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June 2009 |
If you have an iPhone, you are familiar with the iPhone App Store and probably use it quite extensively. Same thing if you use Google’s Android OS.
If you own a Nokia phone like the n97, you are familiar with the Ovi Store that with a little more polish is going to be great.
If you own a Palm Pre, you probably heard yesterday’s news and are getting excited about the possibilities for applications this summer.
And if you own a device powered by Windows Mobile, you have probably been shaking your hea... |
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June 2009 |
The newest version of Sony's PlayStation Portable isn't even on sale yet, but the company is already looking ahead to what's next, according to Reuters.
The electronics giant is looking into making a combination gadget that would meld its PSP gaming system with the cell phones made by Sony Ericsson, its joint venture Swedish electronics maker Ericsson, according to Reuters, which cited the Nikkei business daily.
Sony reportedly plans to put together a team as early as July to begin development of the ... |
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June 2009 |
Google has opened up Google Voice to users who have registered on its website. Previously the service was only available to former users of Grand Central, the company acquired by Google in 2007 and on whose service Google Voice is based.
There is however no news as to when Google Voice will be available outside the US.
The company announced the availability of Google Voice on its press blog, "We are happy to share that Google Voice is beginning to open up beyond former GrandCentral users." Users will ... |
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June 2009 |
Apple's new iPhone 3Gs is having a big impact on YouTube. Since it was made available on Friday, uploads from mobile phones to YouTube have surged 400% per day, YouTube said on Thursday.
On Monday, Apple said that it had sold over 1 million iPhone 3GS devices through Sunday, June 21. The iPhone 3GS features the ability to record, edit, and share videos, unlike previous iPhone models.
The iPhone-driven deluge comes amid a 1700% increase in mobile phone video uploads to YouTube over the past six months.... |
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June 2009 |
There will be no retrial for The Pirate Bay, the Appeal Court decided today. According to the Court the judge was not biased based on the requirements of the European Convention, a decision that can’t be appealed.
However, Pirate Bay’s spokesman Peter Sunde says that they will not give up that easily. On his blog he writes, “When people think you’re down and out, that you’ve lost and have no way to win… that’s the perfect time to hit them harder than ever before.”
On Twitter Peter announces that their... |
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June 2009 |
With the current economic climate, more and more Americans are tightening their belts and doing away with luxury items. Dry cleaning, a morning latte, a plethora of TV channels - things once part of Americans' daily lives are being cut back in this time of economic hardship. However, in a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, Internet and American Life Project, home broadband adoption has reached an all time high, and high-speed Internet is no longer considered just a luxury by most Americans - it is a ... |
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June 2009 |
The 1GHz smartphone has arrived. A Japanese telecommunications carrier is the first to launch a device based on Qualcomm's much-anticipated Snapdragon processor.
Docomo is now offering the T-01A in Japan, while Microsoft is pitching the phone on its Japanese Web site.
This would mark the first commercially available product using the Snapdragon chip, a Qualcomm spokeswoman confirmed Monday. The chip's claim to fame is that it's an ARM design running at 1GHz. Typical ARM architecture chips used in mobi... |
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June 2009 |
Google last month reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it may finally be ready to roll out its long-anticipated Google Voice service.
The free service, announced in March, lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a single number through Google Voice that rings a call through to all their phones.
Sources could not say when the 1 million numbers may be assigned. Level 3 has been supplying Google with phone numbers since the introduction of Google Voice, so the... |
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June 2009 |
In a post Wednesday on Intel's Web site, spokesman Bill Calder wrote that "Centrino" will be phased out as a PC brand, and "will be used as a name for Wi-Fi and WiMax products" and "still be in market on mobile PCs into next year".
It will eventually be discontinued, Calder wrote.
Further, Core chip branding will be "simplified into entry-level (Intel Core i3), mid-level (Intel Core i5), and high-level (Intel Core i7)".
Calder wrote:
"It is important to note that these are not brands but modi... |
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June 2009 |
The Pirate Bay has opened beta testing on its encrypted virtual private network which it reckons will stop copyright hassles for anyone wishing to share files.
The only issue for the freetards is the price - €5 a month. The VPN is being used by 3,000 testers right now and there are another 180,000 in the queue. Pirate Bay hopes they'll be online within a month after which the service will "open for the world...".
The pesky pirates have named the service IPREDator after Sweden's copyright law IPRED (In... |
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June 2009 |
Facebook launched its own IM system, FbChat, back in April 2008. Since then, it’s been working hard on adding features: It arrived on mobile phones last year, added friend lists in May and even has been experimenting with video chat. Now, it looks like that work is paying off in a big way.
Today, Facebook’s engineering team revealed that Facebook’s instant messaging (IM) system has grown like wildfire. Users now send 1 billion messages every single day. That impressive number becomes even more astounding... |
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June 2009 |
Virgin and Universal have signed a deal that will give the ISP's customers access to "unlimited" music.
For a monthly fee, Virgin's broadband customers will be able to download or stream as many MP3 files as they want.
As part of the deal, Virgin has pledged to aggressively police usage to stop the MP3 tracks turning up on file-sharing networks.
Virgin said it was in talks to add other music firms' back catalogues to the service.
Gradual response
The service is due to be launched befor... |
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June 2009 |
Microsoft on Thursday said regulatory wrangling has prompted it to strip Internet Explorer Web browsers from copies of its Windows 7 operating system to be sold in Europe.
The US software giant said it still plans to release its next-generation operating system worldwide on October 22, but that customers in Europe will have to install Web browsers of their choice.
"We're committed to making Windows 7 available in Europe at the same time that it launches in the rest of the world, but we also must compl... |
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June 2009 |
Google continues to fine-tune its mobile Gmail, and the search giant added a few ways for iPhone and Android users to get through their e-mails quickly.
The first addition is faster address auto-completion, which means typing the first few letters of a contact's name or e-mail address will lead to a pop-up of possible contacts. The process is expected to be similar to the desktop version, and it works by reusing previously fetched matches in subsequent searches.
T-Mobile G-1 features Android OS, an in... |
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June 2009 |
Last month, the French Parliament implemented the new ‘Hadopi’ law. Under the new legislation ISPs have to send warnings to alleged copyright infringers, who would eventually lose their Internet access upon receiving their third warning. In addition, the new law would make it possible to order ISPs to block sites such as The Pirate Bay.
The law goes directly against a decision from the European Parliament, which concluded that disconnecting alleged copyright infringers would violate the fundamental right... |
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