This morning, at the CTIA Wireless 2011 conference in Orlando, Florida, Samsung officially introduced the newest version of its Galaxy Tab, the 8.9-inch edition. For those keeping track, that means that Samsung now has three different Android tablets: the original 7-inch, the 10.1-inch announced in February at Mobile World Congress,...
Update: Tom Hughes-Croucher of Joyent had this translated last week. The translation is here.Toshio Mori published a presentation on SlideShare on installing Node.js on a rooted Android phone. Although the slides are in Japanese, enough of the commands are in English that you can make out the steps.The presentation walks...
Women 2.0 announced today that, thanks to its success, its Founder Labs pre-incubator program will become its own, separate organization. Moreover, the program will expand from its current San Francisco location to New York City, with the first East Coast program set to begin in May.Founder Labs has been a...
As expected, Amazon has opened its new Appstore for Android today, letting Android users purchase and download apps via the website or through a new native Android app.As Sarah Perez noted yesterday in her report on the store's launch, the new marketplace for Android apps may be an important step...
Mozilla has this evening released FireFox 4 for Android and more importantly Maemo. Download directly onto the Nokia N900 from this link. Heres what Mozilla have to say about FireFox4 Release Candidate: This release offers faster scrolling, better responsiveness with Firefox Sync and improves the overall user experience of Firefox. Firefox...
One of the biggest mobile technology conferences in the world, CTIA, is about to begin in Orlando, Florida and ReadWriteWeb's Sarah Perez and I are on the scene to find out what's hot for mobile device power users, mobile developers, the Internet of Things and more.Mobile is no doubt the...
Amazon may be launching its Android App Store tomorrow, according to a new report, just in time to kick off this week's CTIA Wireless 2011 conference in Orlando, Florida. An unnamed "trusted source" told Wired that the store will launch Tuesday, March 22. Customers will be able to purchase apps...
Professional software testing firm uTest has today launched a new service aimed at early-stage startups: uTest Express. With this low-cost offering, the company is providing access its community of over 35,000 professional testers who will provide expert feedback about your mobile app. All the testing is done on real wireless...
A survey commissioned by independent third-party mobile application store GetJar found that 40% of respondents claimed they will switch to an Android device when it comes time to purchase their next mobile phone. In comparison, only 18% said they would switch to iPhone. This, proclaims GetJar's headlining of the news,...
Google Voice has long felt like it could become a real competitor to the major phone carriers. With its mobile phone apps and recent ability to port existing phone numbers to the service, the VOIP service has been moving closer to being a viable alternative. But today Google announces that...
The Israeli mobile startup Snaptu confirmed on its blog today that it has been acquired by Facebook. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed for Facebook's first acquisition outside the U.S., but the sum was pegged at $70 million.Snaptu builds applications for feature phones, and the startup worked with Facebook...
Google recently released an update to the Android Market which introduces a new feature for mobile developers: the Application Statistics dashboard. This tool lets developers better see details regarding their application's performance, status and trends, using charts, tables and other data. The information can be used to compare an app's...
At last week's SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, 32 companies presented at the SXSW Accelerator awards, sponsored by Microsoft's BizSpark. The companies spoke in front of a panel of judges, one of which was ReadWriteWeb's editor, Richard MacManus, who helped in judging the news applications. By day two, 32 finalists...
Thanks to the proliferation of Web and mobile technologies, commerce is evolving from a multi-channel effort for businesses to a more holistic one that takes place across multiple devices or consumer touchpoints. Emerging in the place of traditional multi-channel commerce? Agile commerce. Such is the key takeaway from a recent...
This week's top story was Marshall Kirkpatrick's revelation that Google has plans to launch a new social network. Does it exist? Does it not exist? Google tried to shoot down the story (which is what companies with sekret projects usually do) but Marshall's analysis and reportage paint a fairly comprehensive...
This week Cisco released one of the first business apps designed specifically for the iPad 2: WebEx for iPad 2. Also, Smartsheet launched its first iPad app and VMware released yet another app for the iPad.But is the iPad really a good business productivity tool? Read on.Cisco WebExThe latest version...
RIM announced yesterday BlackBerry Office 365, a hosted version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. According to The Register, the service will be hosted by RIM in its own data centers, but will be part of the forthcoming Microsoft Office 365 offering. Mary Jo Foley confirmed with Microsoft that BlackBerry Office...
LightBox is a beautifully designed new Android application, debuting at this week's SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The app, which describes itself as a "social camera roll," is notable not only for its attractive design, still somewhat of a rarity in the Android world, but also for its business model:...
Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry smartphones, is in a battle with mobile operators over its plans to use NFC in its forthcoming devices. NFC, short for "near field communication," is a technology that will enable mobile payments and mobile wallet-type applications, allowing customers to wave or tap their...
If you've jailbroken your iPhone and installed a tethering app like MyWi, be warned that AT&T is reportedly sending letters out to others who have done so saying "we've noticed your service plan may need updating." According to a letter posted by the blog OSX Daily, AT&T has begun detecting...
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