Google’s Android platform now represents 17.2 percent of the global smartphone market, overtaking Apple’s iOS as the world’s third most popular smartphone OS and edging past Research In Motion’s BlackBerry to emerge as the top-selling OS in the U.S. according to new data published by research firm Gartner.
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Android surpasses BlackBerry as top-selling smartphone OS in the US
Time for your friendly reminder… The next meeting of the Boston/New England Windows Phone User and Developer Groups will be held this Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 starting at 6:30pm at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA (201 Jones Road, 6th Floor).
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REMINDER: User / Developer Group Meeting This Wednesday (Aug. 18, 2010)
Heroes creator Tim Kring and the Ovi by Nokia-powered new social benefit entertainment pilot, Conspiracy For Good(TM) (CFG, http://www.conspiracyforgood.com/), concluded successfully this past weekend with more than half a million downloads of CFG casual games and apps from Nokia’s Ovi Store, over 4,000 dedicated members joining the global movement online, enthusiastic attendance at the four
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Tim Kring and Nokia push boundaries of mobile entertainment with Conspiracy For Good
On 15 August 1947, India attained freedom. Every year, August 15 is celebrated as the Independence Day in India. This national festival is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over the country. “Tryst with Destiny” Somethings never fade — The profound speech of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru post Independence has still not lost its glory even after 63 years have passed.
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Vision Helpdesk offers 30% discount on Independence Day!
NXP Software has released CineXPlayer, a new app that allows users to bring their Xvid movies, the format that is not directly supported by the built in video codecs, to the iPad. With CineXPlayer, user can transfer Xvid movies to their iPad without any requirement to convert it to iPad video format.
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Bring Back Xvid to Your Phone with CineXPlayer
In news that is likely to please Apple fanboys, research conducted by a dating site has found that iPhone users have had more sexual partners than smartphone owners. OKcupid.com found 30 year-old women who use an iPhone had slept with an average of 12.3 people, double the number of those with an Android device (6.1) and around three more than BlackBerry users (8.8). Among men aged 30, Android users again fared worst, with an average of six sexual partners, compared to 8.1 for BlackBerry owners and ten for iPhone users. The results will be good news for Apple, the dating site aimed exclusively at Apple lovers, which last month announced it had over 22,000 members.
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Chances of you getting laid is higher if you are using an iPhone
When I use the Fancy Characters app, I always get asked where I get the cute icons. Well, they’re all from the Fancy Characters which is available in the BlackBerry Sync Store for $1.99 but is on sale for $2.49 .
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Update: Fancy Characters Updated To v4.0, Get Your Symbols The Easy Way
Found under: Handy Weather , Symbian , Application , , Im not a big fan of the weather and by that I mean weather-related app or shows. I generally go out hopping for the best but that strategy doesnt always pay out.
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Handy Weather Tells Your Symbian Smartphone When the Sun Is Out
Found under: RIM , BlackBerry , Privacy , Security , , RIM has issued a statement addressing a very important problem that seems to threaten its overall business the customers privacy. As you already know several countries including India the UAE China Saudi Arabia Kuwait Germany and others have raised various questions regarding the monitoring of BlackBerry services. And here are the main four priciples regarding security and privacy that RIM released today 1.
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RIM Talks BlackBerry Security and Privacy in New Update
Found under: HTC , Desire HD , WP7 , Android , , HTC has some special announcement scheduled for September 15th in London and we cant wait to see what new handset will be available soon. The word on the street is that the HTC Desire HD is the most likely device to be launched on that date.The HTC Desire HD is the worldwide version of the popular HTC EVO 4G smartphones and its expected to arrive in the very near future. However thats not the only smartphone we expect HTC to launch soon and were definitely thinking about Windows Ph Read More Read more in mobile format
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Special HTC Announcement Coming on September 15th
Found under: Verizon , Droid , Flash , Froyo , , The Motorola Droid although discontinued has received that much expected Android 2.2 Froyo update but not everything was included in it. While the Droid 2 that was made official a few days ago is coming with Froyo and Flash on board the Droid is still waiting for Adobes Flash 10.1 Player.According to Verizon a second round of updates will take place in the following days and Motorola Droid owners will be given access to Flash.
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Verizon to Offer Flash 10.1 Support Only in Second Droid Update
I seem to remember a problem with Swype , and how the touchscreen keyboard could easily lead to others discovering your passwords. There is a study at the University of Pennsylvania with research into the Google Nexus One and HTC G1 . They discovered that oily residues that remain on screen after being wiped off
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Problems with touchscreen passwords
On the heels of our post earlier today regarding a panel discussion at the eTail 2010 summit over mobile apps vs. the mobile Web when it comes to a mobile commerce strategy, Adobe has published a new survey that should shed some light on the debate. Adobe’s “Scene7 Rich Mobile Commerce Survey” was conducted from July 6 to July 23, 2010, to identify businesses’ strategic and tactical plans for mobile commerce over the next year. The survey received 446 responses from representatives at leading enterprises worldwide – with most coming from North America. Of the respondents, it found that 80 percent of companies were planning, or had already deployed a mobile website, compared to the 8 percent of respondents that were interested in applications. Granted, Adobe has a vested interest in the mobile Web over mobile apps — as its Flash technology is more prevalent and accepted there — but the survey still sheds an interesting light
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Adobe Mobile Commerce Survey: 80% Of Respondents Utilize Mobile Web Over Apps
This is the Sony Dash , and if you have one, you can get an update. This new update includes Shoutcast as an available preset internet radio station, and it brings app shortcuts and a hastened add/delete app process. It is like the Watch Instantly feature added a while ago. Dash owners, check it out! Source Related Posts Sony Dash can now be used outside the United States One of the problems with the Sony Dash was that it had this thing about not working outside of the U… Sony Dash has Watch Instantly Netflix content and more! The Sony Dash personal internet viewer with its 7-inch touchscreen, first revealed at CES last Janua…
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Sony Dash gets another update
Zagat, the global restaurant survey firm, and the mobile photo sharing startup Foodspotting are teaming up to leverage Zagat’s brand awareness and Foodspotting’s ability to make a picture worth a thousand mouthwatering words. The two businesses are joining forces to allow Zagat participants to upload food photos that gourmands snap with their mobile phones. Foodspotting, a website and mobile app company, very cleverly bypasses the glut of written restaurant reviews that litter the Internet these days, letting a picture do the talking–and the reviewing and recommending. (Admittedly I have extra appreciation for the service, since when I lived in Japan I relied on picture menus to be able to order anything.) Recommendation services have long proved a hit among consumers, what with the popularity of Yelp, Citysearch, and, to a lesser extent, ads on social networks that share with one’s friends what one has purchased.
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Foodspotting, Zagat A Tasty Bit Of Fusion
I use PayPal a lot. In recent years it’s become a primary form of payment for me both on and offline, but one place I can’t use PayPal so easily is to purchase apps on my Android device. That may soon change, as it’s been rumored that PayPal and Google are in talks over using the now-ubiquitous payment technology in the Android Market
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PayPal, Google Rumored To Be Partnering For Android Mobile Payments
This is an iPad App for a web magazine called Slate. This is not to be confused with a tablet known as the Slate . The Slate is like other iPad mags like Time or Wired , as it has the publication’s blogs, videos, and articles with “NPR app-style rows for different sections”.
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This is an iPad App known as the Slate
I finally got round to trying to make an app in Silverlight for WindowsPhone7. It has ended up as this very simple game called TouchMeQuick. Read on for pics & a video of it being played! (more…) Related Posts: SQLite now working with Window Phone 7 Silverlight SNES Emulator – so who wants it on WP7 ?
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TouchMeQuick. A simple game for Windows Phone 7!
Shopkick , a brand new LBS startup we covered recently , just announced a major new partnership with Simon Properties to install its innovative check-in/rewards technology in shopping malls across the country. At the heart of Shopkick’s technology is the bypass of GPS for location-tracking
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Shopkick Picks Up Major Retail Momentum For Check-In App, Partners With Simon Properties
Google’s Android open source operating system is a great one but due to its frequency of updates and the infrequent rate at which hardware manufacturers push these updates out, some users have been left in the dust. The Dell Streak is a prime example of this segmentation as although it is a brand new device, Dell is still putting the finishing touches on the updated versions which means it will ship with Android 1.6 in tow. Fortunately, some hackers over in the UK found this delay in updates to be inappropriate and have taken the liberty to themselves update the device to Android 2.1 also known as Eclair. According to those involved, all you need to do is copy the Android 2.1 .pkg file onto your device’s SD card and rename it ‘Update.pkg’. Once you’re done with that you just need to boot the Dell Streak into recovery mode and choose to recover from the Update.pkg file.
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Android 2.1 Update Gets Leaked For Dell Streak in UK
In an update to RIM’s initial response to how the company would handle requests from governments to make encrypted data available to carriers, the BlackBerry maker says that “although it cannot disclose confidential regulatory discussions that take place with any government, RIM assures its customers that it genuinely tries to be as cooperative as possible with governments in the spirit of supporting legal and national security requirements, while also preserving the lawful needs of citizens and corporations.” Additionally RIM has outlined 4 main principles that any carrier requesting “lawful” access to data be limited by: The carriers’ capabilities be limited to the strict context of lawful access and national security requirements as governed by the country’s judicial oversight and rules of law. The carriers’ capabilities must be technology and vendor neutral, allowing no greater access to BlackBerry consumer services than the carriers and regulators already impose on RIM’s competitors and other similar communications technology companies.
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RIM Outlines 4 Main Principles For “Lawful” Access To Data For Carriers