Archive for June, 2010
Verizon Wireless Said to Start Offering IPhone in January
Amy Thomson, Bloomberg, 6/29/2010 Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone next year, ending AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the smartphone in the U.S., two people familiar with the plans said. The device will be available to customers in January, according to the people, who declined to be named [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, CDMA, CTIA, Motorola, Verizon, Vodafone
Cisco plans an Android-based business tablet
Agam Shah, IDG News Service, 6/29/2010 The Cius will sport more networking capabilities than the iPad, plus videoconferencing and keyboard/mouse support Cisco Systems has announced the Cius tablet, a handheld device designed to help users run business applications and communicate in real time. It will use the Google Android OS, feature a 7-inch touch screen [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, Bluetooth, Cisco, WiFi
Google improves Google Docs experience on iOS, Android
Tony Bradley, PC World, 6/29/2010 Google has expanded the functionality of Google Docs viewer on the iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile devices to include the ability to view PDFs, .doc, .docx (the Office 2007 and Office 2010 file format that replaces .doc), and even Microsoft PowerPoint (although there is no mention of the newer .pptx [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology
Microsoft Kin prices slashed by Verizon Wireless
Brian Osborne Geek.com, 6/29/2010 Verizon Wireless seems to be downplaying the move, but Bloomberg is reporting that the wireless carrier is cutting the price of its Microsoft Kin smartphones soon after their May release.The Kin One and Kin Two were Microsoft’s attempt to take advantage of the social networking craze in order to regain lost [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Verizon
Rhomobile smartphone app framework adds iPhone-like mapping
Paul Krill, InfoWorld, 6/29/2010 Licensing charge also is dropped in Rhodes 2.0, but the planned bidirectional streaming capability is delayed Rhomobile is shipping on Tuesday version 2.0 of its Rhodes framework for developing native smartphone applications, which extends Apple iPhone native mapping capabilities to other devices. Rhodes 2.0 also offers accommodations for back-end applications via [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: SDK
Google launches HTML5 developer site
Paul Krill, InfoWorld, 6/28/2010 HTML5 rocks, Google declared this week. The company launched a developer resource site devoted to HTML5 technologies and is calling it HTML5rocks.com The budding HTML5 specification features multimedia capabilities for the Web and it is being embraced by companies ranging from Google to Microsoft and Apple. HTML5 covers a broad spectrum, [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: API, Flash, HTML5
How HTML5 will change the Web
Peter Wayner, InfoWorld, 6/28/2010 Many folks who are just tuning into the HTML5 saga because of the battle between Adobe and Apple are surprised to learn that the push to create a fifth official version of the HTML specification began six years ago. And that’s just the first half of the story because the latest [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Flash, GPS, HTML5, WiFi
Intel’s Losing Big Money on WiMAX
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 6/28/2010 Two WiMAX networks backed by Intel have failed, delivering a blow to the WiMAX standard, but also to Intel and its venture capital arm. Intel, which has invested billions in WiMAX networks in order to encourage the spread of the technology and boost demand for the company’s chips, has already had [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, Clearwire, LTE, WiMax
Google Remotely Kills 2 Apps from Android Handsets
Eric M. Zeman, iPhoneScoop, 6/28/2010 Google recently admitted to exercising one of its security features for the Android platform and apps in the Android Market. Google said it maintains the right to remove applications that violate its terms of service from the Android Market and from end-user handsets. It discovered two applications that violated its [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Malware
McAfee offers online protection for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
Brian Osborne Geek.com, 6/28/2010 With the invention of Internet-capable devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, there is a need to provide the same level of web content filtering and online protection offered to PC users. Especially as many of these devices are used by children and teenagers. McAfee originally answered this need for PC [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: GPS, Malware