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Last week Apple surprised the iPhone’s developer community with the annoucement that it was finally allowing free apps to offer in-app purchases. The move will likely lead to a fundamental shift in the way developers conduct businesss on the App Store (we’ve already begun to see some changes). I sat down with SGN CEO Shervin [...]

VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat. DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon Valley’s most dynamic startups and developers: How to get your social game or mobile application noticed in an age of noise? It will be held in the afternoon of Dec. 8 at the Automattic Lounge on [...]

by James – on January 4th, 2011 WiFi-enabled SD cards came first. Then you added GPS. Now, it is Eye-Fi up to 11 once again with a cool gaggle of iPhone and iPad apps as well as a direct transfer functions for easy backup. With the idea to make it easier and easier EyeFi direct [...]

After weeks of speculation, followed by a real announcement, followed by more waiting, Motorola and Verizon have finally released the Droid, the supposed iPhone-killer which is the first device using version 2.0 of Google’s Android operating system. The reviews have been positive so far, with gadget king Walt Mossberg calling it “a more credible alternative [...]

One of the most popular iPhone clones is the CECT i9, which has become a preferred choice for many. The new iPhone clone supports Java, which means the downloading of third party software that can comfortably allow the availability of new functions. As a result many of the windows applications, that was missing in previous [...]

Earlier this week, I was in Kunshan, China, to attend the 3G Industry Summit [CN], a four-day event that has attracted a few dozen speakers and an audience of over 200 people, making it one of the biggest of its kind in this country. The annual event is organized by the Kunshan government and Mobile [...]

The worldwide handset market appears to be coming out of its funk, but that’s not entirely good news if you’re a phone maker. The top five worldwide manufacturers saw a combined 7 percent year-over-year decrease in handset volumes during the third quarter, according to a report from Deutsche Bank this morning, with 228 million handsets [...]

Sharpcast’s SugarSync, an application that synchronizes data across desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, and even televisions, is rolling out a service designed specifically for businesses. As people split up their digital lives across devices and the Web, allows you to back-up any kind of digital file, including videos, spreadsheets, photos and documents, in the cloud [...]

by Mark R – on Wednesday, 6. January 2011 In general I am very satisfied with what I every year see parrot at CES. Last year it was the AR.Drone, and this year it is the ASTEROID. The ASTEROID is a car receiver working on Android operating system. When connected to a GPS dongle that [...]

This followup to the Android 2.0 screenshots gives us a hands-on look at the Motorola Droid. Slightly thicker than the iPhone 3G S, this smartphone is powered by a 600-MHz TI OMAP3430 CPU and comes with a cradle that turns it into a multimedia station. Click here for first picture in gallery. Awesome capacitive display. [...]