The Google Chrome Web Store looks like its preparing to go live shortly. The reason for thinking this is that Google [GOOG] has started to ask US developers to start linking their apps up to Google Checkout merchant accounts so that they can preview what the app will look like when it goes live in the store.
Guidelines have also been released by Google to explain the process of uploading to the web store along with details on backgrounds, screenshots as well as icons and promotional images. [Read more…]
You need to have a pinch of salt type mind set when you read this rumour. We hear today that Nokia is looking in to using Windows Phone 7 on some of its smartphones in the near future. The information supposedly comes from Stephen Elop, the new CEO of Nokia, who wants the company to investigate alternative operating systems to use on handsets.
Two weeks ago, we wrote about YouTube Instant.
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg has commented that the company plan to get rid of unlimited data plans with in the next four to six months.
Yesterday, Facebook went down for 2.5 hours. Normally this kind of news wouldn’t be covered here as it’s not that interesting. However, as it’s Facebook that has a good number of servers and infrastructure handling the millions/billions of requests per day we thought we’d mention what actually happened.
Adobe has created a new system for computational photography that uses a plenoptic lens to capture subjects. What makes this particular set up different is that it can capture a subject and then process the photograph afterwords to get the correct part of the picture in focus.
The HTC Desire ROM was ported to the HTC HD2 earlier this week. The team at XDA Developers have now managed to port the same ROM over to the DROID Incredible, the HTC Desire and the EVO 4G.
T-Mobile is beginning to open up pre-orders today for the new T-Mobile G2. The website below shows a pre-order date of September 24 through October 4 followed by a release date of October 6.
We have seen the Samsung Galaxy Tab in other videos. In the past, the videos have just demonstrated the tablet hardware its self and not so much the software that runs on the Tab other than a few glimpses of a few apps.
The WeTab has finally started shipping. The Tablet device is an Atom based MeeGo slate and is available over in Germany with a price tag of 449 for the 16GB model and 669 for the 32GB model which also comes with GPS built in along with 3G/UMTS for connectivity.
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The Sn0wbreeze jailbreak for iOS 4.1 was released recently although the original version 2 caused an error for some users. The error in iTunes was Error 37 that basically stopped the jailbreak process midway.
