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  • FlightView’s Hot New Android App in High Demand: Just in Time for Summer Travel

    Posted on July 26, 2010 | No Comments
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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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  • Hacker cons HTC Touch Pro 2 into providing multitouch, other WinMo devices too (video)

    Hacker cons HTC Touch Pro 2 into providing multitouch, other WinMo devices too (video)

    Posted on June 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Hacker cons HTC Touch Pro 2 into providing multitouch, other WinMo devices tooNever, ever doubt the skill and determination of the guys over at xda-developers, capable of cracking any device and bringing you fresh ROMs to brighten up your stuffy gadgets. This latest bit of wunder-code isn't a full new image, rather a tiny WinMo app that does something magical: enables multitouch on single-touch resistive screens. How? Sadly developer OndraSter isn't saying just yet, but it relies on leaving one finger in place and moving the other, so perhaps it detects a jump in touch position and treats it as a pinch gesture. In the videos below it's shown working in Opera, but should work anywhere, and while the developer filmed these on an HTC Touch Pro 2 he says this will work on just about any WinMo 6 or 6.1 device. The app has sadly not been released to the wild just yet, but we hope OndraSter drops some binaries soon before he starts a riot among Windows Mobile users with more than one finger.

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  • How has the exciting world of technology changed since the last World Cup? Let us count the ways!

    How has the exciting world of technology changed since the last World Cup? Let us count the ways!

    Posted on May 31, 2010 | No Comments
    A little birdie told me that the World Cup begins in just a few weeks, on June 11, 2010, in South Africa. Four years prior saw Italy lift the trophy in Germany, beating France on penalties. Zinedine Zidane also headbutted Marco Materazzi that day—an immense event in Internet history. A lot of things have changed since that day in Berlin, a lot of things that will shock and amaze you. For example, did you know that Facebook was still only open to college and high school students the moment Fabio Grosso smashed the ball past Fabien Barthez? So, what else has changed between then and now?

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  • eBuddy downloaded 1 million times from Nokia’s Ovi Store in 3 months

    eBuddy downloaded 1 million times from Nokia’s Ovi Store in 3 months

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Web and mobile instant messaging (IM) aggregator service provider eBuddy, based in Amsterdam, has announced that its Mobile Messenger app has zoomed past one million downloads in less than three months on Nokia’s Ovi Store. The app has been downloaded by users in more than 203 countries, the company adds - a testament to the global footprint of Nokia. The app has garnered over 930 reviews on the Ovi Store and a 4/5 star rating. Alternatives on Nokia's Ovi Store include Nimbuzz and fring.

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  • Betfair launches iPhone betting app on the App Store

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Betfair, home to the world's largest betting community, today announces the availability of its betting exchange iPhone App within the App Store. This makes Betfair the first established betting company to release a sports betting App on the platform. Initially available in the UK and Ireland to Betfair customers, the App brings the Betfair betting experience to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users, in an engaging and exciting way - making full use of the.

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  • Breaking: Online social network use isn’t detrimental to your actual social network

    Breaking: Online social network use isn’t detrimental to your actual social network

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    A Pew Internet & American Life study has refuted the idea that use of the Internet necessarily leads to decreased social isolation. Quite the opposite!, yelled a character in a Charles Dickens novel. It turns out that as people continually use things like Twitter, Facebook, and the like, they're both expanding their social circle and increasing contact with said circle.

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  • Flixster crosses 8 million mobile users, celebrates with app updates for Android and BlackBerry

    Flixster crosses 8 million mobile users, celebrates with app updates for Android and BlackBerry

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Flixster, a social networking site for movie fans, is doing pretty well for itself in the mobile space. Name any smartphone platform, and there's a good chance that the Flixster app has spent some time on it's top download charts. iPhone? Yep. BlackBerry? Yep. Android and Palm webOS? Double yeps. Earlier today, the company shared with us the news that they'd crossed over a fairly monumental landmark, along with the details surrounding updates for their apps on both Android and BlackBerry OS.

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  • Acer’s 11.6-inch AS1410 low-voltage notebook to start at $400 later this year

    Acer’s 11.6-inch AS1410 low-voltage notebook to start at $400 later this year

    Posted on October 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Can you believe it? Acer has yet another 11.6-inch ultraportable notebook on the way. Notice I didn't say netbook, since this one technically has a low-voltage Intel Celeron SU2300 processor running at 1.2GHz.

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  • Study: mobile, iPhone users half as likely to click ads than non-mobile users

    Study: mobile, iPhone users half as likely to click ads than non-mobile users

    Posted on September 12, 2009 | No Comments
    New research performed by online search advertising company Chitika suggests mobile users are far less likely to click on ads than non-mobile Internet users. In fact, they're about half as likely, the study shows based on a sample of 92 million impressions. Could that be true? Wasn't it the other way around? First, we should note right off the bat that Chitika is an Internet advertising company that's decidedly not into mobile advertising according to its own website, so that brings along a large truck carrying bags filled with grains of salt. That said, it's worth taking a look at how they got to the conclusion, so we can reach our own.

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  • Verizon Leads, AT&T Runs Last in Wired.com’s 3G Speed Test

    Verizon Leads, AT&T Runs Last in Wired.com’s 3G Speed Test

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments

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  • Slow Chip Stifles iPhone 3GS Upload Speeds

    Slow Chip Stifles iPhone 3GS Upload Speeds

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    The “S” in iPhone 3GS stands for “speed,” but it could very well stand for “slow” if you look at the dated chip it uses for uploading data. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company proudly boasted that the new iPhone 3GS supports 7.2Mbps High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) — a faster, next-generation network standard that [...]

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  • LG to finally sell that dumb phone watch for $2,000

    LG to finally sell that dumb phone watch for $2,000

    Posted on July 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember that stupid LG watch phone from CES? It’s on its way! The $2,000 watch will run on GSM networks and will “turn heads on High Street” provided you’re also wearing assless chaps. T3 writes: The touchscreen watch phone is joined with a Bluetooth headset and video-calling capabilities, along with HSDPA internet for high-speed web browsing. The CEO [...]

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  • iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Delayed

    iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Delayed

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments
    iPhone 3GS owners (of whom there are already over one million, according to Apple) won’t be able to Jailbreak their smartphones to run unauthorized applications for a little while. The Dev-Team, who regularly issues software to Jailbreak and unlock iPhones, is delaying the hack for iPhone 3GS. Why? Not enough people own the phone yet, the [...]

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  • PRTMobile.com: The Mobile Web comes to the folks next door

    PRTMobile.com: The Mobile Web comes to the folks next door

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    PRT MobileI was out for my evening constitutional last night, enjoying the sight of "For Sale" signs on homes throughout my neighborhood, when I spied with my little eye something new and novel. I've seen URLs on For Sale signs a couple of times, and always thought that that was a fine way to attract eyeballs to your property. Let's face it: trawling though MLS listings sucks, so going directly to a property's URL is a time saver! What I saw last night, though, was even better: a URL specifically geared for mobile phones. "Mobile users, go to prtmobile.com/1908".

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