Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Graffiti for Android rolls back the years

Remember the Palm OS that saw people pick up a new style of writing? Yeah, since Palm devices had touchscreens that recognized the Graffiti writing style, many people actually learned to scribble furiously on their little portable devices, sometimes porting over the same kind of scribbling style to...
December 23rd, 2010 | Software | Read More

Android trademark lawsuit tossed out, Google in the clear

This is just sad, in a happy way. Last week, a judge threw out Erich Specht’s attempt to extort $94 million from Google, Android Inc, and Open Handset Alliance. Apparently, the court wasn’t swayed by the website that Specht threw up in order to prove he was still using the mark after his...
December 22nd, 2010 | Software | Read More

Samsung Bada 2.0 to get multitasking, push notifications, a new UI and more

Samsung took some time at a developer day event in South Korea to note that it will have sold 5 million Bada-powered Wave phones when 2010 comes to an end. It also projects sales of more than 10 million Wave devices in the first half of 2011 alone. Most of the attention at the event, however, was focused...
December 21st, 2010 | Software | Read More

Froyo update for Bell’s Vibrant pulled after reports of fried storage

Bell subscribers out there who are rocking the Galaxy S might want to take note. Word is out that the carrier has pulled the phone’s Android 2.2 Froyo update after many users who attempted the upgrade via Samsung’s Kies desktop software ended up with inaccessible internal storage, which definitely...
December 20th, 2010 | Software | Read More

Dell Venue Pro receives FCC certification, preps itself for AT&T rollout

There is a new Dell Venue Pro variant that has gone through the gates of the FCC, where it will tout WCDMA Band II and V support. Just what does that mean to the man on the street? Well, those bands would result in this Venue Pro variant playing nice on the 3G networks of AT&T in the US, as well...
December 17th, 2010 | Software | Read More

Motorola Trademarks The Stadia For Future Phone?

Motorola has filed two trademark applications with the USPTO  and one of the applications seems to give some hints on the Stadia, which seems to be a handheld gaming device that could involve an external monitor. The device is described as a non-medical device for measuring, storing and synchronizing...
December 16th, 2010 | Software | Read More

Pantech’s Verizon LTE Modem Configured For Mac

The fact that you can already purchase the Pantech UML290 and the LG VL600 LTE modems from Verizon is great, though the bad news is that neither officially work on a Mac with Verizon stating that OS X compatibility is on the way. Of course, patience isn’t always a strong point in the tech community...
December 14th, 2010 | Software | Read More

Android dominates Verizon smartphone sales; BlackBerry tanks

Investment research firm ITG has been investigating the sales figures from Verizon Wireless and it has come up with a pretty interesting find: the vast majority of smartphones sold by Verizon Wireless are Android handsets. That fact, while pertinent, is not all that shocking. What is shocking is this:...
December 13th, 2010 | Software | Read More

60beat iPhone heart rate monitor

Name us something that the iPhone cannot do in the comments, and weigh against what it can do, before coming to your own conclusion on whether to purchase it or not. For sure it cannot stop global warming, but at least we now know it can also monitor your heart rate courtesy of the 60beat iPhone heart...
December 10th, 2010 | Software | Read More

More Than 300K Android Phones Activated Daily

Apple’s iOS might be flying high and mighty at the moment, but Google’s Android OS is no slouch either. Andy Rubin has just posted a tweet  to remind us that there are about 300,000 daily activations of Android-powered phones, and we can assure you that 300,000 Android phones is a lot. At...
December 9th, 2010 | Software | Read More