Articles Posted on 02 May 2010
Google Buys 3D Desktop UI Designer Bumptop
News Hardware
Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held bridge financing & venture debt fund, has announced that Google has acquired Bumptop, a Canadian-based 3D desktop user interface designer. Although the exact terms and conditions of...
Sony Ericsson To Integrate Spotify With Xperia X10 Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Sony Ericsson has managed to integrate popular online streaming music service Spotify with the Timescape and Mediascape, both content management systems that are unique to SE's Xperia X10 Android-based smartphone. Rikard Skogberg...
Samsung Partners With O2 On "Iron Man" Monte Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Korean phone giant Samsung has teamed up with O2 to launch a special edition of its Monte smartphone that will feature exclusive content to coincide with the release of Marvel's Iron Man 2. The phone will come with a microSD card...
Three UK Data Tariffs For The Joojoo 3G Tablet
News Mobile & Telco
So, we're already aware that Fusion Garage will be releasing a 3G version of its controversial Joojoo 3G tablet PC within the next few months and it will be apparently subsidised by mobile phone operators. We went ahead...
Vodafone To Sell Blackberry Pearl 3G Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Vodafone has confirmed that it will be selling the new Blackberry Pearl 3G smartphone from RIM on pay monthly tariffs only, fairly soon although it failed to give an exact date other than "coming soon". Those interested can...
Adobe To Offer Flash-Enabled Android Smartphones To Staff For Free
News Mobile & Telco
Adobe has chosen its side it seems as it announced that it will be giving free Android-based mobile phones, in collaboration to Google to its employees so that they can be guinea pigs for the next iteration of Flash for Android,...
UK Sales Of Android Smarpthones Rise Fourfold In One Month
News Mobile & Telco
Sales of Android-based smartphones have risen dramatically over the last few weeks alone according to data released by research company GfK Retail and Technology. A snapshot of sales ranging from the last two weeks of March and...
Google Adds Virtual Keyboard To Search
News Hardware
Search titan Google has added a virtual onscreen keyboard to its service, one that will prove to be particularly useful for those trying to enter foreign characters using a traditional QWERTY keyboard. Manish Bhargava, Product...
Fusion Garage To Launch 3G Joojoo Tablet PC Within Months
News Mobile & Telco
Hardware Startup Fusion Garage has announced plans for a 3G version of the Joojoo tablet, one of the most anticipated and most talked-about rivals to the Apple iPad, one which should be launched by July 2010. Speaking to the...
Google adds virtual keyboard to search page
News Web
Google has added virtual keyboards to its search pages to help those stuck without access to their own language. The company said people who want to write searches in their own language have trouble when confronted with an alien...
Microsoft IE 9 to use H.264 video codec
News Web
Microsoft's Internet Explorer will only support HTML5 video using the H.264 codec, the firm announced in on a bog. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer said HTML5 video is the future of the web, before...
£350 Motorola MILESTONE Quadband 3G HSDPA GPS mobile phone
News Hardware
Zip through the internet with 3G speed, a Flash 10 ready HTML browser and super fast processor. View it all on a huge display with touch gestures, double tap, pinch and zoom and see it all. The newest Google features let you use...
£94 Belkin F7D4402uk Play Wireless NN+ ADSL Modem Router
News Hardware
The Belkin Wireless Play Modem Router comes pre-wired, removing much of the confusion of a normal installation process and you don't need to plug them into your computer in order to set them up. The Belkin Wireless Play Modem...
