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In a rash of service providers unhappy with the 30% cut Apple is taking from all monthly subscriptions, Kazaa has moved to the browser. Kazaa is still in the App Store, and they say it’s “just one of many marketing and distribution channels” they use. That’s probably not the kind of thinking Apple wants their…
Google’s mobile search site for iPhone and Android devices has had a little upgrade to help you find what business you’re looking for just a bit faster. After doing a search, you can pare down results based on what’s open, how close locations are, and how highly rated they are. Entries still pull in all…
ACCESS, which is best known as a company that both Palm OS (Garnet) from Palm, entered into a strategic alliance with Yahoo! to incorporate Yahoo! Search as the default search engine in the recently launched NetFront Life Browser in the U.S. and Canada. The new agreement between the two companies builds upon the previously announced…
Deutsche Telecom just made traveling in Europe a whole lot easier by announcing a new flat rate data plan for the European Union. The new plans will be available starting March 1, 2011 in Germany and will extend across much of Europe by July. The “Travel & Surf” plans will start with a 10MB day pass…
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…
ZyXel has just introduced a mobile router which will be competing against the Novatel MiFi but ZyXel takes it up a notch by also being able to work with wired connections. The ZyXel 3G mobile router is called the MWR211 and it can use a mobile data connection to create a WiFi hotspot for an…
It looks like Google is bringing its Instant Preview feature to the mobile platforms, as we’ve seen this on the iPhone Safari browser and the Android Webkit browser. If you don’t know, Google Instant Preview is the online service which gives you a quick look at the links you’re about to click on when you…
If you’re tired of Google or Bing, you should check out Blekko search for Android and the iPhone because this uses human curation to try and provide more relevant results. If you don’t know, Blekko search takes a different approach to finding stuff on the web. Sure, when you go to the main page, there’s…
We usually write about Opera Software’s deals with various mobile operators around the world to offer branded Opera Mini experience to their users. This time however, we talk about Bitstream which signed a deal with Indonesia’s Bakrie Telecom to offer the BOLT mobile web browser to the carrier’s customers. As you probably know, BOLT works…
The Apple iPad 3G has received the stamp of approval from the Chinese regulatory bodies and this potentially opens up a huge market for the touchscreen tablet. As you’d expect, the Apple iPad 3G is the company’s tablet but with integrated mobile data radios inside. China has been notorious for not allowing certain technologies in…