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How much do desktops matter?

How much do desktops matter?The desktop/laptop will be around longer than that.Laptops continue to grow more prevalent than desktops, but a workstation computer will be a very long standing fixture in the lives of those in the developed world. No one is going to write term papers on a...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, mobile world, desktop, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

iPhone 2.0 and all kinds of little mobile RIAs

I generally break RIAs into three categories: browser-based, desktop, and mobile. After playing with the iPhone 2.0 firmware, checking out some of the applications, and going through the experience in the iTunes store one of the best RIA examples out there, I'm pretty convinced that the iPhone is the best...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, Mobile World, App Store, Web 2.0 Player, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Is designing for the small screen more fun?

I have completely fallen in love with my iPhone. As far as I can tell it comes as close to the perfectly designed device as possible and it seems like I'm discovering cool usability aspects all the time. Things like when you get a text message with a phone number...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Desktop, Application, Mobile, Mobile World, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Google sends Android to conquer mobile world

Google sends Android to conquer mobile worldMany would be wrong: Applets Rule Web 2.0The following quote is incorrect big time: Regarding "Many would argue Apple's iPhone was the first mobile computing device to allow a Web page to look exactly as it does on a PC's browser.": The iPhone browser...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Android, mobile world, Google Inc., mobile

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

Rich Internet Applications and mobile entertainment

Yesterday Peter Chernin of News Corp praised the economic and business virtues of growing the consumption of entertainment on mobile devices. We have known for quite some time that the "mobile world" was going to be hot. In Asia, it has been for a long time and people maintain...

Tags: mobile marketing, mobile

Blog posts 2006-09-14

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Will we see a Nokia Aseries (Android series) or Android Tablet device in September?

I admit to being a fan of Nokia devices, but think there are several areas of the S60 Symbian-based operating system that need improvement. I am also quite a fan of Google Android, especially running on my T-Mobile G1. The Guardian is reporting the Nokia will be announcing an Android...

Tags: Google Android, Nokia Corp., Guardian, Mobile Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-07-05

Beyond E-Tech Duet D8 (unlocked)

Photo gallery:Beyond E-Tech Duet D8We first came across a peculiar company called Beyond E-Tech when we reviewed the Duet D888. An importer of Chinese-made phones, Beyond E-tech offers a gallery of models seldom seen elsewhere. Like the D888 and all other handsets in the Duet line, the unlocked D8 is...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Duet D8, touch screen, Beyond E-Tech, Duet D888, phone

Product reviews 2009-07-02

Emoze 2.0.31 (Mobile)

emoze is a software that enables you to receive and send e-mails to and from your mobile phone or mobile device. Emoze pushes e-mails, calendars, tasks and contacts instantly, delivering real-time synchronization - anytime, anywhere. Emoze software is free and simple to use. Users need a data package from any...

Tags: Mobile, Emoze, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-02

Warpack Grunts 1.0 (Mobile)

Infamous cheapskate and generally naughty person Evil Dude is forming an army of Ubiquitous Badly Trained Evil Chaps for his latest plan of world domination, led by his henchman General Issimo. An international squad of special forces troopers pulled from units all around the world has been put together. They...

Tags: Mobile, Level, Freeverse, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-02

MPR Radio 1.4 (Mobile)

MPR Radio lets you listen to all three of MPR's streams: The Current, Classical MPR, and MPR News. The Current at 89.3 FM in the Twin Cities plays independent emerging artists alongside the legends who inspired them. Classical Minnesota Public Radio offers all classical, all the time. Minnesota Public Radio...

Tags: Mobile, Stream, Minnesota Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio News, 3G, Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-02

PrensaFutbol 1.1 (Mobile)

PrensaFutbol includes Chilean professional soccer league, national team, and teams of chilean soccer stars playing all around the world. There is no better way to stay on top of all to do with soccer in Chile. PrensaFutbol includes news and results from Chilean league Primera A, Chilean league Primera B,...

Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Mobile, League, Trivialware, PrensaFutbol, Regulations, Team Management, Government, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-02

Business intelligence comes to Kindle. Will companies care?

Business Intelligence provider MicroStrategy said today that it will make its business reports and dashboards accessible through Amazon's Kindle DX reader, bringing one of the first business tools to a device that's been mostly defined by its ability to display electronic books. The company already has an...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle, Pricing, Smart Phones, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Nokia launching 12-megapixel camera phone

Recently I wrote about a study that still finds camera phones sorely lacking behind regular digital camera technology. Well, Nokia is stepping up its game with the launch of a 12-megapixel camera phone later this year, according to PhoneReport. This follows up 12 MP model announcements from Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson....

Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Camera Phone, Digital Camera, Camera, Camera Phones, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-07-01

T-Mobile Dash 3G

The poor T-Mobile Dash has been pulling duty ever since October 2006 and while it's received a minor face lift and Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade over the years, it's definitely time for the smartphone to retire. More importantly, T-Mobile customers need and deserve something more up-to-date and it looks like...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, 3G, T-Mobile, T-Mobile Dash, T-Mobile Dash 3G, Sprint Communications, Snap, Dash 3G, High Tech Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-07-01

iBowl 6.0 (Mobile)

iBowl, the way to go bowling on your iPhone.iBowl lets you bowl live with up to four people around the world. Simply swing your iPhone like a bowling ball and see how many strikes you can get. Position the ball by moving your finger left or right on the screen....

Tags: Mobile, Strike, Social Gaming Network, Performance Management, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-01

Moximity 1.1 (Mobile)

Bring your online social life to the real world with Moximity. Moximity integrates your existing social networks like Facebook and Twitter with your iPhone and overlays restaurant and bar information so you can build a better social life. Once you sign on, you will see the places around you and...

Tags: Mobile, Network, Mobile Blasts, Moximity 1.1, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-01

With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers

Mozilla's browser broke Microsoft IE's lock on the market. But the new Firefox 3.5 faces other serious alternative-browser ontenders. A funny thing to happened to Firefox on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer: the Mozilla browser's success opened the door for a host of its...

Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Firefox 3.5, Performance Improvement, Jetpack, Snowl, Web Browsers, Internet, Firefox, Mozilla, browsers, Chrome, Safari, IE, Stephen Shankland, CNET News, Stephen Shankland, CNET News

News items 2009-06-30

Fortune Cookies 1.0 (Mobile)

Write your own fortunes to share with the world. Fortune Cookies features view your own fortune from our database of Fortune classics, forward fortunes to your friends via Twinkle and email, create and share your own original contemporary fortunes, and hidden shattered mode.

Tags: Mobile, Fortune, Cookie, Tapulous

Software downloads 2009-06-30

Photo Collage 1.0 (Mobile)

Photo Collage features view photos taken just recently from the world your friends and nearby, upload photos as you take them, maintain a photo gallery of your shots, vote on people's photos, follow people's photostream, and communicate with people you meet on Collage.

Tags: Mobile, Photograph, Tapulous

Software downloads 2009-06-30

Skype 4.1 (Windows)

Skype is software that enables you to make free calls anywhere in the world. Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you with other users. It offers several features, including SkypeOut calling from Skype to regular and mobile phones worldwide, conference calling, and secure file transferring. You can also now...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Windows, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

Software downloads 2009-06-30