Mozilla, home of the alternative open-source browser Firefox and e-mail software Thunderbird has released a spec for a potential new mobile operating system, named Seabird. Seabird is a concept developed for Mozilla’s Concept Series, an open forum for sharing your ideas, expertise & vision for the future of the Web, the Mozilla project and Firefox.…
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An early Christmas present for iPhone users, a keyboard
Online gadget site ThinkGeek has created its own add-on keyboard for the iPhone. The TK-421 fits around the iPhone like a case and then swivels open to reveal a full QWERTY pad. ThinkGeek has developed the TK-421 (its a Star Wars reference. They are nerds) for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, unfortunately the iPhone 3…
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Nearly one in 10 Americans own an e-reader
Eight percent of Americans use an e-reader, according to new data from Harris Interactive (http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/HI-Harris-Poll-eReaders-2010-09-22.pdf). On top of that, the research firm’s survey found that 12% of respondents who do not currently own an e-reader are likely to purchase one within the next six months. The survey also found that 53% of people with e-readers…
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Zuckerberg: Facebook’s mobile strategy is breadth not depth. Got that?
Co-founder of social network with more than 500 million users speaks about mobile phone plans
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Michael Dell whips out his seven-incher
Dell CEO Michael Dell has previewed a second Android tablet to complement its five-inch Streak device. Michael Dell was delivering the Wednesday Keynote “Innovation in the Enterprise” at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, when he started to describe the Dell Streak he then said “Of course, it’s nice to have a larger screen,”…
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iPad owners browse the web, read email and read the papers
Contrary to popular opinion the main use for the iPad is not as an expensive drinks tray, or as an upmarket etch-a-sketch for over paid executives but it’s as an electronic version of the daily paper, and owners of the iPads are more likely to be male and in your late twenties or early thirties,…
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INQ building a phone for Facebook?
Politicians have a great way of lying, it’s where they interpret a question absolutely truthfully, but if you’d asked them a slightly differently phrased question they would have have to have fessed up. Eg Did you sleep with a call girl? No because technically although we were in bed together all night neither of us…
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To Generation Y digital and mobile is the norm
A survey of US technology users and their attitudes to technology has revealed that smartphones and phones are increasingly playing a larger part in their daily lives – no matter what their age. The Forrester study “The State Of Consumers And Technology Benchmark 2010” report is a graphical analysis of Forrester’s North American Consumer Technographics…
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New fast Android typing app SwiftKey launches today
Get ready to start typing at lightning speed. SwiftKey by business startup TouchType has been in beta for the last three months and as of today – 23 September – it’s gone live on the android market – download here. By using special Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques SwiftKey claims to be able to predict your…
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Dropbox updates iOS and Android apps and launches on BlackBerry
You’re on the road, a customer calls and he wants the latest version of a file, trouble is it’s on your laptop at home. What do you do? Well if you’ve got an iPad/iPhone or an Android phone you go and download Dropbox, and then you sit back calm in the knowledge that you now…
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Samsung’s app store achieves 10M downloads in Europe
Samsung is claiming its application store has passed the 10 million download mark in Europe, and it seems to be doing it off the back of games apps. The top three most popular Samsung Apps downloaded in Europe are Need for Speed Shift, Magic Torch and My Mirror. Need for Speed Shift is a car…
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Consumers want to respond to ads by mobile phone
Research from Lightspeed Research for the Mobile Marketing Association show’s that European consumers (UK, Germany and France) want a mobile choice when they click on an online ad, or respond to an ad in offline media. A quarter of consumers in Europe would be more likely to respond to an ad – including print, television,…
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All UK operators to support Windows Phone 7
Microsoft has announced that the big five mobile operators and two retailers will offer Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphones when the new OS launches later this year, possibly October but nobody is willing to say exactly when. The list of operators includes Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3, along with retailers Carphone Warehouse and Phones4u.…
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China is the new app market
App developers should start leaning Chinese if a new study from Canalys is right. The Canalys Mobile Application Analysis services suite study shows that 51% of Chinese end users downloaded applications or games on their mobile phones – 29% more than their Western European counterparts. A similar Canalys survey carried out in France, Germany and…
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Ovi upgrades the app wizard
Nokia has just updated the Ovi app wizard, and all of the apps created with the app Wizard have just had a makeover. Publishers using the Ovi app Wizard have received an email this morning with news of a new update to the Ovi app wizard and an update to all of the apps created…
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Apple commences phase 2 of the World Domination plan
Look at the graphic to your right. Blink once, blink twice. Yes it really is still there. Apple “are” selling the iPhone in easy instalments, and it’s not going to make the mobile operators happy, it’s just going to make Apple richer, and it’s going to make the iPhone – the iPad can’t be too…
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A phone made for three sims?
Worldwide executive travellers like our good selves are always on the hunt for new and exciting technology that makes our life simple, and a dual-SIM phone is one of those must-have devices. But we’re now faced with a dilemma, is two enough? Should we be looking for a three SIM phone instead? Luckily, the clever…
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Facebook is the king of apps
Nielsen has launched the first update to its Nielsen App Playbook study, and to celebrate they’re sharing some of the data for free. The most recent version of the study has just been released and it is based on an August 2010 survey of more than 4,000 US mobile subscribers who had reported downloading a…
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Telegraph launches an iPad app
In our post earlier this morning we gave full marks to the FT for getting a sponsor for their initial iPad app, and now it’s the turn of the Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. The Telegraph for iPad application launched yesterday and is described as free for “a limited period” – they don’t say when…
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FT iPad app hits 400,000 downloads
Those who think the iPad and apps in general are just vanity products would have done well to listen to the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. The iPad is far from a vanity product, it’s also a key way of making revenue. The FT’s Editor Lionel Barber speaking on the Today programme said…