Enterprises of every size are moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Maintaining operational awareness is difficult enough within a single cloud…
Read MoreIf you're like me you may not listen to local radio much anymore, with all the online music options available. Sometimes listening to a favorite local radio station is just the ticket, especially when traveling and feeling a bit homesick. TuneIn Radio is a free app.…
Read MoreTaiwanese smartphone maker HTC has informed its suppliers at a conference this week that it expects to ship 60 million handsets in 2011. That is a phenomenal jump over the respectable 20 million handsets it will ship this year, due to the explosion of Android.…
Read MoreThe folks at Google must never rest, as the update just released for Gmail for Android demonstrates. The new Gmail is available for Android 2.2 and above and adds some nice features, including support for Priority Inbox and improvements in composing new mail.…
Read MoreIntel CEO Paul Otellini realizes the company is late to the mobile party, and is counting on the tablet and smartphone segments to help it catch up. Those two mobile segments are dominated by competitors, so it's not clear how successful Intel will be.…
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Tab is a nice small tablet, and I often get asked if there is a dock/ stand for using the device at the desk. This video shows a simple stand that is commonly available for around $5 that serves the purpose nicely.…
Read MoreGoogle announced a program for Chrome OS yesterday, and it's clear they mean business as the company has taken delivery of 60,000 of the notebooks. The Cr-48 Chrome notebook that Google demonstrated will be sent to chosen applicants to test Chrome OS on the unbranded notebook.…
Read MoreThe Google announcement today put the upcoming Chrome OS in the spotlight as an OS based on the Chrome web browser, aimed at replacing legacy desktop systems. Systems with Chrome OS won't hit the market until mid-2011, but web operating system Jolicloud is available now.…
Read MoreRIM knows it faces stiff competition in the tablet space when it releases its PlayBook, and since apps will be key, the company has started accepting them for App World for consideration. Developers submitting an app that gets accepted to App World get a free PlayBook.…
Read MoreA new service aims to make holiday gift cards easier to give and use through the mobile phone. SWAGG handles gift cards for hundreds of merchants, and makes purchasing in the store as simple as flashing the iPhone or Android phone at checkout…
Read MoreAndroid 2.3 (Gingerbread) may be coming with new capabilities, but Froyo (Android 2.2) already has a feature that's under-utilized by most users. Google has included sophisticated voice input technology in Froyo that can turn handling an Android phone into a largely hands-free experience…
Read MoreGoogle opened its e-book store today and released a reader app for Android today. Google Books is a no-frills app as is common with Google's first efforts, but it handles the basic tasks well. A cool feature lets you read books from the original scanned page.…
Read MoreNews ranged this week from impressive sales of the first Android tablet to an app for reading e-books. Samsung reported a million Galaxy Tabs have been sold, and upped its forecast for sales this year. Sony announced an Android app for handling Sony Reader e-book content.…
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