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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WeTab to launch the first MeeGo tablet
WeTab*, a German tablet computer start-up, is set to launch “the first shipped MeeGo-based tablet in the world” next week, offering the WeTab product initially in its home market, with availability through retailer Media Markt. The company is a partner of Intel, one of the main proponents of the platform, and the planned shipping was…
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25% of searches from Android phones are by voice
A new stat to impress the children has appeared on the Google Mobile Blog, according to Heaven Kim, Product Marketing person for Google Mobile “one in every four searches from an Android phone in the US is by voice.” We’re actually quite stunned by that fact here at Bmob as in the UK we haven’t…
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Mobile Twitter usage up by 250%
The number of people accessing Twitter from their mobile has grown by 250% since the start of this year, according to CEO Evan Williams. The statistic was one just one of many revealed by Williams at a press conference for the new redesigned Twitter that will be rolling out over the next few weeks. Williams…
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Three to get Samsung Galaxy Tab
Three have announced that they will be one of the first networks to get the Samsung Galaxy tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab (GT-P1000) for those of you who have been on planet Mars – or like us Northumberland – for the last two weeks is Samsung’s Android tablet aimed at attacking the growing Apple iPad…
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Google unveil a Chrome to phone add-in
Google’s latest addition to the Android and Chrome browser family is an add-on to the Chrome browser that allows you to quickly and easily send links and other information from your desktop or laptop to your phone to view on the go? The new Chrome to Phone extension adds a button to your Google Chrome…
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Apple take down antennagate vids
Apple’s claims that it’s not just them that has problems with mobile phone antennas has created bad feeling amongst Apples competitors. So, it’s no surprise that Apple have now removed videos of other devices suffering from similar problems from its Antenna site www.apple.com/antenna Sometime over the last few days Apple has removed the videos of…
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BMW puts your iPhone into it’s iDrive system
BMW users no longer need to fiddle with their iPhone will driving – it’s illegal anyway, so DON’T do it – instead they’ll be able to just plug in their iPhone and see the iPhone display on their cars display, and use the car’s own iDrive system to navigate and use the phone. BMW has…
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Opera Mini 5.1 for Android released
Opera has launched it’s successful Opera Mini 5.1 browser on to the Android platform. Opera Mini 5.1 improvements include allowing users to set Opera as the default browser for more convenient Internet access, and improved page layout on high-end Android handsets with large screens. Additionally, Android users get all the other updates from the Opera…
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Google makes Android app creation simple
Google has launched the Android App Inventor, it’s intended as a quick way of producing Android phone apps for non-technical and non-programmers ie 99.9% of the population, and from what we can see it’s really quite easy to use. The app is aimed at schools but there’s no reason why it can’t be used by…
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Backup your iPad
LogMeIn Rescue can now backup your iPad, although, surely if you’re really sensible you should be saving all of your data in the cloud and using the iPads wifi and wireless capabilities. However that’s us getting nitpicky and totally missing the fact that people don’t backup as much as they should, or the actual target…
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Spoof iPhone 4 video
It’s supposedly a TV promo for the iPhone 4 that they banned, but you’d have to be very stupid to believe that. However it is funny, and it is friday.. [ad name=”Google Text half banner advert “]
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Windows developers can now build iPhone apps
One of the main drawbacks for the “truly” mass market development of iPhone apps has been the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) which you need to write an test an iPhone app. The problem with the SDK are; a) it’s only available on a Mac b) it’s an Apple proprietary version of programming language C…
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FT launches iPad app
The Financial Times following on from the Express the BBC – in the US – has launched an iPad app. The FT’s free iPad app – it’s sponsored by very expensive watchmakers Hublot – watch will provide access to video, markets data, investment portfolios, news and analysis. The new app integrates with the FT.com limited…
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Video is the future for mobile
OK we lied a little with the headline, video isn’t the future of mobile not unless we all became very rich and the telecomms providers discovered that they could support 20 million people streaming the latest Lady Gaga video at once putting the entire network into meltdown, instead this is a video about the future…
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Twitter still growing fast
Twitter released a mountain of statistics at Chirp chirp.twitter.com, the company’s developer conference, about its business. According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, over the past three years: Twitter has grown to a massive 105.7 million registered users (and it’s increasing by 300,000 each day, with 50% from outside of the US), with 180 million visitors…
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iPhone gamers spend a packet
DFC Intelligence has released the results of a survey of how much money iPhone and iPod touch owners spending on games, and how often, and not surprisingly – games being one of the most popular categories on the app store – it’s a fairly hefty amount. The survey “Consumer Trends in Virtual Goods and Downloadable…
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Windows Phone 7 Series videos
Curious about what Windows Phone 7 will look like? No we weren’t either, but someone must be, as Microsoft have finally this week released a Windows Phone 7 Series promotional video, and to be honest it’s actually managed to get us interested. In the video Microsoft gives a quick guide to their new operating system…