Tag: MOBILE-PHONES

URL shorteners, while convenient, are bad for the web. They hide the true destination that they are pointing to, giving bad guys yet another tool in their arsenal, while conditioning web users to blindly trust the links they are clicking on. Further, as the debacle with tr.im showed us, URL shortening services aren't necessarily permanent. It's no coincidence that the rise in popularity of URL ...

If you built a web browser but nobody used it, would it still exist? Well, yeah, of course it would. But nobody wants that to happen. So Mozilla is reportedly talking to wireless carriers about the possibility of bundling Firefox Mobile with Windows Mobile and Linux-based cellphones. While Firefox is a big name in desktop software, the truth is that most people don't think of cellphones the way ...

Google has just added a new feature "My Location" feature to Google Maps for mobile phones. Basically, it works like GPS, but instead of connecting to a satellite, it gathers information from nearby cell towers to determine your location. So your phone doesn't need to be GPS enabled, it just needs to have a data plan in order to plot your position on a map. Google Maps for Mobile runs on most ...