Mobile phone software developers are slow to add social network links into address books while Facebook can (and is) running towards the end zone with the social football. While companies like Apple have not included social links into address books – Facebook (in its v3.0 app for iPhone) makes it quite easy to call your [...]
Posted on June 30, 2009, 9:00 am, by sonyanews, under
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Are mobile devices the newspapers of the future? Fluent Mobile Founder and CEO Michael Adler believes so, and his new iPhone app, Fluent News, debuted in the app store today. We asked him a few questions about mobile+media. Why build an app built on news information? Fluent Mobile has developed proprietary algorithms for organizing, aggregating, [...]
The latest and greatest of iPhone rumors ahead of tomorrow’s WWDC: New iPhones, if unveiled, COULD: be “ultra-thin,” include a front-facing camera as TechCrunch suggests, a matte black finish, go on sale at WWDC – which would make tons of people happy, be available in 16GB and 32GB models, include a low-cost 4GB iPhone, the [...]
Headlines today are touting that Opera has passed up iPhone’s built-in browser for mobile web browsers worldwide, based on StatCounter’s report released today. What those posts don’t say is that it all depends on the country. Worldwide Opera is No. 1 with iPhone behind. In the United States and United Kingdom iPhone is No. 1 [...]
Posted on April 13, 2009, 10:27 am, by sonyanews, under
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Trends.
“The handheld computer is the new PC–the most exciting, promising new platform for running software and connecting to cloud-based services. What do I mean by a handheld computer? Well, it could be one of the new generation of super smartphones, like Apple’s iPhone–which pioneered the new generation–or phones powered by Google’s Android operating system, or [...]