Wednesday - July 1, 2009
Here's one of the many questions facing device makers targeting the mini notebook and netbook markets: When business users or consumers want to access the Web on the go, will they be willing to set aside a smartphone or cellphone and instead log on using a next-generation PDA? Dell may be wagering the answer is yes. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday the company is developing an Android-based, non-phone device that will run on the ARM architecture instead of an Intel Atom mobile chip.
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Thursday - June 25, 2009
Well, the proverbial ink hadn't even dried on our recent column about smartbooks and ARM when Nvidia came around and doused the excitement with a bucket of ice water. The prospect of Linux in general or Android in particular running on an ARM smartbook has had many in the blogosphere salivating, but Nvidia's Mike Rayfield recently said his company prefers Microsoft's Windows CE over Android.
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Wednesday - June 24, 2009
Taiwan-based HTC, a fast-rising star in the smartphone manufacturing industry, has unveiled its latest model, the Hero, its third offering based on the Android operating system. The Hero comes with a new user interface called "Sense" that makes use the device almost intuitive.
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Wednesday - June 24, 2009
T-Mobile's Tuesday announcement that it will offer a new Android smartphone in August has raised interest in the possibility of greater competition for enterprise adoption. The new Android-powered smartphone, the myTouch 3G, will come loaded with features -- but they are not likely enough to meet the enterprise expectations for security and task integration set by BlackBerry smartphones.
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Wednesday - June 24, 2009
Are concerns about Steve Jobs are impacting Apple's share prices? Apple's share prices have been slipping since it was learned over the weekend that the company's CEO may have had a liver transplant. Trading in Apple shares was volatile on Tuesday, with prices changing by the minute.
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Tuesday - June 23, 2009
With the news that its omnipresent-on-the-desktop Flash player will be available in more mobile forms before the end of the year, Adobe is finally following through on its goal of joining the smartphone party -- but the two biggest names in that market are still missing from the invitation list.
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Monday - June 22, 2009
T-Mobile USA's follow-up to the first "Google phone" will go on sale in early August, the carrier said Monday. The "T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google" will be a touchscreen phone and will lack the physical keyboard of the T-Mobile G1, the first phone that used Google's Android software.
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Wednesday - June 3, 2009
As the most dynamic and commercial industry on Earth -- which has grown its annual revenues from zero to US$1 trillion in less than 25 years and today manages 4 billion consumer relationships -- mobile has propelled itself forward with a highly discriminating attitude toward openness within device technology.
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Monday - June 1, 2009
Bringing enterprise applications effectively out to mobile devices is a complex subject that has required some harsh trade-offs from developers in the past -- trade-offs between rich, native applications targeted at specific devices versus standardized mobile application approaches that have simply failed to impress users.
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Thursday - May 28, 2009
Stockholm-based Spotify is still trying to navigate a maze of licensing obstacles before it can launch a U.S. version of its much-hyped desktop streaming music application. Yet its developers showed how they've been keeping busy Wednesday with an Android smartphone app demonstration during the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
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