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Adore Your Android: Cover with a Case from OtterBox
10 February 2012 12:01 AM | No CommentsFORT COLLINS, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Known as an innovator of protective solutions, OtterBox® introduces cases for newest Android™ smartphones such as the DROID RAZR™ MAXX™ by Motorola, Samsung Galaxy ...
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Isobar’s NFC Hackathon Winners Create Applications for Gaming, Gifting and Music Remixing
09 February 2012 5:10 PM | No CommentsBOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Isobar, a global communications agency, announced today the winners of Isobar Create 32, Silicon Valley’s first hackathon exploring Near Field Communication (NFC) technology...
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WeatherBug 2.0 for iPhone Mobile App Launches in iTunes Store
09 February 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsGERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Earth Networks SM, the owner of WeatherBug® products and services and operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, announces...
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Digi-Key’s Android App Listed as a Top App
08 February 2012 9:58 PM | No CommentsTHIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s largest selection of electronic components available for...
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Infonetics Research: Mobile Broadband, Smartphones, LTE Drive Diameter Signaling Controllers to 106% CAGR to 2016
08 February 2012 4:40 PM | No CommentsCAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Communications market research firm Infonetics Research (www.twitter.com/infonetics) on Friday released its Diameter Signaling Control Worldwide and Regional Market Size and Forecasts ...
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Apple now accepting iOS 4 apps, multitasking ahoy
Posted on June 11, 2010 | No CommentsAlthough we've been running iPhone OS 4 -- now known as iOS 4 -- since it was first announced in April, we actually haven't been able to try out any of the fancy new multitasking features, since no third party apps have been released with support yet. That's all about to change: as of today, Apple is accepting iOS 4 apps, which means we should see quite a few apps that take advantage of multitasking on the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, as well as make use of the 1500 other new APIs in the system when it launches on June 21.
That's definitely good news, but we've got a feeling Apple's unique take on iPhone multitasking will take a few people by surprise, as only certain tasks are allowed in the background -- and apps that need to run persistently, like IRC and IM clients, still won't really work at all. In fact, there's already some rumblings by devs that they need additional backgrounding tools in order to provide features that users are asking for; Instapaper's Marco Ament has proposed a network polling API that would allow his app to update content in the background, for example. We'll see how quickly Apple responds to these requests, but for right now we're just happy we'll finally be able to switch away from a Skype call or GPS app while using our iPhones.
[Thanks, Oliver]Apple now accepting iOS 4 apps, multitasking ahoy originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Opera Mini for iPhone gets 2.6 million users in 2 weeks
Posted on May 28, 2010 | No CommentsSafari on the iPhone is by no means a bad mobile browser — in fact, it’s arguably the best one out there. Just because people have something good doesn’t mean they don’t want to peek at what else is out there, though. Even if someone’s dating the finest supermodel in all the lands, they’ll still [...] -
Windows Phone 7 Gets Another Twitter App: Twikini
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsA few days ago we wrote about Mel Sampat, a member of the Windows Phone 7 development team who had chosen to leave the team to pursue his own endeavors, part of which included making third-party apps for the very platform he helped make. You might assume that his history with the platform would make [...] -
Dolphin browser for Android adds multitouch support on Droid
Posted on November 29, 2009 | No CommentsWe've already seen that the Droid is perfectly capable of implementing multitouch gestures in third-party apps, and the most high-profile (if not the most important, period) implementation of that is in a good web browser where non-stop zooming is a way of life -- especially when browsing sites designed for desktops. Dolphin -- which has been kicking around for a couple months in the Market -- has just added multitouch support on the Droid, which automatically makes it an interesting alternative to Android's mediocre (well, mediocre by WebKit standards, anyhow) built-in fare. Follow the break for a video overview -- or better yet, if you're running Android and you've got a couple fingers to spare, just check it out yourself.Continue reading Dolphin browser for Android adds multitouch support on Droid
Dolphin browser for Android adds multitouch support on Droid originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Palm now reviewing paid applications for the App Catalog, sales begin in mid-september
Posted on August 18, 2009 | No CommentsThe Palm Pre has taken a lot of heat for its limited App Catalog, which, months after the launch of the device and its respective SDK, still only contains roughly 30 applications. It’s easy to look at the numbers and forget the backstories; the iPhone went a whole year and entire model before they even [...] -
Google Says Mobile App Stores Have No Future
Posted on July 17, 2009 | No CommentsApple’s iPhone App Store may be a resounding success. But Google says app stores are a dead end. Sour grapes? Maybe. It’s no coincidence that Google has placed its money on web-based applications, for its mobile Android operating system as well as its forthcoming Chrome OS. Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice president and developer evangelist, said on [...] -
WebOS 1.1 coming with new apps
Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
Looks like WebOS 1.1 is coming in "the next 30 days" with some new applications as well as exchange server policies that allow for remote wipe and smarter password controls. A tipster leaked this slide which is purportedly from the secret lair of Palm herself.
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IPhone OS 3.1 Fixes Video Editing, Adds Bluetooth Voice Control
Posted on July 1, 2009 | No CommentsApple has taken the latest build of iPhone OS 3.1 in its gentle hands, climbed to the roof of the Cupertino campus and lofted the update to the winds, shouting “Fly, my little one! Fly!” The beta version of the next update contains some new features, most of which will only be useful to 3GS owners. [...] -
Uncle Walt brings it home with his Pre review
Posted on June 4, 2009 | No CommentsYou’ll notice that our own Palm Pre review hasn’t run yet - long freaking story - but I enjoyed Uncle Walt Mossberg’s look at the Pre during which he basically confirms that there will be a new iPhone next week. He calls this the bes...



The Palm Pre will be Twitter friendly. In a demo of the Palm Pre at the D7 conference a few minutes ago, Twitter search was showcased as one of its universal search options (along with Google and other search engines). Other features shown in the demo included the ability to