Planning for Mobile Applications
Organizations are pushing out enterprise applications to mobile users as fast as they can. They understand that a mobile workforce is not only always available but is more productive. Likewise, pushi…
Special Offer for Boingo Wireless
One of my pals on Twitter ran across a particularly good deal for Boingo, which provides access on over 40,000 wifi hotspots in the U.S. and Canada alone! Counting all the international locations, it&…
Nimbuzz Not Buzzing To Me
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood, but the latest news from Nimbuzz does not excite me. Oh sure, the client does multi-IM support-including Skype, and either supports VoIP calls over the PSTN or even…
iSkoot Updates Symbian Software, Handles Security Incident Well
Last week, I discovered-quite by accident-that the version of iSkoot for the Nokia N95 was sending the entire session in the clear. In short, your Skype credentials, and everything you were using iSko…
04.15.08Fring Now Native on iPhone
Rather than wait for iPhones to start shipping with application support, the folks at Fring have decided to release an iPhone version of their IM and VoIP client. This means, for the moment, you must …
Skyfire To Start Beta
I got an email from the folks at Skyfire letting me know that they were about to start making their web browser available for beta testing. If you signed up before 1 March, you will be among the first…
Report Speed Traps With Trapster
Trapster lets people with GPS-enabled phones document the exact location of a speed trap or red light camera. You can either run an application on your cheap mobile phone, access the mobile version of…
12.14.07SpinVox: Speech To Text For Your Mobile
Mark Rollins over on The Gadgets Weblog wrote about a service I wrote about a while ago: SpinVox. SpinVox has a number of ways you can utilize their speech-to-text technology. One way is to use it to …
Picasa Web Albums Now iPhone Optimized
Rico Mossesgeld over at The Smart PDA lets us know that Picasa Web Albums, which is Google's (pathetic) answer to Flickr, is now iPhone optimized. Here's the posting on Google's Mobile Blo…
GSM Operators Agree on NFC Approach
Mobile wallet, anyone? Fourteen operators within the GSM Association, representing 40 percent of the world's mobile customers, have agreed to a standard approach to implementing near-field communi…