Posts Tagged ‘mobile’

T-Mobile US to Get Old Model iPhone?

Wired editor Chris Anderson issued a strange bit of information via a tweet last night. Apparently, he was told by a T-Mobile manager in no uncertain terms that the nation’s number four carrier would be getting the Apple iPhone 3GS later this year. The new iPhone 4 is apparently left out of the...
September 8th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

Windows Phone 7 is released to manufacturing

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Microsoft announced that the highly anticipated Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has been released to manufacturing on Wednesday, a major milestone for the project. Following the release of its developer toolkit, Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 technical preview...
September 1st, 2010 | Software | Read More

‘Boxee Killer’ Plex/Nine media center released, adds iOS app

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Early Tuesday morning, a new version of Mac OS X-based media center software Plex was released, called Plex/Nine, and with it came a new app for iOS. Plex is a fork of open source media center software XBMC, which has recently risen to prominence for being the software that...
August 31st, 2010 | Hardware, Software | Read More

Fujitsu Confuses "External Graphics" with Discrete GPU

Our necks are still sore from the double-take we did when we saw Fujitsu announcing “external graphics” for its latest laptop, the Lifebook AH530 GFX. Could it be true that our enthusiast voices had finally been heard by a vendor with the balls to release a notebook with a presumably upgradeable...
August 30th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

Mobile phones in class: the next back to school accessory

By Tim Conneally, Betanews As school districts across the country open their doors for the 2010-2011 school year, a remarkable shift in thought is taking place: cell phones, once regarded as distractions or liabilities are coming to be viewed as viable learning tools. This fall, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee...
August 28th, 2010 | Policy & Law | Read More

Clearwire "Pay As You Go" 4G Data Service Could Launch Monday

In a conference call next Monday, Clearwire is expected to detail a “pay as you go” mobile data service. The service would use Clearwire’s 4G WiMAX network, and may have a tie in for Sprint 3G data. Sprint is the majority owner of Clearwire. The monthly cost is currently unknown. These...
August 27th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

Mozilla Releases Fennec Alpha for N900 and Android

Mozilla has announced today that the first alpha release of Fennec (mobile Firefox) is ready for mass consumption on the N900, and Android 2.0+. The N900 version has already been posted on the Mozilla site, we expect the Android version to be up soon. One of the main selling points is full Fennec integration...
August 27th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More