In December, we shared information about one of iOS's best-kept secrets: ad hoc distribution for mobile apps. The feature, intended for developers and enterprise use, was introduced in iOS 4.0 to allow developers to distribute mobile apps over-the-air to end users. In an enterprise scenario, the end users would be...
A Wi-Fi hotspot feature which can be turned on by the iPhone's mobile carriers isn't the only new addition expected in Apple's forthcoming update to its mobile operating system, iOS 4.3. A developer build of the OS released yesterday has revealed several notable additions, including support for multitouch gestures, improvements...
The first NFC Android applications have appeared in Google's Android Market. One, the U.S.-based EnableTable, is an app designed for American restaurant owners who want to offer discounts to their regular customers. The second, a Japanese app called Taglet, lets you register NFC devices with its service, which, when read,...
HP is planning to reveal an iPad rival next month which will run the mobile operating system called webOS, the primary asset HP gained when it merged with Palm last summer. At least, that's our take in listening to the statements made by HP exec Todd Bradley, an executive VP...
Shazam, the magic mobile app that identifies music playing in the room you're in, has added a new option for interacting with a song it's identified: listen in Spotify. Spotify, a killer desktop and mobile music app that's not yet available but to a few thousand testers in the United...
This weekend, everyone's favorite massively-collaborative online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Wednesday morning, we got on the phone with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner to find out about the site's past and, more importantly, its future.While the site's meager origins are retold...
Investment research firm CB Insights has released its end-of-year report for 2010, which finds both the fourth quarter and the year overall ending strong. The $6.5 billion in VC funding over 735 deals makes the fourth quarter an eight quarter high on deals and dollars. And overall, the year saw...
Google finished off 2010 with the long-awaited launch of its e-book marketplace, "Google eBookstore". Beyond Google's already 6 million strong library of titles, its device-agnostic approach was seen by many in the industry as a threat to other, more solidified players in the industry, such as Amazon and its Kindle...
The iOS version 4.3 will not include a wifi hotspot feature by default, contrary to hopes and reports this morning, but the feature can be turned on if carriers choose. The Verizon iPhone announcement this week included news that those phones will create a cloud of wifi accessible by nearby...
Google Translate on Android will now perform real-time, automated audio translation for conversations between English and Spanish speakers, Google announced in a blog post today.The service is just beginning and is reported to be very experimental. Franz Och, head of Google's translation services, said in February of 2010 that this...
At last week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) in Las Vegas, if there was any obvious industry trend, it was this: Android is everywhere. From smartphones to tablets and even TVs, the mobile operating system was present in a number of the devices being showcased at this gadget-filled event....
Google Hotpot, the restaurant review system that looks like a game of flashcards, is now pushing recommendations to Google Maps search results pages for participants. A new Google Places app with Hotpot included just hit the iPhone app store, too. Hotpot launched in November and looks firmly aimed at undercutting...
If yesterday's announcement of the Verizon iPhone and its promise to be able to generate a Wi-Fi hotspot for up to five mobile devices is the thing that has you contemplating a switch to the carrier, then you might want to wait. Boy Genius Report says that a source tells...
With yesterday's launch of the iPhone on Verizon's network, ending the three-and-a-half year exclusivity deal Apple had with AT&T here in the U.S., there is a lot to get excited about. AT&T users who suffered from poor coverage and dropped calls - basically, phones which really couldn't even be used...
With yesterday's launch of the iPhone on Verizon's network, ending the three-and-a-half year exclusivity deal Apple had with AT&T here in the U.S., there is a lot to get excited about. AT&T users who suffered from poor coverage and dropped calls - basically, phones which really couldn't even be used...
Parents who use anti-bullying and anti-sexting software to monitor their children's online activities may be giving up family privacy and increasing their personal liability, according to the group School Safety Partners. The group, which aims to help support best practices for online safety, says that parents may be unaware of...
The role of the document has risen in fame over the past few years. Documents that can be integrated into Web oriented systems and mobile apps have taken on new levels of sophistication as the complexity and volume of data has exponentially increased.In this vein, Pitney Bowes launched a service...
We do not hear much about Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) when covering the cloud computing space. This struck me after reading the news yesterday about the dismissal of AMD CEO Dirk Meyers.It took a bit of digging but we see a few salient landmarks that point to AMD's viewpoint about...
Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show we got a sneak peek at the latest incarnation of Yahoo Connected TV and we were excited about what we saw: the first Internet TV device to bring passive and personalized Internet content to its users.Watching a boxing match? Cast a vote in...
Wikipedia will turn 10 years old this weekend and its extended family is throwing it a birthday party in more than 300 different cities around the world. The full list of events is available at ten.wikipedia.org.The significance of Wikipedia to the world can hardly be overstated. There was a time,...
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