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Virgo U.S. ditches Flash to target iPhone, smartphones

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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In ordering to appeal to iPhone, Android and other blackberry_bold_9700_photo_and_video_lovin_8217_’ title=’Even Thomas More BlackBerry Bold 9700 Photo and Video Lovin’’>smartphone users, Virgin U.S. has eliminated Flash from its new website.

Virgin U.S. is likely trying not to get in the midriff of the holy warfare that’s departure on between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs and Adobe, but it wants to reaching as many people as possible in as many formats. If you count the iPod Touch, there ar now more (more…)

TI shows a mobile earphone with a no-glasses 3D display

Friday, February 26th, 2010

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According to my buddy Bokkos over at 3d-display-info.com, TI showed a new 3D exhibit for mobile phones, running on an OMAP3 chipset at MWC. The exhibit is a 120Hz liquid crystal display with an 3M film that directs the images to the left or right field oculus alternately (3M unveiled this technology back in Nov 2009). There’s no need for spectacles – although movies are apparently not so good (still (more…)

Acer “Liquid e” comes with Android 2.1, Snapdragon central processing unit and WVGA touchscreen

Monday, February 15th, 2010

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genus news/review_of_acer_s_x960_windows_mobile_river_smartphone_follow_up’ title=’Review of Acer’s X960 Windows Mobile River smartphone follow-up’>Acer has used the Mobile River World United States Congress to unveil the new member to its family unit – Liquid e. Powered by Android, the new smartphone keeps the all-touchscreen shape factor, just like its predecessor – A1. Hera’s the specs rundown:

Android 2.1 (Йclair) Quad-band GSM/EDGE plus tri-banding HSPA (up to 7.2 Mbps on downlink) 5-megapixel camera with auto-direction 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen Qualcomm (NSDQ: (more…)

Opera Mini Has 50 Million Monthly Users

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Grabbing a  10 million step-up for the past tense 3 months, Opera Mini has crossed the 50 million unique monthly users mark in Jan 2010. Opera Mini is the lightweight mobile browser from Opera news/vlingo_goes_premium_adds_a_few_features’ title=’Vlingo Goes Premium, Adds a Few Features’>Software, offering host-position compression, which shrinks Web pages by up to 90 percent before loading them on the twist.

According to Gartner, Inc., by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web (more…)

Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Available Mon from Verizon Wireless

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Verizon Wireless announced that news/palm_pre_follow_up_to_pre_or_not_to_pre_’ title=’Palm Pre follow-up: To Pre or not to Pre?’>Palm® Pre™ Plus and Palm Pixi™ Plus volition be on computer storage shelves and ready for purchase on Jan. 25. Palm Pre Plus will cost $149.99 after a $one C chain armour-in rebate, and Palm Pixi Plus will cost $99.99 after a $one C mail-in rebate, each with a new 2-class client agreement. Buy a Palm Pre Plus or a Palm Pixi Plus and get a Palm (more…)