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mobile

Hype Over The New Motorola Tablet

As CES 2011 fast approaches it's becoming clear what the most hyped product will be.  It's not a 3D TV, Blu-Ray player, phone, or set-top box.  It's the forthcoming Motorola Android tablet.  Of course, as any good company would, Motorola is fanning the flames as hard as they can. It has already been a huge comeback year for them with

360 Panorama from Occipital Makes Panoramic Photos from Mobile Phone

Yes, I shoveled this morning. Then I got out my iPhone and took a 360 Panorama view of the neighborhood. I used the new 360 Panorama application by Occipital for the iphone. All I had to do was spin around and capture the image. The program just came out this week. It's for iPhone 3GS, 4 and iPod Touch 4g.

Dell Has Great Deals On Mobile Phones

Until I received an ad in my email today it escaped me that Dell sold mobile phones.  Sure I knew they made a couple of them and logically they would sell those, but not a whole line of phones from other manufacturers.  And they have good prices too...really good prices. The revelation came in the form of an email ad

Smartphones As The New Facebook

Facebook hit critical mass and managed to move into the mainstream and is now sucking in mass numbers of new users. Much of the value of a many goods and services revolves around mass adoption – it becomes beneificial for people to use Facebook simply because so many friends and family are already on it. We keep hearing statistics about

Website Second? Foursquare Finally Gets It

This last week, Foursquare made some updates to their website. If you went to Foursquare a couple months ago, you got a very generic page of text that didn't really help much. You were off the site and on the mobile phone, but even the mobile phone had limitations. Things have finally changed. The new Foursquare website is pretty useful.

Windows Phone 7 Debuts Tomorrow

Tomorrow the first Windows Phone 7 devices will hit the US market on AT&T and T-Mobile.  And I am very curious to see the reception.  Will there be lines?  Will there be shortages of one or more of the devices?  What will the general public think of it? Windows Phone 7 ads blanketed today's football coverage.  They were running a

Developing for Android Using Eclipse

Smashing Magazine just keeps coming up with great stuff.   This time they've got a beginners tutorial on how to develop for Android using Eclipse, XML and Java. Starting with an introduction by way of "Why Develop for Android", it takes the user through installing the development environment Eclipse and the Android SDK, before setting up the Android Virtual Device, so that