Appolicious - Why settle for only the default widget on your Android phone when you can add multiple? The Yahoo! Search app for Android brings the entire Yahoo! experience to your phone in a widget similar to the Google Search app. Now you can search using your voice and via typing right from your home screen using Yahoo!
Samsung and Skyhook Wireless confirmed Friday that the Korean handset manufacturer will incorporate Skyhook’s Core Location Platform into its mobile handset lineup. Not surprisingly, the first handset to get Skyhook’s impressive location service will be the Bada-powered Samsung Wave S8500. Samsung did not single out any additional handsets for Skyhook integration but presumably the Wave will be the first of many handsets to ...
It takes longer to read books on a Kindle 2 or an iPad versus a printed book, Jakob Nielsen of product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group discovered in a recent usability survey.The study found that reading speeds declined by 6.2% on the iPad and 10.7% on the Kindle compared to print. However, Nielsen conceded that the differences in reading speed ...
It looks like Bell won’t be the only Canadian carrier to offer the Samsung Wave. According to MobileSyrup, Rogers dealerships from coast to coast have begun receiving display units. So far pricing and a release date have not been communicated to employees, but with Bell expected to launch the Bada smartphone on July 8th, we can’t imagine that Rogers will be ...
So, we finally got around to taping the first episode of our show for TechCrunchTV. It took us a while to figure out what the show was actually going to be but we knew the name: “Too Long; Didn’t Watch.” If I have to explain that to anyone, you clearly haven’t read either of our work.
Originally it was going to ...
Reuters - Black Veil Brides' first album, "We Stitch These Wounds," doesn't arrive until July 20. But long before the debut of the metalcore/glam/goth outfit's record, the act has racked up millions of YouTube views, moved plenty of merchandise and scored sponsorships with such companies as Mehron Makeup.
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ArcGIS 10, which is now available from Esri, is transforming the way people use geographic information system (GIS) technology. With this release, users will be more productive with their work and will be able to take advantage of GIS everywhere: via individual local desktops, across desktops and browsers leveraging central servers, and in the cloud. ...
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Fleet Management Solutions (FMS) announces the completion of integration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Detention and Removal (DRO) Vehicle Management Information Systems (VMIS) and FlyteComm Frontsight.
Implementation of the FMS equipment and web services integration of FMS Fleet Central with DRO enterprise applications is delivering the operational readiness, mi
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What does Yammer’s David Sacks have to do with Apple’s reception hiccup? And what does DoubleTwist’s Jon Johansen have to do with Google Me? To be honest, not a whole lot. But we had both founders in on Friday morning, for our ...
Ever been frustrated by devices not working because you put the batteries in the wrong way? Well, the days of making sure the + and - side of your AA batteries are in the right direction are over, thanks to a new technology developed by Microsoft.InstaLoad is a new battery technology from Microsoft that gives devices power, regardless ...
Twitter has rolled out several different advertising systems in recent weeks and we're hearing that the next one will take a page from the Dell Computers playbook. In December, Dell famously reported $6.5 million in sales through links published over two years on Twitter.
Imagine how much more Twitter might be able to pull in with a bigger ...
According to tips sent in to Electronista, the reason that Apple’s planned iTunes streaming service yet to be released is due to the fact that the Cupertino-based company has yet to finalize licensing deals with major record labels. Apple currently has licensing deals which allow customers to stream music from their own computers to their devices, but streaming music directly ...
Mom demands Google remove naked tot from 'street view' Google Maps has got to be the coolest Web-based application ever.
PC World - Apple on Friday issued a carefully worded statement admitting that, yes, there's something wrong with the iPhone 4; but, no, it's not the alleged problem you've heard about.
Macworld.com - Getting tired of Alex? Has your relationship with Victoria waned over the years? Voices for Mac can spruce up your aural interactions with Mac OS X’s text-to-speech feature, with the addition of new voices for your listening pleasure.
Last week, Microsoft killed its first phone product, Kin. Ad Age called it "One of the fastest launch-to-failure paths ever taken by a major marketer." The New York Times quipped, "That didn't take long," pointing out that the phone was on the market for 48 days but in development for 2 years.
Mobile platforms like iPhone and Android are moving beyond smartphones, and they’re bringing a flood of applications along with them. iPhone apps already work on tablets. Google promises that Android apps will be part of Google TV. To look at this “apps everywhere” trend, we’ll have executives from a swath of companies — Google, Nvidia, and Fox Digital Media — ...
The day when you’ll be able to hold up your phone and identify a stranger through a viewfinder is getting closer.
Google’s Goggles, a mobile app for visual search, has a facial recognition version unreleased to the public, while Israeli startup Face.com’s technology can tag people’s faces in Facebook photos. Facebook even released a basic version of face detection last night, although ...
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, may think email's dying, but until it's dead it's still the incumbent monarch of enterprise communication. Tools that don't fit seamlessly into existing processes and workflows will hinder the adoption of next-generation enterprise collaboration solutions. eTouch's enterprise-grade wiki SamePage attempts to solve this problem by allowing users to create wiki pages via email, and ...
As we noted in our coverage of Appcelerator's mobile developer survey last week, for lots of developers, a singular development target just isn't enough, with many developers expressing interest in making apps for both Apple's iOS and for Android. Today, the guys at AppStoreHQ put together a comprehensive report detailing just how many developers have apps for both platforms.AppStoreHQ scoured ...