Posts Tagged ‘ smartphones

Opera’s Mini 5 browser comes to Android 11 March 2010 at 7:00 am by admin

Opera has released a beta version of its Mini 5 Web browser for Android-based smartphones, the company said on Thursday.

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+ Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones By admin 11 March 2010 at 6:25 am and have No Comments

Motorola will start loading Microsoft’s Bing search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China .

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+ EFF dubs Apple a ‘jealous feudal lord’ over iPhone dev contract By admin 10 March 2010 at 7:29 am and have No Comments

Apple’s agreement with iPhone developers contains several “troubling” clauses that paint the company as a “jealous and arbitrary feudal lord,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said yesterday. The nonprofit digital rights advocacy group on Tuesday published a January 2010 version of the iPhone Developer License Agreement obtained from NASA through a Freedom of Information Act request

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+ Android largely unharmed by Google-China row By admin 05 March 2010 at 7:12 am and have No Comments

A mobile phone with Google’s Android operating system that was delayed in China will now ship next week, in the latest sign that Android has gone largely unscathed by a row between Google and the Chinese government .

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+ U.S. judge suspends Apple-Nokia case By admin 04 March 2010 at 2:32 pm and have No Comments

With all the attention focused on Apple suing HTC in the last few days, you might have forgotten that Apple has been embroiled in another legal dispute, instituted by rival mobile phone maker Nokia .

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+ Nokia smartphones get Skype client By admin 03 March 2010 at 10:23 am and have No Comments

Skype and Nokia have released a new Skype client for the Symbian mobile OS.

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+ China Unicom to use Android despite Google-China row By admin 03 March 2010 at 6:47 am and have No Comments

Chinese mobile carrier China Unicom will use Google’s Android operating system on phones, its top executive said Wednesday, showing interest despite a row between Google and the Chinese government .

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+ Cheap Android smartphones coming soon By admin 26 February 2010 at 6:14 am and have No Comments

New low-cost smartphones running Google’s Android software have been launched in Taiwan recently and the good news is they should start showing up just about everywhere soon. A new group of companies, electronics contract manufacturers, are starting to make high-end mobile phones, including smartphones, for mobile network operators around the world, and these are companies adept at slashing prices

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+ Rhomobile upgrades smartphone dev platform By admin 19 February 2010 at 6:57 pm and have No Comments

Rhomobile unveiled this week an upgrade to Rhodes, its open source framework for building native applications for multiple smartphone platforms.

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+ Kindle e-book reader available on U.S. BlackBerries By admin 18 February 2010 at 7:09 am and have No Comments

Amazon.com has released a version of its Kindle application for BlackBerry users, giving them access to their e-books without a Kindle device.

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