APP OF THE DAY: ubiCabs review (Android & iPhone)
Minicab?
Travel apps are all the rage, especially when it comes to getting around in the Big Smoke. There are bus checkers and train finders coming out of our app store ears, but the most recent trend has been for getting about in the privacy of a car hired just for you. Yes, we all know [...]
Somerset House venue map marked on Bing as Microsoft’s mobile search focus goes local
INTERVIEW: Bing UK talks to Pocket-lint
You’ll be able to get a much closer look at Somerset House without even needing to set foot in the London from today thanks to Microsoft and its increasingly popular Bing Maps. Head over to the service on either desktop or mobile and you’ll find a detailed floor by floor [...]
Spotify and Last.fm join forces for Kopparberg festival app
Stay mud free this summer
Kopparberg cider is introducing a new music app that means you can enjoy this summer’s musical festivities direct from your computer ?
The Kopparberg Festival Player utilises both <a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45497/spotify-for-ipad-pictures-hands-on” target=”_blank”>Spotify and Last.fm to produce playlists of musical acts who will be playing at this year’s UK festivals before being played [...]
★ Connect the Dots
One year ago, HTC was flying high:
HTC reports that net profits blasted up to $504 million, a 197
percent increase from the previous year. Revenues were in the $3.5
billion range and the company shipped 9.7 million handsets, a 192
percent increase over Q1 of last year.
One month later, HTC announced support for open bootloaders:
“There has been overwhelmingly [...]
Samsung Focus 2 brings 4G speeds to Windows Phone
Focus S successor due 20 May
The Samsung Focus 2 looks to undercut the Windows Phone competition with its AT&T $49.99/month contract deal.
Samsung’s first 4G LTE Windows Phone promises super-fast speeds wrapped up in a slender body. The model is just shy of 11cm long, weighs an ultra-light 121g and comes dressed in a white finish. [...]
TomTom Via 130 is a voice controlled sat nav
“Take me home”
TomTom has unveiled a new mapping device complete with Speak & Go function that enables more than 1,000 different voice commands.
The TomTom Via 130 is a dedicated sat nav kit and with hands-free calling via Bluetooth, drivers can ensure a safer journey, not to mention avoiding any potential points on your licence.
Drivers will [...]
Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay V1 pictures and hands-on
The Apple TV before Apple’s TV
Bang & Olufsen TVs is usually at the higher end of pricing – the much higher end. However, the company has, perhaps, surprised us all with its BeoPlay V1 TV. It sports the same design and aesthetic flair as a normal B&O product, but weighs in at a much lower [...]
Jay Yarow vs. NPD Regarding U.S. Smartphone Market Share for Q1 2012
Jay Yarow does some math and finds that NPD’s report on U.S. smartphone market share doesn’t add up:
Total it all up, and Apple had 63% of the smartphone market on
those three big carriers. Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T account for
~80% of the overall wireless market in the U.S., according to a
Yankee Group report from August.
If Apple [...]
Samsung Galaxy S III available in blue or white leaks in Carphone Warehouse internal systems
Spy shot reveals details
Do you like blue? Or white? Good, because those are the supposed colours the new Samsung Galaxy S III will come in when the phone launches at the Samsung Unpacked Event on Thursday.
That’s according to a leaked photo of a Carphone Warehouse internal ordering system that shows the?Samsung Galaxy S IIII ?as [...]
Microsoft Partners With Barnes and Noble on E-Books
Carl Franzen, reporting for TPM:
Looks like Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have been doing some
reading of ancient proverbs, perhaps specifically: “the enemy of
my enemy is my friend.” […]
Announced Monday, the new partnership is called “Newco,” for the
time being (Barnes & Noble says they haven’t settled on the name).
It sees Microsoft investing $300 million for a [...]
