Posted on January 15, 2010, at 10:31 AM .
T-Mobile has made a very admirable move by announcing they are waiving international long distance fees for all calls to and from Haiti. “Our company and our employees care deeply for our customers, and we know that many customers have been directly impacted by the disaster in Haiti,” said Robert Dotson, president and CEO, T-Mobile USA. “While our thoughts go out to those in Haiti who are suffering so greatly at this time, our promise is to help people connect with those who matter most. I can think of no better time to demonstrate this commitment.”
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Posted on January 15, 2010, at 10:02 AM .
RIM have filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark office that seeks to speed up your Internet connection by setting up a proxy server on the device. The patent is titled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING NETWORK BROWSING SPEED BY SETTING A PROXY SERVER ON A HANDHELD DEVICE.”
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Posted on January 14, 2010, at 3:46 PM .
Ars Technica is reporting that VeriSign’s iDefense lab has traced the attack on Google and over 30 other companies to the Chinese government. The cyber attack occurred late December and targeted Google and other companies in an attempt to extract information about political dissidents.
The iDefense report points to malicious code that was deployed in PDF files that were crafted to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe’s software. According to the report: “the source IPs and drop server of the attack correspond to a single foreign entity consisting either of agents of the Chinese state or proxies thereof.”
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Posted on January 14, 2010, at 3:10 PM .
It must feel great to have your app surpass a million downloads. I think every company should plan a ceremony for reaching their 1 million mark. At the very least you should ring a gong.
ScoreMobile for BlackBerry has achieved its 1 millionth download recently, bringing them over 40 million monthly page views.
“ScoreMobile makes it simple and easy for users to follow sports in real-time, and is a great example of how the BlackBerry platform can be leveraged to provide an even richer user experience,” said Jeff McDowell, Senior VP, Business Marketing and Alliances, Research In Motion.
Congratulations Score Media!
Posted on January 14, 2010, at 2:06 PM .
According to the Official Google Mobile blog, the Google Mobile App has been updated and you can now search your email and contacts from the app using Google’s advanced search engine. The app lets you type or speak your search query and Google Mobile will search through your emails and contacts and return the results. You can then reply to an email or forward it, depending on what you want to do.
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Posted on January 14, 2010, at 1:14 PM .
Eastman Kodak have announced that it filed lawsuits against both Apple and RIM for infringing on a patent it holds covering a method for previewing images. Kodak has also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission and is looking to get both RIM and Apple to pay license fees. We’re not sure if anything will come of the lawsuit and this is probably the last we’ll hear of it. The worst case scenario is probably going to be an out-of-court settlement.
