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Article | 23/12/2009 iPhone 3GS tames Unreal Engine 3

What's glass-covered and architectonically gothic and smooth as black ice? Bonus points for guessing the Vatican inside a snow globe, but if you said ...

Article | 23/12/2009 Mobile device shipments to double by 2015

2009 will see a total of 1.2 billion mobile devices shipped, including all categories of wireless devices such as mobile phones, MIDs (Mobile Internet...

Article | 22/12/2009 Android eats iPhone market share in five years

Mobile application downloads will reach five billion by 2014, say analysts at ABI Research. This is an increase from an estimated 2.3 billion applicat...

Article | 22/12/2009 China Telecom to offer BlackBerry services

China Telecom plans to offer service for the popular BlackBerry handset from Research In Motion (RIM), the company said Tuesday, making it the second ...

Article | 22/12/2009 Texting drivers are more dangerous than talkers

You obviously don't need to be told that texting and driving are two complex tasks that don’t mix well. But a new study by University of Utah research...

Article | 22/12/2009 Motorola's Android tablet: a peek at the possibilities

Leaked pictures and specifications of a Motorola tablet running Google Android have been doing the rounds online this weekend. The mysterious 3G devic...

Article | 22/12/2009 Verizon forcing Microsoft Bing search on BlackBerry users

BlackBerry smartphone users on Verizon Wireless's U.S. cellular network may have noticed a small but significant change within their mobile web browse...

Article | 22/12/2009 Cell phone cancer warning proposed by Maine state legislator

A Maine state legislator wants cell phones in the state to carry labels warning of brain cancer risks due to electromagnetic radiation. And the propos...

Article | 22/12/2009 India's 3G spectrum auction on schedule

The auction of 3G spectrum and operating licenses in India will be held as planned on Jan. 14, the country's Minister of Communications and IT, A. Ra...

Article | 22/12/2009 Android for business? 5 reasons to think again

Businesses considering Android as a corporate handset standard should consider the decision carefully, because it may prove hard to justify later on.

Article | 19/12/2009 Adult Swim's My Lil' Bastard coming to iPhone next week

Adult Swim Games is slowly porting all of its most popular Flash games to the iPhone. Amateur Surgeon has already proven to be very popular, as has 5 ...

Article | 21/12/2009 Droid multitouch enhanced by add-on

The Motorola Droid might be partially responsible for a huge jump in consumer awareness and popularity of the Android operating system, but there is s...

Article | 20/12/2009 Bluetooth 4.0 Spec Finalized

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) revealed this Thursday a host of new innovations to be featured its next iteration of the popular Bluetooth...

Article | 18/12/2009 EA reveals The Simpsons Arcade for iPhone

It's a throwback to the old arcade games based on The Simpsons in the 1990s, but it's on a very new platform.

Article | 18/12/2009 Apple's iPhone takes No. 2 user base slot in U.S.

Apple's iPhone user base is now the second-largest in the U.S. smartphone market, passing Windows Mobile-based models to slip into the spot behind Res...

Article | 18/12/2009 Google dashboard shows Android fragmentation

Google is providing developers with a dashboard that is aimed at helping them decide which versions of the software to support and that shows the frag...

Article | 18/12/2009 Ericsson demos HSPA at 42 Mbps

Ericsson has demonstrated one part of the technology that will make speeds of up to 42 Mbps (bits per second) possible in 3G networks. However, a lot ...

Article | 17/12/2009 Android Market hits 20,000 apps milestone

Google's mobile app store, the Android Market, has doubled in size in the last five months, and now hosts more than 20,000 applications, according to ...

Article | 17/12/2009 Google's Nexus One specs leaked

Even if Google employees have kept mum about Nexus One specifics, ROM hackers have been able to dig deep into the phone's system files to reveal the ...

Article | 17/12/2009 Bing gets an iPhone app

Those who want a little less Google on their iPhones will soon be able to put a lot more Bing on their handsets. Microsoft is prepping a Bing iPhone a...