As an awesome 38 year old dude, who specializes in local marketing, I thought I would share with you my personal tech “get-up” and my rationale for my choices of technical gadgetry and the operating systems of choice. I help businesses be found online. I need to know what in the hell Google is doing [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal report, Microsoft is close to a deal to purchase Skype, the Internet’s site with the most members. Think Facebook has the most members? Nope. Skype does, and Microsoft is thinking about buying it for $7 billion to $8.5 billion dollars. Why would Microsoft want Skype? Actually my estimation, it [...]
So, on the last day of CES 2011, I finally made it over to the Motorola booth, as I just had to try out the new Motorola Xoom tablet powered by Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) which eventually topped the polls and was named the best gadget at CES 2011. It is indeed a crush-worthy device. The [...]
The Motorola PR firm just sent out this teaser video which shows that a Motorola tablet is on it’s way very soon. No details about Motorola’s tablet are shared in the video, but we already know that it will feature NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor inside and should run on Verizon’s network. At the end of [...]
LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled the LG Optimus 2X, that they plan to launch at International CES in Las Vegas in January. The fine folks at LG connected with Mobile Local Social and offered to fly me to Vegas to be one of their featured blogger/twitter users, and help them get publicity for their new [...]
This is completely true and changing the world as we know it. The folks over at Cognitive Media created this visual art transcription drawing. Here is what they had to say: “Here’s our latest effort in the video Scribing arena. I say arena, but there seems to be very few of us doing this sort [...]
In an incredible innovation of usefulness, Voice Actions have been much improved beyond the simple “navigate” command. Here is the full list. send text to [contact] [message] listen to [artist/song/album] call [business] call [contact] send email to [contact] [message] go to [website] note to self [note] navigate to [location/business name] directions to [location/business name] map [...]
Looks like Engadget has the scoop on a possible (probable?) Android/Sony gaming phone. Here’s some info: “Here’s what we can tell you about the hardware: if you’re a gaming fan, this is exactly the kind of phone you’ve been waiting for. The device is described as cross between the Samsung Captivate and the PSP Go [...]
Obviously, Best Buy was going to start selling a tablet soon… that isn’t a surprise., however it is a bit surprising that its CTO Robert Stephens shot a few pics of the tablet branded RocketFish and tweeted them out over Twitter earlier today. Beyond the shot above and the one after the break, we don’t know much about the HP [...]
In the most astounding mobile conference presentation I have ever seen, Samsung highlighted all of the major offerings that its new Galaxy S series Android devices are capable of. I will be acquiring the Sprint Epic (physical keyboard, LED flash, 4G) version of the Galaxy S upon release. Expect an article when that happens. In the [...]
Tether announced earlier today that they have a beta version of their Android app ready for to be test run. This release is open to the public. According to the Tether, they have been seeing speeds roughly 40% faster than their competition. Now that they’ve been able to address major bugs and issues, the focus has shifted to [...]
Check out Samsung’s promo site for the Galaxy S. AMOLED screen looks to be more attractive than the iPhone 4 screen, albeit at a lower resolution. Specs: Samsung Galaxy 2 Leaked Specs: 3.7 inches AMOLED display 1 GHz Snapdragon processor 90 Million Triangles per second GPU (PS3 does 250) Android 2.1 Operating System 5 megapixel [...]
This is innovation! USB Host or USB OTG (On-The-Go) is a way for your device to read other USB devices such as keyboards, web cams or small EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES. Sven Killig decided to work out some driver tweaks to get this running on his Nexus One. The Nokia N8 also has USB OTG built [...]
D8. All Things Digital, the an annual conference where the worlds top tech gurus come to discuss the state of the digital world was created by the Wall Street Journal’s renowned tech journalist, Walter Mossberg, and his colleague-in-crime, Kara Swisher. This year the conference is in it’s 8th year, first year at the new location, [...]
Greetings Earthlings. The team at Mobile Local Social, has connected with some amazingly bright minds here in our hometown of Kansas City, and are forming a Mobile Media Club to connect with businesses and show them the error of their technological ways. What we have here is the very first podcast / experiment of this [...]
Over at Reddit I noticed a link to Whisper Systems. Encrypted voice and texting applications entitled RedPhone 0.1 and TextSecure 0.1, are free for Android phones. If this isn’t a reason to have an open source O/S, I don’t know what is. Download from the Android market now. I just did.
Epic win. Google has merged the art of communication of devices. There new API they rolled out today in San Francisco at Google I/O Conference allows the Browser, Google Google Chrome, to connect with your Android device, allowing you to push messages, links, map destinations, etc. Watch the exact portion of the presentation where they [...]
The Android 2.2 platform introduces many new and exciting features for users and developers. This document provides a glimpse at some of the new user features and technologies in Android 2.2. For more information about the new developer APIs, see the Android 2.2 version notes. New User Features New Platform Technologies New Developer Services New [...]
Google, today officially announced Google TV, a new platform that aims to integrate both Web browsing and cable TV with one device running its powerful Android operating system, set to arrive this fall. Google said that TV today is too complicated, with too many channels and a poor interface for finding the shows you want [...]
The iPhad empire. Only two or maybe three operating systems can hang with the top dog. Ok, maximum five are possibly real iPad competitors. Six then. That’s it! 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the tablet/pad/slates.
Read on for the major comparisons.
BumpTop 3D has been acquired by Google. With the advent of a new multi-touch version of the software, it shouldn’t be too long before we see this being implemented in phones, tablets, and anything else Android.
Video of the action after jump.
Engadget reviews the HTC Droid Incredible which is releasing officially on April 29th. Here is a snippet: Let’s just put this out there: the Droid Incredible is the best Android device that you can purchase in America right now. It’s better than the Droid, better than the Nexus One, and certainly beats the pants off of [...]
A new Android app offers a brilliant feature for business users.
The first 4G phone has been announced by Sprint and woooo boy, it’s a doozy. Via Phandroid and Engadget. Engadget stated: “The handset is centered around a 480 x 800 4.3-inch TFT LCD, with a Snapdragon QSD8650 1GHz processor under the hood (the CDMA version of the QSD8250 in the HD2 and Nexus One), and [...]
Android received yet another endorsement, this time from Martin Cooper – the inventor of the cellular telephone is the proud owner of a Motorola Droid. Although to his credit, he is always trying out new phones, and wanted to experience the Android OS, firsthand. Cooper was on C-SPAN last week where he talked about spectrum and [...]
Google is slowing catching up to Apple in the smartphone market.
By the end of 2012, smartphones will outnumber computers 491.9 million to 443.1 million.
Over the weekend my original beta version stopped working and I was heart broken… until we discovered the new beta version was released. I immediately put it on my phone. Without Swype on my phone, it felt like my phone was broken.
Great news for Ow.ly fans! I just downloaded Hootsuite for my Droid, and so far, it’s amazing! Thanks Hootsuite!
Gizmodo recently posted an article about the upcoming Flash 10.1 (currently in Beta 3 form) and Adobe’s determination that only a few current Android phones (see Nexus One only), and upcoming handsets with the proper muscle, will actually be able to run Flash properly. “There are two factors that’ll determine whether or not your phone is [...]
Slashgear continues it fantastic updates on the Notion Ink Adam. My hope is that next week, at the Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona, the final revision of the product(s) [there may be two models] will be shown. The list of advantages is growing, starting with the Pixel Qi display(which allows the screen to turn into an [...]
Adobe is pressing forward with Flash 10.1 for Android devices as well as WebOS, & Windows Mobile. Sorry iPhone/iPad. As far as Android is concerned, Flash 10.1 will only work with the 2.1 O/S, which means only Droid and the Nexus One users can enjoy Flash content in their web browsers, unless you are using [...]
Webcams have carved out a large market since their earliest use in 1991. It is hard to believe the impact something so small and cheap and plasticy can have on our privacy, our friendships, our news delivery, and yes (drumroll please) even our sexuality.
Something to consider for every person who is going to buy a phone. There are four real smartphone platforms that are worth even considering. Sorry, Windows Mobile, but you aren’t one of them. In the fourth quarter of 2009, a developer could reach 75% of the worldwide smartphones sold in that quarter by supporting just three platforms, Nokia/Symbian, RIM OS [...]
