Dominique Leca doesn't know if Apple will approve his iPhone app, but he's building it anyway. The co-founder of Sparrow, a popular Mac desktop client for Gmail, is working on an iOS version of the app, he told Business Insider recently. Sparrow, a simply-designed but highly fuctional Gmail client, got...
Adobe has launched an application for iOS that lets you create PDF files from an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. CreatePDF is not the first app to offer this functionality, but it is Adobe's first official crack at enabling PDF creation on iOS devices. The app lets you turn common...
In the world of personalized news readers on a tablet, the competition is hot between market leader Flipboard, upstart Zite, Feedly and Pulse . Flipboard hardly ever adds new features anymore (they are too busy cutting deals with publishers and reading all their glowing reviews in the iTunes app store)...
The Nokia developer forum has been taken offline after a breach from malicious hackers, according to the company. During Nokia's investigation they discovered that the forum database table containing developers' email addresses and in some cases personal information had been exploited by an SQL injection. The hack is bigger than...
Last week, leading security company McAfee asked a question of the security industry, "are we really protecting our users?" A lot of evidence points to the contrary. As can be seen in a new mid-year threat report from firewall maker SonicWall, consumer and corporate networks are larger and more vulnerable...
Saunalahti is a finnish mobile phone operator that provides some attractive packages for mobile data, in fact I used them on a visit for the MeeGo Finland Summit. As pointed out by Community member @mece66 its great to see them promoting the Nokia N9. Heres some pics: Have a look...
On the 25th of April Facebook's discount shopping platform Facebook Deals was unveiled and I belligerently declared Groupon as good as toast. Today Facebook announced that it will soon shutter its Facebook Deals product. ("Facebook Deals Launches Tonight & Groupon Doesn't Stand a Chance")There were so many reasons Facebook would...
By far the biggest news this week is Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple. Long one of the most fascinating and enigmatic technology leaders, Jobs' resignation had us ruminating on the things to learn from his leadership, what entrepreneurs should disregard, and just how large of an impact this...
Exactly what will end up being the very final, last word on the subject of Mozilla Firefox's expedited release system, may yet be seen. Yesterday, however, the Mozilla Foundation's chairperson, Mitchell Baker, weighed in with what appears to be an attempt at finality, albeit a dualistic one. On the one...
It's not unusual for Apple to dominate the news, but this week it was inescapable. Steve Jobs' decision to step down as CEO sent shockwaves through the industry. Jobs' decision doesn't come as a surprise, exactly, but the timing was unexpected. Scott Fulton looked back at Jobs' history with Apple...
It has only been recently that people have been able to read and write on the Web with their mobile devices. The evolution to where phones are now smart, mobile and ubiquitous has been a train long in transit. The infographic below from Product Development Technologies shows that evolution through...
It was not me who says it, but the Danish branch of the mobile operator 3: "The characteristics of the transmitter and receiver of the Nokia N9 are far superior to all other phones we have tested so far No this is not a direct attack against Apple,...
I don't think TechCrunch's M.G. Siegler cares about location in the same way I do. Maybe it's because he lives in the heart of the tech scene of San Francisco; which is both the center of the world and a kind of history-less-nowhere. It's more fun to know where you...
http://wiki.maemo.org/Miniature/0.3_Berlin_Defence Miniature 0.3 Berlin Defence This is the first release of Miniature for MeeGo Harmattan which is, in fact, a total restart from the Miniature project born with Maemo 5 and the N900. Miniature won't play games yet, but it provides a fully featured user experience and a backend...
St. Louis-based mother-son team Spearhead Development has updated its QR Card Us product in response to customer feedback, cranking out a new iteration in just one week. We covered the launch of the mobile Web-powered business card provider on August 18.The new version of QR Card Us separates the QR...
Research In Motion announced yesterday that it is launching a beta of the Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS that will allow game developers to code in C/C++ and take advantage of a deeper API set. Developers can create games for the BlackBerry PlayBook using the Standand Template Library and...
BBM Music, a mobile music streaming service exclusive to Blackberry users, has officially gone into closed beta, RIM has announced. As its name would suggest, the service works over Blackberry's proprietary messaging platform, which can be used to share songs and playlists amongst other BBM Music subscribers. A subscription will...
Gowalla, the hip but small location-based social network frequently mentioned in the same breath as market leader Foursquare, announced this morning that it is shutting down two defining features to refocus on what seems to be working. "Items," the well-designed virtual goods that users collected and dropped for each other...
This morning Facebook sent out invites to f8, its annual developer conference. The conference will be held at The Design Center in San Francisco on Sept. 22. Registration for the event is $400 and Facebook will not offer discounts (outside of press passes). The keynote for f8 2011 will be...
We've written many times about modern mobile phones acting as a network of sensors to detect what's going on around their users - but what if those same phones were set to watch existing networks of more traditional real-world sensors? That's what's happening in Japan, where the next version of...
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