Tag: DEVICE

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/12/16/the-future-of-html-is-looking-bright-file-system-and-external-d/'; There's been a lot of HTML-related news recently: first there was the WebGL draft standard, then editor's draft for the File API and now it looks like there's going to be support for devices. At long last, your browser will have access to your webcam, microphone and other ...

Get ready for iPhone and iPod Touch applications to roll out of the pipes early next year, an SDK is coming! We heard a rumor yesterday, but our friends over at TUAW have let us in on some exciting news from the Apple front. Apple has said that the much anticipated iPhone SDK will be released to developers by February 2008. This Software Developer Kit will allow developers to create applications ...

Rumors has it that the Google branded gPhone is on its way. Now when exactly is a different story. Our brothers at Engadget report that sources at the DigiTimes have said that Google will definitely be launching a handset. The mobile OS is rumored to be Linux-based. The only issue is that hardware specs, production facility, and operating partners are still getting worked out. As for the handset ...

Video's on mobile phones. What a novel invention. Not only do you have to pay for the data rates associated with downloading each video, but you get stuck with watching them on a tiny screen (expect if you have an iPhone). Needless to say, it's what the market demands. LG has announced they are teaming up with YouTube to release YouTube enabled handsets in a move to push forward in the wireless ...

Zurfer is straight out of the Yahoo! Research Berkeley facility. This handheld application is a location based photo browser. What it is in basic terms is Flickr for your mobile device. The Zurfer application is currently being developed in the Yahoo research labs, and will -- when loaded on mobile phones -- showcase photos taken around you based on current gps co-ordinates. You can also pull ...

The iPhone has been anticipated for a long time. A very long time. It's finally coming out, and could have the potential to be better than we could have ever imagined with a surprise turn of events. Apple's Wordwide Developers Conference is today in San Francisco, and some exciting news has been rumored to be dropped at the event. Steve Jobs may announce that they will be letting developers write ...

HTC, the company that has supposedly been hard at work manufacturing the Google phone apparently has a date for shipping the finished product. According to the handsets component makers, the official ship date will be the end of 2007, and could reach as high as one million units for the first run. Unfortunately the handset will not have GPS functionality; it will support 3G and EDGE platforms. ...

It's great to read emails, short RSS headlines, and instant messages on your mobile device, but what about reading novels? Has that just pushed the line? Wattpad has introduced a mobile client that gets novels, like proper novels, onto mobile devices in text form. When users have the client installed on their devices, it makes it possible to download additional stories and read them offline. They ...

Looks like this one slipped by our radar, but Opera previewed their new web and mobile browsers this week, as we mentioned earlier this month. Not only are the new browsers out in beta versions, but Opera Mobile shows off the next generation of browsing for Windows Mobile devices. The biggest feature change in the desktop browser is the new Speed Dial, an integration where users can create nine ...

Could thisbe the start of "Browser Wars 2, the quest for the stronghold on the mobile world"? Microsoft has just entered the space with their new enhanced mobile browser offering, Deepfish. The Deepfish browser plays off of what the iPhone showed us a short while ago, showing the user a recreation of desktop browsing on mobile devices, not stripping anything out. Deepfish gives users on mobile ...

Looks like our hopes for the development of the highly anticipated, and much rumored Google Phone have been stomped out. Richard Kimber, a managing director of sales and operations in Google's South-East Asia office, says that Google will not be entering the crowded handset market, but Google is obviously investing in the software side of things through partnerships with existing handset makers. ...

The much anticipated and highly rumored Google mobile phone has been confirmed. Google's Chief Executive in Spain and Portugal has let slip that an "iPhone competitor" is in the works. The Google Exec downplayed the Google phone project, saying that its one of 18 current R&D projects in the works. The "gPhone" may not be what you expected however, word has it the embryonic device might not be ...

Spanning Sync will make your Google Calendars and Apple iCal play nicely together with devices. iCal and Google Calendars are great applications for different sets of reasons, one is online with sharing capabilities, one is desktop driven with great notifications and offline capabilities. Get ready to get excited Mac users, Spanning Sync syncs all of these features together and lets Mac users ...

Chad Hurley spoke about his future dreams for YouTube last year: YouTube videos on mobile devices. He hoped that they would have something up and running within a year when he spoke about it in November, and now it looks like the time has finally almost arrived. With a number of deals on the way, Vodafone users in the UK will be seeing a selection of videos that are updated daily that they can ...

Now that Download Squad is accessible via mobile device, I thought I would start bringing you more downloads for mobile users. This slick little app will turn your mobile device into an email and RSS powerhouse. You set up an online account with Flurry first with your email accounts and RSS feeds, then you can download mail and RSS feeds from their gateway servers onto your mobile device. They ...