Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

According to AdMob Mobile Metrics, iPhone is responsible for around 50 percent of smartphone web traffic in the US, which is a big leap from Apple's latest numbers, back in August 2008, where the device held 10%. This of course means that other companies went down a bit, like Microsoft that went from ... Full story

Today Apple presented their new version of the iPhone Operating System. Some of the main features were already rumoured but, as usual, there was still a lot to be heard from Steve Jobs. So, in a nutshell, here are the new features: Push Bluetooth will be able to auto-discover ... Full story

Since last wednesday I'm officially an iPhone user and, being used to just use and develop for Windows Mobile devices, I must say this is definitly different! I'm loving the user interface, which is a feature that we've come to expect from Apple but one of the things that most annoys me ... Full story

I recently got a new work phone for development (*cof*fun!*cof*), an Apple iPhone 3G 16GB and naturally I started to get almost every free app I could get my hands on and googling everything I could about this device. Up until now I'm loving things definitely seem to be getting more interesting lately ... Full story

On March 17 Apple will host an event at its corporate campus in Cupertino, Californa, which will debut the new software version of the iPhone 3G with a pretty "sneak peek", along with information about the new SDK (software development kit) that third-party vendors use to create applications for the device. There are ... Full story

Twitter is a simple message-based system which is easy to use, practical, API-friendly, free and most of all: it asks the simplest of questions: What are you doing? - So, why do people hate it so much? I talked to some people about this service and the answers were basically these: I never heard about ... Full story

As I said before, Microsoft is about to launch Windows Marketplace for mobile, as you can see in the mobile-formatted page over at client.marketplace.windowsmobile.com. Unfortunately, marketplace.windowsmobile.com still redirects to the Windows Mobile Catalog. Microsoft was very quiet about it at ... Full story

Apple's App Store just added more 5000 commercial apps to it's collection, meaning it now holds around 25,000 apps, taking the number one place and leaving Microsoft's nine year-old collection crying like a baby. Up until now Windows Mobile hold the record for applications available, building a wide collection over nine years. ... Full story

Apparently the new HTC Magic (running Google's Android) will start shipping this April in the UK, according to Vodafone's website! I live in Portugal and "our" Vodafone website has the Comming Soon section temporarily unavailable, but I doubt we'll see either ... Full story

Mobile Crunch posted a demonstration video on what seems a mobile version of VMware running on a Nokia N800 and I must say: it's looking pretty awesome! Now I don't really know how soon is this technology to market reality or if it's ever going to go public so we can play ... Full story