Archive | June, 2011
Posted on 30 June 2011. Tags: Android, android market, App Catalog, app store, Apple, apps, AT&T Inc., Flash, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP, Hulu, iPad, Palm, Skype, Tablet, TouchPad, WebOS, wi-fi
About one year following Hewlett-Packard Co. buying out the dwindling Palm, HP is launching the inaugural tablet to use Palm’s webOS operating system scheduled for tomorrow. The TouchPad is similar in design to other tablets, sporting a 9.7-inch screen at the diagonals, equaling the size (4:3) and resolution of the Apple iPad, although slightly thicker [...]
by Marc Speir Posted in App Corner, Carriers, Content, Devices, OS
Posted on 30 June 2011. Tags: Android, app, dominos, pizza
Three of my favourite things in life are Android, pizza and coffee. Imagine my delight, then, when I discovered that Dominos Pizza has launched an Android app for the UK and the Republic of Ireland! I can now order pizza on my Android phone, while drinking coffee – it’s hard to see how life gets [...]
by Paul Hunnisett Posted in App Corner, Lifestyle, Reviews
Posted on 30 June 2011. Tags: lame duck, loss, Mike Jones, MySpace, news, News Corp., profit, sale, Social, social network, Specific Media, The Daily
Oh how the mighty have fallen. One-time king of the social networks, MySpace, has finally been sold by owner News Corp for a rather paltry (rumoured) $30 million to advertising firm Specific Media. The amount is less than a third of the $100 million News Corp were hoping to recoup with the sale of the iconic social network, which paved the way for current social supremo Facebook.
by Jon Norris Posted in Content, Finance, Industry, Industry News, News, Social
Posted on 30 June 2011. Tags: Antenna, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, muslim, telecom, tower
Let it not be said that the RCR team is not dare deviling and adventurous, dear readers! This past week our team climbed the world’s fourth largest telecom tower – and the second tallest freestanding tower in the world – in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to get some good shots of the structure, whose antenna reaches up to a whopping 421 m (1,381 ft).
by Sylvie Barak Posted in Industry, Lifestyle, News
Posted on 30 June 2011. Tags: Buzz, Facebook, Google, invite, social network, xkcd
With all the buzz (pun intended) around Google+ and people vying for invites left right and center, Google has had to close the flood gates, for one night at least, as it attempts to keep up with the “insane” demand for the new social networking service.
by Sylvie Barak Posted in Content, Lifestyle, Social
Posted on 29 June 2011. Tags: Chris Wiggins, design, Gmail, Google, google maps, google search, HTML5, redesign, UI, UX, web standards, WebGL
If you have visited a Google site in the last twenty four hours you may have noticed the normally subdued light blue shortcut bar at the top of the screen has been replaced by a rather more striking black and red number. This is a part of a company-wide redesign that Google announced yesterday on their official blog.
by Jon Norris Posted in Content, Industry, News
Posted on 28 June 2011. Tags: AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless
Not that I am complaining, but the Federal Communications Commission released a 308-page report on the state of competition in the wireless industry and reached no conclusion. While at first glance, that seems like a lot of work for no results, digging further into the report, it makes more sense. The wireless industry ecosystem is [...]
by Tracy Ford Posted in Carriers, Content, Devices, FCC, News
Posted on 28 June 2011. Tags: 4G, ITU, LTE
News last week that Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) was introducing a bill, dubbed the “Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act,” that would require wireless carriers to provide more details on their “4G” networks, seemed almost too good to believe.
by Dan Meyer Posted in Carriers, FCC
Posted on 28 June 2011. Tags: activations, Android, Android tablet, Andy Rubin, Apple, Devices, Google, Honeycomb, I/O, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Sales, Shipments
The days of Apple and Google’s tit-for-tat device activation race has long since passed with Google emerging the clear victor. The search giant’s Android operating system pulled ahead, somewhat inevitably, due to the broad range of devices available and, some would argue, its increasing quality compared the ageing iOS interface.
by Jon Norris Posted in Devices, Industry, News, OS
Posted on 28 June 2011. Tags: AC700, Acer, chrome, chrome OS, Chromebook, cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud software, Google, Laptop, launch, netbook, SaaS, Samsung, Series 5, Web Apps
The launch of Google’s all-browser operating system, Chrome, was tempered somewhat last month by the fact that Acer, one of the two launch partners, didn’t have their hardware ready on time.
by Jon Norris Posted in Content, Devices, Industry, News, OS
Recent Comments