Microsoft Lays IE6 To Rest In The United States
Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that Internet Explorer 6's share of the United States Web browser marker is now less than 1%. In celebration of the stat,…
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Rooted BlackBerry PlayBook Tablets Now Have Access To Android Apps
Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet became the first BlackBerry device to be rooted this past November, granting users access to the device's file system…
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Former Palm Execs Say webOS Was Doomed From The Beginning
HP recently made the decision to open source webOS, the mobile operating system it acquired when it bought Palm in April, 2010. While it's arguable…
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Samsung: Galaxy S And Galaxy Tab Will Not Receive Ice Cream Sandwich
We hate to be the bearer of bad news during the holidays, but Samsung has announced that it will not update the Galaxy Tab or…
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Rhapsody President Shaves Head As Service Tops 1 Million Paid U.S. Subscribers
Rhapsody announced on Thursday that it now has more than 1 million paying subscribers in the United States. The company claims it is now the…
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Kindle For iOS Updated With PDF, Newspaper And Magazine Support
Amazon updated its Kindle application for iOS devices on Wednesday with support for PDF files as well as newspaper and magazine subscriptions. A Kindle user…
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Spotify For BlackBerry Now Available... With A Catch
Spotify announced on Wednesday that its BlackBerry client is now out of beta and officially available for download. Spotify is a free ad-supported desktop music…
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Microsoft Says CES 2012 Will Be Its Last Year At The Show [Updated]
Microsoft said on Wednesday that this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) in Las Vegas will be the last time the company hosts a keynote…
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Google Freezes Nexus S Ice Cream Sandwich Rollout In Some Areas
Nexus S owners may notice that the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, which began rolling out on Friday, isn't properly installing after the…
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Gamefly Launches Free 'Unlimited PC Play' Public Beta
Gamefly announced on Tuesday that its "Unlimited PC Play" beta client is now available for free for all Gamefly members. We first heard about Gamefly's…
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Chrome 15 Surpasses IE 8 As World's Most Popular Browser
Google's Chrome 15 browser is now the most popular browser build in the world. New data from StatCounter suggests that Chrome 15 recently reached a…
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Nokia To Issue Lumia 800 Battery Fix Early Next Year
Nokia's European support team has issued an official statement to those who have a Lumia 800 with poor battery life. "We immediately started to investigate…
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Adobe Updates Flash To 11.1 With Support For Ice Cream Sandwich
Adobe announced an update to its Flash Player on Friday that provides support for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Prior to Friday, Flash was not…
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Sony, NBC Universal And Fox Employees Caught Illegally Using BitTorrent
Considering all of the concerns major music and movie studios have over piracy and file sharing, one would think the studios could at least manage…
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Android Ranked Most 'Closed' Open Source OS [Infographic]
A new report has ranked Google's Android operating system the most "closed" open source platform among eight major open source projects. VisionMobile on Monday published The…
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Apple's Mac App Store Passes 100 Million Downloads
Apple's Mac App Store hasn't changed the industry quite like its iOS App Store did three years ago, but the Cupertino-based company on Monday announced that…
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HP Cuts Its Losses, Makes webOS Open Source
Hewlett-Packard on Friday announced that is is contributing its webOS platform to the open source software community. The company confirmed that it would not build…
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Instagram CEO: Android App On The Way
Speaking during the LeWeb conference in Paris on Wednesday, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed that an Android version of the company's popular iOS application is…
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Available Apps Across Major Mobile Platforms Approaching Million-App Milestone
The total number of mobile applications available across the top-four smartphone platforms in the world is now approaching the 1 million-app milestone, further highlighting the rapid…
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RIM Responds To PlayBook Root, Says Investigation Is Underway
A group of security researchers recently demonstrated on video that they have successfully gained root access to the QNX-based operating system found on Research In…
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Chrome Usage Surpasses Firefox For The First Time
Google's Chrome web browser surpassed Mozilla's Firefox in global browser market share for the first time ever in November. Research firm StatCounter found that Chrome's…
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Hands On With Spotify's Brand New App Platform [Video]
Spotify's New York City press conference just wrapped up and we spent some time checking out several of the popular music service's new apps. There's…
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HP To Decide Fate Of webOS Within Two Weeks
Hewlett-Packard's webOS hardware is dead and buried but the fate of the platform itself remains to be determined. HP may hold on to the OS…
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Siri's First Real Competition Hits Android Phones Today [Video]
Apple's Siri represents the birth of a new breed of voice-controlled smartphone assistant services, and it is only a matter of time before other companies…
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Microsoft Lync Coming Soon To Windows Phone, Android, BlackBerry, And iOS
Microsoft will soon launch Lync enterprise chat applications for iOS, Windows Phone, Android and BlackBerry devices. Australian tech enthusiast Gary Holden asked Microsoft's official Australia Twitter…
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Apple iOS 5.0.2 Update Reportedly Delayed Due To Memory Leak Issues
Apple has reportedly delayed the release of iOS 5.0.2, German-language technology blog Macerkopf.de said on Monday. Rumors surfaced last week suggesting that Apple was preparing to…
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No Adobe Flash Support In Ice Cream Sandwich... For Now
If you thought, like us, that Google's Ice Cream Sandwich operating system would still support Adobe's mobile Flash Player, think again. It turns out the…
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