iPhoneToday Update

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I have been a big fan of iPhone Today for some time. It is, in my view, a huge improvement over the WM Start Menu, which is both inefficient (having to move from screen to screen with button presses) and visually ineffective (what was MS thinking when they chose the staggered rows layout?). In any … Read more

Bing Updated For WM

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Bing just got an upgrade. The latest version I had (which was recent) was 5.0.11249.0 and the new version is 5.1.2010.3290. Those numbers sound like a big upgrade, so what’s changed? No freaking clue. I don’t know where the change log for this thing is, so it’s a mystery to me:) All I know is … Read more

Co0kie’s Home Tab v1.7.0 is Sick

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OK so after NRG tweeted about 20 times about CHT (CoOkie’s Home Tab) I figured it was worth taking a look. Wow. I thought I was done messing with TF3D 2.5 but really, this is the only tweak you need. Just watch this video from PocketNow. Yeah, you can customize everything…like everything. Pretty sweet and … Read more

AT&T Carries Less Data Than VZ and Sprint

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This is a little shocking to me. Despite the iPhone, which is always touted as a data whore, it turns out that both Verizon and Sprint carried more data last year than AT&T did. That really tells you how pathetic AT&T’s network is. It turns out that data cards carry a lot more traffic than … Read more

Pads, Slabs, and Slates… Oh My!

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Now that the fervor around Apple’s infamous pad launch has settled, others are ready to launch back with competing products and form factors in the space between smartphones and laptops.  The New York Times ran an article featuring a brief overview of the products soon to be hitting the market (and no, the Courier is not one of them.)  Companies like HP, Dell, and Google are mentioned in some detail.  Read on past the break for more.

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Blownfuze Up For Grabs

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So I made a couple sites about making your Windows phone suck less, blownfuze.org and tilt2.blownfuze.org. I’m not even going to bother hyperlinking them because I haven’t updated them in so long that the information is losing value fast. But they’re still trafficked pretty well, considering, and I feel bad about not having updated them … Read more

Microsoft Walks the Middle Ground

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I think I can finally see what Ballmer and team are conjuring up for this holiday season.  They are copying parts of iphone but not the ones people think.  Just as they are copying parts of Android that others don’t realize.  Everyone praises Apple for end user experience.  However their app process and dev materials are lackluster and are only bolstered by a high install base. Android is hailed as the developers play land with complete and open dev but with multiple versions beginning to cause trouble much like traditional WinMo platforms.  WP7 takes these two ideas of End User Experience and Developer Tools and combining these two things to create the product with the most “mass” appeal.  This may not be for the tinkerer or poweruser like most of us however this strategy can certainly pull Microsoft from the dank repository of fragmented lambasting it currently finds itself in.

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Hold Off on Visual Studio 2010 RTM

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If you were thinking of getting Visual Studio 2010,  which was just released, and using it for WP7 development you may want to hold off. “We need to highlight that the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP (WPDT CTP) released last month is not compatible with the retail (RTM) release of Visual Studio 2010.” MS says … Read more

Palm for Sale, But Who’s Buying?

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If somehow you have missed every other mobile news website in between your Internet browsing and here, first we thank you, and then point out that Palm is for sale.  Eweek.com recently published the news and goes on to list some of its possible buyers.  Listed are mobile heavyweights like HTC, Microsoft, Dell and others as potential buyers.  Palm’s obvious trouble in getting WebOS into the hands of users have been cited as the company’s greatest woes,  however what is lost amongst all this news of Palm’s bank statements is what value the company still has left.  There are still two major assets that make Palm a key acquisition for a few companies.  See what Palm has to offer after the break.

Original Article on Eweek.com

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Why the Nexus One Can’t Win

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Google has always concerned itself with being a consumer friendly, and overall “good” company, evidenced by their very simple corporate motto of “Do No Evil.”  Google usually does a fantastic job of making decisions based on this philosophy.  Gmail was one of the first email systems to lift the draconian standards for email capacity to a whole gigabyte (which now seems rather silly since my GMail account is about triple that and growing,) their Google Doc’s movement which is threatening Microsoft’s global domination of the word processor market, and even some basic things like Google Maps (which I’m sure most of us have used at some point or another,) and Google Voice.  So when they began developing a Mobile Operating System that was open source there was huge praise.  However, Google’s intentions were not wholly selfless.  With the announcement of the Nexus One Google took a small sidestep around their motto to come in direct competition with other handset makers.  Google’s idea was to offer a handset outright and off contract directly to the consumer to further undercut the networks, but what is good for consumer’s is not always the decision they make.

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Task Managers Compared

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If you’re like me you probably stopped paying attention to task managers. There are lots of them and they all seemingly do the same thing, so what’s the difference? Well XDA compared four of them to each other to show precisely how they do differ. They compared MMTaskManager, Showcase, ArkSwitch, XTask. The most praise is … Read more