China renews Google's Internet Content Provider license
A little over a week ago, Google announced that it would stop redirecting Chinese web queries to its uncensored Hong Kong site (a practice that …
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Gmail adds rich text signatures
Last evening, Google announced that it was adding a oft-requested feature to its popular Gmail web-based email client: rich text signatures. As Google explains: “The …
Carrypad: Meego "demolishes" Android 2.2 in JavaScript test
Employing a play-on-words from Wednesday’s Ars Technica article — titled “Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks” — blog Carrypad has put MeeGo through the same Sunpsider …
Motorola CHARM specifications
Wednesday, T-Mobile and Motorola officially announced an Android 2.1 handset named the CHARM. While the press release was nice, it did lack a certain level of detail …
AppBrain Fast Web Installer, push Android applications from the web to your phone
One of the killer features demoed at Google I/O, on Android 2.2, was the OS’ ability to install pushed applications right from Google’s Market website. …
comScore: Android gains 4 points in U.S. smartphone market share, Samsung top overall OEM
Today, analytics company comScore released their report on the “leading mobile original equipment manufacturers and smartphone operating system platforms in the U.S. according to their …
Apple iPhone developer boasts: $1,400 in revenue from iAds in one day
iPhone developer Jason Ting has a hot app. He is the first to market with an application that will activate the iPhone 4’s built in …
Throwback Thursday: The Oregon Trail
Ah yes, The Oregon Trail. Remember how pissed you used to get when your bloody oxen would drown after you decided to ford the river? …
Samsung Captivate to launch on AT&T July 18th, $199
AT&T has just announced that the Samsung Captivate — Ma’ Bell’s version of the Galaxy S — will be available for purchase on July the 18th (T-minus …
The Pirate Bay hacked, 4 million user names, email adresses, and IPs accessed
Argentinian researcher Ch Russo and his gang of merry men have successfully hacked The Pirate Bay. Speaking with security blog Krebs On Security, Russo proved to have …
Ubuntu shoehorned on to Nexus One
If you really love Linux, and are a Nexus One owner, nexusonehacks.net has a tutorial for you. The site’s founder has managed to get Ubuntu …
T-Mobile U.K. iPhone 4 pricing gets pictured
Pocket-lint was sent an image that appears to detail exactly what T-Mobile U.K. customers will have to pay for a shiny new iPhone 4. T-Mo …
Daring Fireball: Microsoft sold 503 KINs
John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a “well-placed” source who informed him that Microsoft sold a mere 503 KINs before the handset was given its end-of-life papers …
Twitter handling 24 billion search queries per month
Twenty four billion. That is how many times users are searching Twitter per month; a truly gargantuan figure. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone noted that twitter.com …
White iPhone 4 gets un-boxed and photographed
Do black gadgets make you feel gloomy? Does pure-white better suit your bubbly personality? If you’re an iPhone user, and white is your thing, we’ve got a …
AT&T statement: software defect is the upload bottleneck, fix in the works
AT&T has officially released a statement about why some users have been experiencing sub-par (and we do mean sub-par) upload speeds over the past several …
Motorola CHARM is official, exclusive to T-Mobile USA this summer
Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday, we saw the Motorola Charm get the blurry picture treatment, and today, Motorola has made its existence and destination official. Formally …
HTC Wildfire, Incredible, EVO 4G to get Android 2.2 by December
Pocket-lint has HTC’s global PR and online community manager, Eric Lin, on the record saying that his company will be “done with our Froyo updates …
Mozilla releases Firefox 4.0 beta 1
Yesterday, Mozilla released the first beta of its Firefox 4.0 web browser into the wild. Some of the updated features include: the Gecko 2.0 engine, …
Ars Technica: Android 2.2 JavaScript performance "destroys" that of iOS 4
Ars Technica just pitted Google’s Android 2.2 against Apple’s iOS 4 in a JavaScript benchmark test…and Ars isn’t mincing words with their results. In a …
BlackBerry 9300, 9670, and 9800 shown on video
This is more like it, a little something new and different for the legions of BlackBerry faithful. Salomondrin has gotten his hands on three, count …
Nokia to sell wireless modem business to Japanese company Renesas
The NYT reports that Nokia plans to sell its wireless modem business to Japanese company Renesas for $200 million. The NYT cites falling prices (the …
Do Android developers outnumber iPhone developers?
Do Android developers outnumber iPhone developers? If you believe this survey of 401 mobile developers than yes, yes they do. Vision Mobile, a “market analysis and …
BlackBerry Pearl 9100 bottom plate spotted with AT&T branding
The kiddies over at PocketBerry found a parts supplier selling a AT&T branded bottom plate for a maroon BlackBerry Pearl 3G (9100). Hopefully, the parts existence — if …
Gene Munster: Mac sales up 37% year-over-year this quarter, iPod sales stagnant
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has published a report stating that sales of Apple’s Macintosh computers are up 37% year-over-year for the current quarter. Munster goes onto …
Motorola Charm gets photographed, to hit T-Mobile soon
TmoNews has gotten their hands on an image of the Android-powered Motorola Charm which, by all accounts, appears due to land on T-Mobile in the …
Adobe demos Flash 10.1 running on DROID X
In a brief blog post, and two-plus minute video, Adobe, Inc. demoed Flash 10.1 running on the yet-to-be released Motorola DROID X. Adobe Sr. Technology …
AT&T throttling upload speeds?
Rumors are starting to fly around the the interwebs about the alleged throttling of upload speeds by everyones favorite wireless carrier AT&T (note: sarcasm). Users are reporting …
iPhone 4 carrier unlock looms, dev-team making progress
Dev-team member MuscleNerd gave an update — via Twitter — on the carrier unlock progress of the iPhone 4…and so far, things are looking up. …
HTC sees profits jump 33%, revenue 58% year-over-year
The WSJ is reporting that Taiwanese handset maker HTC saw Q2 unaudited net profits rise 33% in 2010. Some key metrics from HTC’s Q2 include: …
