Tag archive: Mobile

On Monday, researchers from the marketing firm Rosetta released study findings in which nearly 900 tablet owners were asked about their experiences with the mobile devices, and a question that has been haunting each and every tablet user since the devices first went mainstream almost two years ago has finally been answered, namely: How many of us take our tablets into the bathroom? The answer, surprisingly or not, is quite a few. The study found… Read More

Tom Tom has decided to get into the insurance game, but not by offering policies. The GPS company has partnered with insurance broker Motaquote for a new venture called Fair Pay Insurance. Tom Tom will be providing the technology behind the new product, which will base its insurance premiums on how well you drive instead of typical baselines like age, gender, and profession.  Those who sign up for the plan will be issued a Tom Tom PRO 3100… Read More

With over 500,000 apps available through Apple’s App Store, it can be daunting for developers to get their apps noticed — let alone downloaded. Enter a recent thread on app developer site Touch Arcade, in which a poster who was recently shopping around for ways to get his app more exposure was contacted by a “marketing” company that promised it could break apps into the top 25 rankings in exchange for a lump sum payment — in this case $5,000.… Read More

Today Google finally introduced Chrome for Android after three long, impatient years. It’s now available as a beta release for smartphones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich – which, unfortunately is incredibly limited. Right now that means that only the Galaxy Nexus and Wi-Fi only Xoom tablets will be able to access Chrome. First, the bad: It’s a bit of a slap in the face for Android owners: Chrome for mobile has been one of the most… Read More

While Apple may have made a mountain of money by putting a bunch of electronics inside brushed aluminum cases, a design student from the UK is wondering if his bamboo-based idea will yield a similar bounty. Frustrated by the lack of designs in the smartphone market, Middlesex University student Kieron-Scott Woodhouse recently came up with his own concept—a unibody smartphone with its casing carved from a single block of bamboo. He put his ideas… Read More

Yesterday Facebook began the IPO process and made some of its very private financial details very public. The S-1 form is a pundit’s dream: it lays out a company’s every penny spent and earned as well as the pitfalls it believes it’s subject to. Facebook is no exception, and the company laid it all on the table for us yesterday. We already got a good look at some of the basics – and to sum it up, Facebook and its founders and early investors are… Read More

Rabid sports fans like to talk. They like to trash rivals, they like to hype fellow revelers, they like to argue with Charles Barkley and John Madden from their living rooms and scream at referees from the safety of their seats. And that’s why it’s only natural that legions of sports fans have taken so enthusiastically to social networking. Fantasy leagues and sports-centered social apps have continued to thrive, thanks to the insatiable need of… Read More

Samsung has been hyping its Super Bowl XLVI commercial, announcing via Twitter yesterday that it would “launch a device so revolutionary only an ad in America’s biggest game can do it justice.” Speculation has centered around the unveiling of the Galaxy S III, or possibly a new tablet that would yet again introduce a Samsung device to challenge the iPad. It was all very mysterious, and Samsung had many of us captivated by the lure of a new… Read More

Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on “tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the cloud.” Much debate has followed Ubunto’s mobile strategy, the general consensus being that its loyal followers… Read More

We have personally never seen anyone use a car cigarette lighter socket for lighting a cigarette, so it's baffling to us that cars still come with them for that purpose, and using it as a power source is less-than-easy when you have to have a different car charger for every device. But, thankfully someone has come up with a smart way to turn your car's cigarette lighter into a useful charging station. The Highway Pro by Just Mobile… Read More

If you thought iPads were expensive, think again. A new Chinese tablet called the Red Pad will cost $1,600 dollars, but not just anyone can buy it, even if you do have the money.   After heavy criticism over its price from Chinese consumers, marketing and advertising featuring the Red Pad seemingly disappeared. Now, the Economic Times is saying that the manufacturer will only sell the tablet to bureaucrats and not the public. Originally the… Read More

We're all for the latest and greatest smartphones and the amazing technology that comes with them, but if you're in some kind of emergency and all you have is your battery-eating 4G Android phone, it's not going to last you very long. We've heard of lives being saved thanks to iPhone apps and the like, but having an emergency phone around that has a little bit better battery life seems like a good idea to us.… Read More

Instagram has catapulted to major success, winning iPhone’s app of the year and spawning an entire ecosystem of smartphone photo products. Despite its enormous popularity, the app has remained rather simple, with only one major upgrade being issued and the team staying relatively small. But an Android app has always been the biggest priority for Instagram, and CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed as much during Le Web this year. Now, it appears that… Read More

The increasingly public nature of Facebook and the accompanying privacy scares have paved the way for social sites with an element of exclusivity. Facebook may want to connect the world, but these platforms want to connect your inner circle—and keep the rest of the world out. One of these new sites is Capsule. Capsule is an event planning and sharing site, and it’s equal parts organizational and social. Users create “capsules,” which… Read More