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Vimeo wants to make it easier to watch online video on your Apple iPhone, iPad and Android phones and the video-sharing site has introduced a hybrid Flash/HTML5 player which will detect what device you’re on and give you the appropriate format. The company has been working on the new version for at least five months…
If you listen to Apple tell it, Adobe has been “lazy” about its mobile Flash strategy and that’s why the full version of the ubiquitous web technology has yet to hit multiple mainstream devices yet. At its San Francisco headquarters Monday, the company held a summit for mobile journalists to dispel this notion and to…
The Clearwire iSpot 4G was a super-cool mobile hotspot that could use unlimited WiMax for only $25 a month but there was a couple of huge caveats: it was 4G-only, so you could only use it in a few markets and it only worked with Apple iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad. Well, one…
It looks like the European Union is joining the Federal Trade Commission in investigating if Apple’s exclusion of Adobe Flash technology on its iOS products unlawfully harms competition. The governmental agencies are looking into the issue because Adobe complained that the lack of Flash on the devices’ web browsers and Apple banning it as a…
It appears that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating is taking a close look at if Apple abused its power when it banned Adobe Flash and other tools for creating iPhone apps. Adobe didn’t like the move, so it complained to the government that excluding Flash on the Apple iPhone and iPad could hurt its…
After facing much criticism over privacy concerns, Facebook is beefing up how users can control their information. It’s not just desktops though, as the world’s largest social network is bringing privacy controls to your handset. On its blog, the company explained: You can get to privacy controls on mobile by going to m.facebook.com/privacy or by…
One of the biggest complaints about the BlackBerry is that the web browsing experience bites the big one when compared to Apple iPhone or Google Android. Research In Motion is trying to fix that problem with a new Webkit-based browser in BlackBerry 6 and the company is showing off some of the new browser’s features…
This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, but ABI Research is saying that more than 60% of mobile phones will have a web browser. Of course, not all web browsers are created equal and the company expects the high-end version like those found on the Apple iPhone, Google Android and even Research In Motion’s new…
Despite all the super cool video-streaming capabilities of things like Hulu Plus, a new survey from Nielsen indicates that e-mail is the most common mobile Internet activity. As you can see from the chart above, mobile e-mail is the most common activity, followed by portals, social networks and search. I expect a few of these…
Nokia doesn’t seem to like the super success of Opera Mini, hence we now have them unveiling Ovi Browser for their Series 40 feature phones. Still in beta, the application works pretty much like all other feature phone web browsers out there, heavily compressing the data to save bandwidth consumption while at the same time…