I wrote about and showed you a video last week of Handmark’s Tweetcaster Twitter application for Android devices and wanted to let you all know it is available now in the Android Market. There is a free, ad-supported version and a priced $4.99 version with no ads in the Market.
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Tweetcaster now available in the Android Market, best Android Twitter app
iPad About Well bless my soul and whiskers. This is the first time I’ve joined the congregation at the Church of Apple for a new product launch. I’ve watched all the past ones, downloaded the Quicktime movies and marvelled as Apple’s leader has stood before an ovating faithful and announced the switch to Intel, the birth of iPod, the miniMac, the iTunes Store, OS X, iPhoto, the swan’s neck iMac, the Shuffle, Apple retail stores, the iPhone, the titanium powerbook, Garageband, the App Store and so much more.
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Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO thinks Wow Mobile is doomed. To be fair, Peter is cynical but then again, he is right most of the time. In this case he thinks a MLM, get-rich scheme which sells mobile service has no chance — especially when you consider the history of MVNO failure in the US
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Is Wow Mobile Doomed Already?
Apple is holding a media event this week where the company is widely expected to launch its first tablet computer . But a new tablet may not be the only new product from Apple this week, as many people expect the company to launch new iPhone software and perhaps even new iPhone hardware at the event
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Apple Announcing New iPhone Software, Hardware This Week?
Most people know that prepaid phone cards are used to make cheap international calls but many do not know that many on-line (virtual) phone cards also offer a full range of features. These features make them more convenient to use than those bought in convenience stores and super markets. The following are some common features found with high quality virtual phone cards: PIN Free dialing is a convenient and common feature found with many virtual phone cards
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Prepaid Phone Cards offer Value, Convenience and Useful Features
I have been using Google Maps Navigation beta on my Google Nexus One and it has performed very well, especially for a free voice guided navigation client. One aspect of this solution is that you have to be connected to your wireless carrier network to use Google Maps Navigation
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Think Google Maps Navigation is good? Nokia just blew past them with FREE Ovi Maps
Just last month, Microsoft released a Bing app for the iPhone . But Microsoft’s search engine soon may be moving into a higher-profile spot on Apple’s handset: according to a BusinessWeek report , Bing may become the default search engine in the iPhone’s Safari browser. The BusinessWeek story says that “Apple is in talks with Microsoft to replace Google as the default search engine on its iPhone.” It cites “two people familiar with the matter” as sources for the information
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Will Bing Be the iPhone’s New Search Engine?
On previous trips to Europe I have used Truphone to make calls on my Nokia devices. Over the last couple of years Truphone has rolled out mobile clients for various smartphone operating systems and today they announced (PDF file) their latest service called Truphone Local Anywhere that makes every call a local call
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Truphone Local Anywhere SIM and services makes every call local
Twitter applications are one of the most sought after social networking applications on smartphones. There are a few good contenders for Google Android, but as you can see in my video the current private beta version of Handmark’s TweetCaster shows it will soon be the BEST Twitter app on Google Android devices.
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Video review: Handmark’s TweetCaster beta is the best Android Twitter app
Aliph, maker of the popular Jawbone bluetooth headsets , has added a new product to its already impressive lineup: the Jawbone ICON. The new headset, which Aliph says is the “smartest, most comfortable, and smallest Jawbone ever created,” features a secret weapon: a software platform called MyTalk that allows you to customize your headset
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Jawbone ICON: Bluetooth Headset Gets New Features, Lower Price
It seems that Nokia kicked over the hornet’s nest back in October when they sued Apple for infringing on patents that they claim others have been legitimately paying for while Apple has been refusing to pay for. Not surprisingly, Apple then sued Nokia for infringing on their patents.
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Apple vs Nokia round 3: Apple asks US government to ban Nokia phones
Seattle-based RealNetworks is in a major executive shuffle, announcing late Wednesday that CEO and founder Rob Glaser has stepped down. According to RealNetworks, Glaser is being replaced by the board of directors by Robert Kimball, who has been appointed President and Acting CEO. Glaser said, in..
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RealNetworks’ Glaser Out
By Chris Buckley and Lucy Hornby BEIJING (Reuters UK) – China told companies to back state control of the Internet on Thursday, showing no sign of giving ground on censorship after U.S. Internet giant Google threatened to quit the country. Minister of the State Council Information Office, Wang…
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China Backs Censorship After Google Threat
Challenging Google in the cloud computing market for messaging and collaboration software, IBM landed Panasonic as a customer for its LotusLive SAAS programs. More than 150,000 workers at the Japanese electronics maker will use IBM’s hosted e-mail, social networking Web conferencing, file..
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IBM LotusLive Snags Panasonic to Challenge Google in the Cloud
Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, Verizon Wireless showed off its progress on the planned rollout of its Long Term Evolution network. Verizon and its LTE partners were on hand in Las Vegas to demonstrate a live LTE network running at the city’s convention center. Check out a photo…
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A look at Verizon’s LTE progress
Backup may not be sexy, but Iomega’s refreshed StorCenter ix-200 network-attached storage device brings home and small business users enterprise features and capable simplicity for a decidedly consumer price.
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Iomega Storcenter ix2-200 NAS brings enterprise chops to home, small business [review]
The TV Network scheduling conflicts, ratings wars and analysis methods of the last five decades will be made obsolete by DVR ubiquity and On-Demand viewing technology. With one of the worst natural disasters in modern history claiming untold amounts of human lives unfolding in front of us all… Silicon Alley Insider – The Numbers NBC Faced Before The Late Night Experiment Exploded Silicon Alley Insider – NYT: Conan Is Toast Wall Street Journal – Didn’t See Conan O’Brien Insult NBC Last Night
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Conan vs. Leno: The Last Great TV Scheduling War
The law firm representing a U.S. company involved in a legal dispute over China’s Green Dam censorship software says it was targeted with a sophisticated online attack this week, similar to the one reported by Google Tuesday. Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, a Los Angeles law firm, says employees began…
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Law Firm in Green Dam Suit Targeted With Cyber-attack
By Gabriel Madway SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) – Google Inc’s potential departure from China may not prompt others to follow suit, but its high-profile declaration could help shine a light on the business environment in the world’s third-largest economy. Google said on Tuesday that it might stop… Reuters – Companies watch, wait as Google mulls leaving China
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Companies Watch and Wait as Google Mulls China
Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, was a pioneer in the current wave of electronic book readers, introducing its first Sony Reader model back in 2006. But, it has been overtaken by Amazon.com, whose Kindle e-book reader, introduced in 2007, has become almost synonymous with the category
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Sony’s E-Reader Opens New Chapter in Kindle Rivalry [Personal Technology]
IDG News Service – The policy of random laptop searches and seizures by U.S. government agents at border crossings is under attack again, with a pair of civil rights groups seeking potential plaintiffs for a lawsuit that challenges the practice. The American Civil Liberties Union is working with..
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Groups seek to challenge U.S. gov’t on seized laptops
In this installment of One on One, I sit down with Anil Dash, formerly of Six Apart, which created the popular blogging software Movable Type. Mr. Dash is now the director of Expert Labs, a Government 2.0 initiative that aims to connect United States government projects with citizens who want to…
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One on One: Anil Dash of Expert Labs
James, Kevin, and I recently returned from CES 2010 in Vegas and kicked off MobileTechRoundup show #194 talking about some of our impressions of the show. I was quite pleased with CES this year, even though there wasn’t a ton of mobile phone news and stayed very busy
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MobileTechRoundup show #194, CES wrap-up, Nexus One, & N900
Google’s Nexus One smartphone made its debut Jan. 5 with plaudits and the great expectations of many members of the press and analyst corps. When the dust settled, it was largely determined that the Nexus One was just the latest in an increasingly long line of Android smartphones and certainly no…
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Google Nexus One: Smartphone Setup and Start-Up
Businesses and the public sector will begin to spend more money on technology this year, according to analyst house Forrester. The UK will see a nine percent growth in spending to $84 billion (£52 billion), making it the fourth largest market globally in dollar terms, Forrester said.
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IT spending downturn is over – Forrester
I posted my full review of the Nokia N900 a couple weeks ago and mentioned that there were ways to get some applications on the device through different Application Catalogs. I popped my SIM in the other day and found a new firmware update available followed by activation of the Ovi Store link on the device
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Ovi Store rolls out in early beta form on the Nokia N900
On Sunday we spotted the HTC HD2 on the Virgin Mobile website . Today, just a few (ahem) days later it’s officially announced. We’ve just had a full press release from Virgin Media and, although it’s the first ever HTC phone they’ve carried, there’s more “high-end handsets” to come
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HTC HD2 on Virgin – The official word
Google made a big splash with the launch of its Nexus One “superphone” last week, but that hasn’t translated into big sales, one research group is saying. Google sold 20,000 Nexus One phones in its first week of availability, according to Flurry, a research company that specializes in mobile applications
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Google’s Nexus One Not Selling Well?
Back in early October we saw the release of Windows Mobile 6.5 and as you can see in my post I was rather disappointed with the release for several reasons. I had limited expectations since we all knew it was a minor point release, but I found it to have even less than what I had hoped for.
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Hands-on with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on the Pharos Traveler 137
2010 is looking like a very strong year for the Google Android operating system, and no other mobile phone manufacturer is on top of the game like HTC. Google has been busy working with HTC on the much-anticipated Nexus One mobile phone and HTC has an HTC-branded line of Android smart phones coming as well.
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HTC and the Coming Times