Inside Facebook has discovered a couple of new features for Facebook’s mobile site. One (in testing) is a recommendation tab for pages. With this feature, the user can write and read recommendations on Pages, similar to a feature launched on the desktop version not too long ago. Facebook has over 800 million users, so they say. 300 [...]
One startup that’s proven this is Pinger, the company behind the massively popular free texting app Textfree. The company is announcing that it’s reached a major milestone since launching in March 2009. Textfree users have sent and received a total of 20 billion text messages for free. And they’re sending and receiving another 1.5 billion [...]
Apple has just released a free update for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, both iPads, and the third and fourth-generation iPod touch. Watch how easy it is to update iOS 5 over the air, without using iTunes. iOS 5.0.1, the update claims to fix that battery longevity bug, and in addition. Owners of the [...]
The BBC is developing an app that allows mobile users to directly view and control television content. A breakthrough that expands apps’ abilities to interact with TV. The app, created by Orchestrated Media, lets smartphone and tablet users jump to different scenes as they watch a recorded TV show during broadcast, thanks to a “symmetric [...]
John Carmack, one of the most innovative and tech-savvy games designers of generation, thinks that mobile smartphone gaming is the future. Carmack has recently released the critically-acclaimed Rage for iPad and iPhone and iPod touch, a game that has caused many gamers and hardcore games developers to take a long, hard look at the potential [...]
The phone is the first of several handsets due over the next few months, that Microsoft hopes will signal its return to the smartphone market as a serious player. If that wish sounds familiar it is. This time last year the company was hoping the first version of the Windows Phone 7 would accomplish the [...]
Samsung Electronics Co launched a thinner and lighter version of its Galaxy tablet in its lucrative home market, trying to chip into blockbuster sales of Apple Inc’s iPad. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 inch is an upgraded version of the 7-inch introduced in October. Priced from $500 onwards in the U.S. market, the same as the [...]
