Palm announced today that its new Software Development Kit for the Pre is now available to all interested app developers, following an early access program that has been limited to a few Palm partners since April. The company has rushed to ...Read More
The 10.6.2 update for Snow Leopard didn't include Atom chipset support, so it wouldn't work on hackintoshes—but didn't keep enterprising hackers from finding a workaround. They promised it last week, and now they've delivered: Atom support is back, although apparently ...Read More
At PDC, Microsoft talked about what the next version of its browser will bring to the world. IE9 will contain a new emphasis on performance and graphics, and should make the browser far more competitive with its competitors.
The first information ...Read More
It's the month of Motorola Droid, a smartphone powered by Verizon Wireless and Google’s Android 2.0 operating system. And by all accounts, things have been going pretty swimmingly. A quarter of a million people purchased Droid phones last week alone, ...Read More
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is witnessing a sharp downturn in his political fortunes, imperiling his standing as the presumptive next senator from Florida and leaving Washington and Tallahassee wondering if the seemingly invincible Republican has lost his way.
Even after a ...Read More
It looks like retailers are going to have to do what Palm won't: Make the Palm Pixi genuinely cheap, or at least cheaper than the Pre. For example! Walmart's already cut the Pixi's price from $100 to $30—pre-launch.
The $30 Pixis ...Read More
Palm's Pixi smartphone launches this weekend: the smaller, cheaper baby sister to Palm's Pre and another Palm smartphone exclusive to Sprint in the U.S. But what should be a celebratory event for Palm is instead reviving the question of whether ...Read More
Mobile handset maker Samsung is not happy with just churning out new phones. The company is making a play for a bigger position in the mobile ecosystem with the launch of a new platform.
Called Samsung bada, the platform will allow ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry phones, on Monday announced plans to make it easier to create games and other software for the phones. At the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco, RIM said it ...Read More
Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry phones, on Monday announced plans to make it easier to create games and other software for the phones. At the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco, RIM said it would support OpenGL, ...Read More
On its fifth birthday, Firefox must be considered both an incredible success and somewhat of a failure. The open source Web browser is a great product and quite an achievement, but has not tremendously advanced the cause of "free" software.
Indeed, ...Read More
Five years ago today, Mozilla released Firefox 1.0. Ars celebrates the occasion by taking a trip back in time to revisit our classic coverage of the original release.
Five years ago today, Mozilla announced the official release of Firefox 1.0. The ...Read More
Verizon Wireless starts selling its first Android phone, the Droid ("by Motorola") today. I've been using with a unit loaned to me by Verizon for a week, and remain mostly impressed: The Droid couples impressive hardware with the much-improved Android ...Read More
As Jon Stewart put it, "so when does 'hope' turn into 'change'?" As Arianna points out, we still don't know. To any outside observer it sure looks like Obama has lost his campaign mojo and gotten crushed in the whinging ...Read More
481 days. That's how long it took the App Store (AAPL) to go from opening its virtual doors with 500 applications on July 11, 2008 to a catalog of more than 100,000 applications downloaded more than 2 billion times. Not surprisingly, ...Read More
Motorola and Verizon have pulled out all the stops to position Droid as a viable competitor to Apple's mighty iPhone. And why shouldn't they? Both companies need a smartphone hit, they're both backing a hot horse with a phone based ...Read More
The Palm Pre is out of sync with Apple's iTunes software yet again.
Apple's latest version of iTunes (9.0.2) rolled out Thursday evening breaks the Palm Pre's ability to sync with iTunes software. The development should be no surprise to Palm ...Read More
As Pre Central notes, plugging in a Pre with Media Mode will launch the app, but the device won't actually appear in the iTunes side bar. Will Palm fire back once again? If the past is any indication, heck yes ...Read More
So Verizon's Droid is official, and officially arriving a week from Friday. I'm smart enough to know it's pointless to call any phone an iPhone killer, or even a potential iPhone killer-and that competing with the iPhone is much more ...Read More
From smartphones to e-readers, Google Android is everywhere now, and with the much-ballyhooed release of a software development kit (SDK) for Android 2.0, Google is timing its mobile platform to get as much as exposure as possible in a critical ...Read More
The software developer's kit for version two of Google's Android platform is now available, with handsets coming soon, but upgrades for existing users less certain. Verizon are expected to launch an Android 2.0 handset imminently, and Samsung took the opportunity of ...Read More
