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By now, you know that Microsoft has given up on its ill-fated Kin phones to focus on Windows Phone 7. I think this is the absolute right move for the company and that the Kin phones were targeting a non-existent market but these social-network centric phones weren’t all bad. In my review of the Kin…
There’s a lot of talk about the demise of Adobe’s Flash because of the growing presence of HTML5, particularly as Apple refuses to let the defacto web standard on its iOS devices, but the video-serving giant YouTube said it may be too soon to be digging Flash’s grave. In a blog post Tuesday, YouTube said…
Google Docs on mobile has moved relatively slowly, having launched three years ago, and the only significant addition since has been the ability to edit documents. Today they’ve got a pretty big new feature for the web service – now you can view previously uploaded PDFs, PowerPoints, .docs, and .docx files from an iPhone or…
Opera Software, which is already dominating the Russian mobile web browser market, announced that MegaFon will extend its special package “Unlimited Internet with Opera Mini” to all Russian territories. Initially, the operator launched the package in Moscow region in September 2009, allowing people to browse the web through Opera Mini without any limits for just…
dotMobi, the company behind the “.mobi” domain, unveiled goMobi, an easy to use mobile website creation tool. The company argues that the new solution brings together the breadth of traditional content management systems with the speed and simplicity of mobile website builders. In other words, you don’t need to be an expert in order to…
Adobe has announced that after a series of betas, the mobile version of their Flash player is production-ready and now available to partners. Android gets a lot of attention in the press release, confirming that the Flash player will be baked right into 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo), but BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone, Linux Mobile, MeeGo, and…
The 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach is getting started this morning. As I sit here, flicking between live coverage from Pebble Beach and soccer action from South Africa, I couldn’t help but think of the U.S. Open app for iPhone I told you about yesterday. While it’s all well and good for those of…
Google has just launched a new ad service for localized mobile searches called Tags. For $25/month, business owners can include a little yellow tag that shows up on Google Maps searches, highlighting coupons, photos, videos, menus, reservations, websites, or driving directions. You can also place “Posts” as Tags, which are entirely freefrom, and business owners…
Google is hoping to make it easier to settle bar bets, as the search giant has added the ability for mobile users to get the answers to short questions. Sure, you could always turn to Google to find information but it’s never been that great at directly answering questions. For example, if you want to…
Adobe is making some bold claims by saying its Flash technology will be on at least 250 million smartphones by the end of 2012, despite the fact that it won’t be coming to Apple’s mobile products. This could account for about 53% of all smartphones shipped in 2012 and it would give Adobe good traction…