Get your social notifications on the cheap with Boxcar
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Filed under: iPhone, App Store, App Review
Since the arrival of the Push Notifications feature in iPhone OS 3.0, all manner of apps have added support for it. Games, task management applications, you name it — they’re all more than happy to make your phone beep at you in the middle of the night and prompt your spouse to kindly insist that you silence that infernal device. Or so I’ve heard.
It seems like a no-brainer to me that this type of ..Read More
The Droid Is Coming November 6 for $199 With Contract
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Verizon just confirmed that the Moto Droid will arrive next week for $199 with a new, 2-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate. Customers will need a voice plan starting at $39 and a web and email plan for $29 per month.
See our full Droid coverage here and look for a full hands-on later today.
HELLO HUMANS: DROID BY MOTOROLA ARRIVES NEXT WEEK
Verizon Wireless DROID By Motorola: World’s First Smartphone with Android™ 2.0
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – High-speed Web browsing, ..Read More
Taliban attack kills U.N. staff in Kabul
By · CommentsTaliban militants attacked a private guesthouse in central Kabul on Wednesday morning, killing up to six U.N. staff members and wounding nine more, according to a U.N. spokesman.
Filed under: Software
I have fervently wished for a desktop client to work with Google Reader for as long as Reader has been around. NewsGator finally answered my plea, announcing that NetNewsWire and the rest of the NewsGator RSS Reader Suite would be syncing solely with Google Reader after August 31, 2009. This signals an immediate move away from NewsGator Online, and the demise of the RSS feed syncing service.
NetNewsWire was a favorite of mine well before it became free software, ..Read More
I Quit The iPhone
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I have loved the iPhone, but now I am quitting the iPhone.
This is not an easy decision.
I was there in January 2007 when it was announced and I bought the first iPhone as soon as it was available. I happily bought the iPhone 3G a year later. I’ve proudly yelled “I Am A Member Of The Cult Of iPhone.” I’ve been an unabashed cheerleader for the device to all who’ll listen. And I’ve scoffed at developers who said they’d ..Read More
Security forces, protesters face off in Iran
By · CommentsSecurity forces in Iran on Thursday confronted thousands of protesting Iranians across the city, first at a cemetery and later at a prayer venue and near a government building, witnesses and news reports said. Clashes erupted at the cemetery as two of Iran’s main opposition leaders tried to join the several thousand people at a memorial for Neda Agha-Soltan.
Is Google’s Android Killing Windows Mobile?
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Earlier this morning I got a chance to catch up with Dr. Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola soon after his company reported earnings (they met Wall Street’s modest expectations) to talk about everything from the state of the mobile market to prospects for Motorola. I will write all that in a longer post, but there was one part of the conversation that stuck with me and was very telling about the momentum around Google’s Android and the detrimental impact it ..Read More
WWDC Demo: Slick Shopper
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Filed under: WWDC, iPhone, iPod touch
Slick Shopper is a slick little list app. It does one very specific thing: make shopping lists. In fact, the developer thought through little details such as a location-specific context for your lists. If you’re needing things only in your bedroom (perhaps a trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond is in your future?), Slick Shopper will winnow the list down to just those items with a couple of clicks.
While list apps are plentiful on the ..Read More
After nearly 5 years with the company, Engineering Director Mark Lucovsky is leaving Google for a role with VMware, we’ve learned. Lucovsky has been an integral part of Google’s APIs, including the all-important Search APIs.
Before Google, Lucovsky worked at DEC and then Microsoft for 16 years, eventually gaining the title of “Distinguished Engineer.” He had been the principle architect on Windows NT, which would eventually evolve into Windows XP. “I wrote most of the kernel executive, kernel32, and the Windows ..Read More
Somali-American’s family: Who sent son to die?
By · CommentsJamal Bana was only one years old when his parents left Somalia and eventually brought him to the United States. He is now the third Somali-American from the city of Minneapolis to head to Somalia and die there.
