At the most recent Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that the company’s partners are now selling over 60,000 Android handsets on a daily basis. With that kind of growth rate, it’s no wonder that the size of the Android Market is increasing in its slipstream. While Google [...]
Unlikely partners Intel and Nokia have joined forces in an attempt to fend off increasing mobile competition from Google, Apple, and Microsoft. The two companies have merged their mobile OSes into one entity: MeeGo. You can expect the first mobile devices running on MeeGo later this year.
MeeGo is a [...]
Users of Windows Mobile devices have a new way to browse apps: their web browser. Microsoft has rolled out the Windows Marketplace for Mobile website, where users can browse, purchase, and download applications, which are then delivered to their handset.
As Microsoft explains, “we’ve heard great feedback on the Marketplace experience on Windows phones, sometimes [...]
iPhones, Android phones, and now Nokia phones (S60 models) all have the ability to run the Google Mobile App and conduct searches by voice.
The Nokia news comes by way of a Google blog post on the announcement and means that a whole new audience can search Google by talking instead of typing.
One of the sticking points with the otherwise highly convenient Google Voice service has been that you had a choose a new number to use with the service. If you had an existing number that everyone already knew and wanted to switch over, you were pretty much out of luck.
Luckily that changes today, with tonight’s [...]
The millions of blogs on WordPress.com will now have a clean mobile theme turned on by default, removing most of the formatting and making the sites easy to load on a phone. WordPress bloggers may want to opt-out of the new setting; not everyone likes how the first mobile themes selected by WordPress look.
As we [...]
It’s inescapable that a big part of the Twitter experience (and its allure) has been its strong mobile component. Millions of people utilize SMS, Twitter mobile, and third party apps to tweet and read status updates on-the-go.
The mobile component of Twitter hasn’t arrived overnight though, especially for its international users. It was only a few [...]
Today at the DEMOfall 09 conference, Digitrad announced a new consumer voice service called OrganIP. Although the odd name conjures up ideas of a medical or musical application, we think that perhaps it’s supposed to be a play on the word “organize.” (Well…maybe.) Names aside, what this new application does is intriguing. It connects you with your [...]
Although the iPhone, the BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and the Symbian S60 platforms have had official Facebook applications for some time, today marks the first official release of a mobile version of the social network for Google Android.
Don’t be misled by the Fan Page – this app was developed by the Facebook team, as first reported byVentureBeat. However, I [...]
Yazzem, the simple topic creator for Twitter or FriendFeed, has launched version 2 of their online service. Yazzem allows you to start topics about anything you want, basically creating a new way to interact with both Twitter and FriendFeed. Once the topics have been created, anyone can join your topic to connect and discuss about [...]
