Mobile News Archive

  • IMDb Buzz, an Entertainment News App for iPhone and iPod touch, Now Available for Free on the App Store

    Posted on October 27, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Business Wire Launches Mobile Alerts: Text-Message Delivery of Press Release Headlines and Links for Mobile Devices

    Posted on August 1, 2011 | No Comments
    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In another industry first, Business Wire announced the launch of Mobile Alerts, an exclusive offering that delivers breaking company news to smartphones and other mobile devices through text messaging....

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  • Starbucks moving to free, no-registration-needed WiFi on July 1st

    Starbucks moving to free, no-registration-needed WiFi on July 1st

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    This isn’t so much mobile news as it is news that mobile users should probably know about. That coffee company, Starbucks.. maybe you’ve heard of them? If not, open the blinds at whatever location you’re currently sitting at, and look across the street (or, at most, down to the corner). Surprise! It’s a Starbucks! Well, [...]

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  • Nokia N8 benchmarked against N97, makes it look old and busted

    Nokia N8 benchmarked against N97, makes it look old and busted

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Nokia's new hotness, the N8, is starting our week off in fine style. Finest Fones, what looks to be a Symbian-only mobile news site, is reporting its own tests done with the handset that show it comfortably outpacing its predecessor. Of course, in these fog of war-obscured times (before proper hardware is dished out), we can't really be sure of the veracity of what we read, but Symbian^3's newfound ability to exploit graphics hardware seems to be paying off relative to the more primordial ways of the S60 5th software on the N97. The intrepid investigators found a 180 percent performance delta between the two phones in Speedy Go! tests, while the N8 ran through a cycle of FPC bench 3D with perfect 60fps scores each and every time. We won't be convinced by the purported 680MHz CPU inside till we test it out for ourselves with a load of widget-heavy homescreens, but early signs seem to be encouraging.

    Nokia N8 benchmarked against N97, makes it look old and busted originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Office Mobile 2010 released, free upgrade for WinMo 6.5 users (update)

    Office Mobile 2010 released, free upgrade for WinMo 6.5 users (update)

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    After having gone to public beta late last year, Office Mobile 2010 is now available in conjunction with the retail release of the full desktop version of Office 2010, bringing comprehensive Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities to the pocket -- on Windows Mobile 6.5, that is. Yes, granted, Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft's biggest mobile news this year, but there'll be a huge legacy base of 6.5 users out there for a long time to come, and they're pretty much the core audience for the sorts of features that Office Mobile 2010 is offering: SharePoint integration for grabbing documents from the office, a nifty Bluetooth controller mode for PowerPoint presentations, and so on... you know, suit-and-tie stuff. The download is available today from Windows Marketplace for users of 6.5 devices with an older version of Office Mobile installed -- so go on, Tiger, whip up the hottest quarterly reports the world has ever seen. We know you have it in you. Follow the break for Redmond's full Office 2010 press release.

    Update: Curious what Office 2010 will look like on Windows Phone 7? Get a glimpse into the not-so-distant-future in Microsoft's video presentation, and fast forward to 52:45 for the good stuff. [Thanks, Kamara B.]

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    Office Mobile 2010 released, free upgrade for WinMo 6.5 users (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Firefox Mobile for Android launching “late this year”

    Firefox Mobile for Android launching “late this year”

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you an Android user? Are you jealous of all nine people who have Nokia N900s and thus can already use Firefox Mobile? Good news! While we’ve known for some time that Firefox Mobile (otherwise known by its code name, “Fennex”) was coming to Android, but we didn’t have the slightest idea when. The guys over [...]

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  • Thank you for reading MobileCrunch, folks.

    Thank you for reading MobileCrunch, folks.

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    We don’t get a chance to do this very often, but I wanted to start this lovely Monday morning off with something I’ve wanted to say for a while: Thanks for reading us, everyone. MobileCrunch launched in September of 2006. Around mid-2008, we changed things up a bit – and we’ve seen monumental growth ever [...]

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  • Three cool iPhone apps that are perfect for mobile news consumption

    Three cool iPhone apps that are perfect for mobile news consumption

    Posted on October 17, 2009 | No Comments
    My name is Robin Wauters, and I'm a news junkie. Being obsessed with consuming as much news - mostly technology related, of course - as humanly possible in the all too short span of any given day comes with the territory of working for TechCrunch, but I've always been a fan of obtaining as much information as fast as I could. You could say my ever-growing habit of trying to consume as much news in my waking hours as I can is more of a natural cause for my employment in the fast-paced tech blogging scene than it is a result. It also means I feel very disconnected when I'm not near a computer or mobile phone I can use to tap the Internet for the never-ending stream of news that gets pumped onto the wires.

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  • T-Mobile UK Pulse: Pay Now or Pay Later

    T-Mobile UK Pulse: Pay Now or Pay Later

    Posted on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Announced almost exactly one month ago, the world’s first “affordable” Android phone, the Pulse, is now available via T-Mobile UK. The big news here is that T-Mo UK is offering the Pulse with two different payment options: pay-as-you-go or monthly charges. In other words, if you live in the UK and you’ve got an extra [...]

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  • LG Rumor 2 headed for Virgin Mobile?

    LG Rumor 2 headed for Virgin Mobile?

    Posted on July 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Good news, pre-paid fans! You’ve got a new handset coming to your corner of the market. We can’t promise anything for sure, but we’ve got good reason to believe that Virgin Mobile will be getting the LG Rumor 2 sometime in the coming weeks. Our source didn’t reveal whether the Rumor 2 would be on the [...]

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  • Lucky Germans: You can watch every single Bundesliga game live on your T-Mobile cellphone this season

    Lucky Germans: You can watch every single Bundesliga game live on your T-Mobile cellphone this season

    Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Good news for German football fans who use T-Mobile. The company's Bundesliga Total service is coming to cellphones. That means you'll be able to watch every single game played in the first and second division from the comfort of your iPhone, G1 and G2. This is all live, by the way, not cheap-o highlights sent to your phone hours after the game has ended.

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