iPhone Games Can be Ported to Palm webOS PDK in “Days”? — The Competition

It seems like Palm’s new webOS PDK (plug-in development kit) can be used to port over iPhone games in a matter of days — or even hours. Given how fast some iPhone games have turned up on the Palm Pre we’ve kind of suspect there was a little something something going on behind the screen, and our sibling site PreCentral.net confirmed it by way of Digital Daily’s pre-GDC coverage.

As just mentioned, I’ll be at GDC to have a look at ..read more

Best of Smartphone Experts, 7 Mar 2010

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All CrackBerry.com Gets For it’s 3rd Birthday is… a BlackBerry Slider?! — The Competition

CrackBerry.com celebrates its 3rd birthday this week… and all they get is a BlackBerry Slider?!

First, we’d like to wish our sibling site, and best frenemy forever, CrackBerry.com and their fearless leader, CrackBerry Kevin a very happy 3rd birthday! They’re the #1 site for BlackBerry users… and abusers! for a reason, and they’re giving away a TON of free stuff to celebrate. If you have a BlackBerry in your other pocket, or know someone who rocks the pushy keyboard, get on ..read more

Games Way More Popular on iPhone than Other Smartphones

Anyone surprised that games are way more popular on the iPhone than on competing plaforms? Mplayit has put out some interesting stats, not only on what apps are popular with their Facebook sharing users, but what kinds of apps are popular on the various platforms they monitor. While on Android and BlackBerry, non-game apps account for 83% and 67% of popular titles, on the iPhone they’re only 36%. That leaves 64% for games.

That might be a concern, frankly, if the ..read more

RIM Makes BESX Available for Free Download

Today Research In Motion made its BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX) software free to download. It offers many of the secure features that are included in the full BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) suite, but dials down on many of …(follow link to read)

PocketGear Acquires Handango, Creates Super Apps Store

Today PocketGear announced that it has acquired long-time mobile apps provider Handango. Combined, the two companies now offer over 140,000 applications to most mobile platforms around the globe, including devices that run Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux, …(follow link to read)

Does Apple Have to Worry About Fakes?

A very noble friend returned from a latest trip to China and named it the country of fakes – from Apple to Blackberry, China had all the recent models of mobile handsets cloned and selling at beneath half their original prices. They’re not precisely the same as the prototypes obviously, though they look blindingly similar (Read More)

TiPb Live #87 — Macworld 2010

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Join Chad, Mickey, Leanna, and Rene for our Macworld 2010 wrap-up, WinPho7s, BlackBerry, and Android thoughts from Mobile World Congress, and iPhone 4.0 predictions! Listen in!

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Smart Phones Knock PCs from Top of Tech Food Chain

The epoch of the PC’s supremacy is formally over. We have traversed over into the age of mobile computing. This transition has been constructing impetus for a while. Some might claim that the iPhone was the origin of this period. Others might say it was actually the increase of the BlackBerry. Or maybe even Android, Google’s (Read More)

BlackBerry creator frets about bandwidth crisis

The high bandwidth usage of smartphones could bring about a “capacity crunch” on worldwide networks that can only be solved by a more painstaking tactic to stratagem and application growth. Or so says Mike Lazardis, the CEO of BlackBerry-maker Investigation in Motion. In an interview for Reuters, Lazardis is cited as saying that United States is (Read More)

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