Archive for April, 2010
iPhone tethering on AT&T still waiting on better network performance
Chris Ziegler, Engadget, 4/29/2010 AT&T’s own Ralph de la Vega mentioned as early as November of 2008 that you’d be able to tether your iPhone to your computer and use it as a modem “soon,” but here we are some ten months after the initial announcement of official tethering support in the platform and there’s [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: AT&T, Tether, Verizon
HP agrees to buy Palm for $1.2bn
Cade Metz, The Register, 4/28/2010 HP has agreed to buy beleaguered handheld maker Palm for $1.2bn. The two companies announced the deal with a press release Wednesday afternoon, and they plan to hold a joint conference call with analysts and stockholders later in the day. HP has agreed to purchase the company behind the Pre [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm (HP)
Full Flash Support May Give Android a Competitive Edge
Barry Levine, MobileTechToday, 4/28/2010 The next version of Android will fully support Flash from Adobe Systems, according to Google Vice President Andy Rubin. That could give Android devices a major advantage over Apple’s iPhone and iPad, which don’t support Flash. Rubin also said it’s a “matter of time” before Android devices top Apple’s iPhone and [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Flash
Wi-Fi poised to supplement 3G
Joanie Wexler, Network World, 4/27/2010 At the International CTIA Wireless 2010 trade show and conference this week, ABI Research and the Wi-Fi Alliance are sharing new research that indicates rapid growth in the availability Wi-Fi-enabled mobile phones. ABI reports that out of 580 million Wi-Fi devices shipped in 2009, 141 million (nearly a fourth) were [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, AT&T, CTIA, WiFi
RIM launches new BlackBerrys, voice-over-Wi-Fi service
Ginny Mies, PC World, 4/27/2010 At RIM’s annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium, the company revealed two new BlackBerry smartphones, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G and the BlackBerry Bold 9650. The Bold 9650 is headed to Sprint on May 23 while the Pearl 3G will be available on multiple carriers in May. RIM also announced BlackBerry Mobile Voice [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, GPS, HSPA, Sprint, WiFi
New BlackBerry OS 6.0 Targets Consumer Market
Jennifer LeClaire, MobileTechToday, 4/27/2010 Research In Motion is working on BlackBerry OS 6.0 with features for consumers to better compete with rivals like Apple’s iPhone. An analyst, noting that the majority of RIM’s BlackBerrys are not using corporate servers, said superior mobile e-mail isn’t enough any more. BlackBerry OS 6.0 will use the same browser [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, WiFi
WSJ Experiments With Location-Based News
Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb, 4/26/2010 Checking-in at a venue around town with the Foursquare mobile location app could now come with a thought provoking payload: a news link related to the place you’re at. The Wall St. Journal announced today that as a part of its new focus on covering New York City, links to Journal [...]
In: Mobile Technology
Wireless iPod/iPhone/iPad Syncing Is Awesome — Too Bad It Will Likely Be Rejected
MG Siegler, TechCrunch, 4/26/2010 Basically, since its initial launch, one of the most annoying things about the iPod (and now iPhone, iPad, etc) is that you have to plug it into your computer via USB to sync it. Sure, this also allows you to recharge your device, but I’d love to say, charge it in [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: WiFi
Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu, NEC jointly develop new mobile OS
Serkan Toto, MobileCrunch, 4/26/2010 Just last week, we asked the question if the world needs yet another mobile operating system (Samsung’s Bada). Now it turns out Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, apparently thinks the answer is yes. The telecom behemoth (55 million customers in Japan) today announced [press release in English] the development [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Symbian · Tagged with: Linux, LTE, Samsung
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