Vendors to debut Chrome-featured smartbooks later in November
Global brand vendors are expected to launch their new generation smartbooks featuring the Google Chrome operating system (OS) later this month (November), while Google also plans to launch its own-bra...
Apple takes the lead in the US smart phone market with a 26% share
In Q3 2010, the worldwide smart phone market grew an impressive 95% over the same quarter a year ago to 80.9 million shipped units. Nokia retained its leadership position, albeit by a diminished marg...
NPD: Android Surging, BlackBerry Falling, Apple Flat
Here's a chart pretty much guaranteed to get teeth grinding in Cupertino - new data from NPD showing Android extending its lead as America's most popular mobile operating system. — The consumer rese...
Apple Releases iOS 4.2 Gold Master To Developers [Update: See What's New!]
Good news folks, Apple just released the pre-final version of iOS 4.2 to members of the Apple developer program. iOS 4.2 Gold Master, or GM as it's called, should be the exact version that Apple will ...
iPhone DST bug causing alarms to fail across Europe (updated)
An iPhone bug already seen when Australia switched between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time a few weeks ago has now hit Europe. Twitter is alight with reports of recurring iPhone alarms going ...
Exclusive: Apple, Google Are Sniffing Around Mobile Payments Startup BOKU
Both Apple and Google are engaged in conversations with mobile payments startup BOKU about a potential acquisition or a wide-reaching partnership at the very least, we've heard from people familiar wi...
How to Take Down Facebook — Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network)
Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) — I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. It wouldn...
iPhone 5 Will Enable Ambitious Remote Computing Program - Source [Exclusive]
We've received a tip about an unexpected application for the NFC chip Apple is expected to build into the iPhone 5. — Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connection technology t...
Intel Grants Rare Access to Start-Up
Chip Giant Will Manufacture Achronix's Semiconductors Using Most Advanced Production Process — Intel Corp. has agreed to make chips for a semiconductor start-up, the first time the Silicon Valley gi...
First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft
Memo to Redmond: CSS ain't HTML — The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the results of its first HTML5 conformance tests, and according to this initial rundown, the browser that most closely adh...
Browser momentum: Chrome has it, IE doesn't
Chrome sliced away another half a percentage point of usage share from rival browsers in October 2010. — For browser watchers, October was a continuation of previous trends: Internet Explorer lost s...
Election Badges, Vote by Check-In and Twitter Bubbles
It may not be quite as big a deal as the presidential elections in 2008, when Barack Obama's campaign team used social media and social networks to mobilize supporters and win the White House, but the...
IPad Opens World to a Disabled Boy
OWEN CAIN depends on a respirator and struggles to make even the slightest movements — he has had a debilitating motor-neuron disease since infancy. — Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver...
Meet 8pen, another Android keyboard with a steep learning curve
There are many keyboard replacements available for Android these days, most of which are much better than the stock Android keyboard. We now have a new entrant to add to the mix, and it's unlike anyt...
ViewSonic ViewPad 7 and 10 officially comin' to America
ViewSonic's heavy foray into the tablet market has been no secret, but we've been a bit uncertain as to where on the map its products would land. Until now that is. According to ViewSonic's American...
PDC and Silverlight
[This blog post is from Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft] — Last week, we held our PDC conference on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. We also streamed it on...
The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate?
[The UI of Android mobile devices is at the epicenter of a conflict between Google and the OEM struggle for differentiation. Guest author Ben Hookway analyses why Google's UI strategy will be paramou...
And So The Exodus Begins - 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org
We all knew that it would come to this and it has finally happened - 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. — The H...
T-Mobile officially launches 200MB data plan, tethering plan
Following up on an exclusive from last week, T-Mobile has officially announced two new data offerings for its smartphone customers: a 200MB data plan and a tethering add-on. — The new, 200MB data pl...
Samsung Galaxy Tab review
The story of the Galaxy Tab has been quite a saga, to say the least. In fact, it was actually back in May that we first heard rumblings of Samsung's plans to unleash a 7-inch Android tablet much like...