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Sprint: we’ve removed Carrier IQ from phones

James Hyde — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:48:20 +0000

Carrier IQ has been in the hot seat over the past few weeks for tracking all sorts of user data on as many as 100 million smartphones. Now the first carrier has removed the software from its phones, as Sprint announced that they’ve disable Carrier IQ on all of their phones. Sprint said that it [...]

Carrier IQ says its software isn’t a threat to privacy

Paul Briggs — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:41:35 +0000

It’s been a rough week for Carrier IQ, makers of software that tracks almost all activity on user’s smartphones. The Carrier IQ software is present on a vast majority of Android handsets, and iPhones as well. In fact, the company boasts that over 140 million smartphones have Carrier IQ installed. Last week it was revealed [...]

Sony adds WebGL support to 2011 Xpertia phones

Paul Briggs — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:37:58 +0000

There are many new web technologies blossoming, one of those is HTML 5 and another is WebGL, which is a graphics API that extends JavaScript to allow advanced 3D graphics in a regular web browser. Mot modern browsers like Chrome and Firefox support WebGL, despite it being a somewhat new technology. Now Sony has embraced [...]

Nokia confirms: no Drive on Windows Phone Marketplace

Paul Briggs — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:18:00 +0000

Earlier this month we reported that Nikia’s Drive application, the native navigation app that’s available on Nokia Lumina smartphones, was cracked to work on any other Windows Phone 7 device, and there were some rumors that Nokia would bring the app to other Windows Phones as well. However, now Nokia has confirmed to Engadaget that [...]

Google announces new Google Music app, becomes iTunes competitor

Paul Briggs — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:29:27 +0000

Google teased us with a new event they were going to hold today, the event has passed and the news is out: Google has announced Google Music as a fully fledged service now, dropping the “beta” tag, adding a bunch of features which essentially makes it an iTunes and iCloud competitor. Which had to come [...]

Adobe sends mobile Flash to the locker room

Edwin Kee — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:35:33 +0000

Steve Jobs has the last laugh as Adobe is reportedly readying themselves to announce that their work on mobile versions of Flash has reached the end stage – which means this popular plug-in for video and audio web content on mobile devices will soon be canned. Originally reported by ZDNet, you can read what Adobe [...]

Nuance decides to pick up Swype for $100 million

Edwin Kee — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:35:03 +0000

Here is a quick question to those out there who are rocking to smartphones that rely on nothing but a touchscreen display for input – how do you find it so far? Do you wish you had a physical QWERTY keyboard to play around with? I can answer that question easily, even in the face [...]

Tizen the next mobile operating system

Edwin Kee — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:13:31 +0000

The mobile operating system scene can be quite a competitive one – just see how Nokia’s so-called MeeGo died a quick death, appearing only on one Nokia device to date – the recently shipping Nokia N9. This Linux-based operating system was a joint venture between Nokia and Intel, and when the former decided to pack [...]

RIM releases new beta version of BBM Music

Paul Briggs — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:51:43 +0000

RIM – Research In Motion – has come up with a new version of their music streaming service also known as BBM Music, which is now set at version 1.0.0.93 and available for download at the BlackBerry Beta Zone. The new version of BBM music brings a couple of new features, including: - stop button [...]

Facebook application for Android smartphones updated to version 1.7

Paul Briggs — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:01:17 +0000

The latest Facebook app for the iPhone was released one week ago, and today there is another new app version of the most popular social network for the smartphones using the Android OS, it’s Fracebook 1.7. One of the most notable changes is the support of Honeycomb version of Android, which means that users will [...]