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Google now shipping 60,000 Android handsets per day
We’re in Barcelona keeping an eye on Eric Schmidt’s Mobile World Congress keynote, where the Google CEO just disclosed an interesting fact: Google is now shipping 60,000 Android handsets per day . If that’s a true average rate and it holds true for the next year, that works out to about 5.4 million handsets per quarter, or 21.9 million ...
Question: Why Does The iPhone Still Have The Best Touchscreen In The Industry?
I don’t have an iPhone. And I’m happy with my other devices. But while I laugh at AT&T issues, mock iPhone users for lacking features I have on Android, and so on, there has always been one thing I’ve been desperately jealous of: the touchscreen. Now, I’ve had my share of touchscreens of all sizes and shapes. I’ve demoed ...
Mobile companies band together and rise against Apple
When one thinks of mobile apps, it’s tough to think of anything other than the ones for the iPhone. There’s an app for that rings through our heads as TV commercials and websites reveal to us that the iPhone is the platform of choice when businesses want to develop mobile apps. Apple now has a little over 175,000 apps ...
SlingPlayer Mobile Video App Goes 3G on iPhone Today
Sling Media — a company that makes hardware and software to stream recorded or live video from your cable, satellite or DVR receiver to devices like your laptop or cell phone — today launched a new version of its SlingPlayer Mobile app [iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch. The app can now stream video over AT&T’s 3G network; ...
Dazzboard Secures $1.5 Million For A Web-based iTunes
Last year we wrote about dazzboard , the public beta of a browser-based media manager that claims to have all the features of iTunes without locking you down to Apple’s warm but sometimes stiflingly closed world. The product from Finnish startup Linkotec has now received $1.5 million in seed funding to boost growth and expand globally. The investment round ...
SlingPlayer Mobile v1.2 enables 3G streaming on the iPhone, now ready for download
We knew this was coming , and sure enough, Sling hasn't kept us waiting for long. Our beloved readers have inundated our tip jar with the news that the 3G-enabled flavor of SlingPlayer Mobile is now live on the App Store, and from what we're hearing works very well. The placeshifting app will set you back just under $30, ...
AIR For Android, And Adobe’s Plan To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices
The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform ( which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both the mobile Web ...
Kensington Ultra Compact Notebook Power Adapter lives up to its name
Short Version: A tiny-but-mighty universal adapter that can power most full-sized laptops. Review: The incredible shrinking notebook adapter is a welcome trend. For a while there, portable computers kept getting thinner and lighter while still shipping with massive power bricks. ...
App Store Now Has 150,000 Apps. Great News For The iPad: Paid Books Rule.
During Apple’s iPad event in January, CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple now had over 140,000 apps in the App Store (along with over 3 billion downloads). If the numbers by app analytics company Distimo are correct, that number is now past 150,000. But the App Store is growing so big, so quickly that these milestones alone are hardly ...
Redpark announces serial and RJ-11 cables for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad
It's not like we spend much time with serial cables and RJ-11 jacks these days, but we do appreciate that they have their uses, especially among industrial customers and hobbyists -- so it's no surprise that the enterprising folks at Redpark have cooked up adapters for the iPhone / iPod touch (and, presumably, the iPad). Approved by Apple as ...
