software

Adobe denies Flash draining mobile battery life

Published on: 1st March, 2010

After the video preview of a Nexus One running Flash, Adobe has denied that this software cuts on the battery life. Various bloggers, including John Gruber from Daring Fireball, claim that the battery charge level has gone down from 50 percent to 25 percent in just 8 minutes (the length of the video). However, the [...]

More than $113 million spent for Samsung’s mobile device software

Published on: 25th February, 2010

At Mobile World Congress, the chief executive of Samsung, Choi Jee-sung, said that that the investment for mobile phone software will most probably exceed last year’s $113 million. Samsung, which is the second largest mobile phone maker in the world, is planning a revised marketing strategy, in order to gain market share in the smartphone [...]

Beta version of Word and Office suite 2010 banned

Published on: 26th December, 2009

Microsoft has lost its appeal against an infringement verdict of $290 million that states Microsoft should remove the Office suite and Word from the market. The verdict was upheld by the Court of Appeals of the United States. It states that XML code used in Word 2003 and 2007 violates patents developed by i4i for [...]

Twitter dedicated software for Zune

Published on: 19th December, 2009

On December the 16th, 2009, Microsoft has released its long-awaited native Twitter application for the Zune. The application offers a faster web alternative for the service and also refers to most of the core features, which include favorites and searches. Native geolocation facilities or official retweeting format, though, are not included.
The software seems to represent [...]

MySpace and iMeem have concluded the deal

Published on: 13th December, 2009

MySpace has completed the buyout of the music streaming service iMeem. This happens after two months of negotiations and the transaction has been closed for under $1 million. As a consequence, MySpace Music bought iMeem’s assets and the latter will be shut down, all its customers being steered towards MySpace Music, which offers services such [...]

Testing Google’s Chrome browser for Mac

Published on: 13th December, 2009

Google has released the beta version of the Chrome browser for use on the Mac platform, the Windows variant already having a year of availability. The open source software is meant to compete with other browsers like Firefox and Safari. This latest release offers many of the features of the Windows version, but the earlier [...]

VEVO – a better YouTube project for music video content

Published on: 11th December, 2009

YouTube has unveiled a new project meant to provide a larger and streamlined approach to music videos. VEVO, as the new project is named, should organize video content by more logical categories, by the genre of content or by channels for example. Common features like embedding should be supported, as well as music-friendly ones like [...]

End of Symbian-based Nseries?

Published on: 20th November, 2009

Nokia’s N900 has recently been launched. On this occasion, the company said that it will renounce using Symbian in all Nseries services by 2012. Nowadays, Nokia has only one Maemo-based smartphone, but the company plans to quit using Symbian S60 on Nseries, in the future. The end of Symbian-based Nokia smartphones will be gradual, as [...]

Windows Mobile 7 release sped up

Published on: 18th November, 2009

Windows Mobile 7 will be released less than a year after the 6.5 version. Microsoft will launch it in early 2010 and its codename is “Maldives”. The smartphone makers will be able to check the operating system early next year so that Windows Mobile 7 can reach shipping phones by next summer. The 6.5 version [...]

Windows 7 Seems to Boost Sales in a Spectacular Manner

Published on: 10th November, 2009

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer recently revealed a spectacular increase in Microsoft’s sales after launching Windows 7. Early sales have generated more revenue in the first ten days after the release date than any other previous version of the operating system ever. Ballmer said that the first results were fantastic, so there is hope to see [...]

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