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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Tap Archive
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Two new gestures coming to iPhone OS: long press and three finger tap
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No CommentsTired of all that boring ol’ two finger pinching-and-zooming and swiping on the iPhone? Ready for some fancy new gestures to be thrown into the mix? Wish granted. Soon. Maybe. Last night, Apple released a new beta of iPhone OS 3.2 to developers. As is par for the course at this point, people almost instantly began [...] -
Shout for Android offers one-tap texting
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsShout could save your life. It's a voice-activated texting program for Android that listens to your message and recipient ("Text Joe 'It's herpes, it's not transmittable right now'") and shout repeats the message and, after you press the big "Yes" button, sends the text message. I could definitely imagine using this in a car or on a high-wire strung between two buildings over Cincinnati.
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DIY: Wireless door access using a watch
Posted on January 24, 2010 | No Comments
The TI Chronos has been a bit of a hackers darling recently, but this has to be the coolest application of it I've seen so far. Rather then getting an RFID tag embedded in your hand, program your watch to use a pre-programmed combination of taps to activate the lock.
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Hands On With Palm’s Mobile HotSpot For Pre Plus and Pixi Plus
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
By the time Palm announced the Pixi Plus and Pre Plus at CES earlier this month, there wasn't a whole lot left to reveal. From the names, to the specs, all the way down to the carrier the handsets would launch on -- just about everything had made it into the realm of public knowledge by way of the rumor mill.
However, there was at least one feature that Palm managed to keep hidden up their sleeve: Mobile HotSpot. With the flick of a switch, the Mobile Hotspot application turns the Pre Plus or Pixi Plus into a WiFi router for up to 5 users simultaneously, fueled by Verizon's 3G network. We've spent the last few hours tinkering with a pre-release copy of Mobile HotSpot - read on for our impressions.
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Firefox Mobile gets one step closer to release
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments![Screen shot 2010-01-09 at [ January 9 ] 12.34.16 PM](http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screen-shot-2010-01-09-at-January-9-12.34.16-PM-630x376.png)
It's still not ready for its "official" launch, but Firefox Mobile just took one big ol' step closer to the big day with the launch of Release Candidate 2. As with the past few releases, this one's only available for Maemo devices -- namely, the N900. Don't got Nokia's latest greatest tablet? Don't sweat it - you can still play with it by way of emulation.
So what's new? Find out after the jump.
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Hands-on with Kodak’s Playsport and Slice Cameras
Posted on January 8, 2010 | No CommentsKodak showed us their clever little Slice and Playsport cameras. The Slice is a touchscreen point and shoot and the SportPlay is a completely waterproof mini-camcorder. Both aren’t quite ready and will be available in the Spring of this year but both are pretty cool. The Slice has a large rear screen with touch controls. [...] -
Taptu iPhone app gets real-time search with OneRiot
Posted on December 22, 2009 | No Comments
Taptu, the mobile search engine, announced a partnership with OneRiot last month to provide real time search results in their mobile-friendly web site. This worked from any mobile client, not just the iPhone. But one of the points of using a smartphone is the use of native applications. Today Taptu announced that they've rolled the real-time search results into their iPhone app.
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PayPal Rolls Out Send Money App For BlackBerry
Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
PayPal is finally extending its money transfer system to the BlackBerry, with a new, free Send Money app for the Blackberry. The app will let you access your PayPal account and easily send money to a recipient. You can find on the BlackBerry App World here.
The app will also tap into your contact list on the phone making it simple to choose a recipient to send money too. Users can also access their recent PayPal transactions and monitor their account balances directly from the app.
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Acer planning ‘five or six’ Android sets in first half of 2010
Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
Alright, let us try out a new term were testing on you: "Androidsplosion." Does that do anything for you? No? Well, that's pretty much the kind of cluster we're going to be running into with the Android camp come the first half of next year thanks to a rumored bumper crop from HTC, some Sony Ericsson gear, undoubtedly a few lookers out of Moto, and now this gear from Acer. The Liquid's just now starting to make the rounds at retail, but the VP of its Asian handset biz says that it has "five or six" additional models on tap for early 2010 that'll run the gamut from low- to high-end. The third and fourth quarters, it seems, aren't yet firmed up -- so if you thought they were going to turn off the tap after that quick burst, you'd probably be wrong. Sadly, despite the well-stocked roadmap, there aren't any indications that the company is looking to expand outside of its Asian and European roots to include a North American presence -- but it's not any more shunning than we're accustomed to 'round these parts.Acer planning 'five or six' Android sets in first half of 2010 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google Mobile iPhone App gets a minor bump
Posted on December 10, 2009 | No CommentsIf the little gleaming update notification badge on the App Store hasn’t already caught your eye, it’s time to update the ol’ Google Mobile app – especially if you’ve got an accent. The biggest change is in how the app gets things done. Where as it used to boot into Safari as soon as you tapped [...] -
Windows Mobile 6.5 ’second edition’ bringing slightly revamped UI?
Posted on November 26, 2009 | No Comments
We've already gotten a glimpse of an updated on-screen keyboard seemingly set for inclusion in the next update to Windows Mobile 6.5, and it now looks like Microsoft might have even more changes on tap to keep folks satisfied in the buildup to Windows Mobile 7. Apparently, something that may or may not be called Windows Mobile 6.5 'second edition' adds a number of UI updates that are supposedly designed to make it more usable with capacitive touchscreens. The biggest of those changes, it seems, is that the clickable buttons from the top bar have been removed in favor of a larger, more finger-friendly bar at the bottom -- which, judging from appearances, is not quite ready for prime time. Of course, of all this is still just based on what's been turned up in an early build of the OS, but at least one unnamed Microsoft representative has reportedly confirmed that the updated UI does indeed come from Microsoft, but he apparently wouldn't confirm much else.Windows Mobile 6.5 'second edition' bringing slightly revamped UI? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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“Green Tap”: NEC develops energy-saving power strip
Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
NEC subsidiary NEC System Technologies has developed a power strip [JP] with a built-in processor, sensor (the device pictured on the right) and remote control that can cut power consumption by as much as 15% and more. The company says the so-called Green Tap, which sports four outlets, can be used by both offices and private homes.
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T-Mobile Tap and webConnect Jet now available
Posted on November 11, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Handsets, Peripherals, Others, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Looking for a cheap full touch handset or a USB stick with 3G capability for T-Mobile? Heck, why not both? The self-branded Tap intro'd last month has now hit retail, bringing a 2 megapixel cam, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, and a choice of two hunger-inducing colors for $79.99 on contract. Coming alongside the Tap is the webConnect Jet USB modem, which can find its way into your shopping cart for as little as zero dollars -- $50 less than the older webConnect it slides next to in the lineup. Drop Android onto that feisty little Tap, sell it for the same price, and we're pretty sure we'd have a winner on our hands -- next year, perhaps?
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Read - T-Mobile Tap (Midnight Blue)T-Mobile Tap and webConnect Jet now available originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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North American version of T-Mobile Pulse gets FCC approval, but for which carrier?
Posted on November 3, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Handsets, Others, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android
Android-powered handsets are still rare enough so that the world can't afford to segment them by continent -- when a big model comes out, it's pretty much got to go everywhere. Okay, correction: it doesn't have to go everywhere, but we certainly want it to -- and fortunately, it looks like some lucky carrier in the Americas is signed up for the Huawei U8220. You might know this puppy better as the Pulse over on T-Mobile in Europe, and a new variant of the device -- model number U8220-6 -- has just garnered FCC approval in the past few days with 3G on the 850 and 1900MHz bands. That means Bell, Telus, Rogers, Fido, and AT&T could all be on tap to get this one; we doubt that AT&T would make its inaugural Android plunge with a midrange Huawei, but stranger things have happened.
[Via androphones.com, thanks Silver]North American version of T-Mobile Pulse gets FCC approval, but for which carrier? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Core i7/i5-powered MacBook Pros on tap?
Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
Okay, so Apple just updated the Mac Mini, iMac, and totally redesigned the white MacBook. But what about the MacBook Pros? PC manufacturers are already stuffing Intel Core i7 and i5 CPUs into their flagship notebooks, but the MacBook Pros are still rocking Core 2 Duos. That might change soon according to the OS X 10.6.2 update.