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• Apple sues HTC for patent infringement
  Mar 02 2010
  By Boy Genius Report
  After talking to HTC when they were giving us a preview of the HTC Hero a while back, we asked about multitouch and why they finally decided to include it. More or less, the response we received was that HTC and their legal team felt confident about including it, and with other competitors like Palm...
• Get the Windows Phone 7 Series user interface on your Windows phone now
  Feb 27 2010
  By WMExperts
  We still don't have a clear picture if the new Windows Phone 7 Series operating system (also known as Metro) will actually be made available on any current hardware (the HTC HD2 is a possibility, but its standing changes day by day). But you might be able to at least make your phone look like it's...
• Windows Phone 7 Series Upgrades: Now not possible?
  Mar 01 2010
  By WMExperts
  Last week we heard from Microsoft that some Windows Mobile 6.5 phones may be upgradeable to Windows Phone 7 Series. This brought a glimmer of hope that more recent Windows Phone releases could be upgraded to the new OS. Today we are hearing the opposite from Microsoft, in particular about the HTC...
• On Android's Fragmentation
  Mar 01 2010
  By Google Operating System
  Many Android users complained that Google products like the mobile version of Google Buzz or Google Earth require Android 2.0 or Android 2.1, even if most people can't upgrade to the latest Android version without buying a new phone.Robin, a Google employee that answers questions in the Google Mobil...
• Google Buys Picnik
  Mar 01 2010
  By Google Operating System
  It's difficult to understand why Google didn't develop an online photo editor: it would've integrated with Picasa Web Albums, Google Docs and other Google services. Right now, Picasa Web Albums is just an online extension of Picasa, a popular software that lets you manage your photos. Unlike Picasa...
• Google and Antitrust Accusations
  Feb 25 2010
  By Google Operating System
  Google's popularity in search has been a constant problem in the recent years, especially for competitors and authorities. Some even called Google a search monopoly, even if there are many other search engines. Changing your search engine is certainly easier than switching to a new browser or a new...
• Better Gmail Search
  Feb 25 2010
  By Google Operating System
  Gmail's blog announced that 6 labs features have graduated (Search Autocomplete, Go To Label, Forgotten Attachment Detector, YouTube Previews, Custom Label Colors, Vacation Dates), while 5 other features are retired from Gmail Labs (Muzzle, Fixed Width Font, Email Addict, Location in Signature, Rand...
• Wireless carrier congestion a product of how your phone connects, not that it is connected?
  Feb 23 2010
  By Boy Genius Report
  Ars Technica has posted an interesting article, speculating that wireless carrier network congestion (especially in the case of ATT) may not have so much to do with how much bandwidth your device is consuming, but rather how your smartphone is connecting to the network. Typically, when a phone ne...
• Microsoft and Yahoo search deal approved by the US and the EU
  Feb 19 2010
  By Boy Genius Report
  Last July, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a search deal that would bring Bing to Yahoo, Yahoo to Bing, and place Yahoo in charge of the big advertisement deals for the two search engines. After simmering in the regulatory system for seven long months, the partnership has finally received approval fro...
• School Accused of Secretly Spying on Students Through Laptop Webcams
  Feb 18 2010
  By Mashable!
  File under: “Extremely Creepy” — BoingBoing reports that a recent case filing in Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District, a Pennsylvania school, is a class action suit on behalf of students with school-issued laptops whose webcams have been used to watch the students and their families at ho...
• Sony Ericsson CEO: Google asked us to build the Nexus One, we refused
  Feb 18 2010
  By Engadget
  Aw, why don't these CEOs say stuff like this in press conferences? Sony Ericsson's head Bert Nordberg has shared with Swedish publication Sydsvenskan the rather salacious news that his company was asked to build the so-called Google phone before HTC... and it turned down the opportunity. Fearing br...
• Apple will use FairPlay DRM instead of Adobe DRM on iPad ebooks
  Feb 19 2010
  By Boy Genius Report
  Computer World is reporting that Apple Inc. will offer its own brand of digital rights management (DRM) software to iPad ebook publishers to protect their digital books on the iPad; this is in lieu of the DRM system setup by Adobe. The Adobe DRM schema — although not the standard — would allow...
• Apple drops the ban hammer on iPhone hackers
  Feb 15 2010
  By Boy Genius Report
  No doubt Apple is leery of having its iPhone OS so easily and frequently hacked (its notoriously weak security being one of the many reasons the iPhone has yet to really take off in the corporate world), but Cupertino’s latest security precaution isn’t likely to win any favor. Just days after a...
• Google Buzz class action suit filed
  Feb 18 2010
  By Boy Genius Report
  There was a lash, then a back lash, and now…a class action law suit. Google Inc. has been named in a class action suit filed in San Jose (CA) federal court alleging that Google broke the law when, via its new social platform Buzz, it disclosed the personal information of Gmail users without conse...
• Google Maps Labs
  Feb 12 2010
  By Google Operating System
  When a product doesn't have many users, it's easy to add new features, even if they're still experimental. But how can you test new features in popular services like Gmail, Google Docs or Blogger? One solution is to launch a labs section with experimental features that can be enabled by early adopte...
• Google Buys Aardvark
  Feb 13 2010
  By Google Operating System
  Google acquired Aardvark, a start-up that helps you find answers to your questions in an interesting way."Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. Send Aardvark a question (from the web, IM, email, Twitter, or iPhone) and y...
• Google Buzz Tips
  Feb 13 2010
  By Google Operating System
  Here are some tips that help you use Google Buzz in new interesting ways.1. Send direct messages.If you'd like to send a private message to someone, type @ and use Gmail's autocomplete feature to find the email address of your contact. After typing the message, make sure that the private option is s...
• Server Clipboard in Google Docs
  Feb 16 2010
  By Google Operating System
  Bogdan, a reader of this blog, spotted a new Google Docs feature: server clipboard. It seems to be an implementation of Google Cloudboard, an online clipboard that should help you copy content between Google services like Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Docs. Cloudboard should make it easy to copy...
• Google. No Configuration Needed
  Feb 17 2010
  By Google Operating System
  Google usually releases products that don't require a lot of configuration. Sometimes Google's services try to be clever and use some existing data to derive the settings. Here are some examples of features that would normally require user input, but Google decided that it's not necessary:1. Google...
• Seriously, all you iPhone users out there ...
  Feb 12 2010
  By WMExperts
   No longer is any iPhone user allowed to make fun of any Windows Mobile user -- or anyone else, for that matter -- who choses to use a stylus. (Thanks to everyone who sent this in. Really.)