Research in Motion has launched a new service called BlackBerry Protect. It’s a free service for BlackBerry users that allows you to backup your contacts, calendars, tasks, bookmarks, and text messages to the web for safe keeping. If you lose your phone or upgrade to a new device, all of your data should be easily […]
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mSpot launches movie rental service for the iPad
About a month after launching a movie streaming app for Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, and iPhone, mSpot has launched a new version optimized for the Apple iPad. What sets mSpot’s service apart from other solutions such as the Netflix iPad app is that mSpot doesn’t charge a monthly fee — instead you can rent movies for […]
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Google App Inventor will let anyone build Android apps, no programming skills required
The Google Android Market has somewhere around 100,000 apps today. That’s still less than half the number of apps you can find in the iTunes App Store, but the Android Market is growing at a ridiculously fast pace and could overtake the App Store pretty soon — and Google has launched a new tool that […]
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Google Android 2.2 comes (unofficially) to the HTC Dream, Magic
The HTC Dream and Magic (also known as the G1 and MyTouch) were two of the first GoogleAndroid powered phones to hit the market. At almost two years old, these models don’t have the speediest processors, the largest amounts of memory, or any other superlative you can think of. But you know what? It turns […]
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PlayOn bringing Hulu to iPhone
Hulu may have recently launched an app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. But you need to pony up $10 per month for a Hulu Plus subscription to get the most out of it. Starting next week, there will be another way to watch content from Hulu (and other sources including Netflix and Amazon […]