Skype is teaming-up with hotspot operators around the world to offer its users pay-as-you-go Internet access starting at £.04/€.05/$.06 per minute. Dubbed Skype Access, it relies on your existing Skype Credit to charge users, requiring no daily and/or monthly vouchers to get online. Already the VoIP service provider has a number of partners on board,…
Opera Mini to come installed by default on Qualcomm’s Brew MP platform
Our Norwegian friends at Opera Software have just announced that they’ve signed an agreement with Qualcomm whereby Qualcomm’s Brew MP operating system will come with Opera Mini installed by default. Brew MP may be something you’ve never heard of, but it’s a highly popular feature phone operating systems used by multiple handset vendors, even HTC,…
Conde Nast ready to give Android Honeycomb a little love
The Apple iPad has gotten plenty of love in terms of books and periodical publications, and it seemed like Android was still a long way before it would get any serious apps from the big publishers. However, Conde Nast is reportedly preparing its publications for Android now that version 3.0, or Honeycomb, is going to…
Windows Phone 7 gets native Twitter application later this year
Twitter addicts who happen to use Windows Phone 7 devices now have something to look forward to: the Microsoft mobile platform will be getting a native Twitter client some time in the second half of this year. Yes, it’s a while from now, but better late than never. And with all that time to get…
Verizon and Alcatel-Lucent show off 4G LTE multi-player gaming
Verizon Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent are showing off multi-player gaming over 4G LTE, which is now live in parts of the United States. The appeal is that the games are being played globally, so users can play with or against each other in real time all over the world. Verizon and Alcatel-Lucent were showing off games…
Texas Instruments announces ‘world’s first’ Android development platform, ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks
Texas Instruments is making it a little easier to develop software for Android with what it’s claiming to be the first development platform for Android. TI is trying to make it easier for manufacturers to develop software with the ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks, which will allow software that enables smartphones to act as…
SPB Software, Spatial View team-up on glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI
Mobile software developer SPB Software is teaming-up with Spatial View, a pioneer in stereo 3D auto-stereoscopic technologies, to showcase the first glasses-free stereoscopic 3D mobile UI for Android. The new software apparently comes with “full navigation capabilities,” featuring an all-encompassing home screen with animated 3D widgets, 3D folders and customizable panels in stereoscopic 3D. I…
BOLT Mobile Browser 2.5 adds Facebook video, geolocation and HTML5 support
Opera Mini’s arch-rival Bitstream announced a new version (2.5) of its BOLT mobile web browser. This latest release comes with few new features and enhancements, including: Geolocation support – allowing GPS-enabled phones to pass latitude and longitude information to location-enabled websites through the browser. Facebook Video support – which comes in addition to other popular…
Flash Player 10.2 with Stage Video confirmed for Honeycomb tablets, BlackBerry PlayBook
In its “Strong mobile adoption of Flash Player” press release, Adobe said that the new release of Flash Player with performance advancements will be available for computers and also for Android Honeycomb tablets and BlackBerry Tablet OS (PlayBook). The main new thing of version 10.2 is called Stage Video, which delivers much improved video performance…
HeyWire updates its social messaging app for iOS devices
HeyWire updated its social messaging app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users, allowing them to text for free while on the go. Scrap that, as you may know from our previous post on HeyWire (when we talked about their Android offering), the application enables users to do much more than SMS each other.…