Google has announced that, if you’re searching for a product that is sold by participating retailers, including Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, or West Elm, you can just look for the blue dots in the search results to see if it’s available in a local store. Continue reading ‘Google Product Search for mobile adds “blue dots” to help you shop’
Mike Chambers, Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations at Adobe has confirmed via his blog that Flash support will eventually come to Windows Phone 7 Series.
Quoted from Mike Chambers’s blog,
There has been a lot of buzz in the mobile space lately, and I suspect there will be even more around Windows Phone 7 at next week’s Microsoft Mix conference. One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news is that Adobe and Microsoft are working together to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series.
I dont have an eta or other specifics right now, but it is something that both Adobe and Microsoft are working closely together on.
Motorola has announced a global alliance with Microsoft to deploy Bing services on Motorola devices powered by Android. This new offering, launching in China on smartphones in Q1, will provide consumers a choice when using search and map functions on their Android-based devices. Continue reading ‘Microsoft to deploy Bing Search and Maps services on Motorola Android phones in China’
Opera Software has launched the newest beta version of the Opera Mini 5, on the Android platform.
Opera Mini, with more than 50 million users worldwide, enables Web browsing on almost any handset by compressing data by up to 90 percent before sending content to the phone, resulting in significantly improved page loading and speed. With a simple, easy-to-use interface, Opera Mini offers a desktop-like Web browsing experience on a mobile phone, with favorite features such as Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, password manager and bookmarks. With Opera Mini optimized for Android, more people will be able to get a PC-like browsing experience on their mobile handsets.
You can download Opera Mini directly to your Android phone by visiting m.opera.com/next with the Android browser or search for Opera Mini 5 in the Android Market.
Native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile has been released.
By integrating Opera Mini with the Windows Mobile platform we are able to deliver an optimized version of Opera Mini that dramatically improves performance and the overall user experience. Continue reading ‘Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile released’
The folks at Mozilla team has posted a few teasers photos, on their Facebook page, of the Android version of the Fennec mobile browser running on the HTC Nexus One and Motorola DROID. Continue reading ‘Fennec spotted on Android Nexus One and DROID’
Following previous report that Sprint 4G WiMAX phone to be available this summer, Sprint has announced the next markets in the national Sprint 4G roll out. Currently, Sprint’s 4G service is available in 27 cities around the country, including Atlanta, Honolulu, Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Portland, Philadelphia, and Seattle.
Sprint will launch service in multiple markets this year including Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Mobile is now available for FREE download. Connect Pro Mobile offers users mobile access via an iPhone or iPod touch to rich communications including collaborative meetings, training sessions and Web seminars. This application was developed using the Flash platform and the Packager for iPhone to publish it as a native iPhone application.
You can watch and listen to live presentations including real-time presenter webcam video and screen sharing demonstrations. You can see who is in the meeting at any given time, and collaborate with others using live text chat. VoIP meeting audio will broadcast straight to your device over a WiFi or 3G connection, or the meeting host may give you the option to join a telephone conference call.
Adobe will be able to use the same code to deliver this application on other mobile devices when AIR for mobile devices becomes available later this year. Adobe also anticipates iPad users will be able to take advantage of Connect Pro Mobile as well.
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