’. Ahhh, the vagueness of it all. Awesome. Reports have it that T-O2 is currently in testing with the Pre to ensure everything works just fine and dandy on its network. Martin Zabka,…
Nokia E72 hits the U.S. just in time for Christmas
Nokia announced that its E72 smartphone is now available in the U.S. for $469 through nokiausa.com, Best Buy and other independent retail channels. You know all about the E72, thus I won’t repeat its specs here again. I will, however, talk about some interesting email usage numbers Nokia has shared in its press release. Here…
Dragon Dictation for iPhone – Voice transcription that’s actually useful… and FREE
I may be dating myself here, but back when I was in grade school, there was this new piece of software from a company called Nuance that had the power to turn your speech into text. They called it “Dragon Dictate.” The technology sounded too good to be true. Could I really do my homework…
Future mobile phones powered by paper?
Paper is good for a lot of things. It can be used to play a fun game of paper football. You can write on it. You can fold it into paper planes. Heck, you can even use paper-products to wipe your hiney. But did you know you can even use paper to store electrical charge?…
ZyXEL launching ‘world’s first’ LTE router at CES 2010
The coming year promises to be an exciting one for mobile technology. Verizon is slated to bring their 4G LTE network online in 2010, answering many a mobile geek’s call for true high-speed mobile broadband data service. And, in preparation for the day when we’ll be surfing the web at 50Mbps sans ethernet cables, ZyXEL…