Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:12:23 +0000

Apple’s released it’s 4th version of their mobile Operating System and the Internet is going crazy, tweets are racking up faster than ever as everybody hurries to be the first to download and start testing it out. iOS4 was released to the general public today, with over 100 new features! iTunes 9.2, released last week, [...]

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:30:18 +0000

Aol. is giving up on Bebo only two years after paying $850 million for the social-networking start-up. Bebo also sent out a staff memo which said, “Bebo, unfortunately, is a business that has been declining and, as a result, would require significant investment in order to compete in the competitive social networking space …“ Social [...]

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:12:28 +0000

Apple today announced that its iTunes Store has reached the significant milestone of 10 billion songs downloaded, as noted yesterday. The company also revealed that the winner of its “Countdown to 10 Billion Songs” contest is Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia, who purchased “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash to push Apple to the milestone. [...]

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:59:06 +0000

At the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Verizon Wireless and Skype today announced a strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March. The new Skype mobile product enhances Verizon Wireless’ smartphones for users who have data plans by offering a new way to call around the globe, while also giving [...]

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:07:38 +0000

WARNING – THIS VIDEO IS OF A GRAPHIC NATURE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. [Video from ABC News] Note: This is far, in fact from another realm from what I normally post, but I felt the need to put this out there. Since WordPress won’t allow me to directly embed videos, you have to click this [...]

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:53:41 +0000

On Sunday, February 14, Valentine’s Day, Samsung Electronics Co., the largest maker of cell phones for the U.S. market, revealed the first phone running Samsung’s own OS, bada. With bada, which means “ocean or sea” in Korean and is meant to represent the “limitless variety” of the platform, Samsung is taking the TouchWiz system used on its touch-screen non-smart [...]

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:16:29 +0000

Facebook revealed on Wednesday that more than 100m people use the social network on their mobile phones every month. That’s around a quarter of their total membership. As seems to be the norm for Facebook at the moment, even with such big numbers, the growth rate is huge – in September it had 65m mobile [...]

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:52:58 +0000

Music identification software ‘Shazam‘ is indispensable. When users hear a song they don’t know playing in a commercial, over the radio, or on the PA at a club, and they want to know what the song is, all they have to do is fire up Shazam on their smartphone, let the app “hear” the song, [...]

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:38:06 +0000

It’s safe to say that some of the content hosted on YouTube is questionable. Either because the YouTube filter police haven’t found it yet, or there’s just content that you wouldn’t want you kids or brothers and sisters to see there. Google has reacted to such content being available by introducing ‘Safety Mode‘. Basically, Safety [...]

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:03:36 +0000

Great news for you Opera fans! Opera Mini will be making its way into iPhones and iPod Touches very soon. Apple has been very conservative when it comes to encouraging competition for its Safari browser. But finally, Opera has managed to port its mini browser onto the [very!] popular iPhone platform. At the upcoming Mobile [...]