Category Archives: Resources – Mobility

The BlackBerry Application Center is RIM’s answer to the iPhone App Store

Via Crunch Gear By Nicholas Deleon You’re looking at the BlackBerry Application Center, RIM’s answer to Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market. Same basic concept as the other two—you browse and buy applications that enhance your BlackBerry experience. The Application Center—we’re running … Continue reading

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Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around.

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on September 28, 2008 The iPhone may be the only game in town for serious mobile Web developers right now, but that won’t last long. Next year, the iPhone will see some serious competition … Continue reading

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Letting Our Fingers Do the Talking

Via The New York Times By ALEX MINDLIN Published: September 28, 2008 In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average … Continue reading

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Why Twitter Needs to Do More

Via Tech Crunch by Don Reisinger on September 26, 2008 In case you missed the news, Twitter announced a new election page that will help its users filter all the election tweets across its network so users can find what … Continue reading

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Google’s End Run Around the Wireless Carriers

Via Tech Crunch by Mark Hendrickson on September 25, 2008 In a recently published patent, Google describes a vision for an open wireless world, one in which mobile devices (and smartphones in particular) are no longer married to particular cellular … Continue reading

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Twitter to Launch Special Site for Tracking the Presidential Debates

Via Mashable September 25, 2008 – 5:49 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow Back in January, some developers built a mashup called Politweets to display live Twitter messages relating to the candidates during the Republican and Democratic primaries. At the … Continue reading

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Adobe Photoshop Comes to Your (Windows) Mobile

Via Mashable September 26, 2008 – 2:47 am PDT – by Stan Schroeder After Adobe jumped into the wonderful world of Web apps with their lightweight version of Photoshop, dubbed Photoshop Express, they’re releasing Photoshop Mobile as a free beta … Continue reading

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Harper joins the Web’s twittering class

Via the Globe and Mail – by IVOR TOSSELL If there was any lingering doubt that the curious blogging phenomenon called Twitter has gone mainstream, it dissipated the moment that Stephen Harper signed up. For the past couple of years, … Continue reading

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Twitter: Far more than “what I had for lunch today”

Via ARS Technica By David Chartier | Published: September 03, 2008 – 06:13AM CT Twitter: it’s an extremely simple and social microblogging tool where users can post 140 characters at a time about what’s going on or in reply to … Continue reading

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