In early September, Google unveiled its new "Google Instant" search initiative. If you’ve been using Google Instant in your computer’s web browser, you’ll have noticed that your search results change and update in real-time as you type your search terms.
The same feature is now available for iPhone and Android devices, though its
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Facebook launched a whole heaping helping of mobile stuff today. Fun fact: President Obama had the audacity to hold a live press conference at the same time. What’s with that guy?! And the Giants had their World Series parade at the same time. What’s with those guys?!
Here’s what’s coming from …
If your AT&T phone drops a call or connects to the web more slowly than normal, complaining about it on Twitter might actually help.
AT&T researcher Jia Wang has published a paper (PDF file) outlining how her company scours Twitter for certain “mobile related words such as phone, mobile, 3G, edge, etc.” paired with certain …
Remember the 58-inch Table Connect for iPhone post from last Friday? As promised, there’s now a video demo of the table in action.
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As some skeptical YouTube commenters have pointed out, the demonstrator appears to hit the power button on his iPhone at the same time he launches …
News of Google’s browser-based Chrome operating system has been quiet lately. Perhaps a little too quiet. DigiTimes looks to shake things up with a rumor that Google may roll out its own smartbook running Chrome OS before the end of the year—maybe even sometime this month.
“Sources from component players” in Asia are apparently …
Sweet merciful crap, look at this thing. It’s called the Table Connect for iPhone and it’s apparently set to launch in four days. Well, at least there will be a “video demo launch” in four days, according to the site.
How much will it cost? Who knows. Too much for most people, I’m guessing. It’s basically going to be a big, …
If there’s one thing that’s kept most of us from climbing Mount Everest, it’s been the total lack of 3G service. What’s the point if you can’t tweet, "Climbing #Everest today. Totes miz, but totes worth it LMAO!" along the way? If you don’t put it on Twitter or Facebook, it never happened.
Luckily, mobile provider Ncell just installed a
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You may recall a post earlier in the month concerning some 15 million Verizon customers being charged between $2 and $6 each for “data sessions on their phones that they did not initiate.”
After receiving hundreds of complaints, the FCC decided to investigate the “mystery fees” and today announced that Verizon would have to pay $25 …
Amazon has announced that its Kindle software will be available for Windows Phone 7 handsets “later this year.” No exact availability date is mentioned in the company’s press release, though Amazon contends that the free app “will be the first major eBook application available for Windows Phone 7.”
Kindle for Windows Phone 7 will …
Your car is a big computer of sorts, your cell phone is a small computer of sorts; why not connect the two? That’s the promise of AutoBot, a $300 device that hooks into your vehicle’s OBD-II connector and relays diagnostic information to your cell phone, integrates with mapping functions, and lets you start and unlock your car …
T-Mobile: Wednesday, November 10th
Price: $399.99 with a two-year contract
Data plans: $25/month for 200MB, $40/month for 5GB
Verizon: Thursday, November 11th
Price: $599.99 with no contract
Data plans: $20/month for 1GB, $35/month for 3GB, $50/month for 5GB
Sprint: Sunday, November 14th
Price: $399.99 with a two-year …
Engadget swears up and down that “the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you’ve long been waiting for.”
If it’s real, the Sony Ericsson-made phone is said to likely run the next major version of Android (3.0), sport a 1GHz processor, multitouch touchpad, and feature direct downloads of PSP games just like the PSP Go …
