Mobile Operating Systems Archive

  • DeNA, ngmoco Expand Mobage Service to English-Speaking Territories Worldwide

    Posted on July 27, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Silent Communication Enhances Visual Voicemail Mobile Client with New Voice-to-Text Capabilities, Supporting Any Mobile Device on Any Network Voicemail

    Posted on December 8, 2010 | No Comments
    TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Silent Communication announced today that it has enhanced its popular Silent VVM™ visual voicemail mobile client with new voice-to-text -presentation capabilities,...

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  • AirStrip Technologies Announces First Solution Released to Android Market

    Posted on November 4, 2010 | No Comments
    SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AirStrip Technologies(TM) officials announced today that their innovative mobile patient monitoring solution AirStrip OB(TM) is now available for medical professionals to download from the Android ...

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  • Rightmove Responds To Android Growth With New Mobile Site

    Posted on September 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Rightmove has launched a new mobile website (mSite), following the success of its number one ranked iPhone app, in response to the growing opportunity amongst users of Android phones and other mobile operating systems. The new mSite, uses HTML5 coding allowing it to replicate the...

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  • Google flexes biceps, flicks Android remote kill switch for the first time

    Google flexes biceps, flicks Android remote kill switch for the first time

    Posted on June 25, 2010 | No Comments
    We knew Google had the power to remotely remove Android apps -- Microsoft and Apple have backdoors into their mobile operating systems, too -- but it's always a little disconcerting to see a kill switch used. Such is the case today, as we've just heard Google unleashed the hounds this week, siccing bits and bytes of remote deletion power on a pair of "practically useless" but still Terms of Service-infringing apps. Curiously enough, Google admits that most who'd downloaded these programs had deleted them already, and that this "exercise" of the remote application removal feature was a "cleanup" operation. Google says users will get a notification beamed to their phone if an app is removed, however -- so as Big Brother as that all sounds, at least the company's being nice and transparent about the whole matter, eh?

    [Thanks, Matt]

    Google flexes biceps, flicks Android remote kill switch for the first time originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple revises iOS rules on outside advertisers, cuts out Google, Adobe by implication

    Apple revises iOS rules on outside advertisers, cuts out Google, Adobe by implication

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple and Google's newfound rivalry in the mobile advertising space was already pretty interesting to watch as it stood, and it looks like things just got more interesting still. As expected following Steve Jobs' comments at D8 last week, Apple has now revised its rules on advertising in iOS to allow outside advertisers to collect stats for ads, but the company has included some language in the new rules that seems to effectively cut out Google's AdMob. While it obviously doesn't mention Google by name, only "independent" advertising providers can collect tracking stats, and Apple says that any "advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple would not qualify as independent." That would seem to not only affect AdMob, but Adobe and Greystone's just-announced effort as well, considering it specifically mentions companies affiliated with "development environments other than Apple." Head on past the break for the complete relevant section.

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    Apple revises iOS rules on outside advertisers, cuts out Google, Adobe by implication originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Verizon’s FiOS DVR Manager for webOS is out, getting good reviews

    Verizon’s FiOS DVR Manager for webOS is out, getting good reviews

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    You might recall that Verizon recently touted expanded device compatibility for its DVR Manager app, a boon for anyone looking to nab the latest episode of Income Property while hundreds of miles away from the homestead (we know, it happens all the time) -- but what Big Red didn't really highlight in its press release was that webOS was one of the platforms now being supported. As with the app's counterparts on other mobile operating systems, the Palm-flavored build lets customers "set parental controls, set bookmarks, browse and search TV programming, view the DVR status to see how much space is left for recording, browse and search VOD listings, and see their lists of scheduled and recorded programs" -- and so far, it's getting well over four stars on a five-star scale since going live in the App Catalog, a good sign for usability. We don't mean to get too hopelessly optimistic, but heck, who knows -- this might even be a good sign for Verizon's continued interest in Palm's (or make that HP's) platform in the long term.

    Verizon's FiOS DVR Manager for webOS is out, getting good reviews originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Acer announces Ferrari-and-Android-powered Liquid E variant

    Acer announces Ferrari-and-Android-powered Liquid E variant

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    So, what do you get when you cross one of the most powerful cars in the world, with one of the most powerful mobile operating systems in the world? Red, apparently. A whole lotta red. Acer has been Ferrari-fying their laptops for a great many years now, but this is their first Ferrari phone, and -- more to the point -- it's the first Ferrari (and luxury) phone to have a decent OS behind it.

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  • Android 2.2 SDK goes live, developers likely unable to crash Google’s download server

    Android 2.2 SDK goes live, developers likely unable to crash Google’s download server

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Giving devs access to freshly-announced versions of mobile operating systems on the very same day that they're announced is pretty much the way things work nowadays -- the first version of Windows Phone 7 understandably excepted -- so we're pleased to see that Google's kit for Android 2.2 Froyo is now up and running. You start out by downloading a modest 18-odd megabyte package that just contains tools with no target platforms, then you open a separate app to pull and install only the platforms you want (you can go all the way back to version 1.5, if you're so inclined). So kick off that download now while you grab lunch -- we hear the lobster bisque they're serving in the cafeteria today is pretty good.

    [Thanks, Justin B.]

    Android 2.2 SDK goes live, developers likely unable to crash Google's download server originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 13:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple brushes off NPD’s smartphone report, says it sees ‘no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon’

    Apple brushes off NPD’s smartphone report, says it sees ‘no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon’

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Fresh off NPD's latest Mobile Phone Track report claiming that Android has leapfrogged the iPhone in US sales, Apple is commenting on the numbers -- and as you might expect, they're not exactly taking a congratulatory tone with Google. Speaking to AllThingsD's John Paczkowski, Cupertino had this to say:
    "This is a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide. IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing by 131 percent and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon."
    The factual accuracy of Apple's words here can't really be disputed, but as Paczkowski notes, the context can: lumping the iPod touch into this equation isn't really fair, since NPD's report is about smartphones, not mobile operating systems (which would've let devices like non-phone Android MIDs into the picture). Besides, this is about the US market in the first quarter of 2010, not global sales, nor is it about Apple's development pipeline. In other words, Apple's not disputing NPD's report here -- rather, they're simply trying to change the subject, as any properly-trained PR department would. There's no question Android still has an uphill battle to dominate market (and mind) share the world over, but the odds that it outsold the iPhone in the US in Q1 remain very real.

    Apple brushes off NPD's smartphone report, says it sees 'no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon' originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 May 2010 14:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • DeviceAnywhere Unveils Vital Research Data for the Mobile Industry

    DeviceAnywhere Unveils Vital Research Data for the Mobile Industry

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    New Report from Mobile Application Testing Leader Shows BlackBerry OS Testing Dominates, Testing on Android is On the Rise, Windows Mobile Testing Decreases San Mateo, CA – (March 23, 2010) – DeviceAnywhere, the industry leader in end-to-end mobile application testing has launched DeviceAnywhere Metrics, the first...

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  • Appcelerator: Over 90% of Developers are “Very Interested” in Building Tablet Apps

    Appcelerator: Over 90% of Developers are “Very Interested” in Building Tablet Apps

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Talk of the Apple Tablet is in full swing as the wide world of web is in a frenzy over the upcoming Apple event tomorrow. Most of the discussion has centered around features: how will it use multi-touch? will it have a camera? what kind of OS will it run? But one thing that matters [...]

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  • Samsung announces its own ‘open’ mobile platform – bada

    Samsung announces its own ‘open’ mobile platform – bada

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    bada As Sesame Street is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, now seems like as good a time as any for us to practice our counting...of mobile operating systems/platforms. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Darn, my hand ran out of fingers! Well, no matter, Samsung thinks there is plenty room for more and has taken the wraps off its own, new open mobile platform, bada.

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  • weComm deliver 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal for VPRO

    weComm deliver 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal for VPRO

    Posted on October 20, 2009 | No Comments
    weComm provide the technology used to deliver the 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal experience across a large range of extended mass market mobile operating systems.   LONDON, 20th October 2009 -  weComm, the leader in rich-media mobile solutions, today introduce 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal mobile application. The 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal mobile application extends...

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