It’s official. Skype has announced today that it will be launching its popular Voice-over-IP (VOIP) software for the iPhone and iPod Touch tomorrow. VOIP calls via Skype will only work over WiFi, and iPod Touch owners will need earphones with embedded microphone to talk over Skype. Text chat will work on both WiFi and cellular [...]
This week is probably one of the biggest week for game developers because the Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2009 is happening in San Francisco. There are the usual suspects present at the conference: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft – beating the drums around their respective game consoles. Nintendo announced the North America availability of the DSi, [...]
We posted about upcoming Android phones for 2009 back in January, and it’s about time that we provided some update to the previous information that we posted. HTC By now, everything there is to know about the HTC Magic is public knowledge. HTC is launching the phone with Vodafone in April, and could be coming [...]
Apple’s announcement earlier this week about 3.0 OS has a lot of interesting meat in it. One of the most interesting bit is probably the announcement about its upcoming Push Notification system. Here is how it works. For some applications that need to be notified of a certain event when the user has already shut [...]
SkratchBoard.com has had three outages lasting several hours each, in the past 2 weeks. These outages were caused by our web hoster unexplained “incidents”. We decided that we have had enough of it, so we switched web hosting service last night. The migration completed successfully and we are now on our new web hosting service. [...]
Earlier today, Apple previewed its 3.0 OS and SDK. The SDK is available to developers immediately and the new OS software will be available to users “sometime this summer” (our guess would be June). The announcements made today were fairly major, with the updated SDK adding over 1000 new APIs. There are things new for [...]
Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported that they may created a way for lithium ions to move about 100 times faster than previously possible. What that means is that we may soon be able to recharge our lithium ion batteries in seconds instead of hours. This would completely shake up today’s notion of battery [...]
Sometimes, our passion for everything mobile seems irrational even to ourselves. But every time we think about this market, it’s just so damn exciting to us! Mobile devices are changing people’s lives everyday, much like the early days of PCs. Except, mobile phones will impact even more people, and in much deeper ways. Consider these [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we posted about the 3D UI from TAT (the astonishing tribe). Here is another concept UI that they have created that will put your iPhone coolness to shame. Check it out. These are guys are obviously doing some great work here, and doing some great innovation around the mobile user [...]
Apparently, the iPod Shuffle wasn’t small enough for Apple. Today, Apple is introducing its next-generation iPod Shuffle, which is almost half the size of the previous model and with double the capacity of 4GB. Apple was able to make it smaller than ever by moving the controls onto the earphone cord. What’s more, is that [...]
