RIM has unveiled it’s upcoming tablet at the BlackBerry Developer Conference this week in San Francisco. The tablet–dubbed the PlayBook won’t be available until early 2011, but has some unique features and capabilities. The RIM PlayBook has a 7-inch display, 1Gb of RAM–double the memory in the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and four times the memory [...]
At a GPS Conference in Portland, Oregon, September 21-24, the four major GPS systems gave presentations on the status of their respective global GPS systems, while users and vendors talked up interoperability and cost/effectiveness. Their are now four major independent GPS systems; the American Global Positioning System, the European Commission, Galileo and EGNOS projects, the [...]
HTML5 and compatible HTML5-based ad formats will have a major impact on the future of the mobile ad industry, says Xavier Facon, CTO at Crisp Wireless, a rich media advertising company . Here are his five reasons why HTML5, an open standard, will change mobile advertising the way Flash changed it for the desktop. Open [...]
In January, Amazon invited outside software developers to create applications for new Kindle app store. Since that initial announcement, however, Amazon released just two free word games for Kindle, Every Word and Shuffled Row. Now Amazon is introducing a third Kindle app — of the popular board game Scrabble. Scrabble costs $4.99 and was developed [...]
Clearwire is in talks with No. 4 US mobile service T-Mobile USA, reports Reuters, in an oft told tale. Reuters says T-Mobile would take an equity investment in Clearwire and rent space on Clearwire’s network. “In the event we don’t come to an equity arrangement, they could be a wholesale customer,” said Clearwire CEO Bill [...]
The GridWise Global Forum in Washington this week, brought together utilities, smart grid vendors, consultants and regulators, reports the NY Times. Whether it will be the electric utilities or companies like AT&T, Home Depot, Google or Wal-Mart that dominates the business remains to be seen. U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu addressed GridWise yesterday: “If [...]
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