Updating any device with new firmware can be a real pain, and time consuming depending on the device (I’m looking at your PS3). The frustration of having to apply an update can be minimized by allowing the user flexibility of when and how to apply... 

For quite some time, people have been saying that Spotify is an iTunes killer – and while that label remains hyperbolic, the shouts are echoing around the Web once again with Spotify’s announcement of iPod sync support and MP3 downloads. It’s a... 

Google and Apple continue to battle it out for mobile operating system dominance and according to The Nielsen Company that battle is now neck-and-neck. From July 2010 through September 2010, those who planned on getting a new smartphone in the next year... 

In the mobile operating system world, few things seem to carry as much importance as the size and quality of your app store. Apple has held the crown ever since the iOS App Store launched in 2008, but according to an in-depth report from Distimo Google’s... 

While Qik may have just launched video calling for Android and iOS devices, another application has swooped in quickly and stolen a bit of its thunder. Qik, of course, was acquired by Skype in early 2011 — and it’s a Skype competitor who... 

I’m still blown away by the amazing things my Android device can do. Smartphones have evolved at an astonishing rate over the past couple of years, and with massive horsepower under the hood and loads of high-end tech crammed into their (mostly)... 

Easter is a nice family holiday. Sure, you’ll see those old aunts who love to pinch your cheek and ask you about when you’re going to meet a nice boy (or girl) and settle down already. If you’d rather revert to your childhood ways and... 

Today a few videos of what could be iOS 5 have been making the rounds. The highlight of the videos is a peak at an updated multitasking scheme, one which is quite like that of Expose in Mac OS. This means the tiny horizontal bar on the bottom is gone,... 

Google shared some numbers about the success of the Android platform on Thursday during its quarterly fiscal results conference call with the press and investors. They’re seeing over 350,000 new Android devices activated each day. Combined with existing... 

When it comes to running HTML5 content on a mobile browser, it looks as though Microsoft is setting the pace with its Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Phone 7 combination. The key factor? Hardware acceleration in the browser. A demonstration given during... 

One of the coolest unique features of Amazon’s recently unveiled appstore is the ability to play with an Android app within your browser for an hour without actually buying it. It’s by no means a perfect system: a mouse cursor is a poor replacement... 

Steve Jobs famously described Android as a fragmented platform, and it looks like developers agree: in a survey of 250 working developers, a sizable portion of those interviewed said that Android fragmentation is a huge problem. The survey was conducted... 

Mobile browsers, to me, are fairly standard in terms of features and options. Their loading speeds seem to be identical across the platforms, and with the single exception of Flash on the Android platform, I feel like I can switch between them with relative... 

We reported this morning about the rumors of Apple’s iOS 5 being pushed back to a fall release, instead of this spring, which it has done regulary in the past. Rumor has it that the release will be pushed back to the fall, but that there could... 

We all waited for Steve Jobs to mention even a hint about iOS 5 in the recent iPad 2 event at the beginning of the month, but alas, we sat through the live streams to no avail. Many people were left wondering why Apple didn’t mention anything about...