Archive for category Mobile Phones
Mobile Apps overload?
Posted by Alex Costa in Mobile Phones on May 24th, 2010
The “There’s an App for that” claim for the iPhone makes me cringe. How many of the Apps we have in our mobile devices do we actually use? I am not a good exmaple to start with as I am not an early adopter of anything technical and I tend to stay away from what [...]
Tweetdeck for Android
Posted by Alex Costa in Mobile Phones on April 14th, 2010
TweetDeck is yet to deliver an App for Android phones, it’s another company entangled with the Apple cult and leaving users of other mobile devices lagging behind. I would be more interested in boycotting the the whole application, but this may not be the best route, so contrary to what TweetDeck is doing I once [...]
Digg on The Go App for Android and the iPhone
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Mobile Phones on April 2nd, 2010
Digg.com has announced the availability of the Digg on the go App for Android phones and iPhones. To download the app just visit http://m.digg.com and install the the application. Check out the the official announcement. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Buzz it up Share on Orkut share via [...]
Request the Audible.com books application for Android
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Mobile Phones on March 11th, 2010
I am deeply shocked at audible.com for not having an app for Android. They claim that “the Android media player does not allow playback of our titles“… right. Anyway they are now attempting to get the ball rolling for an App for Android in 2010. There’s a signup for upcoming beta testing on their website [...]
Android to iPhone Apps with XML
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Mobile Phones, Programming on July 8th, 2009
Why has no one thought of it before….. ? You may ask. But someone now has. The XMLVM project was created by Arno Puder and his team at San Francisco State University. What it does is provide a bridge between disparate compile-time and run-time environments — in a word cross-compiling, as described by Frank Ableson [...]
Google Latitude
Posted by Alex Costa in Mobile Phones on February 5th, 2009
Google Latitude is a new function added to Google Earth for mobile phones. Latitude service uses data from mobile phone masts, GPS, or wi-fi hardware to update a user’s location automatically. Users can choose to share their location with friends. Latitude is based on Google’s My Location feature that has been in place since 2008. [...]
Google Android OS on Notebooks
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux, Mobile Phones, Open Source on January 9th, 2009
A developer team on venturebeat.com has reported that they can get Google’s Android to run on netbooks. Long before Andoid was released there were rumors about its use not being restric to mobiles. The Venturabeast team claim to have made it work on a EeePC 1000h within 4 hours as reported by the Linux Magazine [...]
