Tag: MOBILE-PHONE

Now that Firefox 3 has finally shipped, the developers at Mozilla are starting to make time for other projects. Don't get us wrong, those busy little bees are already working on Firefox 3.1, but they're also working on something entirely new: a mobile web browser. The mobile version of Firefox, (currently codenamed Fennec -- a final name hasn't been picked yet), will use the same rendering ...

Like the idea of having access to email, traffic, weather, and news information on the go, but don't feel like spending the extra money on a data plan for your cellphone? 800PBX launched a new service that lets anyone access web content on their cellphone without a web browser or a data plan. It's called 800 Genie, and here's how it works. You call a phone number on your cellphone and 800 Genie ...

As promised, Google released the SDK for the Android mobile phone platform today. There's no actual phones running Android on the market yet, but the early release of the SDK means that as soon as you get your hands on an Android phone, there's a good chance you'll be able to slap some third party applications on there without having to wait for hackers to unlock anything. In fact, Google is ...

Google is finally lifting the veil of secrecy from one of the company's worst kept secrets: Google has been working on a cellphone platform. In the early days of gPhone speculation, rumors were flying that Google was going to launch its answer to the iPhone: a piece of hardware running custom software. Now we know that Google has instead developed a software platform for mobile phones that allows ...

Sure, there Skype already has clients that let you make VoIP calls on a variety of cellphones with data plans. But typically wireless carriers have frowned upon this use, because you know, it lets you buy an unlimited data plan and skimp on your voice minutes. But European wireless provider 3 and Skype have officially announced the 3 Skypephone, and it looks like a pretty sweet deal. Well, if you ...