Archive for June, 2011 - Page 11

Jitterbug Creators Announce MedCoach iPhone App With "Shake For Help"

MedCoach iPhone App Comes Available, Acts As A Medication Reminder & Features 24/7 Access to Live Personal Assistance
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

While it can be a good phone for the right person, the name Jitterbug often seems to be mentioned in jest. And without going all that far into detail as to the comments that I have heard, the creators of the Jitterbug have recently announced (and released) an iPhone app. [...]

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LG DM50D Offers Big 3D With Passive Glasses, Plays Nice With Your Computer

LG's New DM50D 3D Offers A Sizable Screen And A Lot Of Versatility
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

The line between computer monitors and televisions is getting a little, well, blurry these days. Blurry like watching a 3D image without your 3D glasses on, that kind of blurry. But the crew at LG wants to blur the line a little more with their DM50D 3D monitor.

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Microsoft Officially Launches Office 365, Now Available On A Global Basis

Microsoft Launches Office 365, Touts It As A "Game Changer for Businesses Of All Sizes"
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

Microsoft originally announced Office 365 way back in October of last year, and with that comes the good news for anyone that may have been waiting — it is officially available on a global basis (in 40 markets) as of today. Yup, the beta tag has been stripped away and [...]

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70 Percent Of The World Uses Prepaid Phones

Apple's Possible Move Toward Pre-pay Phones Represents A Stake In A Surprisingly Large Market
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

A bit of follow-up to yesterday’s story about the two iPhones emerges–remember how we were making the inference that Apple might want to look at getting a stake in the prepaid cell phone market? As it turns out, that market is a whole lot bigger than you might think.

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HTC EVO 3D Gets A Coming Soon Style Listing With Vodafone UK

Vodafone UK Officially Lists EVO 3D Smartphone, Keeps Release Date & Pricing A Secret
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

The HTC EVO 3D recently went on sale with Sprint here in the US and as of yesterday, HTC announced that it would be coming available in Europe beginning next month. And as to where in Europe, that was left as the general sounding “broadly available.”

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Sprint & Motorola Already Prepping XPRT Smartphone Follow-Up Device?

Leaked Image Suggests Motorola & Sprint Are Working On A Follow-Up To the Business-Minded XPRT Smartphone
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

This latest bit comes with more speculation than actual information, however it does give hope for those looking for another candybar style handset with a QWERTY keyboard to come available with Sprint. That being said, what we have is a single image of a Motorola and Sprint branded handset that [...]

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Android Activations Now Topping Half-A-Million Per Day

Andy Rubin Tweets, Android Activations At Over 500,00 Per Day, Or Nearly 350 Every Minute
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

While there will likely always be the wars between fanboys (and girls), regardless of the camp that you have settled into, it is sort of hard to deny that Google is activating quite a bit of devices each and every day. Granted, that does not mean that other platforms are [...]

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ALK Technologies Unveils The Next Generation CoPilot Live Navigation Apps

CoPilot Live Navigation Apps Getting Updated For Android & iOS, Will Roll-Out As Live Premium & Live Standard
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

Those looking for a solid navigation app for their iOS device, or maybe something to offer a change from the standard Google Navigation offering on Android may want to give the folks over at ALK Technologies a second look. And perhaps you may have already seen their product — CoPilot [...]

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T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide Officially Announced

T-Mobile Announces The myTouch 4G Slide, Coming In July Along With Features To Include A "Zero Shutter Lag" Camera
Filed by on Tuesday, 28. June 2011

T-Mobile has officially announced the long rumored myTouch 4G Slide. And the good news, the release date should not be all that far away. Yup, by that we are referring to the fact that T-Mobile offered an official timeframe as opposed to a release date.

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Android Torrent App Transdroid Pulled Out of Android Market

Is Google Banning Torrent Apps From Market to Minimize Piracy?
Filed by on Monday, 27. June 2011

Android smartphones can do pretty much anything. And with Transdroid, this includes downloading and sharing of files via torrent. However, Google has pulled the app out of the market, citing policy violations.

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