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Ilium Software Interview: Is The Number of Different Mobile Platforms Sustainable?

This is part five of five parts of my interview with Ellen Craw of Ilium Software. Click to read: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four.

Use AppBrain To Manage Android Apps

Earlier this week I wrote about Android Tapp, which provides a desktop web front-end to the Android Market that makes it easier to find and install new applications on Android phones.

Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator Gives Us A Better Picture

If you aren't turned off by all of the negative news about Windows Phone 7 Series that came out this week, and you are eager to learn all you can about this new mobile phone software from Microsoft, you will find several videos and screenshots done by PocketNow using the emulator that is part of the developer tools.

Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps

Developers eager to have their apps in the iPad App Store when the iPad launches need to get their work completed and submitted to Apple by 5 PM, Saturday, March 27.

Google Buzz Widget for Android is Essentially Write-Only - Kind of Useless

I use a lot of Google products including a pair of Android based phones. But, two recent products have left me puzzled: Wave and Buzz.

Will the Roewe 350 Automobile Beat the Droid to Become the Second Android 2.1 Device Available?

Check out this ZDNet item:

Roewe 350 touted as the world's first Android-powered automobile

Don't worry, I'm not trying to turn this blog into a car review blog.

Palm Sold 4500 Phones Per Day: Apple? 90K. Android? 60K Per Day

The Palm Pre generated a lot of excitement as a possible iPhone-killer when it was announced in early 2009.

Will T-Mobile Join Sprint and Time-Warner in Reselling Clear 4G WiMAX Service?

When T-Mobile rolled out their late-to-the-game 3G service in my area last year (they were last by years), it was a tiny corridor that seemed to stretch just a few miles.

Will Every Human in China Have a Cell Phone by 2014?

I tend to look at all mobile market statistics skeptically. And, multiyear projections are usually the cause of a bit of eye-rolling for me.

Sprint OverDrive 3G/4G WiFi Router Awesome Little Device: 4G Service Behavior is Puzzling

I took Sprint's 3G/4G mobile hotspot, the OverDrive, out for a few hours for a test drive this week.

Droid 2.1 Update? You Will Have to Wait a Little Longer Than Expected

Do you remember my note from yesterday?

Verizon Rolling Out Droid Android OS 2.1 Update Over the Next Week

I didn't see any OTA (over the air) update notice for my Droid on Thursday.

Microsoft Comment About Windows Phone 7 Missing Copy & Paste Suggests It is Being Rushed to Market (slowly)

Do you remember how disappointed and surprised many people were by Apple's inability to provide copy and paste for the iPhone for its first two years? Microsoft, on the other hand, has provided copy and paste features since Windows CE appeard in 1996.

Ilium Software Interview: The Windows Phone 7 Series Dilemma

This is part four of five parts of my interview with Ellen Craw of Ilium Software. Click to read: Part One, Part Two, Part Three.

Evernote Improves E-Mail Entry

If you are following this blog you know by now that I am a big fan of Evernote. Evernote is a cloud-based information service that you can think of as your electronic notebook, accessible anywhere there is an Internet connection and from just about any device.

Rhapsody For iPhone To Provide Music Downloads

Rhapsody is a subscription music service that surprisingly has an iPhone client. It's a surprise because Apple has a history of not allowing applications in the iTunes App Store that provide the same functionality as the built-in iPhone apps, and Rhapsody would appear to provide the same functionality as the iPhone's music player.

Colleges Show, Smartphones Becoming A Platform

In my mind if there was ever a doubt about whether smartphones have become a platform, this article from mlive.

Google Maps for mobile 4.1 for Android Goes Tab-less, Adds Latitude Widget, Live Wallpaper, & Ads!

Google updated its Maps for Android app:

Google Maps for Android: Search ‘n Swipe, Latitude Widget, and More

Version 4.

Blockbuster Readying Movie Download and Viewing App for Windows Mobile

As a long time Windows Mobile user, it is good to see that some major players have not abandoned the platform.

Free Tumblr for BlackBerry App Available: Free & Easy Web Content Creation Tool

If Twitter doesn't give you quite enough expressive room and WordPress is too complicated to manage, you might want to take a look at Tumblr's tumblog concept that lets you easily communicate with text, photos, audio, and video with a minimum of hassle.

Cloud Stored Apple iWork Documents Can be Viewed on an iPhone and Edited on an iPad

We are 16 days away from iPads magically appearing (but who's counting?) and bits and pieces of Apple's mobile game plan are being revealed while we wait:

Apple iWork.