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Orange to put Google search on mobile home screen
Orange users will get Google search and other services on their handsets' home screen after the firms signed a partnership deal. Orange customers with an Android handset will be the first to get Google search on their home screens with Symbian S60, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices following. The...
Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Google Search, Home Screen, Cloud Computing, Orange, Editorial
Articles 2009-10-28

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Apple Developing Location-Based Home Screen for the iPhone?
This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revealed a patent filed by Apple for "Transitional Data Sets" - a technology that would update an iPhone's home screen based on your current physical location. Of course, as with all patents filed by major technology companies, a patent won't necessarily translate...
Tags: home screen, Apple Inc., location, Apple iPhone, app, Patent
News items 2009-08-28
Add Google Search to Your Windows Mobile Today Screen
Search the Web in a flash with a new Google plug-in for Windows Mobile PDAs and smartphones. The software adds a Google search box to the Today screen, thus saving you the hassle of manually starting Internet Explorer, navigating to Google, etc. Just point your device's browser to mobile.google.com and you'll...
Tags: Handhelds, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Search, Mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Google Inc., Software, Hardware, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-03-20
Review: Nokia N97 Mini
Nokia's powerhouse N97 touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard-packing smartphone may have arrived to mixed reviews, but its new, rescaled Nokia N97 Mini stablemate offers a refreshed take on the device. Its 'Mini' moniker doesn't mean this is a heavily stripped down version of the original N97 , however. ...
Tags: Nokia Corp., Touch Screen, Phone
News items 2009-12-09
Stupid DROID Tricks, Volume 1
Android 2.0 on the Verizon DROID Smartphone is indeed sophisticated, but for a new user can also be daunting or even overwhelming. The Google Android 2.0 OS built into the Motorola/Verizon DROID is by far one of the most sophisticated smartphone UIs I have ever seen — and with that...
Tags: program, Verizon Communications Inc., Google Android
News items 2009-11-23
Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Damn Good [Ebook Readers]
It's a relief to finally lay hands on the Nook. The dual-screen reader was just a prop at its unveiling so I'm happy to report it works pretty well. It can't kill Kindle yet, but it's an alternative worth considering. Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the...
Tags: e-book, LCD, Barnes & Noble Inc., Screen
News items 2009-12-07
Five Top Tips for New IPhone Users
If it turned out that the big lump at the bottom of your stocking wasn't in fact coal, but rather a happy, shiny new iPhone 3G, then, like most new iPhone owners, the thing's probably rarely left your clutching grasp. But though you may be surfing the web, checking your...
News items 2009-08-07
Barnes & Noble Nook Review [Ebook Readers]
It's a relief to finally lay hands on the Nook. The dual-screen reader was just a prop at its unveiling so I'm happy to report it works pretty well. It can't kill Kindle yet, but it's an alternative worth considering. Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the...
News items 2009-12-06
Motorola Cliq Review [Review]
Copy this whole post to another site When a once leading, now last place smartphone maker dumps Windows Mobile and goes to in an entirely different direction—Android—it's an all or nothing decision. Who knew that this would be the thing that might save the company? The Motorola Cliq is the...
Tags: Phone, Motorola Inc.
News items 2009-10-14
PastryKit
One of the recent themes here has been the topic of iPhone OS web apps — apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch that are built with nothing more than HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And specifically, the issues of how good an experience iPhone web apps can...
Tags: Apple iPhone, App, Web Application
News items 2009-12-15
Microsoft aims for a mobile rebirth
Microsoft launched Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest version of its mobile phone operating system, this week along with a new online application store, Skymarket, and a publicity campaign designed to boost the Windows Mobile brand in the fast- changing smartphone market. That market has changed dramatically in the 18 months...
Tags: Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile, High Tech Computer Corp.
News items 2009-10-08
Nokia World 09 Delivers Details on Booklet 3G Netbook, Nokia N97 Mini Smartphone
tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Nokia-World-09-Delivers-Details-on-Booklet-3G-Netbook-Nokia-N97-Mini-Smartphone-403323/'; tweetmeme_source = 'eweeknews'; Nokia World 09 played out in Stuttgart, Germany, starting Sept. 2. Like Nokia, its president and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said, Nokia World is about "people - people like us, getting together, sharing and exploring ideas, creating and connecting. And, of...
Tags: Nokia Corp.
News items 2009-09-03
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com/yourhome) also introduced the VisionPRO touch-screen programmable thermostat, which guides homeowners through the programming process with a user-friendly, on-screen menu and flashing touch screen, reducing the need for an own
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com/your home) also introduced the VisionPRO touch-screen programmable thermostat, which guides homeowners through the programming process with a user-friendly, on-screen menu and flashing touch screen, reducing the need for Honeywell (www.honeywell.com/your home) also introduced the VisionPRO touch-screen programmable thermostat, which guides homeowners ...
Tags: homeowner, Honeywell International Inc., programming, touch screen
Research articles 2004-10-04
Motorola Announces the Android-Powered Milestone… Available on TELUS ‘Early 2010?
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Canada has made it all official. They've announced the launch of their first Android device north-of-the-border… the Motorola Milestone aka Motorola DROID. The device will run on TELUS' new HSPA+ network, and will join a host of other new devices coming to the Canadian carrier. TELUS (NYSE:...
Tags: Motorola Inc., TELUS Corp.
News items 2009-11-10
10 things to know about Samsung's Bada platform
1. Making smartphones open to all Samsung's announcement of Bada might be confusing to some people, but the firm has a clear message – it wants to make the smartphone accessible to everyone. In a chart shown at the media launch, Samsung pointed to...
Tags: Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Smart Phone
News items 2009-12-10
Acer Slaps a Multitouch Screen On Its $800 Aspire 5738PG [Acer]
Copy this whole post to another site You wouldn't know it by looking at it, but that is Acer's new multitouch laptop. Sort of like Lenovo has done with the T400s, Acer has put a multitouch screen on an existing clamshell notebook. Besides its long ass model number, the 15.6-inch...
Tags: Acer Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo
News items 2009-10-14
First pics of Motorola Droid with Android 2.0 build (maybe)
The Boy Genius report has just posted a series of screenshots showing Android 2.0 running on what appears to be the upcoming Motorola Droid phone also known as Sholes. The source is credible and the pictures look real, though it's unclear how close it all is to being finished. Pricing...
Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Motorola Inc., Multi-touch
News items 2009-10-16
Review: Motorola's Droid a serious smartphone
SAN FRANCISCO - Since its debut in 2007, millions of people have gravitated toward Apple's iPhone, wooed by its sleek hardware, simple user interface and abundance of applications. Other smartphone makers have been trying since then to dispel the notion that the iPhone is the be-all and end-all of mobile...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Motorola Inc., Verizon Wireless
News items 2009-11-04
Toshiba to launch its first touch-screen tablet
The JournE Touch will be available in Europe first by the end of the year, with other regions to follow.(Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET)BERLIN--We saw Toshiba's first Blu-ray product announcement coming, but the touch-screen home media tablet that the company introduced here at IFA was a bit of a surprise.The JournE Touch,...
Tags: tablet, device, Touch Screen, Toshiba Corp.
News items 2009-09-03
Nokia N900 review, part 1. First impressions. Things I really liked
Yesterday, around lunchtime, my test model of Nokia N900 arrived at the door. And, with a few hours of sleep interrupt,  I've been playing with it ever since. For about 15 hrs. now. So I think it's time to put it away for a while, and share some first impressions...
Tags: Nokia Corp., App, Phone
News items 2009-10-13
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