VoiceCentral Black Swan Brings Google Voice to the iPhone

Riverturn has entered into the Google Voice for iPhone arena with it’s latest offering VoiceCentral Black Swan. Google Voice and iPhone have a long history together and it has not been pretty, until now that is.

Black Swan is an application you can get outside of the App Store and you do not need to have a jailbroken device. It is not a web app like the official Google solution but rather a feature rich “weblication” that enables you to view ..read more

Biking Directions Coming to Mobile Google Maps. Eventually

Today Google announced a new feature for Google Maps that allows users to route directions for a bicycle. Biking directions offers a lot of ways to get from point A to point B by taking advantage of trails, known …(follow link to read)

Mobile Face-Off: Apple vs. Microsoft

Apple has gotten vigilant in defensive its pioneering iPhone lawn on the exposed frontier of the mobile Internet. But the patent infringement lawsuits against handset creators Nokia(NOK) and HTC are watching like a warm-up battle before the big showdown with goliaths Google and Microsoft. Apple is squaring off against “potential heavyweights” that want to make “iPhone-like” devices, says Oppenheimer (Read More)

Apple vs. HTC Lawsuit a Warning Shot to Disrupt Competitors?

Fortune quotes Oppenheimer’s Yair Reiner, who thinks Apple’s patent infringement suit against Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone manufacturer HTC was a warning shot meant to disrupt competitors’ roadmaps:

“Starting in January, Apple launched a series of C-Level discussions with tier-1 handset makers to underscore its growing displeasure at seeing its iPhone-related IP [intellectual property] infringed. The lawsuit filed against HTC thus appears to be Apple’s way of putting a public, lawyered-up exclamation point on a series of blunt conversations that ..read more

Android Develops Enhanced OpenGL Support

Google today released the Android Native Development Kit revision 3 (NDK r3), offering expanded capabilities to Android developers. Most interesting to end users is probably enhanced support for OpenGL ES 2.0, now offering improved graphics rendering through vertex and …(follow link to read)

Apple’s market lucks: Do they need a Verizon iPhone or the 4G now?

Up till newly Apple had observed irresistible in the market for cell phones, but latest statistics released divulge that Google Android are starting to make an influence on their lead. Android gadgets, for instance the Nexus One and Droid are now doing well even though the Apple iPhone is still at the topmost of the (Read More)

Be a great Android designer, get a free Android handset

Word cycling around the Internets is that Google is giving away Droid and Nexus One smartphones for free to Android creators who have nonetheless one app that’s scored 3.5 stars or superior and over 5,000 unique downloads. And for once, everyone appears on the same page as to why this is virtuous. First, gratifying creators for abundant (Read More)

iPad SDK Settings: Tethering, Voice Mail, MMS, Wikipedia Search

9to5Mac is yet again delving deep into the iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad and this time they’ve turned up settings for internet tethering, voice mail, and MMS settings, as well as a search option for Wikipedia.

Again, whether or not this is legacy code from the iPad’s iPhone heritage, or potential future features we have no way of knowing. Being able to tether to the iPad would be good (at least for international users, since AT&T doesn’t even support iPhone ..read more

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

T-Mobile Trades In Yahoo for Google

T-Mobile USA has called off its year-long exclusive search deal with Yahoo and has replaced it with Google. The deal was completed recently and Google replaced Yahoo as the default search engine on T-Mobile handsets approximately March 3. Phone …(follow link to read)

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