Archive for August, 2011 - Page 10

For those living in a world of iOS that may not be as familiar with the current crop of Android browsers, there is one you may have heard of, or at least one that you may want to pay attention to as it has just come available for the iPhone. [...]

Apparently, when you’ve got a product in stores that flies off the shelves, your first instinct as a business person is to do it again. Not surprising, but I can’t speak to personal experience on that one as I’ve never had a product in stores that flew off shelves. But [...]

HP’s announcement that it plans to focus on enterprise services had people wondering what exactly will happen to its PC manufacturing unit, which has been its main source of revenue until recently. Aside from its plans to drop support for webOS, HP says the company prefers to spin off the [...]

Motorola officially announced the Defy+ smartphone earlier this month and while they stated that the handset would be released in Asia, Europe and Latin America beginning in the early fall, they also stated that they would offer an update as an actual release came a bit closer.

Some good news this morning for those involved in the Apple Developer program — iTunes version 10.5 beta 6.1 has come available for download and it includes the first support for iTunes Match. Of course, may will remember the details from the original announcement which took place during WWDC 2011.

In possibly one of the more confusing product killings, HP continues to send mixed signals in terms of what users can expect in terms of webOS and the TouchPad tablet. Well, maybe mixed signals is a bit strong considering HP has officially discontinued the product and offered a fire-sale on [...]

While many are waiting for the event that Samsung has scheduled for later this evening, it looks like they have also unveiled three new Bada OS based smartphones. The models include the Wave 3, Wave M and Wave Y, all of which will be running Bada 2.0 and are scheduled [...]

When Nokia fully transitions to Windows Phones, we all know what Nokia’s Ovi’s fate will be. But until then, its 50,000 or so apps and 5 million downloads a day warrant updates to the app store. The Nokia Drop Team recently announced that the Ovi Store is now powered by [...]

It’s no secret that the upcoming Windows 8 OS has an app store. And recently, a couple of portfolios of third-party apps for the operating system were unearthed. The apps are showcased within an unknown tablet, though it’s not known whether this is a tablet that would actually be equipped [...]

America’s major mobile networks are partnering to establish a mobile payment system for easy cashless transactions. In view of potential challenges to the platform, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon are giving the Isis initiative $100 million more in financing to better compete against Google’s own payment system.