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Facebook May Doom Little Guys With Mobile 'Deals'

Kevin Spak — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:32:42 CDT

Facebook rolled out some new mobile features yesterday, most notably “Facebook Deals,” a kind of mashup of Foursquare/Gowalla, and Groupon. Users can check in on Facebook Places and get location-sensitive deals from nearby merchants. The Gap, for example, will give out a free pair of jeans to the first 10,...

Steve Jobs: Why I Hate Flash

Kevin Spak — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:16:21 CDT

You've got it all wrong; Apple isn't the closed system picking on the open Adobe's Flash; Flash is the closed system, Steve Jobs argues, in an open letter explaining why Apple has kicked Flash off the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. He complains that Flash is “100% proprietary,” rather than an...

Mossberg Picks iPhone Apps

Nick McMaster — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:22:47 CDT

Impressed with Apple's spread of iPhone apps, Wall Street Journal tech gurus Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret list their favorites. AOL Radio: The best Internet radio player for the iPhone Evernote: A good port of the elegant note-taking program Instapaper: Instantly download Web pages for offline reading. Travelocity TravelTools: Allows...

The Best iPhone Apps

Nick McMaster — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:02 CDT

The best part about the iPhone 3G's debut, writes PC Magazine , is the new abundance of software for the handset. Most of the apps work on the original iPhone, too. The cream of the crop: AIM: Should need no introduction, although it was a major omission from the original iPhone's...

Google Phones Running Behind Schedule

Kevin Spak — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:15:09 CDT

It turns out revolutionizing the mobile-phone industry isn’t as easy as Google thought it would be. The first phones to bear the search giant’s much-anticipated Android platform won’t ship until the fourth quarter, the Wall Street Journal reports, because carriers are having trouble customizing the software. Many despair of having...

Android Bugs Developers

Jim O'Neill — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:28:14 CST

Google may have millions of answers, but software developers say the company’s ballyhooed mobile phone software, Android, misses the mark. “It’s clearly not ready for primetime,” says one Seattle-based designer who’s struggled for weeks with bugs and poor documentation, reports the Wall Street Journal . He’s not alone, as a slew...