NEWS: Microsoft Kin phones dumped after failing to make friends
Social phone struggled to gain friends
Microsoft has pulled the plug on its range of “social” handsets the?Microsoft Kin One?and?Microsoft Kin Two.
“Microsoft has made the decision to focus on the Windows Phone 7 launch and will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone [...]
NEWS: FLO TV to add time-shifting and lurks on UK’s horizon
Pocket-lint goes behind the scenes at mobile TV operator’s HQ
Among a swathe of new features planned for the coming months, FLO TV is to add time-shifted programming in the US to allow subscribers to catch up on shows they may have missed first time around. In addition, there are strong indications that the Qualcomm subsidary [...]
NEWS: Project Canvas planned for early 2011 launch
The open TV platform’s CTO talks development timeline
Project Canvas’ chief technical officer has stated that the much debated and delayed service should be arriving in the first half of 2011.
The open online TV platform, which Anthony Rose describes as a “best of breed”, will have an Intel system-on-a-chip solution at its core upon which the [...]
NEWS: VIDEO and PHOTOS: Nokia MeeGo gets walkthrough
New operating system shows what’s in store
Nokia’s MeeGo?operating system took its next step to becoming a reality on Wednesday with the official MeeGo site publishing screenshots and a video walkthrough of the new OS in action.
“The MeeGo project is happy to announce Day 1 of the MeeGo Handset user experience project”, the team says on [...]
NEWS: APP OF THE DAY – The Elements
Lanthanide and Actinide action
You know you can’t get enough of the old app of the day action, so if you’re feeling a bit jittery a clammy eager to get your app fix then this should do the trick.
What we have here is something that no one should be without, not just because it’ll help make [...]
Jonathan Ive on the Design of the iPhone 4
Huge score for Core77 — an interview with Jonathan Ive regarding the design of the iPhone 4.
“The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot
disconnect the form from the material — the material informs the
form,” says Ive. “It is the polar opposite of working virtually in
CAD to create an arbitrary [...]
‘How a Broker Spent $520 Million in a Drunken Stupor and Moved the Global Oil Price’
Rowena Mason, reporting for The Telegraph:
By 10am it emerged that Mr Perkins had single-handedly moved the
global price of oil to an eight-month high during a “drunken
blackout”. Prices leapt by more than $1.50 a barrel in under half
an hour at around 2am – the kind of sharp swing caused by [...]
Lightning Strikes Three Buildings in Chicago at Once
Gorgeous video by Craig Shimala. (Via Jack Shedd.)
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NEWS: Android 3 (gingerbread) details crumble out
720p resolution, framentations and October release date.
While most are stressing about getting to Android 2.1 and some are starting to enjoy Android 2.2, thoughts are already turning to Android 3.0?it seems.
Mobile-review.com’s Eldar Murtazin has been spilling the beans on his Russian podcast, that thankfully the chaps over at unwiredview.com have translated and decoded.
According to the [...]
NEWS: Wi-Fi Flip camcorder destined for Christmas tree
Cisco boss hints at Holidays release
Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of emerging technologies, has hinted in an interview with Computerworld at Cisco Live! that a Wi-Fi version of its Flip?camcorder, as first predicted by Pocket-lint at the tale end of 2009, is finally ready to make it to market for Christmas 2010.
“We didn’t buy [...]
