All Entries in the "Mobile Software" Category
Vimeo updates iOS app to include iPad, releases Android and Windows Phone apps too
Vimeo is unleashing a handful of mobile apps here at CES. First, the company has announced mobile software is now available for Android (Gingerbread) and Windows Phone (Mango) sporting upload functionality and ‘watch later’ queue management. Absen…
Alibaba to launch English version of Aliyun OS this month, tablet by November
Alibaba is just beginning its long and arduous journey into the field of mobile domination, but it’s already looking to expand its sphere of influence beyond China to tackle the OS giants. Merely a few weeks after announcing its Aliyun OS, the com…
iOS 5 turns Japanese iPhones into earthquake alarms
Following the devastation wrought by the recent Japanese earthquake, Apple has hooked the country’s early warning system into iOS 5. The tectonically-volatile nation has the most sophisticated alarm in the world, delivering life-saving warnings se…
Alibaba announces ‘cloud-powered’ Aliyun OS, K-Touch W700 phone
Ready for another mobile operating system? Alibaba certainly is, having just unveiled its Aliyun OS. The new entrant will apparently be “fully compatible” with apps from Android through a proprietary Waterloo-style emulation layer. We don’t know exa…
Apple’s iOS 5: all the details
Scott Forstall has just taken the WWDC 2011 stage and details about the changes and improvements in iOS 5 are flowing thick and fast. Keep one tab in your browser locked to this post as we update it with all the new features, and throw another one o…
Sony’s SmartAR demoed live, raises the bar for augmented reality (video)
Remember Sony’s SmartAR? The markerless AR technology that promises reality augmentation without the need for unsightly tattoos? It’s back again, showing itself once more after an all-too-brief 48 hour layoff. A new live-demo shows Sony’s m…
Microsoft shows off WP7′s future with multitasking, Twitter integration, and IE9, all coming this year
We’ve just barely begun to get ready with Steve Ballmer’s keynote at MWC 2011, yet the company’s Twitter and press feeds just scooped its main man. It’s confirmed that Windows Phone 7 is getting multitasking for third-party apps and a suite of other updates, including Twitter integration and IE9 Mobile. We’re still waiting on details on the multitasking, but the company has confirmed a “new wave of multitasking applications” in this next release, though hopefully that means open to all.
Twitter will be integrated into the People Hub, so you can get your real-time “what’s for dinner” updates right there. And, of course, Microsoft confirmed IE9 is coming. It’ll deliver a “dramatically enhanced web browser experience” thanks to graphics and hardware acceleration that’ll make the most of what your handset has to offer. Sounds tasty to us. We’re told to expect the update in “early March,” which isn’t that far away at all.
Microsoft shows off WP7′s future with multitasking, Twitter integration, and IE9, all coming this year originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Windows Phone 7 update with copy and paste, CDMA support coming in ‘early March’
Though he wouldn’t give an exact date, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer whittled down the availability window for the company’s first big update to Windows Phone 7 at his keynote address to the crowds gathered at Mobile World Congress today. The latest message is that it’ll be available in “early March,” which puts us precious few weeks away — more or less on track with what we’d been anticipating — bringing support for CDMA radios, copy and paste, and performance improvements. Hopefully that clears the way for the 7 Pro on Sprint, eh?
Windows Phone 7 update with copy and paste, CDMA support coming in ‘early March’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia and Microsoft enter strategic alliance on Windows Phone, Bing, Xbox Live and Office
It’s happened. Former Microsoft exec and current Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has married his future and his past in the holy matrimony of a “strategic alliance.” Windows Phone 7 Nokias are happening, but there’s a lot more to this hookup — scope out Microsoft’s press release just after the break.
Nokia and Microsoft enter strategic alliance on Windows Phone, Bing, Xbox Live and Office originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Windows Phone 7′s copy and paste update now coming in March?
If you don’t have a Windows Phone 7 device, you may have assumed that first major update with copy and paste support had been released to end users by now — and we wouldn’t necessarily blame you. If you do have a Windows Phone 7 device, however, you know how very untrue that is… and the latest rumors suggest that you won’t be on track to get it this month. To be fair, Microsoft never promised that we’d see the update on handsets in February in any official capacity, but rumors at one time had suggested it’d happen; of course, they also suggested January, so you see how that goes. Anyhow, both Neowin and ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley are liking March 8 as a possibility, citing the difficulties in getting carriers and manufacturers on board for a coordinated launch of a firmware update that they’re all accustomed to having more control over. Since early last year, Microsoft had said it’d be controlling platform updates pretty tightly — certainly more tightly than in the disjoint Android world — and we can imagine that takes a little bit of adaptation for the likes of LG and Samsung. Anyhow, here’s hoping everyone’s up to date on the 8th, eh?
Windows Phone 7′s copy and paste update now coming in March? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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