People in finance love and need Bloomberg on their mobile devices. You’d swear that it was tech news or something important. Anyway, for those of you in finance, Bloomberg has now expanded to Android (so that makes iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Nokia and Android as available mobile platforms). On Android you can have news and stocks … Read more
Every time you install an application on Android you’re prompted with a warning about the access that you are granting the application. And from the first app you install on Android you’re conditioned to just hit ‘accept’ because even the must mundane apps provide you with warnings about your location, gps, personal info, etc. You … Read more
So I’m a sixteen hour flight from home, our pre-honeymoon, just scored some me time which I’d normally use to smoke but since I agreed to stop that and since I’ve found some wifi love I’ll instead use it to pitch an app idea to you devs, one inspired by this trip. Not easy when … Read more
Bill Shrink put together a graphic that goes through the popularity of the various OSes out there and reminds us that the iPhone is not the only phone out there. It also goes through the likelihood to stick with your platform and app sales. Of course, this stuff changes by the minutes, but it’s still … Read more
Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) was speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Tuesday and said that in the future “We can suggest where you go next, who to meet, what to read.” He also stated: It’s a future where you don’t forget anything…In this new future you’re never lost…We will know your position down to … Read more
Downloading YouTube movies is something that may be occasionally required when you need your video to be available offline. In the paat we wrote about how to download YouTube videos to your iPhone, wrote about how to download YouTube videos to your Windows Mobile smartphone (actually 3 ways: 1, 2, 3) and here’s how to … Read more
Fragmentation,fragmentation, fragmentation. Rumors are pretty strong that Amazon is going to launch it’s own Android app store (which ties in to a possible Android tablet). We’ll get to the details of the market in a second, but this makes the third market for Android. There’s Google’s, Verizon’s and now Amazons. This is one of those … Read more
MSNBC has one of those ‘tech myths debunked’ articles and there’s one that’s pretty interesting to me. It’s the link between the number of bars you see and the service you receive. We typically think that if you have five bars that means you have a strong signal and if a call drops, well it … Read more
I decided to try my first after-market keyboard for my Nexus One. I’ve been reasonably pleased with the built-in Android Keyboard, since the upgrade to Froyo, but after reading about Swiftkey I figured it was worth a test run. Swiftkey uses Artificial Intelligence to predict your text. It’s the first keyboard of its kind. Yeah, … Read more
On September 21, 2010, Cervantes Mobile announced that their new Jorno keyboard will be shipping in 2011. The small 3.5” x 3.5” x .9”, 8.8 ounce box unfolds to reveal a rigid 3.5” x 8.5” x .3” keyboard with keys that are 85% the size of a standard keyboard. It is compatible with the iPhone, … Read more
So J.D. Power and Associates released the findings on wireless use and customer satisfaction. Here’s the interesting part: For a fourth consecutive time, Apple ranks highest in customer satisfaction among manufacturers of smartphones with a score of 800 on a 1,000-point scale, and performs particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features and physical … Read more
There is an ongoing debate between the iOS people and the Android/Windows Mobile people regarding the importance of Flash. No doubt, Flash is a very popular web technology used by many sites, but recently a question popped up about the importance of Flash in those sites, especially when accessed from a mobile device. Some believe … Read more