If you’ve been keeping up with the story, Rogers’s HTC Magic customers earlier this week got notice that they will be getting an upgrade to Android 2.1 sometime this year. However, HTC Dream customers would not get an upgrade past Android 1.5. This obviously sparked some outrage, but honestly, we didn’t expect the outrage to [...]
In a patent filing, RIM is trying to patent the concept of location-aware features. An example of this would be selecting an appropriate ringtone profile based on your location (i.e. loud when at home, but silent when in the office). This patent was filed in 2005, so it’s been in the works for a while. [...]
RIM announced it’s BlackBerry Presenter today which allows for delivering presentations from your BlackBerry directly via bluetooth. You basically connect the Presenter to the projector and instruct the accompanied BlackBerry App to present and off you go. No transcoding necessary. The Presenter apparently works with other bluetooth-enabled SmartPhones as well. It’s going for $199.99 USD [...]
Yesterday, Google announced that it’s mobile homepage now has a “near me now” option. This service is available to US customers on the iPhone and Android phones only. Hmmm …. wonder why BlackBerry is out. It’s obvious that Google is interested in being your mobile location-based service of choice and this is another step in [...]
Well, it’s now official. Apple has acquired Quattro Wireless. The news confirmed by Quattro ex-CEO now an Apple VP of Mobile Advertising. Let’s not forget that RIM also announced an Advertising Service back in November as well. Basically, the strategy for these companies is to provide advertising capabilities to developers for their platforms. The real hope is [...]
Apple announced yesterday that their App Store has surpassed the 3 Billion download mark. Personally I’m not very fond of generalized stats such as this. I’m personally more interested in unique App download numbers or paid App download numbers. However, considering that they were at the 2 Billion download mark just over 3 months ago, [...]
In a press conference today, Google is expected to announce it’s mobile phone, the Nexus One. And although it will lack in mobile applications and enterprise functionality, my guess is that Google will focus on add-on services to entice consumers. We already know that Google has Google Maps Navigation which will no doubt be working [...]
If you’re like me, you probably have many Instant Messaging accounts, such as Windows Live, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and ICQ. You probably also use Skype, Facebook and Myspace. Well, if you are actively using any combination of these, then you’re probably using many different clients for each one. Well fear not, you don’t have to [...]
So as a follow-up to my last Chrome OS post, I decided to give it a shot myself. There are a number of ways to do this but I decided to use TechCrunch’s way of doing this. Basically, it’s running Chrome OS in a VM. The steps there are sound and should work for everyone [...]
Hippopost is a company that allows you to send free postcards using your own photos. You can do it using their website, Facebook, or using your mobile. The third option is called HippoMobile and is currently only available for BlackBerry. It allows you to send 2 free postcards per day. So what’s the catch? Hippopost [...]