TechCrunch:
First of all, yes, everyone on Twitter now should have access to the new Retweet functionality. Currently, only Twitter.com and a handful of clients support the new mechanism. But did you know that you can also trigger the new Retweets via SMS?As the Twitter mobile account noted earlier tonight, if you simply send “RT USERN (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yesterday we wrote about the soon to launch Google Phone, a Google branded Android phone that we believe will hit the market in early 2010. Lots of people are saying there’s no way Google will enter the phone market directly and compete with all these handset manufacturers who have bet on Android. Daring Fireball, PC World (Read More)
TechCrunch:
There are a host of directories of iPhone apps on the web as well as applications that make personalized recommendations of apps, such as Chorus, that might catch your fancy. Mplayit enters this space hoping to combine these two ambitions into one, comprehensive Facebook app. Mplayit’s directory of iPhone and mobile apps i (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Imagine a world where you sit at your computer and you never go outside. Where you never see another human being. This is the world that sites like Google and Facebook want you to live in.Though they’d never admit to such a thing, the reasoning should be obvious: The longer you’re at your computer, the more time you’re spen (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Before there was an iPhone, Android and App Store, there was Yahoo! Go. Launched in 2006, Yahoo! Go was an application offered news, mail, weather, traffic, and Yahoo! search from a mobile device. Today, Yahoo is announcing that Yahoo! Go will be shutdown on January 21, 2010. The app seemed to be ahead of it’s time when it (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The problem: users have complained about the autofocus feature on the Droid since day one. As in, it didn’t work (video). Last night I wrote that some users found a fix – clean the lens. It turns out that probably didn’t do a darn thing.But there were even better conspiracy theories out there, such as Engadget’s idea of a s (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Social Networking continues to be the killer app for mobile and Twitter is no exception. Loved by both handset makers and mobile networks alike the microblogging service is seen a potential driver in selling more expensive handsets and those potentially lucrative data plans. It’s therefore not all that surprising to learn t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Since its inception, SMS (text messages) has been a popular way to use Twitter. For a while last year, it looked like that functionality was slowly going extinct as at one point, only the U.S. and India still had it enabled due to carrier fees. But this year, behind Twitter’s Kevin Thau, SMS has come back with a vengeance, (Read More)
Bob Schwartz Online:
Anyone who regularly reads my rants knows that I have been quite critical of the exclusivity deal that Apple signed with AT&T to have the iPhone. While it appears that Ma Bell might actually move into South Dakota some time next year as a result of the Verizon/Alltel merger, there has been no word on them bringing the iPhon (Read More)
Technology Talks:
The Verizon hub is a cool-looking media phone that can send and receive text messages. Not only can the Verizon Hub do that. It can also send and receive photos similar to MMS-enabled mobile phones discussed in this site before this post like HTC Droid Eris. Verizon hub is also a VOIP phone but the [...]. (Read More)
Technology Talks:
HTC Droid Eris was the second android handset by Verizon Wireless for the Droid Series of Smartphones. It was introduced alongside the Motorola DROID mobile phone that was said to compete with iPhone. HTC Droid Eris mobile phone was released in November 6, 2009 in the United States of America through Verizon Wireless. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Remix On Your iPhone Like It’s Your Birthday With 50 Cent’s Sound Lab App: "A plethora of rap and hip-hop artists have jumped at the opportunity to create branded iPhone apps, Including T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, Lil’ Jon, Soulja Boy and P. Diddy. Now 50 Cent is getting an app of his own, in partnership with Vitamin Water. The fre (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I’ve spent the last week throughly enjoying my new Droid, and while I’ve come across some problems, most of my issues have simply been with the fact that Android does things differently than the iPhone — the transition just takes some getting used to. But there’s one big issue that needs far more than a UI tweak: Android M (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Irvine-based mobile phone app developer Rock Software is launching an iPhone app called Mark Cuban’s Puzzle Palace. The app, designed for adults, is $0.99 and lets users turn images into puzzles.Cuban’s image is on the home screen of the app, and users can choose to turn some of his personal pictures into puzzles, or use yo (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Location, location, location. With the growing ubiquity of GPS-equipped phones, there is a virtual land rush going on right now to put geolocation capabilities in every mobile app. Today, Mixer Labs, the folks behind TownMe, introduced the GeoAPI, aimed at developers who want to add geolocation features to their apps in a (Read More)