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Google to get in the ring with Apple over digital downloads

October 7, 2025September 2, 2010 by Eric Greenwood

Google’s long-rumored entry into the digital music game is likely happening just in time for Christmas. Andy Rubin, Google VP and primary director for Android development, has been in talks with some of the major labels in hopes of securing some kind of licensing that would put Google in direct competition with Apple’s dominance of … Read more

Peep Is Back? [Nope]

April 7, 2016September 1, 2010 by David K

Here it is from Twitter itself: Log-in issues for users of some mobile clients Users using certain Twitter clients are unable to Log in. These clients include – HTC Peep – Moto BLUR – Nokia Twitter apps – Samsung devices (except for phones running Android OS) – Huawei phones We are working to resolve this … Read more

Finally – A Fart Piano For Windows Phone 7

April 7, 2016September 1, 2010 by David K

OK so it’s not the first WP7 fart application but right now it has to be the leader. It’s a fart piano. Yeah you heard me. And you can change the types of farts if you need a different pitch – maybe something with more bubbles in it. This is from Herm’s Software who brought … Read more

Windows Phone 7 Auto Correction and Custom Word Demos

April 7, 2016September 1, 2010 by David K

On WindowsPhone7.com they are showing off two new videos that show how nicely their onscreen keyboard inputs words. Of course, it’s a PITA to access the site so we’ve uploaded them to YouTube as one video that’s just a minute long. The first demo shows how auto corrections work. In other words, spell things wrong … Read more

HTC Investigating Peep Problem

November 11, 2025September 1, 2010 by Doug Smith

We just wrote about how HTC Peep, the surprisingly popular Twitter application included with HTC Sense Devices and given it’s own home screen slider tab has stopped working for a lot of people. It turns out that it because of an authentication issue (you need an app that has OAuth as it’s authentication method) caused … Read more

Man I Hate Content Thieves

October 7, 2025September 1, 2010 by Doug Simmons

If you’ve ever run your own blog you may have noticed that the Internet is a cesspool of evil-doers who’ve set up their own WordPress blog to run around on other blogs’ RSS feeds and leach new posts to drop onto their own site. They write no original content of their own and oftentimes they … Read more

Do you know when your phone plan expires??

April 7, 2016August 31, 2010 by Jeremy Bartz

According to a recent press release issued by Best Buy more than half of the American mobile phone users do not know when their plan expires. I do find that hard to believe but I am guessing that this will be getting better in the future as newer and better phones keep on coming out … Read more

News for 8-31-2010

October 7, 2025August 31, 2010 by Kristofer Brozio

Nothing much to say today.. just really busy, so here’s the news from around the world!

Google Introducing Prioritized Email Starting Tuesday

April 7, 2016August 31, 2010 by Vikram

On Tuesday Google is planning on releasing an email prioritizing feature which where Google bots automatically decide what emails are important and which ones are not and then arranges them accordingly. Google is calling this feature “Priority Inbox” and should start rolling out to all users starting Tuesday. This is only a experimental or beta … Read more

The Unsung Apps of Windows Mobile

April 7, 2016August 30, 2010 by David K

Sense is killing my HD2 and left me with no option but to kill it first. And that left me with the default home UI and without a Twitter client (I still think that tab was at the root of the problem). I don’t really Tweet much – I use it like an RSS feed … Read more

RIM Selling Out Corporate Customers’ Privacy (Again)

April 7, 2016August 30, 2010 by Doug Simmons

Government man of a foreign a nation who would like to have the same unfettered access to all Blackberry communication in your country? Just ask RIM, ending your request with “or else” and you shall receive. Seems letting the UAE and Saudis spy on BES Blackberry traffic at will struck RIM as having more positive … Read more