Recent Entries in operating systems
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Windows Mobile 6.x No Updates or Upgrades to Windows Phone 7
Owners of the Windows Mobile 6.x phones will not be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft will continue to support Windows Mobile 6.x and call it Windows Phone Classic.The new specs for Windows Phone 7 requires 3 buttons(Home...
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Windows Phone 7 : More Zune-Like, XBoxy, Binged and Hubbub
Today, at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft revealed their take on smartphone operating systems for WindowsPhones, Windows Phone 7 Series a complete overhaul to Windows Mobile.They say it is whole new fresh look integrates Xbox LIVE games, Zune music and video....
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Windows Mobile Phone Updates 2Day: Windows Phone 7 Details
Microsoft will be making an announcement at Mobile World Congress on February 15 to reveal Windows Phone 7. The web is abuzz with what Windows Phone 7 will feature. The main theme is that Windows Phone will be more like...
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Palm Pre, Updates 2Day: webOS 1.3.5
Sprint announced that has that the 1.3.5 update for the Pre Over-the-Air is coming today. This update includes enhancements to the following:- Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas.- QCELP capability fix to allow play and audio of...
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BlackBerry Storm Updates 2Day 7:00 PM - OS 5.0.0.328 (0S 5.0)
There are several sources that showing internal Verizon websites leaked that reveal an update to the first gen BlackBerry Storm today at 7:00 pm PDT. to OS 5.0.0.328. The average udpate time will take less than an hour, usually around...
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WinMo Update 2Day: Windows Mobile 6.1 to 6.5 Update Smartphone Models (So Far)
Many Windows Mobile smartphone owners have been waiting to discover if their smartphones will be updated to Windows Mobile 6.5. It's especially daunting for smartphones such as the HTC Touch Pro2 which only came out a few weeks ago and...
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BlackBerry Tour Updates 2Day: Reliance Offers OS 4.7.1.53
Last Friday, some BlackBerry Tour owners were able to download the BlackBerry Tour update OS 4.7.1.53 via the BlackBerry Desktop Manager. It mysteriously disappeared over the weekend. We offered instructions on how to complete the upgrade.It has been reported that...
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Verizon Samsung Omnia Software Update Opens GPS for LBS
Verizon realease software update CF03 with GPS unlocked and open to be used with other location-based services. The notification came out in the form of tweets from Samsung MobileUSA.Other tweets revealed:At this time, the open GPS update for the Omnia...
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Symbian Horizon on Horizon in October to Open Up Nokia Development
The Symbian Foundation previewed Symbian Horizon, an application-publishing program that will be available in October 2009. Symbian Horizon gives developers assistance in building applications for Symbian devices and in placing those applications in the many global stores which reach Symbian...
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Palm Pre News: Palm Opens Up Palm Pre webOS to Everyone
Palm announced that they have ended the webOS (operating system for the Palm Pre) early access program and opened up the program to everyone and released their public developer portal at http://developer.palm.com.The portal offers many tools for developers who want...
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Google Chrome OS for Netbooks and Beyond Announced
The Google blog has announced the Google Chrome Operating System. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year Google will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google...
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Open Source Tidal Wave of Apps Overturn Downturn, Says Juniper
pen Source Operating System Research from Juniper Research found that operating systems and applications are playing an increasingly important role in the differentiation of new smartphones and a key factor in the choice of which handset choice by users. They...
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Palm Pre News 2Day: More App Developers and Update 1.0.4
There is a new update to the webOS for the Palm Pre 1.0.4 which addresses several security issues with Palm webOS software. It also causes some homemade apps not to work because those apps used security flaws in order to...
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Palm Pre News: How to Install Palm Pre Update - webOS 1.0.3
Palm has just updated the webOS operating system for the Palm Pre to webOS 1.0.3. The webOS 1.0.3 update for the Palm Pre improves speed and signal strength. It also improves syncing with Google Apps and changed the alarm clock...
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BlackBerry Storm OTA Update 4.7.0.113 Pushed Out In Next Few Weeks
Verizon has confirmed to Information Week, that it will push out an Over-the-Air (OTA) update of the BlackBerry Storm OS version 4.7.0.113, that we wrote about a few weeks ago.The update adds a portrait on-screen keyboard and fixes over thirty...
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Symbian Foundation Sets Agressive Development Schedule
The Symbian open source platform is on course for development this year. They expect a new update of the platform every six months. The first release of the new software, called Symbian^2, will be "functionally complete" by the middle of...
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$10K Hacker Contest for Browsers and Mobiles at CanSecWest
Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) will be sponsoring the Pwn2Own hacking contest for the 3rd time. It will be held during the CanSecWest Security Conference March 16-20th in Vancouver, BC. Hackers are invited to crack into browsers and mobile...
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New Windows Mobile OS 6.5 Revealed at Mobile World Congress
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer revealed the new features of Windows Mobile 6.5 at Mobile World Congress. They include some improvements such as the application store, a backup and restore service, and an improved web browser.The images are bigger and it...
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Microsoft to Open App Store: Windows Marketplace for Mobile
As part of their Mobile World Congress press conference with Steve Ballmer, Microsoft announced their new operating system Windows Mobile 6.5 which will have Windows Marketplace for Mobile.The Windows Marketplace for Mobile will allow searching, browsing and purchasing mobile applications...
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Microsoft WinMo 6.5 Honeycomb Seen on Square EDA Exeda
The Exeda smartphone, a square shaped smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard has been getting a lot media coverage, not for the Exeda but because they posted photos of the smartphone running the new Alpha version of the Windows Mobile 6.5...
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Another BlackBerry Storm OS 4.7.0.90 Update Upgrade Leaked
A new beta OS for RIM's BlackBerry Storm, version 4.7.0.90 has been leaked giving users a full QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode. Users of this BlackBerry Storm firmware update upgrade 4.7.0.90 noticed:An increase in overall stability.Some visual enhancements, "including the...
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CrackBerry Cracks BlackBerry Storm OS Update
The BlackBerry Storm operating system upgrade known as 4.7.0.75 is currently available for download at Crackberry.com.It appears to be popular because it was busy when we tried to reach it.There have been reports that this upgrade will be available over...
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Nokia Releases New SDK for Series 40 6th Edition
Nokia released the new software development kit (SDK) for its Series 40 6th Edition mass-market mobile devices. It provides application developers and network operators with new tools to create unique applications and services for the high-volume feature phone market worldwide. ...
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Qualcomm BREW SDK Has Adobe Flash Support
Qualcomm is offering and new software development kit (SDK) for the Company's new Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP)....
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Samsung TouchWiz Widget UI Coming to US Phones
Samsung Mobile will offer their TouchWiz user interface in the U.S. market. This customizable interface has been made popular by Samsung's international products, including the SGH-F480/TouchWiz and Samsung Omnia. Samsung Mobile's TouchWiz user interface has specially designed widgets to customize...
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Android Apps Can Be Eliminated, Says Computer World
Computer World reports that there is a a Google Android kill switch, not to be confused with killer app. It was discovered after reading the fine print:"Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement...in such an instance,...
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Andriod Market Open to Deliver Open Content
Android developers will be able to distribute content through Android Market—an open content distribution system that will help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered devices. It will be powered by Google’s...
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Symbian Open to Google Collaboration
According to Reuters, Symbian said on Wednesday it could expand its collaboration with Google to the operating system level as it moves to grant free and open access to its software platform. Symbian was formed in London 10 years ago...
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Nokia Buys Symbian Opens OS, ABI Researchers Comment
Nokia announced that it will purchase the remaining stock it doesn't own in Symbian and then migrate the solution to an "Open" platform. ABI Researchers have some interesting comments on the move.. ABI Research vice president Stuart Carlaw says, "There...
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Verizon, Infineon, Mozilla Join Limo Open Source Alliance
LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, announced the addition of Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg AS, Mozilla Corporation, Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, SK Telecom and Verizon Wireless as...
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T-Mobile May Offer 1st Android Mobile Phone
According to Dow Jones Newswire:At the Wireless Innovations 2008 conference in Redwood City, Calif., Joe Sims, vice president and general manager of T-Mobile's broadband and new business division, said he had already seen prototypes of the company's Android-based phone, which...
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Motorola Invests in VirtualLogix for Multiple Mobile OS on Phones
Motorola, Inc. through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, announced today it made an equity investment in VirtualLogix, a maker of virtualization software for communications devices and infrastructure equipment. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. VirtualLogix is...
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Open Platform LiMo 1 Released
The LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, announced today the on-schedule availability of LiMo Platform Release 1. The LiMo Platform is the world’s first globally competitive, Linux-based software...
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iPhone SDK and Upgrade Adds More Syncing, Games & Security
Apple launched its iPhone SDK on Thursday. Apple will update the iPhone software to allow motion sensing iPhone games and Microsoft Exchange(licensing Activesync from Microsoft), giving it the enterprise edge and helping it to compete with RIM's BlackBerry. Apple will...
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AT&T Tilt Firmware Upgrade Available
There has been a firmware upgrade for the bugs in the AT&T Tilt. The software update provides: Enhanced Bluetooth performance. Enables DTMF tones for the slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Improves overall device performance and stability. Includes Microsoft Adaptation Kit Update (AKU)...
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Samsung & LG Will Launch Google Phones in 2008
The Korea Times reports that Samsung and LG will reveal Android, (google) phones by the end of the year. ...
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LiMo Phones Showcased at Mobile World Congress
The LiMo Foundation announced 18 phones based on its platform, including some that are already on the market, on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The phones are made by LG Electronics Inc., Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Panasonic...
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ARM Will Show Android Handset in Barcelona
ARM, maker of most of chips for mobile phones in the world will demonstrate Android running on an ARM-based handset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, next week. "ARM will be demonstrating Android on an early prototype device...
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Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum Releases of 1.0 Specifications
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forumannounced completion of the LiPS Release 1.0 specifications, fulfilling the commitment announced in June of this year. With this release, LiPS enables mobile industry players to achieve basic interoperability for applications and services deployed on...
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Google's Open Handset Alliance Opens Up Phone Marketplace
Google announced the formation of The Open Handset Alliance that opens up the development of handsets with an open source mobile phone platform called, “Android” to allow for innovation.The alliance is made up of 34 companies who have worked together...
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