The Hulu Plus mobile app is now available for Android tablets, complete with an updated user interface. The software has a visual redesign offering easier navigation on large touchscreen devices. But not every Android tablet owner can use the software; only seven devices are supported. Read More »
Sprint customers holding out hope for new WiMAX smartphones can officially consider such hopes dashed: no additional WiMAX phones will be launched. The carrier’s LTE tests are wrapping up and on track for a mid-year launch; we may see Sprint LTE phones sooner than later. Read More »
Mobile advertising’s best days are likely still off in the future, but that hasn’t stopped investors from snapping up shares of mobile ad firm Millennial Media on its first day as a public company, nearly doubling the company’s value in a few hours. Read More »
Kindle Fire owners wanting to include locations in their tweets can do so with the updated version of TweetCaster. Nearby tweets are available too, even though Amazon’s tablet doesn’t include a GPS radio. Instead the slate uses a Wi-Fi location solution from Boston-based Skyhook Wireless. Read More »
Google is rolling out Android 4.0.4 software upgrades to several devices: the GSM Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S handsets as well as Motorola’s Wi-Fi Xoom tablet will all see the software delivered over the air. Other devices will see it soon but that’s not comforting. Read More »
Apart from a few tired old services like eHow, there aren’t many places you can go to find how-to guides for a range of different things complete with photos and video. Snapguide, which just launched its iPhone app and web service, wants to fill that void. Read More »
FreedomPop is even more ambitious than we had imagined. It’s not just giving away gobs of free data; it plans to create the carrier equivalent of Web startup and in the process turn 4G capacity into a currency that can be earned and traded. Read More »
With a growing number of mobile apps to track excercise, it’s becoming difficult for software to stand out from the crowd. The team behind Endomondo is making the attempt with updates to its app on both Android and Windows Phone, gaining interval workouts and social integration. Read More »
Apparently a 5.3-inch smartphone isn’t too big, and having stylus to go with it doesn’t mean it’s a failure: Samsung announced 5 million sales of its Galaxy Note Wednesday. Even with the included stylus, the oversized phone — or undersized tablet — is the right size … Read More »
“By 2020 the average person will download one gigabyte of personalised data each day, and it will be delivered for less than $1 a day.”
-- Hossein Moiin, CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia is escalating its objections to Apple leading the way on how future SIM cards are designed. In an official statement Wednesday, the Finnish handset maker warned that it would not license any of its own patents necessary to an Apple-designed nano-SIM card. Read More »
Smartphones long ago lost their hoity-toity status as the toys of the technological elite, but in the last few years they have been moving down to the lower-rungs of the mobile market ladder. Smartphones accounted for 29 percent of all prepaid device sales in 2011. Read More »
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