Archive for October, 2009
WordPress 2
App Safari, 10/30/2009 If you liked the first WordPress iPhone app, you will love WordPress 2 on the iPhone. With WordPress 2 you can write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your WordPress (2.7 or higher) powered blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. If you already have the original wordpress app [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology
How Important Is Open Source To Mobile Devices?
Ed Hansberry, Linux Today, 10/28/2009 Open Source software has been around for a long time but really made its name in the public eye with Linux. For some, they think open source is Linux. Despite the name recognition Linux enjoys, it is still a relatively minor part of the overall computer industry, especially on the [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: Cloud, HTC, Linux, Motorola
Google adds free GPS navigation to mobile phones
Chris Lefkow, Yahoo Tech, 10/28/2009 Internet giant Google unveiled a free navigation system for mobile phones Wednesday in a move seen as a potential challenge to the makers of standalone GPS navigation devices. US telecom carrier Verizon Wireless and US handset maker Motorola announced simultaneously that a smartphone going on sale in the United States [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, HTC, Motorola, T-Mobile, Verizon
FCC Considers Shifting Some TV Airwaves to Broadband
Amy Schatz, The Wall Street Journal, 10/28/2009 Federal regulators are considering taking back some airwaves from television broadcasters and auctioning them off to wireless companies to increase the availability of wireless broadband services. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has warned that the U.S. doesn’t have enough airwaves set aside for wireless broadband service in [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: FCC
iPhone close to overtaking BlackBerry as most popular smartphone
Jeff Porten, Macworld, 10/27/2009 BlackBerry leads the iPhone 40 percent to 30 percent, with Palm’s WebOS trailing way back at 7 percent market share The iPhone is on track to become the most popular smartphone in the U.S. market, according to a new survey by ChangeWave Research. iPhone market share now stands at 30 percent, [...]
In: Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Ericsson
Global Phone Number Provider iNum Brings HD Voice Calling To Skype
Robin Wauters, Tech Crunch, 10/27/2009 Tomorrow at the eComm Europe 2009 event, Brussels-based provider of international VoIP origination services and telephone numbers Voxbone will be officially announcing that its global phone number service iNum now supports high-definition voice calling between Skype (which now boasts over 521 million users worldwide) and dozens of VoIP networks. Voxbone [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Skype, VoIP
The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done?
Ryan Paul, ARS Technica, 10/27/2009 Although a growing number of smartphone makers are embracing Linux and open source software, the dream of a fully open phone remains elusive. Advocates of software freedom are looking for solutions. The recent release of the Symbian kernel source code under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) has generated some discussion [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, Symbian · Tagged with: 3G, Bluetooth, HTC, Linux, SDK
Linux in your hand; from geeks only to consumer friendly mass market
Matthew Miller, ZD NET, 10/27/2009 My first experience with mobile Linux was with a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 I bought back in 2003. It was very customizable with apps and functionality and you could change the ROM on it rather easily to fit your needs, but it also required you to spend hours and hours tweaking [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: HTC, Linux, Motorola, Nokia, Verizon
IBM finds path to mobile and voice browsers
Stephen Lawson, Computer World, 10/27/2009 With software being created by IBM researchers, developers will be able to adapt a Web page for voice browsers — and for mobile browsers that fall short of a PC-like Web experience — with easy-to-follow lines. The visual editor technology, which doesn’t yet have a formal name, was designed to [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Ajax
Google Voice Can Now Take Control Of Your Mobile Voicemail
Michael Arrington, Tech Crunch, 2/26/2009 Google Voice is a great way to manage phone hell by giving you a single phone number that automatically rings your mobile, home, work and other phones based on your choice of rules and settings (who’s calling, when, etc.). But people are still stuck with their legacy phone numbers, and [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T