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 [...]
Opera Mini 5 Beta was first introduced about 5 months ago, but owners of Android-based smartphones had to wait until now to get their hands on Opera’s nifty mobile browser.
This version is nearly identical to the Opera Mini 5 Beta for other handsets; biggest improvements are speed dial, tabbed browsing, [...]
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 [...]
As of today, the source code of Symbian 3 mobile OS (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others) is open and free to use. Nokia had acquired Symbian back in 2008, turned the consortium that makes the software into the Symbian foundation, and has now decided to make [...]
Google has put the power of HTML5 to work to finally bring a rich Google Voice web app to the iPhone (and Palm webOS).
The robust web application can be accessed by visiting m.google.com/voice on your mobile device and works with phones running iPhone 3.0 software and above and Palm webOS.
In light of recent events, Google has decided to postpone its Nexus One launch in China, which was supposed to happen on Wednesday, agencies report. Although Google has entered talks with the Chinese government to discuss the future of their search business in China, it’s now obvious that, until the situation is resolved, other aspects [...]
The folks at Nokia are working hard on the new Symbian^4 platform, and now we can see a part of their progress, at least where the UI part is concerned. Granted, this is just a proposal for Orbit and Direct UI, but it shows Nokia’s commitment to rectify all the issues that current implementations of [...]
Mobile applications targeting enterprise customers most certainly have their place in platform-agnostic app stores like GetJar, device-agnostic stores like Android Market and vendor-specific ones such as the iPhone App Store and Palm’s App Catalog.
But finding enterprise-grade apps on these stores in between the plethora of games, music apps and general-purpose software programs for consumers that are [...]
Earlier today we covered a mobile social network called Buzzd, which will be featured at the music festival Bonnaroo. In this post we outline 10 mobile social networks to keep your eyes on. It’s a developing field – and there are issues such as hardware compatibility to overcome – but we expect some of these [...]
VoIP service Jaxtr
has a new feature called FreeConnect that lets users make free
international phone calls. It works by having both parties call in to
local access numbers, then connecting the call via VoIP (voice over
Internet Protocol).
There is one large caveat here, and that is both members must be
registered users of Jaxtr, otherwise the caller must dole [...]
