What's black, white and flat all over? iOS 7, if rumors prove correct. Anonymous sources in touch with 9to5Mac claim to know details about what's shaping up to be Apple's most radical iDevice update thus far: a flattened, minimalistic, anti-skeuomorphic…
Posted February 25, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
Mozilla will soon be joining the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft with Firefox OS, the foundation’s first mobile operating system. The announcement came just ahead of Mobile World Congress where 18 operators from around the world have pledged support…
Posted November 29, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in SoftwareWith Video
A team of volunteers at Phoenix International Communications have managed to port webOS onto a Samsung Nexus S. The feat was pulled off by running an app inside Android so it’s not a true-to-life port but either way, it’s a…
Posted September 21, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
Google will be celebrating a birthday this weekend as their mobile operating system turns four years old. In the relatively short time it's been around, more than 500 million devices running Android have been activated as Google continues to check…
Posted September 13, 2012, 6:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing
Acer has reportedly postponed the launch of a new smartphone running a Chinese-developed Android competitor because Google threatened to retaliate. The PC maker planned to hold a press conference in Shanghai on Thursday to unveil its CloudMobile A800 handset, which…
Posted September 12, 2012, 4:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Apple, Software
Along with unveiling new hardware today, Apple has announced many changes to iOS and iTunes. The latest version of iOS makes better use of iPhone 5 and iPod touch's new 4-inch 1136x640 display, with many core apps having already been updated.…
Posted July 23, 2012, 3:30 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
Hoping to boost sales and plug its rapidly depleting cash reserves, Nokia may create exclusivity agreements with worldwide partners ahead of the Windows Phone 8 launch later this year, mimicking its US sales model with the Lumia 900 via AT&T.
Earlier this month Mozilla announced it is renaming its Boot to Gecko operating system for smartphones to Firefox OS while touting support from major carriers worldwide. Although the first Firefox OS-powered devices aren’t expected to arrive until sometime in 2013,…
Google has unveiled the successor to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at their annual Google I/O Conference. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean arrives just eight months after ICS was released despite the fact that a large number of Android devices still…
Posted November 30, 2011, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, The Web
HP will announce the fate of WebOS in the next two weeks, according to CEO Meg Whitman in an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro. Although Whitman didn’t hint one way or the other regarding the future of the OS,…
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