Watching TV is becoming a more interactive experience - at least that's what a number of companies building interactive TVs and media center products are hoping. From Apple CEO Steve Jobs' "hobby" project, Apple TV, to media center startups like Boxee, there are new ways to "watch" TV that involve...
TAT is a Swedish software technology and design company based in Sweden with local offices in Korea and USA. They specialise in Mobile device User Interfaces (UI) and currently mobile manufacturers and network operators including: SonyEricsson, Motorola, S60, Samsung, Vodafone and Orange. Additional partners also include Texas Instruments, Freescale, Teleca,...
TAT is a Swedish software technology and design company based in Sweden with local offices in Korea and USA. They specialise in Mobile device User Interfaces (UI) and currently mobile manufacturers and network operators including: SonyEricsson, Motorola, S60, Samsung, Vodafone and Orange. Additional partners also include Texas Instruments, Freescale, Teleca,...
Google's mobile operating system known as Android was officially unveiled on November 5th, 2007, making today Android's 3rd birthday. It's fair to say that this mobile platform has taken the world by storm - in just a few years time, it's gone from a non-dominant player in the mobile OS...
AT&T is tracking Twitter updates to aid in its understanding of network failures and glitches, according to a new report from MIT's Technology Review this morning. Using software developed internally by its own researchers, the telecom is listening for user complaints on the social network, and then extracting the tweet's...
Research firm Canalys released new numbers today on the mobile smartphone market, and they are impressive, especially when it comes to Android. According to the latest report, the Android platform has grown 1,309% since Q3 2009, going from 1.4 million handsets to 20.0 million by the close of Q3 2010....
New data from Strategy Analytics out today clearly shows Apple's dominant position as the leader among tablet PCs - during Q3 2010, the company's iPad has captured 95% of the global market share for tablets. That leaves everyone else - Windows, Linux, Android, etc. - with only a 5% share,...
It's pretty common for our live blogging of Apple events to be the top story of the week, but this week Microsoft finally had its day with Frederic Lardinois' coverage of the PDC Keynote event. In Internet of Things news, Richard MacManus explained how to connect your car to the...
According to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC), Apple has just passed RIM, makers of the Blackberry smartphone, to become the fourth largest mobile vendor in the world. Prior to this quarter (Q3 2010), RIM held the number four spot. It's now at number five. Apple's move up...
Apple is believed to be working with SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto to develop a SIM card built into the iPhone, making it easy for phone owners to use a carrier of their choice. Gemalto is the company that sued Google, Motorola, HTC and Samsung on Monday over alleged patent infringement in...
Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems, Inc., is coming to the TV screen, the company announced today at its developer conference Adobe MAX 2010. With the launch of Adobe AIR 2.5, the software, already supported on various smartphone, tablet and desktop platforms, is being extended to...
The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications firms working to create a common mobile application platform, just added 32 more members, including big names like Opera Software, Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu, LG Electronics, China Unicom, Rogers Communications and others. The group's goal is to simplify the mobile application creation...
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Among smartphone users, Apple iPhone fans often poke fun at Android users for having to put up with so-called mobile "crapware," the pre-installed applications that come on new Android smartphones. Mobile carriers have taken to pre-loading their phones with apps for their own services, or those from third-party developers. For...
ShopSavvy, BarcodeHero, Stickybits, CheckPoints, Tecca, Microsoft Tag, RedLaser, SnapTell, Shopkick, the recently updatedAmazon Mobile - if you're like many smartphone owners, you've used at least one (if not more) of these mobile barcode scanning applications. In fact, you're now part of a growing trend of users who do.According to a...
Microsoft officially unveiled its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, at a press event held this morning in New York City. CEO Steve Ballmer described the new line of Windows Phones as "different" and more modern, in both design and principles. With Windows Phone 7, the focus is on...
At this week's CTIA Enterprise and Applications conference in San Francisco, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced a new project called "Sprint ID," aimed at mobile phone customization. The Sprint ID service lets users create separate mobile profiles for work and play, each with their own application packs, wallpapers, widgets and...
Electronics manufacturer LG has scrapped plans for its upcoming Android-based tablet computer, saying that the current version of the Google Android mobile operating system (version 2.2, code-named "Froyo") isn't ready for tablets. According to a Reuters report, an unnamed LG exec said "we plan to introduce a tablet that runs...
Somewhat overshadowed by today's news that Skype is partnering with Facebook comes a long expected announcement from the VOIP company: it is also partnering with telephony company Avaya to offer unified communication services. This follows Skype moving its business focused Skype Connect service out of beta. Of the "big three"...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking to the audience at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week, said that his company expects mobile to dominate search at some point in the future. "Eventually, we think mobile will be the majority of the searches and the majority of the revenue,"...
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