While HTC wasn’t busy announcing new clones of the Nexus One, BlackBerry made 20 million BlackBerry owners cry with joy today at the Mobile World Congress conference by showing off their upcoming HTML5-compliant, WebKit-based browser for BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry’s upcoming browser is the result of their 2009 purchase of Torch Mobile, the creators of the [...]
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Google Voice Circumvents App Store with Native-esque HTML5 Web Application
TBG reports that Google has completely circumvented the issues with Apple blocking their apps from the App Store by launching a rebuild Google Voice application using HTML5 that provides an almost-native experience for iPhone and Palm Pre owners. Functionality includes: Make calls Text messages Read/Playback voicemails Account settings TBG also mentions that outgoing calls are [...]
HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues
Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that [...]
Apple Mass-Purchases Touchscreens from Wintek — For Netbooks?
While it’s surely a mockup right now, the picture above might not be so far off from a 10″ Mac Netbook from Apple rumored to be approaching Q3 of 2009. The movement in the industry that seems to have tipped Apple’s hand early (besides everyone waiting for a Netbook from Apple for about 20 years [...]
Vodafone Study Confirms 25% of Security Breaches are due to Mobile Devices
Interesting tid-bit from Vodafone UK this morning, looks like after a long-winded study they found that: 25% of companies experience a security breach due to mobile device (notebook, cell phone) use in unapproved ways. 50% of employees have no idea their companies have mobile device use-policies in place. Sounds to me like the companies are [...]
Windows 7 Coming Sooner Than We Thought?
InternetNews is reporting that next version of Windows (codenamed Vienna) might be coming as early as June of 2009. This had been in the pipeline before XP was released, but what comes as a surprise is this would be almost a year sooner, cutting into the anticipated life cycle of Vista. The information comes from [...]
DeviceAnywhere Brings the iPhone(tm) 3G To Life for Mobile Application
For the developers out there, DeviceAnywhere has launched mobile device support in it’s DeviceAnywhere Studio product for the iPhone 3G, full announcement after the jump.
Momail Announces Support for 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia
Momail has announced support for the upcoming 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia releases. For the folks fuzzy on what Momail does, it more or less acts as a super mobile-mail-service in that all the receiving, delivery and sending of mail is optimized around the “mobile device” environment you are on. That includes respecting multiple sender [...]
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