Archive for May, 2010

Drag Drop JavaScript Library for iPad & iPhone

Hatem, AJAX Magazine, 5/20/2010 Tommaso Buvoli has written a JavaScript library that allows developers to add Draggables and Droppable for an iPad or iPhone on their websites. From the website : “In large part, the iPad’s magic comes from its touch-based interface. Touch-based interfaces are generally “incompatible” with those made for a mouse and web [...]

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Posted on May 20, 2010 at 8:03 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Apple’s latest iPhone OS 4 beta adds customizable user dictionary

AppleInsider Staff, AppleInsider, 5/20/2010 Users will be able to add and edit their own words to the iPhone’s dictionary when Apple delivers the iPhone OS 4 software upgrade to the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS this summer. One of the many minor features set to be added to the iPhone in the latest upgrade was [...]

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Posted on May 20, 2010 at 7:54 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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LiMo to launch handsets on three more major carriers this year

Todd Haselton, MobileBurn, 5/19/2010 The Linux Mobile (LiMo) foundation’s executive director, Morgan Gillis, said that Vodafone was the first of four total carriers that will launch handsets this year during the Reuters Global Technology Summit. The carriers could be subsidiaries of France Telecom, Telefonica Verizon, or SK Telecom. The LiMo foundation was launched in 2007 [...]

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Posted on May 20, 2010 at 7:50 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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AT&T iPhone Users to Finally Get 3G Tethering with 4.0 OS Update

Brandon Hill, DailyTech, 5/19/2010 “Official” tethering comes at last for iPhone users Well, it only took a year. A little over a year ago, Apple announced iPhone OS 3.0 and along with it came support for 3G internet tethering. The only problem was that while many wireless carriers around the world offered the tethering option [...]

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Posted on May 19, 2010 at 9:11 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Smartphones come to prepaid wireless market

Marguerite Reardon, CNET News, 5/19/2010 The price of owning a smartphone is getting a lot cheaper thanks to some new aggressive plans from prepaid wireless companies. Boost Mobile and MetroPCS have already been offering smartphones as part of their prepaid wireless plans. And over the next several months, other competitors, such as Leap Wireless’ Cricket [...]

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Posted on May 19, 2010 at 9:02 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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DeviceAtlas & HTML5

Daniel Hunt, MobiForge, 5/19/2010 HTML5 is the brand new version of HTML, which contains a number of differences to it’s predecessor. So what is HTML5? If this is the first you’ve heard of HTML5 (or even if you know quite a bit already), you really should take a look at this excellent guide: Dive Into [...]

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Posted on May 19, 2010 at 8:52 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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HP Set to Launch webOS Extravaganza With Tablets, Printers, and More

Jason Mick, DailyTech, 5/19/2010 HP’s CEO is very excited about his company’s new acquisition Palm Inc. has struggled in recent years and has been passed, first by Research in Motion, next by Microsoft, then by Apple, and most recently by Google in terms of smartphone market share.  The company finally received some good news on April [...]

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Posted on May 19, 2010 at 8:44 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Kindle for Android app coming soon

Matt Hamblen, ComputerWorld, 5/18/2010 The free software for Android smartphones allows syncing of last page read between a Kindle and Android and other devices Kindle software for some Android smartphones will soon be available for free, granting access to 500,000 Kindle e-books, according to Amazon.com. The online retailer recently posted an announcement on its Web [...]

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Posted on May 18, 2010 at 4:40 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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AT&T: HSPA+ a cheap upgrade that buys time for 4G

Electronista Staff, Electronista, 5/18/2010 ATT HSPA Plus to cost just 10m to add AT&T’s HSPA+ upgrade is coming as it’s both easy to build and a likely necessary stopgap, the carrier’s Operations president John Stankey said in an interview today. Since it’s largely software, the upgrade will cost just $10 million to reach all 250 [...]

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Posted on May 18, 2010 at 4:28 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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HTML5 to be highlighted at Google event

Paul Krill, ComputerWorld, 5/17/2010 HTML5 will figure prominently at this week’s Google I/O technical conference for developers. HTML5 is the budding specification for standards-based Web multimedia. It is gaining traction from not just Google, but Apple and Microsoft as well. A status update on HTML5 itself will be offered at one session during the San [...]

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Posted on May 17, 2010 at 2:26 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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