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Android gaining on iPhone among developers

The Register - Sun, 27/06/2010 - 07:02
Survey finds Google OS is most highly rated for long term outlook in US

The iPhone 4 may be on sale now, but the Android community is doing a good job of keeping quite a lot of the spotlight on itself - mainly thanks to Verizon Wireless' aggressive promotion of its flagship phones, Droid Incredible from HTC and the new Droid X from Motorola. Such efforts are beginning to show results in terms of Android's market share and developer commitments, and could even create some enterprise momentum soon, say analysts.…

Microsoft dubs Windows Phone 7 'ad serving machine'

The Register - Sun, 27/06/2010 - 06:02
Mobile OS to spew out-of-app ads

Microsoft is positioning its upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS, planned for release this October, as an "ad-serving machine."…

Neuroscientist: iPhone 4's 'Retina display' <i>not</i> bullsh*t

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 21:34
Battle of the boffins

Updated An America retinal neuroscientist has focused his boffinistic eye on the iPhone 4's much-touted high-res display, and has come to the conclusion that Apple's claim that the "Retina display's pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels" is true.…

US lawmakers grill Apple on location tracking changes

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 17:41
'Dear Mr. Jobs'

US lawmakers are grilling Steve Jobs over recent tweaks to Apple's privacy policy allowing the company and its partners to collect and share "precise location data" of all iTunes and App Store customers.…

Governments mull net censorship grab

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 13:43
Dot-gays could kill the internet!

Governments working within ICANN are pondering asking for a right of veto on new internet top-level domains, a move that would almost certainly spell doom for politically or sexually controversial TLDs.…

Sorting out the jigsaw that is business mobility?

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 12:29
Do all your pieces fit?

Workshop Most businesses tend to find themselves arriving at a point where they have accumulated a bunch of mobile stuff. Some of it has been brought into the business in a premeditated fashion, while other bits have crept in, in response to personal or group pressure.…

Mobile API standard puffs on last cigarette

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 11:23
OMTP sings WAC me up before you go go

Operator talking shop the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) has sketched out its last three papers before it gets absorbed into the Wholesale Application Community.…

Nokia loses top tech brain

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 11:18
Psion legend joins TomTom

Exclusive One of Britain's top technologists is leaving Nokia. Charles Davies, Psion's first employee in 1981, became MD of Psion Computer before leaving to join Symbian as CTO in 2003. Since Nokia acquired the Symbian staff two years ago, he was heading up the strategy and architecture team for Nokia R&D.…

Jobs tells iPhone users to get a grip

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 10:18
Version 4 not suited to use of opposable thumb

iPhone users having reception problems are just holding the phone wrong, according to Apple, which have released an official fingering guide for those who want to be able to make calls.…

Consumer tech <i>pollutes</i> enterprise IT

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 10:12
Can Cisco hold back the smartphone flood?

People who work for big companies are consistently ignoring the security policies of their employers to use banned social networking apps and their own phones and computers at work.…

Google outs source code for Android 2.2

The Register - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 06:02
Froyo hits Nexus One over the air

Google released the source code for Android 2.2, aka "Froyo", was released on Wednesday, and it's using an over-the-air update to load the new version on existing Nexus One phones.…

Google vanishes Android apps from citizen phones

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 22:37
'Kill switch' in action

Google has reached out over the airwaves and removed a pair of applications from users' Android phones, saying the two apps violated its terms of service.…

Organofunctional silane Z-6011 gives iPhone 4 bad rap

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 22:31
Spot on, spot off

A chemical compound we're willing to bet most Reg readers have never heard of may be responsible for one new-release niggle burning up the intertubes about Apple's new iPhone 4: screen discoloration.…

Motorola punts mega huge Droid phone

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 19:19
Are you macho enough?

Motorola has released its latest Android offering, the Droid Xy, and it's one chunky, funky monkey. Which is a good thing.…

Samsung dev day goes app-tastic

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 15:56
It's a Bada ting

If you weren’t at Samsung’s developer event in London on 18 June, and don’t say we didn’t warn you, then you missed the inside track from Justin Hong, the lead for the bada development platform, who popped in from Korea.…

Ofcom opens Neutrality debate with 'hands off' warning

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 15:27
We've got enough daft laws already, thanks

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Baseball. McCarthyism. Net neutrality. Not all US cultural exports succeed abroad, and the latter has landed with a dull thud in Europe. Ofcom today opened a consultation on net neutrality, but its preferred stance is likely to disappoint the Tin Foil Hat brigade of web activists who created and fomented the issue in the USA.…

Watch where you're treading

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 15:08
It could cost you

Workshop When we asked Reg readers to tell us about their experiences with mobile roaming, quite a few of you came back with some interesting insights. And you're not happy.…

Nokia dumps Symbian on N-series

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 14:47
MeeGo all the way

The Nokia N8, to be released later this year, will be the last N-Series handset running Symbian. From then on it's MeeGo all the way.…

.XXX to get ICANN nod

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 14:12
Porno lobby screwed by expected decision

ICANN plans to give conditional approval to .xxx, the controversial top-level internet domain just for porn, 10 years after it was first proposed.…

3 offers best iPhone deal

The Register - Thu, 24/06/2010 - 12:56
But no one has any stock

So now we know - there is to be no price war over the iPhone 4. But operator 3, which became the latest UK network to unveil its pricing, has opted for much more generous bundles than the competition – and a significantly lower upfront Apple tax.…

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