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Majority of Smartphone Users Upset with Service, Survey Finds
PUBLISHED: 3/3/2010  BY: Jamison Cush
More than half of smartphone users are disappointed with the performance of their devices, citing issues with streaming media, web browsers, and social networking apps, according to a new survey.
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Teksoft BlueInput Lets Android OS Smartphones Use Bluetooth Keyboards
PUBLISHED: 3/1/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Teksoft has released a Bluetooth driver that allows users to connect a Bluetooth Keyboard to their Android-powered device. BlueInput is relatively inexpensive and works with a variety of smartphones and keyboards.
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Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.2 Released
PUBLISHED: 2/28/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
The latest version of Microsoft's Facebook app for Windows Mobile adds an important feature previously missing: the ability to add comments to posts made by friends.
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Skype Withdraws Its Windows Mobile App, Skype Lite
PUBLISHED: 2/25/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Skype has announced that it has stopped offering the Windows Mobile edition of its VoIP calling app, as well as the Skype Lite edition. Many suspect a recent agreement with Verizon is the reason behind this move.
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Apple Bans Thousands of Risque iPhone Apps
PUBLISHED: 2/24/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
In the last few days, Apple has removed around 5,000 applications from the iPhone App Store because they were judged to be too sexual in nature. However, a recent mover by the company may be a sign that it is going to allow these apps back in.
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Google Earth Now Available for the Android OS
PUBLISHED: 2/23/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
A version of Google Earth has been released for smartphones running Google's own Android OS. This free app acts as a sort of "virtual globe", allowing users to look at satellite images from around the world.
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PocketGear Buys Handango, Merging the Two Largest Cross-Platform App Stores
PUBLISHED: 2/23/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
As of today, PocketGear has acquired Handango, creating the world's largest cross-platform app store with a catalog of more than 140,000 paid and free titles. It offers software for smartphones running the Android OS, Symbian OS, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux, and Java.
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Skyfire Accelerates Developing Web Browser for the Android OS
PUBLISHED: 2/22/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Skyfire has been working on a version of its high-end web browser for Android OS, and to facilitate this process has recently acquired kolbysoft, maker of the Steel browser for Google operating system.
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Video Demo of BlackBerry's Upcoming Advanced Web Browser Now Available
PUBLISHED: 2/19/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
The web browser that is bundled with BlackBerry smartphones lags well behind the ones that are offered with competing devices, but RIM is working to remedy that. A video showing off the next browser for this operating system shows that it will be much more capable.
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Kindle for BlackBerry Brings Amazon's E-Book Store to Millions More Smartphone Users
PUBLISHED: 2/18/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
Amazon.com has just introduced a beta version of Kindle for BlackBerry, a free application that lets customers shop for and read e-books from this online retailer's collection. It gives smartphones many of the features of the Kindle eReader.
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Google Adopts a New Strategy: Mobile First
PUBLISHED: 2/17/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
During his first ever keynote address at the Mobile World Congress 2010 tradeshow, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that more of his company's focus is now on smartphones than on desktops. He summed this up with a new motto: "Mobile First".
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NetFront Web Browser Coming to Google's Android OS
PUBLISHED: 2/17/2010  BY: Ed Hardy
ACCESS Co., Ltd. has announced plans to release a version of its NetFront web browser for Google's Android OS, giving users an additional option for accessing web sites.
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